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Reading books
✍🏽”If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” – Haruki Murakami 🤔BUT people with different background can read the SAME BOOK 📖 and extract DIFFERENT messages. Everyone reads into the framework of their own personality, experiencies and circunstances‼️ It is not a bad thing to read what everyone is reading… but try to think diffrent from what everyone else is thinking bringing to the table your personal approach 🤓
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Incentives & Outcomes
“SHOW ME THE INCENTIVES AND I WILL SHOW YOU THE OUTCOME.” – Charlie Munger 📝 I love this quote about how incentives drive nearly everything. In Vietnam 🇻🇳, under French colonial rule, there was a rat 🐀problem. To solve the rat infestation, the French offered a bounty 💲on rats, which could be collected by delivering a rat’s tail as proof of murder. Many bounties were paid out, but the rat problem didn’t improve 🧐 🪖Officials soon noticed rats running around without tails–people were cutting off the tails and releasing the rats to breed, so as to increase the pool of potential bounty revenue for themselves 🤓 Unknowingly, they have fallen…
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Cineas
🧐 Cineas was an ancient Greek politician and a friend of 🤴🏻King Pyrrhus of Epirus, considered one of the greatest generals in antiquity. After spending decades securing his own possessions, it was inevitable that the king would turn his attention toward the new powers of Rome and Carthage, to the west of Greece. The story goes that Cineas tried to dissuade Pyrrhus from sailing to Italy and urged him to be satisfied with the possessions he already had. 🧐 “Should the gods permit us to overcome them, how will we profit from our victory?” 🤴🏻 “After we have conquered the Romans, no city in all of Italy will be able…
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Remote working
Almost 90% of project teams now include one or more workers who operate from different locations than their supervisors and teammates👩🏻💻. Nearly 80% of managers now supervise a worker or workers at remote locations!! ✍️ Many leaders face isolation because their team members are far away. These “long-distance leaders” need to use a variety of tools specifically designed to address distance leadership issues and concerns ✍️ 🔝 4️⃣ rules for working with long-distance employees are… • “Building trust at a distance doesn’t happen by accident” – Trust is evidence-based. Many leaders of remote workers ask, “How will I know they’re working if I can’t see them?” To establish trust, establish and nurture a common purpose, motives and competence between your home office and remote workers. To engender trust, be…
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Florins per week
✍️Think you’re paid what you’re worth⁉ ✍️ 🧐TWO FLORINS A WEEK… OR SIX 💵💵 Moses was a young man who worked in a grain store and earned two florins a week. Another clerk at the same warehouse, who was also named Moses, was earning six florins a week. The first Moises had been working there for a long time, but the salary was still the same: two florins a week. The fact that he received two florins while his colleague received six began to annoy him more than normal. Finally one day he complained to his boss: – 🤬 Why I earn only two florins a week whereas the other…
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Eat that Frog
“Eat that Frog” 🐸 by Brian Tracy is a classic on the shelf. It is a short 144 pages that can be read in a couple of hours giving you so many great productivity tips. Below are 5 🔝 QUOTES from this book that can easily double your productivity and a final RULE: > “If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first. This is another way of saying that if you have two important tasks before you, start with the biggest, hardest, and most important task first. It is best to tackle your most important priority at work first thing in the day. Get it done…
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Good teams
“Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the ME for the WE” – Phil Jackson
