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These striving sports are liberating them from having to meet all their achievement needs at work.
The beauty of this was that the less I focused on my own achievement, the more success I got at work.
A hobby can be considered ‘passionate striving’ only if it takes a lot of striving and helps meet your achievement need.
The role of passion is that you stay the course.
if somebody is deeply passionate about that hobby, then they persevere at it and, hence, get the achievement benefits.
I like to measure leadership based on two metrics—followership and influence.
leadership equation was now a function of three variables: position, content and values.
Leadership = Function (Position, Content, Values)
Leadership = (Position + Content) × Values
VML equation, short for Values, the Multiplicative driver of Leadership. Leadership = (Position + Content) × Values
great success requires you to drive great change, great change requires you to have great leadership impact and to have great leadership impact you need to have great values.
embraced the twin Hs—honesty and humility—as my lodestar values.
‘You are not as good as your best success; you are not as bad as your worst failure.’
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When there is a powerful vision and a leader who, because of their humility, is seen to be chasing that vision for unselfish reasons, then that combination is effective in creating leadership impact.
leverage the upside of superior values.
twin Hs of honesty and humility.
we never have a values improvement programme for ourselves.
living life every day does not improve values.
every time you find something wrong being done by people senior to you, you need to have the courage to point it out with good intent for improvement, not fault-finding.
there are three stages to values improvement:
The first stage is sensitivity—
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The second stage is practice—
The third stage is embedding it into the person you are—
career success is a function of real individual growth.
focus on driving real individual growth, career success will follow
catalysing the experience algorithm using the TMRR process and levera...
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grow your personal pr...
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The catalyst of good career decisions is required
take decisions that catalyse real individual growth
having mentors
most important career decisions to make are the decisions to quit and join,
segregating the two, making them independently and based on learning and fit,
the way you live your life can be a catalyst for your success at work.
Developing a ‘passionate striving’ hobby
You have to bring the power of who you are, your values, your passion, into work, and you have to keep improving these.
develop the level of values required to become legacy-creating leaders who leave an impact.
why do you want to succeed in your career?
It was about making a difference to people around me, making them better, making them productive and making them more successful.
my success has a purpose—it is a means to an end, not an end in itself.
finding the purpose behind why you want to succeed is something that you must do for yourself.
