STOPTHE 
Madness 
POPCORNED BY DEY DOS
Why do we do 
Exchanges?
BEING EFFECTIVE vs BEING EFFICIENT 
Effectiveness is doing the things that 
get you closer to your goals. 
Efficiency is performing a given task 
(whether important or not) in the most 
economical manner possible. 
Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the 
default mode of the universe.
BEING EFFECTIVE vs BEING EFFICIENT 
1. Doing something 
unimportant well does not 
make it important! 
2. Requiring a lot of time does 
not make a task important! 
What you do is infinitely more 
important than how you do it!
pareto 80/20 
1. Which 20% of efforts are causing 
80% of my problems and 
unhappiness? 
2. Which 20% of efforts are resulting in 
80% of my desired outcomes and 
excitement? 
Being overwhelmed is often as 
unproductive as doing nothing!
Most things make 
no difference. 
Being busy is a form of 
laziness – lazy thinking 
and indiscriminate action. 
TIMOTHYFERRIS 
“
Believe it or not, it is 
not only possible to 
accomplish more by 
doing less, 
it is mandatory! 
TIMOTHYFERRIS 
“
We spend too much time with those who poison 
us with pessimism, sloth, and low expectations 
of themselves and the world. 
It is often the case that you have to fire certain 
friends or retire from particular social circles to 
have the life you want. 
This is not being mean; it is being practical! 
Poisonous people do not deserve your time. 
To think otherwise is masochistic. 
TIMOTHYFERRIS 
“
THEKILLERCOMBINATION 
Limit tasks to 
the important 
to shorten 
work time* 
Shorten work 
time to limit 
tasks to the 
important** 
*PARETO 80/20 
**PARKINSON’S LAW
THEKILLERCOMBINATION 
Identify the few critical 
tasks that contribute 
most to goals achievement 
and schedule them with very 
short and clear deadlines. 
If you don’t do this the unimportant 
becomes important!
“ Important action is 
often uncomfortable 
because there is a 
chance of failure or 
rejection. 
TIMOTHYFERRIS
THEKEYQUESTIONS 
Am I being productive 
or just active? 
Am I inventing things to do 
to avoid the important? 
Most of the things we do are useless when compared 
with the goals we want to achieve, and time is wasted 
in proportion to the amount that is available!
THEDAILYQUESTION 
If this is the only 
thing I accomplish 
today, will I be satisfied 
with my day? 
Avoid doing more to feel productive 
when actually accomplishing less!
OBSTACLES 
FOR GROWTH 
TO HAPPEN
MEMBERS ARE DISENGAGED 
Members fail to see the 
link between 
organizational strategy 
and their own activities. 
They may feel they can’t decline or 
renegotiate requests, and they end up 
overcommitting and running away.
MY LC LACKS AGILITY 
Leaders are slow to capture 
emerging opportunities 
because they try to come to 
complete agreement in their 
assessments and strive for 
perfect solutions.
TRAPPED IN THE STATUS QUO 
Leaders articulate a new 
strategy, but the 
organization continues in its 
old ways, or executes well in 
crisis mode but lapses into 
old routines once the crisis 
has passed.
STARS 
DON’T WORK 
FOR IDIOTS.
1. Is there a distinctive and disruptive sense of purpose that sets you apart 
from the competition? What ideas is your LC fighting for? 
2. Can you be provocative without provoking a backlash? 
3. If your LC went out of business tomorrow, who would miss you and 
why? 
4. Are you the kind of person that other smart people want to work with? 
What draws people in? 
5. Can you make performance fun? Can you make your architecture 
colorful, dramatic, and energetic? 
6. Do you treat different customers differently? 
7. Why should great people join your LC or buy your products? 
8. Do you know a great person when you see one? Are you scared of them? 
9. Does your organization work as distinctively as it says it does? 
10. Are you learning as fast as it is needed?
1. EP Recruitment every second week. 
2. Targeted-based recruitment (by projects, by countries, by 
backgrounds). 
3. Brand every recruitment differently, detached from AIESEC 
Brand. 
4. Short term teams for OGX ICX with clear settled goals. 
5. Showcasing (Vlog? BFIE) 
6. Twitter hashtags (#IndiaExportsTalent #ImGoingAbroad 
#fromIndia2theWorld #BFIE) Choose one and stick to it! 
Measure, showcase it! 
