Tag: purpose
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Reading a report on ‘5 business trends in 2023’, (you can read at this download link), IBM points out the importance of having a clear sustainability plan. Sustainability has been a word you heard about all the time starting more than ten years ago, and this is not new news. Business executives who might be…
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There’s a thing called ‘failure to launch’ syndrome that is a pop psychology term landing across my desk, yesterday. Completely get that this is a thing, as I have personally seen it over and over again. The thing I see is this. People, mostly people under the age of thirty, are so, so stuck. Thinking. Overthinking.…
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On knowing when to call it quits, accept sunk costs, here is Issue #205: S P A C E | ‘Fallen Leaves’
When plans fail, strategies break, or things that used to matter don’t anymore. It’s time to start a fresh chapter for S P A C E. The autumn series is themed ‘Fallen Leaves.’ This is also the title of Issue #205. It will be published on Tuesday. If you are new to Design Kompany,…
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Buddha said, What we think, we become. I learned that from CN, in Phnom Penh, at a time when there was so much that was up in the air. He was a former monk who got into personal leadership, and related, and our overlapping interests in this field got us connected. These types of questions:…
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I like this video. Phil Cha goes on the road. For ten years. To figure out, ‘Who am I?’ Boy, I can relate to that. Nine years in mostly Phnom Penh, now, with a year on the road before that, to scope out the scene and ‘practice the uncertain, the new, and the different.’ Esoteric…
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[deleted]… I sort of off the cuff asked it. ‘Do you know why your people work for you?’ There was some fidgeting… visible. In less than one second, I realized… this person didn’t know. I also remembered what RS, a former client who also had an extensive sales background, had said to me. You only get eleven…
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‘Make personal reflection a business priority’ ‘By creating a space for honest discussions about purpose—including your own—your team will hopefully be more willing to explore the topic for themselves… A “purpose audit” can help. Create the time that people need to consider how their work is fitting into the bigger picture, using the nine types…
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Michael McFall writes in a Forbes article called ‘Employees Want Purpose at Work: How to Deliver on this Priority‘: Step 1: Define your purpose. Company leaders can’t help their employees discover and live their purposes until they complete the hard work of introspection and identification to define their own, and their business’s. This might include clarifying your top…
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Everyone wants to be seen, heard, valued, and connect. Sometimes, though, the boundaries between where this kind of connecting is appropriate, and where it isn’t, I feel, are getting blurred. I like to keep things really private and personal, if they are private and personal. I don’t want to overshare and I don’t want people…
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Today’s topic is motivation. Specifically, intrinsic motivation. Internally driven: intrinsic motivation What does that mean? It means we do something because we want to. We are driven from within. Do you remember a time in your life when you were caught up in something because it simply felt like something you couldn’t not do? Maybe…