This document discusses the importance of taking initiative and not giving up easily. It contains advice for starting new projects and learning from failures. The key points are: 1) Taking initiative means committing to making something happen rather than just thinking about it. Starting is passing the point of no return. 2) When deciding whether to quit or stick with something, winners never quit the right stuff, only the wrong stuff. Seeing challenges as "dips" that can be overcome is important for success. 3) Most people play it safe rather than taking risks, but being the best in the world requires not settling for average and getting out of one's comfort zone to reshape it. Maps are not the actual location,

1. Modern Business
Ahmed Saif
Schoolofe-Marketing

2. Poke The Box

3. When was the last time
you did something
for the first time?
(Initiative)

4. How Do Computer Programmers
Learn Their Art

5. Life is like a puzzle !
There is only one way to solve it
By poking

6. A Guide about Starting

7. Tow Main Reasons Not To Start
laziness
Curiosity
Risk
Fail

8. "The safest thing you can
do feels Risky,
and the riskiest thing you
can do is to play it safe"

9. The More you do, the more
you fail,
the more you learn the
more you succeed

10. Starting doesn't mean
“I’m starting to think about
it or we're going to meet on
this”

11. Starting Means
“Going beyond the point of no return”
“Committing Making something happen”

12. 3 Rules of Doing Initiatives

13. #1
Go to Work on a Regular Basis

14. #2
Make your Schedule Before You Start

15. #3
Don’t Allow Setbacks or Anxiety or
problems to Make you take a
Nap

16. Google Poke The Box

17. Define quality

18. Good Enough

19. Without Defects

20. Now We Have To Go Beyond Quality
Be Remarkable

21. Being
Remarkable
Demand
Initiative

22. Apple VS Dell

23. Mediocrity

24. Compliant Workers Initiator Workers
Use their Bodies Use their Brains
Doing exactly what they
told
Focus on inventing
something new
They trade their time with
your money
They trade their time with
our achievement
They make mediocre
products
They made remarkable
products
They obey the company They love the company

25. Kind Of Capital

26. Financial Capital
Money in the bank can be put
to work on a project

27. Physical Capital
Plant, machines,tools and
trucks

28. Prestige Capital
Your reputation and brand
value

29. Intellectual Capital
Smart Employees, Software
systems, access to people
with insight

30. Network Capital
People you know, connection
you can make, TRIBE you can
Lead

31. Instigation Capital
The desire to move forward,
the ability & the guts to say
yes

32. This Might Not Work!

33. Marketing is King

34. Part 2

35. The Science of Quitting

36. When to Quit
&
When to Stick

37. I Feel Like Giving Up

38. But

39. Quitters never win,
winners never quit

40. Bad Advice

41. Winner Quit the wrong
stuff
&
Stick with the right stuff

42. Being the best in the
world

43. Reword
#1 Get ten times the
benefit of #10

44. 2 Reasons why this matter
#1 People have no time and they
don’t want to take risk
#2 There is a room in the top for
only few (Scarcity)

45. If you are not sold on
being the best in the
world, you probably don’t
need this session

46. Quitting Curves

47. The Cliff Curves

48. The CUL-DE-SAC
dead end
Not that bad, not that
good

49. The DIP

50. The Dip is the secret
to your success

51. The brave Decision
The mature Decision
The stupid Decision

52. The Cliff & the CUL-DE-SAC
will lead to the same point
Failing
Not the good failing

53. Jack Welch
CEO GE,
“If we cant be #1 or 2 in an
industry we must Quit

54. The lie of Diversification

55. You fail to be the best in the
world because of
two reasons

56. Wrong Plan
Gaving up

57. Seeing The
Curves in Advance

58. The Big
Opportunity

59. Average is for Losers
V.Good is bad

60. Get in your comfort zone
After reshaping it

61. Map is not the
location

62. Pick Yourself
&
Let The People Reject You