The document discusses confronting brutal facts when pursuing goals and visions. It recommends asking open questions of trusted advisors to get honest feedback, engaging in respectful debate to understand different perspectives, learning from past mistakes without blame, and setting up accountability measures and progress assessments to course correct as needed while maintaining faith in ultimately succeeding.
How to Create Your Creative Process - by Erik van MechelenErik van Mechelen
A portal to creativity: When you enter the creative process, who are you? Are you choosing the right doors? Do you have the right creative process? Fit your personality to your process; your process to your personality. Understand how lights turn on for you. Understand where they turn off. Give them space to turn on more often, and see your potential shine through.
https://bit.ly/2RFqjOo
5 ways to boost your mindset for success - Shane KriderShane Krider
Shane Krider discusses 5 ways to boost your mindset for success in this in-depth presentational blog. For more information, please visit ShaneKrider.net!
Pitching the Perfect Game - Wowing VCs and AngelsDavid Ehrenberg
If you're facing down an investor meeting or a demo day, check out this presentation from messaging expert and speech coach Bryan Rutberg, Principal at 3C Communication (@3CComms) and Early Growth Financial Services (www.earlygrowthfinancialservices.com).
Topics covered include:
-- The difference between pitching your product and pitching your company
-- What to include in your pitch deck -- and how to make it memorable
-- How to catch your audience's attention and keep it
-- Presenting your problem/solution as a coherent and compelling story
-- Using presentation graphics effectively
-- How to own the room
and more!
How to Create Your Creative Process - by Erik van MechelenErik van Mechelen
A portal to creativity: When you enter the creative process, who are you? Are you choosing the right doors? Do you have the right creative process? Fit your personality to your process; your process to your personality. Understand how lights turn on for you. Understand where they turn off. Give them space to turn on more often, and see your potential shine through.
https://bit.ly/2RFqjOo
5 ways to boost your mindset for success - Shane KriderShane Krider
Shane Krider discusses 5 ways to boost your mindset for success in this in-depth presentational blog. For more information, please visit ShaneKrider.net!
Pitching the Perfect Game - Wowing VCs and AngelsDavid Ehrenberg
If you're facing down an investor meeting or a demo day, check out this presentation from messaging expert and speech coach Bryan Rutberg, Principal at 3C Communication (@3CComms) and Early Growth Financial Services (www.earlygrowthfinancialservices.com).
Topics covered include:
-- The difference between pitching your product and pitching your company
-- What to include in your pitch deck -- and how to make it memorable
-- How to catch your audience's attention and keep it
-- Presenting your problem/solution as a coherent and compelling story
-- Using presentation graphics effectively
-- How to own the room
and more!
Mind’s Eye Solutions, Inc. is a leading provider of high-quality in biometric identity management systems, applications and services. Our global presence combines innovative products and services with a continuing dedication to customer support and social responsibility.
The company's offerings include a wide range of multi model biometric solutions, which are used to capture and process the unique physiological characteristics of individuals to verify their identities—protecting and securing people, property and privacy.
Schools, Colleges and Universities & Offices agree, RF ID is the Identification Solution Provider, when it comes to education. Improve productivity, efficiency, save time, money and even lives with a fully integrated student ID system including access control, time and attendance and video surveillance
Mind’s eye launched “VIDYARTHI RAKSHA DIGITAL CARD” in 2012 especially for student secure& attendance system includes biometrics and Proximity Card based comprehensive attendance management system for schools and colleges. secure and automatic attendance management system for both, Students and Staff. Mind’ Eye is built on cutting edge modern technology and designed to help schools and Parents/Guardians to deal with problems of truancy/absenteeism . Not only will you be able to track and manage student attendance to a granular level
Mind’s Eye Solutions attendance software has an integrate facility of sending automatic SMS alerts to the Parents/Guardians of the students.
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My coming talk on Sept 3, 2011. in Singapore.
Its free to attend, but register now!
http://blog.unleashyourbranding.com/
Free Talk organized by Entrepreneurship Club
11 a.m. at Ya Kun ( Orchard Central ), 3/9/11
Participants will be receive a free associate membership from the club which is worth $80/- for 1 year !
How to be successful - eBook brought to you by VisualDNA
We’re often taught that success defines us. As children we're weaned onto the notion that our self-worth is dependent on how successful we are. When we do something successfully our whole person is given a global rating: ‘good boy,’ we’re told when we answer a question right; ‘good girl’, they say when we pet the long-suffering cat more gently. It’s no surprise, then, that you’re here trying to find out how to be a “success”, but before we go any further, it's worth reassessing what that means.
Summary:
Don't be “a success”, do successful things
Forget the winning formula
Clarify your values
Actualise
Don't wait for inspiration
Take action
Do things. Tell people.
Take responsibility.
To find out more about yourself and what makes you tick, take the free VisualDNA personality quiz at 100things.personality.visualdna.com
This module explores the essentials of starting your own business. It looks at in detail the benefits and drawbacks of starting your own business, inspiring entrepreneurs that previously failed, facing your fears and examining in detail ‘digital natives’.
Scaling a business is a leadership challenge. This is the message that this amazing book leaves you with, how though do we do that? Musings - that stream of thought that arrives from any direction as we read, take-in information and process it - are captured in a slidedeck that will hopefully act as an aide memoir but also as a catalyst for you to read the work.
