Challenges of decision making by Mirza Yawar Baig

1. Challenges of Decision Making
Thinking the Unthinkable

2. Mirza Yawar Baig
Opening the world, one mind at a time©
Experience
• International speaker, author, life coach, entrepreneur, photographer.
16 years in general management, 30 years in training. Trained over
200,000 managers, on three continents. International consulting
practice. Specialize in Leadership Development, Family Business and
Education.
• 1994 Founded Yawar Baig & Associates
Education
• IIMA, P-CMM, MBTI, WSA, ISABS
Books include
• Leadership is a Personal Choice
• Leadership Lessons from the life of Rasoolullah‫ﷺ‬
• An Entrepreneur’s Diary
• Hiring Winners
• Understanding Islam – 52 Juma Khutbas
• Fieldbook for the Khateeb – 52 Juma Khutbas
• 20-10-2010, 55. Life lessons of 55 years
Member Panel of Consultants
• Association of Muslim Schools, South Africa & UK
• Jamiat ul Ulama, South Africa & Sri Lanka
• USA
• GE Corporate University, Crotonville
• AMA International, New York
• Andersen Corporate University MN
• India
• SVP National Police Academy, Hyderabad
• SSB Academy, Gwaldam, Uttar Akhand
• LBS Academy of Administration, Mussoorie
Clients include
• GE, Oracle, Motorola, Microsoft, IBM, National Semiconductor, Unilever,
BSNL, Tata Indicom, Colgate, Asian Paints, Siemens, Wartsila, MphasiS,
EXL Service, World Bank-CGIAR, Tata Corporate, J & J, Accenture, Zeneca
Seeds, Reuters, Air India, Yusuf Bin Ahmed Kanoo, Olam, Regal Beloit,
AMKA, Checkout, Suzlon, JP Morgan, SEW Infrastructure, SEAPOL,
Expolanka, KAR Group, LANCO, Verizon, Mars Chocolates, Rahimafrooz,
Utah Group

3. Your Canvas
The painting will be yours

4. It is not a sign of health to
be profoundly adjusted to
a sick society.
~ J. Krishnamurthy

5. “The two most important days in your
life are the day you are born and the
day you find out why.”
~Mark Twain

6. The World Today
Tomorrow will be more
For better or worse

7. A world of contrasts
That speaks to us in the language of
signs – readable only by those who can
see.
“There's none so blind as those who will not listen.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

8. • 3 billion live on less than $2.5 per day.
• Tonight more than 1 billion children will go to bed hungry.
• 22,000 children die everyday due to poverty
• On this planet 805 million people do not have enough food to
eat.
• More than 750 million of them lack adequate access to clean
drinking water.
Basic Necessities
What is a basic necessity? 8

9. •In 1998, the UN estimated that it would take $40
billion annually to offer basic education, clean water
and sanitation, reproductive health, and basic health
and nutrition to every person in every developing
country.
•That would be about $58 billion today.
What will it take?
Compared to $ 1.406 Trillion on weapons9

10. •The World Food Programme says, “The poor are
hungry and their hunger traps them in poverty.”
•Hunger is the #1 cause of death in the world,
killing more than HIV/AIDS, malaria, and
tuberculosis combined.
Hunger kills
Believe it or not 10

11. • WWF’s (Worldwide Fund for Nature) Living
Planet Report – 2014, the number of wild
animals in the world has been halved
during the last 40 years!
Our Dying Planet?
And that’s only the ones we counted11

13. Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-35339475
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15. What to do?
Become Entrepreneurial

17. 2 – critical requirements
1. Be unrealistic
2. Be unreasonable
Because our future depends on it

18. “The reasonable man adapts himself to the
world: the unreasonable one persists in
trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore all progress depends on the
unreasonable man.”
George Bernard Shaw in ‘Man and Superman’

19. Exercise
• Please identify two crucial areas where you would like to
make a change
1. Define the ‘Arrived State’ of your change
2. Who else does it inspire?
3. What are the Enablers and Inhibitors you anticipate?
4. What resources do you need and how will you get them?
5. By when will you complete the task?

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21. The Slide of Life
Idealist
Optimist
Realist
Pessimist
Cynic
Indifferent
You cannot light a fire from a dead lamp

22. Your Challenges
To solve a problem you must first recognize it

23. Change is a Process
Concept Pilot Roll-out

24. 6 – Imperatives
1. Redefine ‘Greatness’
2. Redefine the narrative
3. Include the majority in the narrative
4. Redefine wealth
5. Do this within the boundaries of the law
6. Take people with you

25. Redefine ‘Greatness’
•What makes Alexander – The Great?
•From conquering territory to social and
economic development
From Alhambra and Taj Mahal to
the state of the common man

26. Redefine the narrative
• From glorifying excess to applauding compassion
• From the good of a few to the good of the many
Change aspirations

27. Include the majority
• In the narrative as participants, not victims
• Focus on ethics and morals because our sickness is
not the result of lack of resources but of the
corruption of the basis of decision making
Possessions add cost – not value

28. Redefine Wealth
•Redefine the means of acquiring wealth
•Redefine success and the means of
achieving it
Change education

29. Redefine the Law
•Do all of the above within the boundary of the law
•Since the law was made by the 62 – see how you can
redefine the law for the other 6 billion (less 62)
Because laws are made for the benefit
of those in power

30. Take people with you
•Don’t imagine that you will be welcomed
with open arms
•Help them to see WiiFM
Because it is about you, not about them

31. What to do?
As individuals

32. 7 - Checkpoints
1. Passion
2. Skill
3. Justice
4.Focus
5. Responsibility
6.Metrics
7. Quality

33. Passion
1. Define passion
2. Do only what you are passionate about
If it can’t make you cry, it can’t make you work

34. Skill
1. Develop expertise in your passion
2. 10,000 hour rule + thoughtful practice
Passion is not a substitute for skill

35. Justice
1. Do what is just, even if you don’t like it
2. Stand for justice even if you stand alone
“I disagree with you but I will defend to
the death your right to differ.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli

36. Focus
1. Keep focused on the real issues and don’t
get distracted by the noise
2. Look for leverage points
Focus is the art of ignoring fluff

37. Responsibility
1. Own up and accept your responsibility
2. Look for solutions – not scapegoats
Because you can’t change what you don’t own

38. Metrics
1. Measure yourself
2. What you don’t measure you don’t know –
what you don’t know you can’t influence
You can only fool yourself

39. Quality
1. Objectively appraise performance
2. Reduce mistakes
Expertise is repeatability

40. Because it is about
you
Not about them

41. ‫ب‬ ْ‫م‬َ‫ل‬ْ‫ع‬َ‫ي‬ َْ‫َل‬َ‫أ‬ََ‫لّل‬ ََّ َ‫َأ‬َ‫ى‬َ‫ي‬
Alaq 96: 14
Doesn’t he know that Allah is watching?

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