Category: Leadership

Inspiration, Leadership, Sales

Insanely Interesting People who Influenced Me: #11 Zig Ziglar

For the rest of the year, I would like to take a moment and thank the people who have had a significant impact on me as an individual. The way they have lived their lives and their body of work has had an outsized impact on how I think about life in general and and work, in particular. Some of these are contemporary thinkers and some of them are just a memory. Some of them are famous in their own rights and some of them are yet to be found by others. Some of them are young and some of […]

Inspiration, Leadership

Insanely Interesting People: #9 Matt Church

For the rest of the year, I would like to take a moment and thank the people who have had a significant impact on me as an individual. The way they have lived their lives and their body of work has had an outsized impact on how I think about life in general and and work, in particular. Some of these are contemporary thinkers and some of them are just a memory. Some of them are famous in their own rights and some of them are yet to be found by others. Some of them are young and some of […]

Leadership

11 Commandments for Work

I stumbled onto these commandments while reading Tina Roth Eisenberg’s blog – Swissmiss and thought they captured what we all need in our lives today. So, sharing the same. Thanks to Nathan Englander for sharing this in the first instance on his Instagram account.

Leadership

The Willing Embrace of Training

Steven Pressfield, the author of one of the most iconic book on Creativity and its so called nemesis, the resistance – “The War of Art“, in his recent blog post talks about the importance of training for creative professionals. I totally believe that leading is an act of active creation and therefore what is applicable for creative artists is also applicable for all of us leaders (and yes, that also includes you if you are aspiring to be a leader). It is true that deliberate, specific and repetitive training, programs our System 1 (as defined by Daniel Kahneman, which is […]

Ancient Wisdom, Inspiration, Leadership

Insanely Interesting People who Influenced me – #8 His Holiness – The 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet

For the rest of the year, I would like to take a moment and thank the people who have had a significant impact on me as an individual. The way they have lived their lives and their body of work has had an outsized impact on how I think about life in general and and work, in particular. Some of these are contemporary thinkers and some of them are just a memory. Some of them are famous in their own rights and some of them are yet to be found by others. Some of them are young and some of […]