Awaiting response of a text message in your Whatsapp.
You are fuming to get it from other people. Without any consideration of them.
Why so impatient for a response? Is it because we cannot see the person in front of us.
Are you a busy person?
The busy person has a bias for action, the ability to ship, and a willingness to contribute more than is required. The busy person is wrong more than most people (if you get up to bat more often, you’re going to have more hits and more outs, right?).
Those errors are dwarfed by the impact they create.
Being a busy person is a choice. It might not work for you, but you could try it out for a while.
We need more busy people.
What’s the best use of a leader’s time?
As a leader how you spend your time will make or break the success of ur company. I think here are the top three focus areas:
#Recruiting + Hiring
The team is the most critical aspect for the success of a company. And hiring has to be topmost in the lists, a cultural fit team with the best skill set in the given budget, requires a lot of balancing act for the leader.
But its the only way to grow and reach ur vision.
#Considering your team’s long-term strategy, vision, and culture
Keep thinking and driving the long term strategy and vision for the company, this will be the beacon for everyone to follow.
#Communicating the direction to everybody all the time
Consistently communicating with everyone to guide and show them the right path. If the driver of a bus is not showing the right direction how the team will move forward. Let everyone apply there skills, their forces but u need to be the director of them.
But how about for you? Do you find yourself spending time in these areas as a leader… or not?
How to build company culture…
Culture is one of the most critical pillars that keeps standing in the ups and downs of a company. It defines the success and growth of the team and the company.
Also wherever there is a team, a culture (good or bad) is already set within the team. Defined by the leaders and top management etc.
So how to build or rebuild a culture? Here are a few pointers:
#Personal accountability
You must model the behaviors and basic underlying assumptions you want to be true. Greatest shortcoming of a leader is wanting others to do something that she doesn’t practice it herself. For instance, a leader wants to set up “ownership and trustworthy” culture but doesn’t own her own weaknesses and expects employees to be upfront and own things. See the disconnect?
Others in the team will emulate what you do, so exhibit those basic underlying actions yourself and the team will follow.
#Consistency
Whatever culture we want to set, it should be consistent over a period of days, months and years to build it. It cannot be that one day we want ownership & trust, other days we want hierarchy and formal structure.
Also whatever process we want to follow to inculcate the culture, All hands meetings, one on one etc should be consistent. Yes, there will be learnings but the core process has to keep hitting the cultural attributes.
#Use All Mediums or Communication Channels
When companies buy Instagram followers, it proves the importance of communication through social media. In today’s environment, with the support of some advertising like bus stop advertising. We have different ways of communicating with the individuals or team. It can be meetings, remote video calls, internal social media, WhatsApp groups, etc.
Use all these to communicate the same core attributes, for example, if All hands meetings are for openness and gathering ideas, displaying an open culture of ideas. One on Ones and any team meetings should have the same theme, openness towards any ideas.
Now, this is no grand formula by any means for creating the culture that you want. Shaping a company’s culture and tapping into a team’s basic underlying assumptions is more art than it is science.
But consider these three elements — personal accountability, consistency, and richness — in how you’re upholding the basic underlying assumptions you want to make more real.
Pick one, commit to it, and see progress build over time. Slowly, but surely, you’ll see the difference.
You’d do it in half…
Physical Exercise in the morning is difficult, with all the day to day things ahead. Its time consuming, we generally think of skipping or shortening it and get ready to go to the office.
But here is the deal, if we exercise we can finish the same work in half the time.
Try it out, by exercise your brain cells are so open that the productivity is 10 times of normal brain cells. You can try a very simple experiment.
Choose a day to do the exercises. And later in the day, do a heavy task for 25 minutes any hour of the day, like presentation or coding or designing, etc.
Next day do this without exercise, u will see a perceptible difference in the outcomes.
So next time while exercising you want to take a short cut, just remember “You’d do it in half if you exercise now”
Wasting time…is it?
Have u got the feeling of guilt while doing a meaningless activity like watching TV or playing mobile games etc?
Are you wasting time on it?
Why does it give a feeling of guilt suggesting we should be doing something better? Like reading a book or studying?
Maybe its internal clock which is set in from childhood, which tells that study otherwise “you will not get good grades in exams”
So does this feeling help?
In one way it helps to allow us to respect our time and invest it in better activities.
It also depends on what exactly are u doing instead of the meaningless activities. What are you avoiding to do your recreation?
Study for Exams or Office work.
Office work.
Reading.
Social Engagement.
Learning or Practising something for becoming good in it.
So how do we confirm? which one is more critical than the other.
One way is to get it validated by others, maybe parents or mentors.
Other way decide which lead closer to ur dreams! or long term goals.
Capacity to Choose…
We always have a choice.
Wherever, Whenever, Whoever we are, we always have a choice.
If someone is not listening to you, choose to persuade them or choose to ignore them. But its ur choice.
If you don’t like your job, choose to work for money, or quit and find a job which u like.
If things are not working according to plan, choose to fight or choose to change the scene, maybe u r not meant for the scene.
The most important part is to explore and find the right choice (And this may take a while) and fight for it till the end.
But there is always a choice…
Almost ready…
Almost ready is Not ready
When someone says its “almost ready” it’s more dangerous than saying its “not ready”.
Almost ready implies that they have no clue when it will be ready.
Beware of people who say “Almost ready or Almost Done” they are not committed enough to know when it will ready!
Getting water out of the well…
A distraction interrupts the mind and kills the flow of a task.
It’s like while focusing on getting a bucket of water from well, a distraction allows the bucket to fall back. And start the complete process again.
You are absorbing a book, a message distracts and u couldn’t get any further.
Having an intense discussion and a phone call takes u off from it.
Digital distractions, hijacks mind every time, breaking the conscious to subconscious flow.
The mind is like the well, as soon as you are reaching out to get the water a distraction pulls u off.
Get off those distractions:- switch off your phone, avoid checking emails…
Be calm and focused on one task to get your fill of water.
Two Wishes…
When you’re feeling stuck with your project, step back and grant yourself two wishes.
What will improve if you get these wishes? Put these in a piece of paper.
Now that you have got it, how to progress in the project. What are you going to do about it?