Achievers Version 2.0

Source: Unsplash Ajit, a graduate from IIT Mumbai, had been working in a product company for last three years. He was evaluated as a top performer for last three years in his group of 20. This year, he said, he is seeking promotion. When i asked him his 'strategy' of getting promoted, he said " I am working harder than before".  Every athlete wants to win the race, every tennis player wants to win Grand slams. So the difference between the winners and losers is just one: better strategy to achieve the goals, not better goals. No British cyclist had won a cycling event in last 100 years, when in year 2003, British cycling team hired Dave Brailsford as its new performance director. He devised a new strategy called “the aggregation of marginal gains .” Brailsford explained the strategy in this way, “The whole principle came from the idea that if you break down everything you could think of that goes into riding a bike, and then improve it by 1 percent, you will get a ...

  Source: Dreamstime.com Devidas is a High school educated businessman. Unable to start a crockery-manufacturing unit, he started a wholesale business in crockery business in a small town in Ahmednagar District. He succeeded beyond his imagination. In three years, he was looking for manufacturing some items. With an Engineering friend, he started an Electrical panel unit. But in two years, he had to close it, because of the differences with the business partner. He kept on finding other options to diversify. He used to attend various seminars to find business ideas. Devidas is struggling to find his future work-goals, because he does not explore his beliefs to find the vision of his future. In his book, Professor Yuval Harrari, a historian and author of Sapiens , has explained how mankind has progressed by using ‘belief’. He calls beliefs as ‘fictions’ or ‘stories’. This power of beliefs is used by political rulers to bring us together. For instance, millions of people come tog...

  Rajesh, engineer-MBA, returned from the United States leaving a plush job to do something for his country. He started a NGO. After 5 years, his NGO is one of the top most NGO in India. But the NGO has stopped growing because his senior people do not stay in the organisation. They leave once they get enough experience.  Rajesh tried different options. He got better qualified people. He paid them higher salary. He changed their roles. He gave them training. Nothing worked.   When a professional cannot produce results in the physical world, such as making a cooker or car, thinking mind directly 'reads' the physical reality, spots the objective error, and corrects it. But in a people-reality (social or interpersonal world), beliefs and emotions first interprets the 'people-reality' after which thinking mind has the chance of correcting the error if error is spotted. If your mind cannot spot the error in people-interaction, then your thinking mind cannot correct the e...