5 Great Men, 5 Shlokas, 1 Book: The Gita, Universal Goal: Success - Explained In Simple Manner30/8/2018 Everyone looks for success and few of them are even ready to pledge to the hardships to get there. Often in goal setting, we are very clear. We set high goals and worthy goals but where we fail is in the execution. Mostly it is not the skill that fails us when we try to execute it is our mind and the mindset - we get confused easily and falter taking decisions. This is the place where all of us look up to an inspirational person or leader or a mentor. We look up to see how they have treaded the path and see if we can pick up some subtle hints from them. What is that these inspirational leaders do that we cannot? In short to answer this question– I DON’T KNOW. I am also in that same gene pool of a common man like you who are searching for this answer. So I took it up as a challenge to see what make my 5 most inspirational leaders did. I started to research on their life and mindset. This blog is the result of that research I have found a common thread but its’s from my after-thought of the research. These leaders were at different times in history but to stich a story the points are not in chronological order. They had one common thing: they liked one shloka from “The Bhagwat Gita” and walked the talk practicing the same in their life. So let’s see what the result of my research is.
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Why Innovation? That is a question which comes to most of the people. Why can't people continue doing the same thing which is working. Well, Innovation has become necessary in today's competitive world where many industries need to get their operational cost and capital costs down if they need to stay competitive. The only way to get there is via innovation. Innovation doesn't just mean new ideas, process, product - it possibly involves technological transformation and management restructuring. Innovation also means exploiting new technology and employing out-of-the-box thinking to generate new value and to bring about significant changes in society. So why is it important? The conclusion is that the importance of innovation is increasing, and increasing significantly. In the current day economic scenario, innovativeness has become a major factor in influencing strategic planning. It has been acknowledged that innovation leads to wealth creation. Even though efficiency is essential for business success, in the long run, it cannot sustain business growth. Management expert Peter Drucker said that if an established organization, which in this age necessitating innovation, is not able to innovate, it faces decline and extinction. Research has indicated that competition combined with strong demand is a major driver of innovation. The intensity of competition is the determinant of innovation and productivity. So I have tried to summarize the 10 easy rules to become innovative and succeed in your actions. Since majority of the people are too busy to read - have tried to make this blog in a Video fashion. So kindly watch till the end and let me know your comments/thoughts. If the poor boy cannot come to Education then Education must go to him The internet today is doing exactly what Swami Vivekananda said. The internet has penetrated into everyone - irrespective of time zones, geography, language, and medium. The smartphone's hegemony makes perfect our evolutionary sense: Humans have a deep urge to acquire knowledge/information. Even before the monkey descended from the trees, our brains were wired for survival. At that point of time it was foraging for food. Nothing has changed since then except that today we need to forage for information too. I am not trying to rationalize why we are constantly urging ourselves to check the phones every 3 minutes and multitask. We have all got into this habbit irrespective of our likes or dislikes. Monkey see - monkey click - monkey swipe - monkey gets reward. What instant gratification has done is to make the brain's focus ability lower than when electronics were not prevalent. The amount of screen time in this age of digital distraction has become a buzz word amongst all parents’ conversation and thinking. One question which immediately pops-up is whether the brains which are wired for survival has evolved to include information foraging into its skill set? We can see this in other primates and I believe that it was critical then in the system for survival that they seek out for food which now has been hijacked and directed to seek out for information. The disturbing part in this evolution is that it has started driving us, like addictive behaviour, into the negative cycle even though we know the after effects of this habits. The follow up question which comes is why do we then engage in this info-foraging even after knowing it could be self-destructive or counter-productive? The remarkable ability of the human brain is to set really high-level goals, which are sometime complex too. This ability to chase these goals collide with our known fundamental limitation in trying to enact the goal. We call these abilities as cognitive controls. In plain English it means the process by which goals or plans influence our behaviour. This process can inhibit automatic responses and even influence working memory. There is a triad - Attention, Working Memory & Goal management which runs inside our brains that tries to switch between the three causing us to perform multi-tasking. This is where it is self-destructive and we all fail. Why? |
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