Building a company culture of curiosity in an organization takes small intentional steps. If a team member asks a question in a group, how is that question handled? Does the meeting organizer have an agenda and allocated time for questions? What is the team leader’s first response to a team member’s question? Is it a…
Category: wisdom
Do you have a Company Alumni Network?
Companies go through all sorts of changes in their journey. One of the biggest and costly changes is personnel change. When experienced employees leave the company for better opportunities, it can take some time to fill the vacancy or get someone ready internally to take that position. The most untapped and available opportunity that companies…
That happy place
There was a place called NotTooFarAway. In NotTooFarAway, lived two groups of people. One group lived in the city and the other group lived on the beach. A group from a nearby place called, CuriousEyes looked at the above two groups and wondered: Are the beach group more happy than the city group? If the…
Perfect Life vs Authentic Life
The Perfect Life is an illusion. The illusion is fed with constant media coverages, social media feeds, popular culture, society and so on (mostly external factors). That’s the shiny stuff that attracts our attention and feeds our ego, motivation, and hunger for more. The Authentic Life is more real. It’s real because you are living…
From Entrepreneur to Empowerer
How can entrepreneurs grow their startup? The qualities that help entrepreneurs start their businesses might not be the same that will help take the startup to the next level. There will still be challenges that entrepreneurs will face when they have hired all the “right people” for the different roles of the company. If the…
Greatness through Giving
We can achieve greatness by focusing our energy on helping and supporting others. When we focus on helping others through what we can give, we put good energy into the universe. To achieve our goals, we collaborate with people because greatness is not a sole journey or destination. The more energy you commit into inspiring…
1,000 business cards
We were new to entrepreneurship. My friend was starting to sell custom made jewelry. He reached out to me to help him with business development work. One of the first purchases we made was to put an order of 1000 business cards, each. Well we ended up using probably 50 a piece in the next…
3 A’s to greatness
Awareness. Action. Automatic. Awareness is the first component of becoming great at a skill or craft. Once awareness is established, action is needed to intentionally practice and work on the skill or craft. After taking consistent action to get better, the skill or craft becomes automatic.
The island without sandals
There was an island called Without Sandals. A budding salesperson from a nearby Town A visited the island and saw that no one at this island was wearing sandals. The salesperson went back to the town and concluded that there are no opportunities to sell any sandals because no one would wear them. Another budding…
There’s no failure in sports!
Indeed. There’s no failure in sports. Definitely not in life! Giannis Antetokounmpo, player for The Milwaukee Bucks eloquently explained why there’s no failure in sports after his team exited the NBA playoffs. You’re always working towards a goal. Sometimes your team will succeed and other times, your team will come up short on those goals….
When does the sale happen?
For high ticket items, the sale almost always does not happen in one customer touchpoint/interaction. (If it does, I would love to learn from you and know what worked for you.) It happens over a period of multiple touchpoints and interactions between the buyer and seller. Each customer touchpoint is a step closer to the…
Delivering exceptional value to clients
In service focused businesses, meeting and exceeding clients’ expectations is everything. Providing excellent client service is both an art and a science. You can learn a lot from others’ experiences, read book(s) and blogs and watch relevant content to understand what client servicing is. Then there’s the exciting part of actually managing clients yourselves. That’s…
Why pay for it?
There’s a big difference of results between doing it on your own (for something you’re not so good at) compared to hiring a professional to do it. For tasks that you could kind of do it, have an idea about it or know a little bit, it’s better to go with a professional most times….
The best time to do a startup is…
NOW. Literally now. If you are thinking about doing a startup, want to be an entrepreneur or create something of your own, there is no better time than RIGHT NOW. There is no uniform age, timeline, state, region, phase, moment or any other factor that guarantees the best time to do a startup. I like…
What’s on your calendar?
One way to identify what’s a priority for someone is to look at their calendars. What’s there and what’s not there? If your calendar does not have the activities/people/experiences that you value or are important to you, pretty soon it will start filling up with other people’s priorities. Someone can tell you how much they…
Working those muscles
Being more creative, more inquisitive, more evolved requires working with intention on those creative/curious/reflection muscles. If you want to be more creative, keep challenging yourself to think outside the box, look for different ways to solve the same problem or spend time around “creative people.” If you want to be more inquisitive, keep asking questions,…
What’s your authentic greatness?
Authentic greatness is about realizing your individual uniqueness, purpose and living a fulfilling life daily. Each of us is gifted with a talent and our purpose in life is to find that and live our life through it. Some of us find our purpose early while others find it later. However, one of life’s goal…
Beyond the Comfort Zone
In our comfort zones, we tend to feel at ease, almost no anxiety, stress free, and safe. In the boundaries of our comfort zones, we tend to feel some or a lot of anxiety, stress, and get defensive. Do we all have comfort zones? If so, do we stay in those zones or go beyond…
Getting through the data noise
An authentic brand story will help your company get through the data noise. How much data noise is really out there? Domo’s Data Never Sleeps 10.0 presents some numbers. Some notes from Domo: Over the last ten years, digital engagement through social media, streaming content, online purchasing, peer-to-peer payments and other activities has increased hundreds…
Will you have the audacity to wave ’em off?
Jeremy Lin of the New York Knicks waved off his teammates to take the game winning shot in Toronto against the Toronto Raptors on February 14, 2012. Why is this a big deal? It’s a big deal because we witnessed an Asian man in the NBA have the confidence to say that I’ve got this…