This document discusses various topics related to purpose, goals, and thinking styles. It provides definitions and examples of concepts like goals, preferences, priorities, and cognitive styles. It also presents frameworks for clarifying purpose, setting goals, and considering different types of knowledge and how they are prioritized. Overall, the document offers perspectives on finding clarity of purpose and direction through goal-setting and understanding thinking preferences.
7. THINKING AS A PURPOSE
Much of our thinking, left to itself, is
biased, distorted, partial, uninformed or
downright prejudiced. Yet, the quality of
our life — and that of what we produce,
make or build — depends precisely on the
quality of our thought.
Excellence in thought, hence, must be
systematically cultivated.
8. You have 6 eggs and you distribute
them to 6 of your friends.
How is the 6th egg still in the
basket?
9. One day, a Man named
POWER decided to visit
his hometown of GOAL.
He got his own car named
COMMITMENT to take
him on the journey!
Please get my
COMMITMENT.
I need to get to my
GOAL! Fast…
FINDING PURPOSE
10. OIL
Master POWER,
We need to get our tanks
of COMMITMENT filled
with TIME & ENERGY.
Else we can’t reach even
FOCUS!
Keep driving with
FOCUS on so that
you DO NOT lose
your DIRECTION.
11. OIL
Good Lord, thanks I got
to LEARN that FOCUS is the
way to reach GOAL!
Else I would have lost my
DIRECTION! All thanks to
COMMITMENT.
12. SHORT TERM GOALS
Owning is easy
Measurable
Adaptable
Inclusive
Control
Practical
Ease of Experience
FOCUS
DIRECTION
DISCIPLINE
28. GOALS
A goal is:
⚫ A Dream
⚫ Attainable
⚫ Measurable
⚫ Has a Time Limit
⚫ Within your control
⚫ In Writing
29. GOALS
A bad goal is:
⚫ A Dream which was never prioritised
⚫ Attainable but never measured
⚫ Measurable but never attempted
⚫ Has a time limit but never spent time
⚫ Within your control but never learnt
⚫ In writing but never read
33. INFLUENCE
CEO of Jitterbit Head of Tech
JeffGeorge
In 2011, when George Gallegos first started at Jitterbit as CEO, the company
had about 50 customers. George knew the company’s future was in the cloud,
but “it was a new territory, and it was going to be a challenge,” he recalls. “It
required engineering resources being diverted and getting the team
comfortable with that, so as to reposition ourselves.”
George began strategizing about how he would win support for the change.
The toughest sell was going to be “Jeff” — Jitterbit’s senior technology leader
— who was skeptical of the cloud.
George reflected on Jeff’s personality in order to craft a message that would
resonate with him. “I knew he was passionate about customer success and that
— like me — he hated losing,” he says. “So I knew I had to give Jeff visibility
into the challenges we were facing” by maintaining the status quo.
George brought Jeff to a two-day pitch meeting with a potential Jitterbit
client. “I brought him into the trenches, and I let him get bloodied up with me,”
George says. “I wanted him to feel the customer’s pain.”
Jitterbit had its first cloud-based release in 2012. Today the company has
50,000 customers. Source: HBR, Feb 2018
34. INFLUENCE
Why so pale and wan, fond lover,
Prithee, why so pale?
When, looking well can’t move her,
Looking ill prevail?
Prithee, why so pale?
Sir John Suckling
39. SOCIAL COGNITIVE THEORY
Personality Traits
Physical
Cognitive
Conative
Affective
Past Experiences
(source of efficacy
information)
Self-efficacy
Expectations
Personality & Contextual Influences
Proximal to Adaptive Behavior
GOALS
Contextual
Affordability
Genetic
Social
Knowledge
Intellect
Outcome
Expectations
Actions
Achievements
PAST PRESENT FUTURE
40. CLARITY OF PURPOSE
Own your boundaries in peace & war.
Own the process to scale innovation.
Own the role and improve its scale.
Discipline
Ambition
Trust Collaboration