My notes and musing around this valuable book on the leadership challenges around scaling an organisation. These are my notes, my comments and insights, but the work is that of Robert I Sutton and Rao Hayagreeva, their case studies, their thinking and sometimes their words.
Mind’s Eye Solutions, Inc. is a leading provider of high-quality in biometric identity management systems, applications and services. Our global presence combines innovative products and services with a continuing dedication to customer support and social responsibility.
The company's offerings include a wide range of multi model biometric solutions, which are used to capture and process the unique physiological characteristics of individuals to verify their identities—protecting and securing people, property and privacy.
Schools, Colleges and Universities & Offices agree, RF ID is the Identification Solution Provider, when it comes to education. Improve productivity, efficiency, save time, money and even lives with a fully integrated student ID system including access control, time and attendance and video surveillance
Mind’s eye launched “VIDYARTHI RAKSHA DIGITAL CARD” in 2012 especially for student secure& attendance system includes biometrics and Proximity Card based comprehensive attendance management system for schools and colleges. secure and automatic attendance management system for both, Students and Staff. Mind’ Eye is built on cutting edge modern technology and designed to help schools and Parents/Guardians to deal with problems of truancy/absenteeism . Not only will you be able to track and manage student attendance to a granular level
Mind’s Eye Solutions attendance software has an integrate facility of sending automatic SMS alerts to the Parents/Guardians of the students.
o
My coming talk on Sept 3, 2011. in Singapore.
Its free to attend, but register now!
http://blog.unleashyourbranding.com/
Free Talk organized by Entrepreneurship Club
11 a.m. at Ya Kun ( Orchard Central ), 3/9/11
Participants will be receive a free associate membership from the club which is worth $80/- for 1 year !
How to be successful - eBook brought to you by VisualDNA
We’re often taught that success defines us. As children we're weaned onto the notion that our self-worth is dependent on how successful we are. When we do something successfully our whole person is given a global rating: ‘good boy,’ we’re told when we answer a question right; ‘good girl’, they say when we pet the long-suffering cat more gently. It’s no surprise, then, that you’re here trying to find out how to be a “success”, but before we go any further, it's worth reassessing what that means.
Summary:
Don't be “a success”, do successful things
Forget the winning formula
Clarify your values
Actualise
Don't wait for inspiration
Take action
Do things. Tell people.
Take responsibility.
To find out more about yourself and what makes you tick, take the free VisualDNA personality quiz at 100things.personality.visualdna.com
This module explores the essentials of starting your own business. It looks at in detail the benefits and drawbacks of starting your own business, inspiring entrepreneurs that previously failed, facing your fears and examining in detail ‘digital natives’.
Scaling a business is a leadership challenge. This is the message that this amazing book leaves you with, how though do we do that? Musings - that stream of thought that arrives from any direction as we read, take-in information and process it - are captured in a slidedeck that will hopefully act as an aide memoir but also as a catalyst for you to read the work.
My notes and musing around this valuable book on the leadership challenges around scaling an organisation. These are my notes, my comments and insights, but the work is that of Robert I Sutton and Rao Hayagreeva, their case studies, their thinking and sometimes their words.
Creativity Inc. is an autobiography by Ed Catmull, co-founder of Pixar. This book is very helpful for us when we wants to build something meaningful that will outlast us. Be it advance manufacturing or new innovation in technology. It explains, what it takes to build and sustain a culture of excellence, one that embraces originality in its truest form. I highly recommend this book. It has applicable ideas, but more than anything it will broaden our view of why success in itself isn’t all that interesting; sustaining it is.
Key Learnings
>Eight mechanisms for new perspectives
>Honesty and Candour
>Change and Randomness
>Fear and Failure
>Starting Points
2. There’s nothing wrong with
pursuing a vision for greatness.
But good-to-great companies
continually refined the path to
greatness with the brutal facts of
reality.
3. How to Confront the Brutal Facts
• Lead with Questions, Not Answers
– Identify a few people who are not afraid to tell
you the truth.
– Ask questions about your passion, talent, career
aspirations, and economic engine.
– Honest feedback will help you understand the
“brutal facts”.
4. How to Confront the Brutal Facts
• Engage in Dialogue and Debate, not Coercion
– Don’t go in to a conversation with the goal of
convincing others about your point of view.
– Instead, listen to them and consider their
arguments and beliefs
– Seek first to understand, then to be understood
– Allow your mind to be changed
5. How to Confront the Brutal Facts
• Conduct Autopsies, Without Blame
– Fail quickly, and cheaply, and freely share about
the experience so that others may learn from it
– Understand why you’ve made mistakes in the
past, and learn from them
– Don’t blame others for past mistakes
6. How to Confront the Brutal Facts
• Build “Red Flag” Mechanisms
– Set up warnings and alarms to let you know when
you’re straying from your personal mission
– Have others keep you accountable to your plans
– Write down your goals and assess your progress
regularly
7. Never Waver in Your Faith
• Have confidence that you will succeed
• Understand that you may face challenges, but
do not give up on your goals
• If you need to reinvent yourself, it may be
another stepping stone to your dream
8. The Stockdale Paradox
“You must never confuse faith that you will
prevail in the end – which you can never afford
to lose – with the discipline to confront the most
brutal facts of your current reality, whatever
they might be.” – Admiral Jim Stockdale