All of us want to be high potential, yet few of us have any idea how. Read on if you want ideas to help you chart your journey through your organization. And if you like it--please share it!
I give this talk to startups before Startupbootcamp Selection Days, where they'll meet over 50 mentors during 2 intense days. Most of the content comes directly from startups and mentors, who make the suggestions to help others get the most out of their experience. I have also found many of these tips are applicable when pitching VCs or angel investors.
All of us want to be high potential, yet few of us have any idea how. Read on if you want ideas to help you chart your journey through your organization. And if you like it--please share it!
I give this talk to startups before Startupbootcamp Selection Days, where they'll meet over 50 mentors during 2 intense days. Most of the content comes directly from startups and mentors, who make the suggestions to help others get the most out of their experience. I have also found many of these tips are applicable when pitching VCs or angel investors.
This is a summary of the book "The Intelligent Entrepreneur: How Three Harvard Business School Graduates Learned the 10 Rules of Successful Entrepreneurship" by Bill Murphy Jr.
Seeking Wisdom is a podcast that deals with many topics -- ranging from life, to fitness, to entrepreneurship, to the work-life balance.
The show has two hosts. One is 5X startup founder, David Cancel. The other David Gerhardt, a marketer whose career is beginning to take off. David and Dave work together at Drift (a live chat messaging app based in Cambridge, Massachusetts).
It’s a different kind of show -- and people are really liking it.
With over 30 episodes out -- David and Dave have discussed many life lessons on the show and want to share them with you here.
The Seeking Wisdom podcast is supported by a community of listeners who want to get better every day. This slideshare is meant to take the top pieces of advice from the podcast and share them with this community.
Follow Seeking Wisdom Here:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/seekingwisdomio
Medium: https://seekingwisdom.io/
Listen to Seeking Wisdom Here:
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/seekingwisdom
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/seeking-wisdom/id1072506427?mt=2
OverCast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1072506427/seeking-wisdom
Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/david-cancel/seeking-wisdom
RSS: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:193080377/sounds.rss
Follow David (https://twitter.com/dcancel) and Dave (https://twitter.com/davegerhardt) on Twitter.
Possibility Thinking is all about strengthening your resolve to realise your dreams. Its not impossible! Its I'm possible.
Good luck.
Challa S.S.J.Ram Phani
CTF (CAMI, USA)
Corporate Trainer and Mgt Consultant
Playing safely is not safe in today’s fast-paced competitive business environment. An individual, who seeks to stand out from the mob and practise novelty in highly uncertain business climate, works beyond the limits. Whitney Johnson has used the term “Disruption” – to understand why some individuals succeed in outstanding ways.
The title of the book i.e. “Disrupt yourself” inspires us to make the jump onto new learning curves, innovate, and stay at the top of the game. It shows the inconceivable value of recognizing what you are good at and finding unpredicted ways to use those strengths to the marketplace. The dramatic ‘jumps’ that Johnson encourages us to take truly form the basis of creativity and success.”
“The author has made an attempt to apply the lessons of disruptive innovation to personal growth. She shows us how to pursue roles suited to our own strengths, to follow our own unique and innovative way of thinking and doing – and to significantly increase our efficiency, creativity, and happiness.
Basically this books is about to how hire good talent. The main point is about the correct questions –Not WHAT, but WHO. This mean that we should think about people first of all, try to find only best candidates.
The main challenges we face are
• Don’t clearly represent the duties of the employee in the role or declared position or a new position.
• Not enough suitable candidates
• Not sure in an ability to choose the best candidates
• Lose good employees.
The best acquisition process consists of 4 Steps
• List of goals for the role we are hiring – what we expect that role to deliver – outcome.
• Source
• Selection
• Closing the deal
The Selection or interview process is the KEY to Success where we need to invest quality time and right interview panel
• Screening interview
• Qualification interview
• Focus interview
• Interview with recommenders
Tough times temper few people and they transform from coal to Diamonds. Others dissolve in the heat of troubles and challenges.
What are the simple (not easy) skills that make the difference: SKILLS stands for:
* Self-esteem (discipline & others perceptions),
* Knowledge (with Focus & Action),
* Internal work(continuous self improvement),
* Love Relationship & Communication,
* Leverage of money, time, friends network,
* Service for success
Seems simple ... but requires Mentors, Gurus and/or Coach to make the journey easy and successful.
Do join our team of Mentors at http://tinyurl.com/dcdcky
17 FROM 17: THE BEST BUSINESS BOOKS OF 2017Kevin Duncan
This year's highlights of the popular blog greatesthitsblog.com.