7. EP Recruitment in TechSchools for Programmers & Web 
developers (CEED Program?) 
8. Returnees/Trainees as part of processes? Make them 
AIESECers (BFIE) 
WHAT WILL BE OUR NEXT STEPS?
Stop The Madness (Clusters 3 & 4)
Stop The Madness (Clusters 3 & 4)

Stop The Madness (Clusters 3 & 4)

  • 1.
  • 2.
    Why do wedo Exchanges?
  • 4.
    BEING EFFECTIVE vsBEING EFFICIENT Effectiveness is doing the things that get you closer to your goals. Efficiency is performing a given task (whether important or not) in the most economical manner possible. Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe.
  • 5.
    BEING EFFECTIVE vsBEING EFFICIENT 1. Doing something unimportant well does not make it important! 2. Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important! What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it!
  • 6.
    pareto 80/20 1.Which 20% of efforts are causing 80% of my problems and unhappiness? 2. Which 20% of efforts are resulting in 80% of my desired outcomes and excitement? Being overwhelmed is often as unproductive as doing nothing!
  • 7.
    Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of laziness – lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. TIMOTHYFERRIS “
  • 8.
    Believe it ornot, it is not only possible to accomplish more by doing less, it is mandatory! TIMOTHYFERRIS “
  • 9.
    We spend toomuch time with those who poison us with pessimism, sloth, and low expectations of themselves and the world. It is often the case that you have to fire certain friends or retire from particular social circles to have the life you want. This is not being mean; it is being practical! Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic. TIMOTHYFERRIS “
  • 10.
    THEKILLERCOMBINATION Limit tasksto the important to shorten work time* Shorten work time to limit tasks to the important** *PARETO 80/20 **PARKINSON’S LAW
  • 11.
    THEKILLERCOMBINATION Identify thefew critical tasks that contribute most to goals achievement and schedule them with very short and clear deadlines. If you don’t do this the unimportant becomes important!
  • 12.
    “ Important actionis often uncomfortable because there is a chance of failure or rejection. TIMOTHYFERRIS
  • 13.
    THEKEYQUESTIONS Am Ibeing productive or just active? Am I inventing things to do to avoid the important? Most of the things we do are useless when compared with the goals we want to achieve, and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available!
  • 14.
    THEDAILYQUESTION If thisis the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day? Avoid doing more to feel productive when actually accomplishing less!
  • 15.
  • 16.
    MEMBERS ARE DISENGAGED Members fail to see the link between organizational strategy and their own activities. They may feel they can’t decline or renegotiate requests, and they end up overcommitting and running away.
  • 17.
    MY LC LACKSAGILITY Leaders are slow to capture emerging opportunities because they try to come to complete agreement in their assessments and strive for perfect solutions.
  • 18.
    TRAPPED IN THESTATUS QUO Leaders articulate a new strategy, but the organization continues in its old ways, or executes well in crisis mode but lapses into old routines once the crisis has passed.
  • 19.
    STARS DON’T WORK FOR IDIOTS.
  • 20.
    1. Is therea distinctive and disruptive sense of purpose that sets you apart from the competition? What ideas is your LC fighting for? 2. Can you be provocative without provoking a backlash? 3. If your LC went out of business tomorrow, who would miss you and why? 4. Are you the kind of person that other smart people want to work with? What draws people in? 5. Can you make performance fun? Can you make your architecture colorful, dramatic, and energetic? 6. Do you treat different customers differently? 7. Why should great people join your LC or buy your products? 8. Do you know a great person when you see one? Are you scared of them? 9. Does your organization work as distinctively as it says it does? 10. Are you learning as fast as it is needed?
  • 21.
    1. EP Recruitmentevery second week. 2. Targeted-based recruitment (by projects, by countries, by backgrounds). 3. Brand every recruitment differently, detached from AIESEC Brand. 4. Short term teams for OGX ICX with clear settled goals. 5. Showcasing (Vlog? BFIE) 6. Twitter hashtags (#IndiaExportsTalent #ImGoingAbroad #fromIndia2theWorld #BFIE) Choose one and stick to it! Measure, showcase it! 7. EP Recruitment in TechSchools for Programmers & Web developers (CEED Program?) 8. Returnees/Trainees as part of processes? Make them AIESECers (BFIE) WHAT WILL BE OUR NEXT STEPS?