Tag: Purpose

How To Defeat Your Enemy

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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The question is, ‘How can you guard yourself against defeat and take advantage of the opportunities the enemy offers?’

According to Sun Tzu, ‘Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.’

‘Take advantage of the enemy’s unpreparedness, make your way by unexpected routes, and attack him where he has taken no precautions.’

‘If your opponent is of choleric, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.’

‘To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.’

‘If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.’

‘Successful, dynamic businesses have unifying, purposeful objectives. Less successful businesses have vague description of their solutions and lack differentiation.’

‘If you can’t articulate your plan, you’ll have big problems.’

‘Cross-functional training and unity will help your business overcome threats and advance forward.’

‘Agility is a primary advantage of small businesses, when contrasted with the competition.’

‘You cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors.’

Source:

Becky Sheetz-Runkle (2014). The Art of War for Small Business: Defeat the Competition and Dominate the Market with the Masterful Strategies of Sun Tzu

The Power Of Purpose

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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Success comes from knowing what you are doing, why you are doing it. If you do not know why you are doing what you are doing, you are not going anywhere.

For example, according to Simon Sinek, ‘When companies or organizations do not have a clear sense of why their customers are their customers, they tend to rely on a disproportionate number of manipulations to get what they need.’

‘Leadership requires people to stick with you through thick and thin.’

‘Leadership is ability to rally people not for a single event, but for years.’

‘In business, leadership means that customers will continue to support your company even when you slip up.’

‘Companies and organizations with a clear sense of WHY never worry about it. They don’t think of themselves as being like anyone else and they don’t have to ‘convince’ anyone of their value.’

‘We are drawn to leaders and organizations that are good at communicating what they believe. Their ability to make us feel like we belong, to make us feel special, safe and not alone is part of what gives them the ability to inspire us.’

‘Great organizations become great because the people inside the organization feel protected.’

‘Great organizations not only excite human spirit, they inspire people to take part in helping to advance the cause without needing to pay them or incentivize them in any particular way.’

‘Clarity of purpose, cause or belief is important, but it is equally important that people hear you.

‘A leader with a cause, whether it be an individual or an organization, must have a megaphone through which to deliver his message.’

Source:

Simon Sinek (2009). Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action