Author and business advisor Kevin Duncan reads business books extensively and summarises them so you don't have to.
This is a summary of the book "The Intelligent Entrepreneur: How Three Harvard Business School Graduates Learned the 10 Rules of Successful Entrepreneurship" by Bill Murphy Jr.
Seeking Wisdom is a podcast that deals with many topics -- ranging from life, to fitness, to entrepreneurship, to the work-life balance.
The show has two hosts. One is 5X startup founder, David Cancel. The other David Gerhardt, a marketer whose career is beginning to take off. David and Dave work together at Drift (a live chat messaging app based in Cambridge, Massachusetts).
It’s a different kind of show -- and people are really liking it.
With over 30 episodes out -- David and Dave have discussed many life lessons on the show and want to share them with you here.
The Seeking Wisdom podcast is supported by a community of listeners who want to get better every day. This slideshare is meant to take the top pieces of advice from the podcast and share them with this community.
Follow Seeking Wisdom Here:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/seekingwisdomio
Medium: https://seekingwisdom.io/
Listen to Seeking Wisdom Here:
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/seekingwisdom
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/seeking-wisdom/id1072506427?mt=2
OverCast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1072506427/seeking-wisdom
Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/david-cancel/seeking-wisdom
RSS: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:193080377/sounds.rss
Follow David (https://twitter.com/dcancel) and Dave (https://twitter.com/davegerhardt) on Twitter.
Possibility Thinking is all about strengthening your resolve to realise your dreams. Its not impossible! Its I'm possible.
Good luck.
Challa S.S.J.Ram Phani
CTF (CAMI, USA)
Corporate Trainer and Mgt Consultant
Playing safely is not safe in today’s fast-paced competitive business environment. An individual, who seeks to stand out from the mob and practise novelty in highly uncertain business climate, works beyond the limits. Whitney Johnson has used the term “Disruption” – to understand why some individuals succeed in outstanding ways.
The title of the book i.e. “Disrupt yourself” inspires us to make the jump onto new learning curves, innovate, and stay at the top of the game. It shows the inconceivable value of recognizing what you are good at and finding unpredicted ways to use those strengths to the marketplace. The dramatic ‘jumps’ that Johnson encourages us to take truly form the basis of creativity and success.”
“The author has made an attempt to apply the lessons of disruptive innovation to personal growth. She shows us how to pursue roles suited to our own strengths, to follow our own unique and innovative way of thinking and doing – and to significantly increase our efficiency, creativity, and happiness.
Basically this books is about to how hire good talent. The main point is about the correct questions –Not WHAT, but WHO. This mean that we should think about people first of all, try to find only best candidates.
The main challenges we face are
• Don’t clearly represent the duties of the employee in the role or declared position or a new position.
• Not enough suitable candidates
• Not sure in an ability to choose the best candidates
• Lose good employees.
The best acquisition process consists of 4 Steps
• List of goals for the role we are hiring – what we expect that role to deliver – outcome.
• Source
• Selection
• Closing the deal
The Selection or interview process is the KEY to Success where we need to invest quality time and right interview panel
• Screening interview
• Qualification interview
• Focus interview
• Interview with recommenders
Tough times temper few people and they transform from coal to Diamonds. Others dissolve in the heat of troubles and challenges.
What are the simple (not easy) skills that make the difference: SKILLS stands for:
* Self-esteem (discipline & others perceptions),
* Knowledge (with Focus & Action),
* Internal work(continuous self improvement),
* Love Relationship & Communication,
* Leverage of money, time, friends network,
* Service for success
Seems simple ... but requires Mentors, Gurus and/or Coach to make the journey easy and successful.
Do join our team of Mentors at http://tinyurl.com/dcdcky
17 FROM 17: THE BEST BUSINESS BOOKS OF 2017Kevin Duncan
This year's highlights of the popular blog greatesthitsblog.com.
Author and business advisor Kevin Duncan reads business books extensively and summarises them so you don't have to.
Facilitated by
Alexandra Health System team, Singapore
led by Tan Liren
Industrial Designer
and
Ministry of Manpower, Singapore
led by Teo Ya Chih
Senior Manager
Designing spatial experiences workshop
Facilitated by
Abhimanyu Kulkarni
Creative Director
Philips Design, India
and
Rahul Pradhan
Senior Art Director
Philips Design, India
Creating a simple and well articulated startup vision statement is harder than it seems but a necessary step to clarity. This slide deck steps you through the process and leads you to the development of a elevator pitch you can share with customer prospects and investors.
