Best Advice: Always Do the Right Thing, Every Time

Got this from a friend, located the link here.

Had attended a discussion on 'Corporate Governance' last evening. At the end of the session, I walked out wondering, where/when does one pick up the right/ wrong, ethical/unethical values?!! 

At home/primary school (formative years) or high school/college or during Masters? Management degrees, medical or legal, are all today victim of drop in value-quotient.

Early, formative years at home play a critical role, surely. But it gets reinforced positively/negatively depending on our environment. It becomes critical at work, depending on corporate culture, leadership, peer values, etc.

But then, it is a choice we make & reap the benefits thereof!

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140225111110-33102502-best-advice-always-do-the-right-thing-every-time

How to Get a Job at Google - NYTimes.com

14 % of staff in some of teams, has no big degrees.

Degree is important, but it does not give an automatic advantage, as it happens elsewhere. What matters is not grades or what we learnt. But 

- general cognitive ability

- leadership

- intellectual Humility

- ownership

- ability to innovate in teams & soft skills

Not a bad idea now to do some introspection/self analysis and may be a Strength-Finder or 360 degree feedback?

It is never too late to work with Google! It is never too late to change ('paribortan'), I am (not just trying), but actually doing it!

Master's Voice: 'Education is for Life, not for Living' is so true here.

Check out the link to OP-ED by Thomas L. Friedman  How to Get a Job at Google - NYTimes.com

How Negative Energy Affects Your Life and How to Clear It

"Nobody likes to hear that. It takes courage to accept that you create your life experience!"



Must read...



How Negative Energy Affects Your Life and How to Clear It

Change of heart - challenge | Appetite for life | theguardian.com

'William Cook was sceptical about receiving life coaching,

but it hasn't taken him long to discover the benefits.' He is a normal guy,
like us..


Check out benefits of Life/Executive Coaching at  www.regalunlimited.com/coaching.html

Link to the original article in The Guardian:

Change of heart - challenge | Appetite for life | theguardian.com

Life Coaches for the Entrepreneurial Set - NYTimes.com

• Even a successful 'type A entrepreneur' (Ali spoke his search
  tech firm to Microsoft) can benefit immensely from Coaching
  (Life/Career/Leadership/Entrepreneur, whatever we chose to call it!).
  For the opportunities/problems are universal, common to all! Only magnitude differs, awareness differs.
• 'No time' is just a matter of getting priorities right. If ' I ' am
  not 'my' priority, then nothing else is as important. At a holistic
  level, not at a selfish, mean level. I have seen many potential clients saying, 'I have just not been able to apply my mind', etc. We are being unfair to ourselves, to our families, colleagues and everyone else connected, directly or indirectly.
• Selection of The Coach is the key. As the article rightly points
  out, be very thorough in your search for the coach. Ensure you trust him so that you can discuss freely. For the outcome depends purely on how
  much the client is willing to go... and of course, the coach willing to go along...
• For people like Riaz, life is 'good'. It should be at least 'Great',
  to borrow from Phil Collins. But the real joy is when life moves from "good to Great to GOOD" (At the third phase, bliss is the outcome). It is within our reach, we just need to 'reach out', to experience the bliss. 
• As such, Coaching does not 'try to make you something you’re not...'. Then it is not Coaching. Period. The opposite should ideally happen. Make the coachee realize the true self. 

'Vulnerability is indeed very powerful'. It has to be experienced!



Life Coaches for the Entrepreneurial Set - NYTimes.com

The Mindful Revolution - TIME

Great that ‘being mindful’ is going mainstream, slowly, but surely...

The world badly needs it. Also each one of us!

Next time when I pick up raisins, I will be lot more ‘mindful'. (Eastern philosophy talks about chewing 30 times. It helps not only digestion, but also be in a state of mindful)

It could actually be ‘equipping us with skills to survive in 21^st century’.  (I would add, not just ‘survive’, but also live fully, holistically & blissfully. It is a possibility, but we often do not make a conscious choice.)

Beautiful thought: ‘we try to be in different places at once– but at the cost of being unable to inhabit where we want to be’! It is a proven fact, multi-tasking is quite impossible. (We fail to be Here & Now, most often…) 

World is indeed waking up to the ability of our brains to adapt & re-wire. Of course, we have given it a flamboyant jargon, ‘Neuroplasticity’ :)

5,000 year old techniques, when supported with this new jargon and of course, research & experience, becomes more acceptable. We are still reluctant to associate it with spirituality. But then, we forget or are unaware, ‘we are all spiritual being on a human
experience, not vice versa’

It is not ‘paradoxical that Silicon Valley has become the hotbed of mindfulness classes &
conferences’. For, the need is the most in those workplaces.

Tim Ryan’s experience is a good testimonial. Thankfully, he is making efforts to take it to more people. But it is still our choice to make – whether to carry two mobile phones or distracted by any other screen, incl laptop or TV.

Vipasana meditation technique mandates 10 days’ silence for their advance program.

Using a watch may be recommended at an early stage, but at deeper levels, I know of folks who have discarded watches. When we are connected within, we don’t need to ‘manage’ time or be ‘managed’ by time.

If ‘silicon valley entrepreneurs, Fortune 500 Titans, pentagon chiefs and more’ are taking up these exercises, is it not high time we looked at the techniques, with an open mind and humility?

Blissfully!

The Mindful Revolution - TIME

This Surfing Lesson Can Pump Up Your Career

This Surfing Lesson Can Pump Up Your Career: Imagine being so driven by your love of success that you do not even notice your failures. How different would your life be? How much more could you achieve? 

Got this from a friend. Unable to resist temptation to share & comment!

• Coaching is perceived to be strongly linked (only) to sports, though
  it has borrowed a bit from there. As such the relevance of observations
  on Surfing can be extrapolated to Coaching,
  Executive/Leadership/Transformational or just Life Coaching. Perhaps, the fact Bruce has 'only surfed a small number of times', makes it possible for him to look deeper...
• We tend to play safe. We work within our comfort zone, without testing waters beyond. 2 out of last 3 coaching sessions, I gently pushed client to take up the challenge to get out of comfort zone & do something very different. To challenge ourselves...
• If failures are pillars to success... they are waves of success & failures. 
• Often we don't fix goals that keep us passionate about it. 

It is very critical to set SMART and powerful goals, it would make a huge difference if we look at goals beyond our selfish interests. It can not be success at work (promotion/increment or bonus/ESOP) or quarterly/annual results. It must be making a difference... doing things that will impact others positively. Of course, with a strong undercurrent to ensure customer delight.

If goals are at those levels, and we are passionate about it, the results will not only surprise a whole lot of others, but ourselves too.

Don't miss the slideshare at the end of the page by Bruce

Inspiration by Dr Wayne Dyer

One of the most beautiful books I have read. Most inspiring..

The impact was such, recently on my morning walk; I had a butterfly moment myself. As I took my morning walk before sunrise, a butterfly came to me, touched me, flew by me for a few seconds, and then flew towards our apartment building...

My first reaction was a concern for the safety of the butterfly... ! Then, it dawned on me... the real meaning of it.

Must read for a very deep, spiritual experience.