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Being Successful In your Job - Product Companies

I love the suggested tips in article  3 tips to really succeed.

• Get a really good manager or tech lead
• Pick high profile projects
• Tackle the meaty problems

Very Good Read...

Another Good Read, Tips for Noogler Engineers - Above list plus one more addition. Ask your manager how this system works. What are areas you need to focus to grow in the organization.

Knowledge is more important that growth, With knowledge you would be recognized universally.....When you stop learning, You stop growing....

Happy Reading....

Appreciate What you have and Where you are...Right Attitude towards circumstances..

Very Good Six Part Series - Dr.Wayne Dyer - How to be a No-Limit Person

Notes from the talk
Notes - Wayne Dyer - How to be a No-Limit Person (1-2/6)

• A know limit person - Operates from Deficiency
• Get Some Place out - Need More
• No-Limit Person already has everything
• Appreciate What you have and Where you are
• Successful people are inner directed, no-limit people
• They always have enough
• Handle Anything - Not because of circumstances
• Attitude towards circumstances
• Taking what you are and accepting
• Idea of taking life in your own hands and being kind of person you choose to be and everything that comes in your way is a blessing-opportunity
• Perfect cannot be decided. Birds are perfect, Environment is perfect. Thoughts makes it itself
• Someone puts pressure on you-Out of you comes anger-fear-stress Why ?
• Becoz of Boss/Mom/Children?
• What comes out of you is what's inside
• If you have hatred, It is what you put inside
• There are no mistakes, No Limit people understand lesson in life - Celebrate Lessons
• No one can hurt your feelings without your consent
• Person who has will to live/Attitude/Belief - So much better opportunity to be well in your life

Notes - Wayne Dyer - How to be a No-Limit Person (3/6) 

• Help someone Teach Themselves
• See the greatness and uniqueness in you
• True self is beautiful little child
• Period from 6-12 Wallclock - Move yourself back in your Life 

Notes - Wayne Dyer - How to be a No-Limit Person (4/6)

Living in itself, Going with the Flow

1. Quality rather than Appearances

• You change from Appearances to Quality. Rathen than how it appears.
• Wanting Approval or Needing Approval
• Stop Needing Approval
• Live the Life you have imagined
• Success is an inner process
• Success is doing what makes most amount of sense to you
• You will see it when you believe it
• Independant of Good Opinion of other people

2. Ethics Rather than Rules

• Immoral Acts come in name of Rules
• Immoral Rule, Immoral to Obey It
• Encourage kids to question

Notes - Wayne Dyer - How to be a No-Limit Person (5/6)

3. Knowledge instead of Achievements

• For the sake of Knowledge
• Because it makes sense to you
• Value importance of knowlege
• Doing things that makes sense than easy ways of doing it
• No Stress actually exists. People thinking stressful Thoughts
• Live each moment
• Living in the moment

4. Personal Authority rather than being authoritarin

• No need to Dominate
• More you become honest to yourself
• Honesty becomes way of life
• How to react is yours
• Being Honest

5. Serenity instead of acquisitions

• More you collect less serenity
• Find joy in every moment instead of looking for it

Notes - Wayne Dyer - How to be a No-Limit Person (6/6)

• Attitude is everything
• Living in Light is way
• Forgiveness
• Happiness is the Way

Another good story on Desire for Success
A young man asked Socrates the secret to success. Socrates told the young man to meet him near the river the next morning.
Next morning, they met. Socrates asked the young man to walk with him toward the river. When the water got up to their neck, Socrates took the young man by surprise and ducked him into the water. The boy struggled to get out but Socrates was strong and kept him there until the boy started turning blue. Socrates pulled his head out of the water and the first thing the young man did was to gasp and take a deep breath of air.
Socrates asked, 'What did you want the most when you were there?"

 The boy replied, "Air."

Socrates said, "That is the secret to success. When you want success as badly as you wanted the air, then you will get it." There is no other secret

I love the summary posted in link

• Greet each day with high expectations and a clear sense of direction
• Exercise a remarkable degree of control over everything in your life
• Enjoy each day to the fullest, unaffected by unnecessary concerns about the past or future
• Detach yourself from external criticism
• Tune in to internal signals to deal effectively with everyday frustrations and challenges
• Feel joy every day of your life

Happy Reading!!

"Hire Right People" - Carlos Brito CEO Anheuser-Busch InBev

"Hire Right People & Developing High Performing Teams" - Carlos Brito CEO Anheuser-Busch InBev
Interesting Presentation. It's good. Notes from it...