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Obtenez tout le soutien et les conseils dont vous avez besoin pour réussir votre prospection. Ce livre est l'une des ressources les plus précieuses au monde lorsqu'il s'agit de développer vos techniques de prospection dans le marketing de réseau. Ce livre ci-dessous vous montrera exactement ce que vous devez faire pour enfin réussir avec votre entreprise.
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The value of experience design is changing. Tools that were once designed to help people make decisions are being reimagined into products and services that actively make people’s lives easier through anticipating what a user wants and making choices on their behalf.
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Hear Alastair Simpson from Atlassian talk about the creative spaces they’ve designed that have scaled with the changing needs of their teams and what they’ve learned about the benefits of creating better environments through thoughtful design.
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In this presentation, the presenters will share two sides of the stories: first is the transformation of the Kaskus products, and second is the transformation of the organisation to support this new direction.
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23. A bit about me Agenda
A bit about you
Quiz!
What is an entrepreneur?
Your entrepreneurial profile
Heart
Smarts
Guts
Luck
In conclusion…
Networking and drinks @ Morganfields!
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3.
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7.
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9.
10.
11.
25. First, create a name card
§ On the front, write your name and draw a self-portrait
§ On the back, write something others are unlikely to know
about you
Then, go round your table
§ Describe your card – name,
unusual fact
§ Why are you here?
32. What proportion of
Singaporeans are ‘intending to
start a business within the next
3 years’?
1%
6%
13%
21%
Q4:
A.
B.
C.
D.
33. Source: Olexander S. Chernyshenko, Marilyn A. Uy, David Gomulya, Francis L. K. Wong, Moon-ho R. Ho, Yoke Yong Lai, Kim Yin Chan & Olwen
Bedford. (2013) Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2012 Singapore Report. Singapore: Nanyang Technological University
34. True or false, on average
entrepreneurs are happier than
non entrepreneurs?
True
False
Q5:
A.
B.
Source: http://www.gemconsortium.org/docs/download/3106
35. True or false, entrepreneurship
is on the decline in the United
States?
True
False
Q6:
A.
B.
37. What is the average age of a
US-based entrepreneur?
23
28
32
39
Q7:
A.
B.
C.
D.
Source: http://blogs.hbr.org/2011/01/should-i-become-an-entrepreneu/
40. Entrepreneurship
encompasses acts of
organizational creation,
renewal, or innovation that
occur within or outside an
existing organization
Sharma, Pramodita, and James J. Chrisman.
"Toward a Reconciliation of the Definitional Issues in the
Field of Corporate Entrepreneurship." (1999).
“
“
41. “ “
Entrepreneurship is the
relentless pursuit of
opportunity without regard to
the resources at hand
Howard Stevenson, Harvard Business School
42.
43. What are the traits
of a successful
entrepreneur?
44.
45.
46. Entrepreneurial Aptitude Test
1. Go to http://www.hsgl.com/
2. Click on the ‘Take the Entrepreneurial Aptitude Test’
3. Take the test (it should take about 7 minutes)
4. Read the results
5. Break into groups based on Heart, Smarts, Guts, and
Luck
6. Discuss:
§ What did you find out?
§ What about the description rings true to you?
§ Any surprises?
§ Anything you disagree with?
76. 1. Encounter a choice…
2. Analyse your options… But
the confirmation bias leads
you to gather self-serving in
3. Make a choice…But short-term
emotion will often tempt
you to make the wrong one.
4. Live with it…
But narrow framing makes you
miss options.
But the confirmation bias leads
you to gather self-serving
information.
But short-term emotion will
often tempt you to make the
wrong one.
But you’ll often be overconfident
about how the future will unfold.
87. Clarity tip: Ask better questions
• Can you walk me through your decision-making process?
• Who will approve the budget for this work?
• Who will make the final decision about selecting a firm to
work with?
• Can you share with me your timeframe for making a
decision?
• May I ask, what other firms you are talking to?
Source: http://andrewsobel.com/articles/dont-write-a-proposal-just-yet/
88. 1. Grab an index card.
2. Silently write a single tip for ‘selling ideas’ on the card.
3. As you complete each idea, pass that the index card to
the person on your right.
4. Read the card you received and think of it as an ‘idea
stimulation’ card. Add an idea inspired by what you just
read or enhance the idea, and then pass again to your
right.
5. Continue this process of “brainwriting” and passing
cards to the right until there are various ideas on each
card until you get your card back again.
6. Once finished, collect the cards and tape them to the
flipchart.
