Purpose and profit

Making money out of money and maximizing profits irrespective of the quality of the products and the working conditions for people have characterized the capitalist narrative. A crucial difference exists between the amount of value created by companies and the amount of money they generate. If businesses are judged by the amount of money created, […]

Great people are not born great.

Great people usually get catalysed, inspired, or challenged by certain circumstances and experiences. They get influenced or inspired by people around them from family, friends, teachers, or colleagues. The combination of the challenges, disappointments, dreams, failures, and successes that people experience in their lives shapes who they truly are.

Burn the ships. We win-or we perish!

I love to share this story from Napoleon Hill’s book, Think and Grow Rich. The point is that plan B or C always makes people unenergized enough to win. People often resort to their comfort zones when they face problems on the way. Cutting all roads to retreat is essential to success. “A long while […]

Entrepreneurship is not about starting a business

Most people think that entrepreneurship is about starting, organizing, and managing any enterprise and selling anything to people. They think that leadership is about maintaining that enterprise and managing people. Entrepreneurship is a serious and genuine attempt at solving big problems. It is about addressing them in a business model. Entrepreneurship is not about selling […]

The leader’s mind.

The leader’s mind may be defined in the spirit of upholding unquestionable beliefs about the world and translating those beliefs into action. The power of the leader’s beliefs and action induce and inspire people to cooperate with him or her. An important part of the leader’s mind is that it does not dictate or use […]

Ring the bell. Where are the carrots?

Ivan Pavlov was a Russian physiologist who worked on conditioned responses. He discovered by experimenting on dogs that they learned to associate different stimuli and objects with food. Pavlov monitored and measured the connections between the dogs, food, and salivary behaviors. Pavlov added a bell to the experiment to use as a stimulus. After providing […]

Follower or supporter

If someone were to tell you that you are a great follower or supporter. Which word would make you feel more comfortable? The language of social media has subconsciously become part of people’s mindsets. Take for example, the word follower, all social media platforms use with no exception. They have created such words and encouraged […]

Trust is not a training program

When trust is low, time is wasted with people second-guessing, doubting, and investigating each other to stay safe. They double-check and micromanage everything. Companies that make money an empowering vision, competition, greed, and selfishness govern people’s behavior; therefore, playing the cooperative game is impossible. Trust is the denominator that brings people together to make something […]

Just ink and paper

The illiteracy rate among people holding associate, bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees is alarmingly shocking. Illiteracy does not only mean the inability to read or write. It is the inability to think. Most students are the end-product of a global educational system that, in its very structure, designed to produce conformists who are pre-programmed to […]

Sophisticated minds are scarce.

Just a handy hint at the beginning on the meaning of sophisticated minds, people who possess creative, challenging, and disruptive mindsets. Non-conformists. Whether they are journalists, doctors, writers, etc regardless of the profession, most people usually conform to the norms, policy, and strategic direction of their organizations. Deviating from the general line threatens jobs and […]