5 TIPS FOR WORKING SMARTER, NOT HARDER
Working smarter requires a combination of critical thinking, discipline, and techniques that we can employ for making continual progress.
Working smarter requires a combination of critical thinking, discipline, and techniques that we can employ for making continual progress.
Forget Trying to Be an Expert, a Beginner’s Mind is What Allows Us to Creatively Move Ourselves Forward. BY FAISAL HOQUE | January 9, 2015 What kind of mind do you want? What kind of mind do you want your team to have? If you want to be thought an expert—you may favor having a full mind. After all, it’s rather impressive to know many things, to be a fount of knowledge. But expertise implies a sort of rigidity; if your mind is full, it cannot accept more information or possibilities. This is why we need to maintain what Buddhists refer to as beginner’s mind—a certain playful absence of assumptions. What is Beginner’s Mind? Shunyru Suzuki writes in Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, “In the
In an age of unanswerable questions, asking the right question might just be the answer.
Each one of us is born to make an authentic contribution. Authenticity does not come from title, social stature, or the size of one’s paycheck but rather from how we live. Truly authentic people lead with their soul. Along with fearless passion and courage, they possess relentless mental discipline.
Along with one of the highly acclaimed must read business books “Everything Connects”; in 2014 Shadoka founder Faisal Hoque also published several dozen articles. These are some of his most trended publications on entrepreneurship, creativity, innovation, and leadership of 2014. These publications have been read and shared by thousands of readers globally.
Learn to lead in ways that help rather than tell people to grow and align personal motivations with what your company needs.
The modern economy — local, domestic, and global — operates in a state of accelerating change, driven by increasing and changing competition.
Learning how and what to manage is something that we need to continually work at on a daily basis, and that eventually develops into the habit of being productive every day.
From the beginning of time, women have always played a critical role in business and commerce. In a male-dominated, global society, those contributions are not always recognized. The story of my grandmother is one such example.
If there is a single line in this book that sums up what the author thinks of leadership, it is this: “Leadership is a way of owning the impact that you and your organization is going to have on the world.” Pick this one up when you want to challenge the champions of the old way of doing things, and perhaps encourage them to think in new ways.
Leading business innovation requires: leading with emotional intelligence, cultivating cross-collaborative organizations, and applying ‘accessible’ technology.
An innovative culture begins with accepting that the world really has changed and being open to more changes to come.
Today’s global, hyper-connected economy is being led by knowledge that it no longer takes complex corporate structures or massive factories to dominate.
Telling your workers to be more engaged just won’t work. Leadership is about putting mechanisms in place that will encourage their progress.
Success or failure is a journey: what is today’s success is tomorrow’s failure and what is today’s failure is tomorrow’s success. Building up on a diversity of experiences is something that we all need to embrace if we want to succeed in the long run.No matter where you are in your path, do not look at it as a destination, look at it as a foundation for your next journey.
With a little forethought, leaders can create organizations that are agile, resilient, and consequently better equipped to experience sustained success.
The connections that the authors allude to here are more profound than the just those between people and organizations – they are also about how one’s actions are intricately and inevitably related to one’s experiences and state of mind.
An operating blueprint allows principals and a management team to work together based on converged intelligence of market opportunities, execution capabilities and business model differentiations.