7. As a group, review the ideas and draw stars next to the
ones you find most compelling. Discuss.
113. Tip: Use the Pomodoro technique
1. Choose a task to be
accomplished
2. Set a timer for 25 minutes
3. Work on the task until the
timer goes off
4. Take a 5 minute break – go to the bathroom,
look at The Facebook, etc
5. Every 4 sprints take a longer break
127. When attempting to change an important aspect of my life, I tend to…
YES NO
1. Make a step-by-step plan
2. Motivate myself by focusing on someone that I admire for
achieving so much (e.g., a celebrity role model or great leader)
3. Tell other people about my goal
4. Think about the bad things that will happen if I don’t achieve my
goal
5. Think about the good things that will happen if I achieve my goal
6. Try to suppress unhelpful thoughts (e.g., avoid thinking about
eating unhealthy food or smoking)
7. Reward myself for making progress toward my goal
8. Rely on willpower
9. Record my progress (e.g., in a journal or on a chart)
10. Fantasize about how great my life will be when I achieve my goal
128. When attempting to change an important aspect of my life, I tend to…
YES NO
1. Make a step-by-step plan
2. Motivate myself by focusing on someone that I admire for
achieving so much (e.g., a celebrity role model or great leader)
3. Tell other people about my goal
4. Think about the bad things that will happen if I don’t achieve my
goal
5. Think about the good things that will happen if I achieve my goal
6. Try to suppress unhelpful thoughts (e.g., avoid thinking about
eating unhealthy food or smoking)
7. Reward myself for making progress toward my goal
8. Rely on willpower
9. Record my progress (e.g., in a journal or on a chart)
10. Fantasize about how great my life will be when I achieve my goal
Score 1 point for each “Yes” in questions 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9
129. When attempting to change an important aspect of my life, I tend to…
YES NO
1. Make a step-by-step plan
2. Motivate myself by focusing on someone that I admire for
achieving so much (e.g., a celebrity role model or great leader)
3. Tell other people about my goal
4. Think about the bad things that will happen if I don’t achieve my
goal
5. Think about the good things that will happen if I achieve my goal
6. Try to suppress unhelpful thoughts (e.g., avoid thinking about
eating unhealthy food or smoking)
7. Reward myself for making progress toward my goal
8. Rely on willpower
9. Record my progress (e.g., in a journal or on a chart)
10. Fantasize about how great my life will be when I achieve my goal
Score 1 point for each “No” in questions 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10
130. To achieve your goals and ambitions there are
five key techniques:
1. Having a plan
2. Telling your friends
and family
3. Focussing on the
benefits
4. Rewarding yourself
each step of the way
5. Writing it down
131. What is your goal?
My overall goal is to…
Gain more confidence
when reading financial
statements [
132. Create a plan
1. My first sub-goal is to…
It doesn’t take
much time
2. I believe I can achieve this goal because..
3. To achieve this sub-goal I will..
Go to iod.org.nz
4. This will be achieved by the following date:
5. My reward for achieving this will be…
(Repeat up to 5 times)
Look up dates for the Financial Essentials
course from the Institute of Directors
30 Oct 2014
A cronut!
133. What are the benefits?
List three important benefits, focussing on how much
better life will be for you and those around you.
1.
2.
3.
It’ll help me get other directorships
It’ll be enjoyable to learn and sharpen up
It’ll help me gain credibility with the leadership team
at Spark Ventures
134. Going public
Whom are you going to tell about
your goal and sub-goals? Friends,
family, colleagues.
Talk to Rod
165. • Portigal – “Got laid off”
• Andy Budd – “To build something bigger than myself and to make the web a
better place”
• Jeff G – “I wanted to do work that mattered and in-house opps didn't offer it.
User-centric work that solves actual problems and ships. In addition, I believed
there was a better way to work.”
• Dave Gray - it was obvious by 1989 I was not going to retire in the newspaper
business
• Josh S – “1/I didn't want a boss. 2/No perfect role was waiting--I had to make it.”
§ Ask Giles,
167. Linda is 31 years old, single, outspoken, and very bright.
She majored in philosophy. As a student, she was deeply
concerned with issues of discrimination and social justice,
and also participated in anti-nuclear demonstrations.
hich is more probable?
a) Linda is a bank teller.
b) Linda is a bank teller and is active in the feminist
movement.
201. “
I had $200,000 of credit card debt
and $50,000 in the bank. I said, I
can either take that $50,000 and
throw it into this bottomless pit of
debt, or, we could make a movie!
So we made Super Size Me
Morgan Spurlock
“