• "Dream Big or Dream Small takes same amount of Energy. Why Don't you Dream Big"
• "Dream - Something that Inspires and People buy to it"
• "Dream brings the best out of people"
• "Great Companies are formed by Great People not Great Products"
• "Great People Attract more Great People"
• "Great People challenge Each other"
• "Force us to be better"
• "Constructive and Respectful Feedback"
• "People can speak their minds, Constructive & Respectful"
• "Talented people like to know where they stand"
• "Have Ideas"
• "Take people out of their comfort Zone"
• "Culture of Ownership"
• "Actions more important than words"
• "Little results on consistent basis"
• "Leadership -Translate complex world into simple analysis-Action things for the team"
• "Not being selfish"
• "No Shortcuts"
• "Aim Higher"
• "Important is what comes after 'but'"
• "Push yourself to next level"

Strategy & Innovation Quotes

Very Good Read on Innovation from Imaginatik

Couple of Interesting Quotes

“not to impose yesterday’s normal on a changed today; but to change the business, its behavior, its attitudes, its expectations—as well as its products, its markets, and its distributive channels—to fit the new realities.” (MANAGING FOR RESULTS, 1964) 

Drucker shared, “If what looks like an opportunity does not advance the strategic goal of the institution, it is not an opportunity. It is a distraction.”

Peter Drucker outlined a recipe for business innovation that is still relevant and actionable. This recipe involves answering three questions, which “will provide the foundation upon which goals, objectives, and strategies can be formulated.
Question #1: “What is our business?"
Question #2: “What will our business be?”
Question #3: “What should our business be?"

Regularly asking and answering these three questions will spark important conversations about the purpose of your business.

We are what we think.

"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world."- Buddha.
“What you’ll be is what you do now.” - Buddha

Get Motivated, Get Going, Keep Rocking

Lot of inspiring quotes and notes I wanted to share from my reads last few days...

Get Motivated, Get Going, Keep Rocking

• "Fail faster. Succeed sooner" - David Kelley/IDEO
• "You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend or not" - Isabel Allende
• Take a job for what it teaches you, not for what it pays. Instead of a potential employer asking, ‘Where do you see yourself in 5 years?’ you’ll ask, ‘If I invest my mental assets with you for 5 years, how much will they appreciate? How much will my portfolio of career options grow?' - Stan Davis & Christopher Meyer, futureWEALTH
• Talented people are less likely to wait their turn. We used to view young people as trainees; now they are authorities. Arguably this is the first time the older generation can—and must—leverage the younger generation very early in their careers” Ed Michaels, War for Talent (05.17.00)
• Dream BIG! Start Now! Study Hard! Play Hard!
• BLAME NOBODY! EXPECT NOTHING! DO SOMETHING! - NY Post (9/99)
• “Everything can be taken from man but one thing: the last of human freedoms—to choose one’s own attitude in any set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” -Victor Frankl, Auschwitz survivor
• The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. – Michelangelo
• “In business, you reward people for taking risks. When it doesn’t work out you promote them-because they were willing to try new things. If people tell me they skied all day and never fell down, I tell them to try a different mountain.” —Michael Bloomberg (BW/0625.07)
• Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins: The Paradox of Innovation - Richard Farson & Ralph Keyes

 “Excellence can be obtained if you: ... care more than others think is wise;

... risk more than others think is safe;
... dream more than others think is practical;
... expect more than others think is possible.” - Source: Anon. (Posted @ tompeters.com)

Retrospect and Lead

• “A focus on cost-cutting and efficiency has helped many organizations weather the downturn, but this approach will ultimately render them obsolete. Only the constant pursuit of innovation can ensure long-term success.” —Daniel Muzyka, Dean, Sauder School of Business, Univ of British Columbia (FT/09.17.04)
• “I never, ever thought of myself as a businessman. I was interested in creating things I would be proud of.” —Richard Branson
• “Management has a lot to do with answers. Leadership is a function of questions. And the first question for a leader always is: ‘Who do we intend to be?’ Not ‘What are we going to do?’ but ‘Who do we intend to be?’” —Max De Pree, Herman Miller
• “Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe.” —Winston Churchill

Understand and Follow

• “The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.” -William James
• “The two most powerful things in existence: a kind word and a thoughtful gesture.” - Ken Langone, CEO, Invemed Associates [from Ronna Lichtenberg, It’s Not Business, It’s Personal] 

Better Team work by promoting
• Trust & Autonomy
• Flexibility
• Recognize Importance of Accountability
• De-Centralization

What Makes Entrepreneurs Entrepreneurial

Very clearly written academic paper and has a lot of motivating ideas What Makes Entrepreneurs Entrepreneurial.pdf

Couple of beautiful lines from the paper
“Entrepreneurs find ways to reach market with minimum expenditure of resources such as time, effort and money”
“Future is not ‘out-there’ to be discovered, but then it gets created through the very strategies of the players”
“Ready-Aim-Fire....Do not spend too much time for Ready-Aim-Aim-Aim..”
“Believe in yet to be made future that can be substantially be shaped by human action”

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Keep Learning

Always have a learning curve in your life. Interesting talks

Keeping yourself with Right Friends and Positive Environment

Interesting talk on choosing the right people and environment to influence our life, decisions.