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.
I am a tennis fan and love watching the game and play it whenever I can. Here is a point that caught my fancy and I cant not share this with you. Watch the point first. The player who eventually wins the point is struggling to keep himself within the point and when he approaches the net, he gets a ball that catches the net and catches him in an awkward position. But by being fully present and reacting to what happened, he is able to win the point. There is no way we can predict what would have happened […]
There is a lot of discussion going on about the opening up of the marketplace and with it comes the question about whether people will go back to the office or would like to continue to work from wherever they wanted to work from. I know that there are people who are waiting to get back to working in their respective offices and then there are a lot of people who are enjoying their freedom of working from wherever they want to. Recently, Dan Ariely (James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University and a founding […]
Don’t think of an elephant!! Did you think of an elephant? Did you think of how an elephant looks like? Did you see an image of an elephant? Did you think of a large animal? Did you think of black or a trunk or a sound or anything else that we can relate to an elephant? If you are like the most of us, when asked not to think of an elephant, we automatically think of something that is relates to an elephant. This is instinctual. This is what is called framing. In this example we activated the frame of […]
I read this post by Kevin Roberts (founder of Red Rose Consulting; business leader and educator; author and speaker; adviser on marketing, creative thinking and leadership) where he shares his insight on the current state of affairs, which in summary is “Everyone is talking and no one’s listening”. In his post he also shares that there are 4 types of listeners – People oriented, Action or Task oriented, content focused and fast. You can read his entire post (really short one) here. I believe that as leaders, it is paramount that we listen and do it well. However, as a […]
