3 Questions I ask myself very often!
I didn’t make any New Year resolutions. I stopped making them many years ago. Recently I was saddened by the passing away of one of the master strategy thinkers of our times, Clayton Christensen and I went back to reading some of his thoughts on disruptive innovation. Our CEO Darrel Huntsman was delivering a talk on dual transformation and how he adopted a few points that he borrowed from Clay. He explained the concept of customers, competitors, and our firm and how he designed the strategy of value wedge. It was truly a light bulb moment for me and really got me thinking. It inspired me to think about what I am really doing to understand the larger purpose and also adapt these learning for my own personal good. Where do I begin?
I asked myself a few questions and then started with a few small experiments. My first experiment was to gradually reduce my urge to multitasking. I felt I was not able to focus on the task at hand. I can feel the difference in my productivity-improving as a result. Well, this is just one tiny step I have taken and I know have a long way to go. I am looking for your help in finding these answers in no particular order.
1. How do you identify the larger purpose that you want to achieve?
2. Once you know the purpose, what would you do to improve the focus on those areas?
3. Distractions are quite natural ( from within and outside), are there any broad areas of distraction that we can identify & how do you overcome?
As we begin this new year and a decade, I am hoping that these questions inspire you to search for your larger purpose. I am looking for solutions that we can search together that will shape our lives for a better good.
I am very eager to listen from you, please share your thoughts
Founder@Kalkitech| Angel Investor | Advisor to CXO and Board on Digital Transformation, MVP and Product Market Fit | Specializes in Communication Protocols for Utilities, Industries, Renewables, EV, and DER
4yThought provoking Mani James.
Global Investment Management Leader and Advisor
4yMilton Friedman is famous for his view that the needs of shareholders are paramount in establishing priorities. Richard Branson and others believe that a company should focus on its employees, because it is impossible to capture commercial opportunities without great leadership and staff. The Business Roundtable recently embraced the emerging consensus that all stakeholders, direct and indirect, should have a voice in establishing strategy. I believe that Peter Drucker makes the best case with his focus on the primacy of the customer. Firms cannot succeed without understanding the wants and needs of buyers, and delivering against those requirements more effectively than competitors can do it. Everyone in a successful business must focus on the current and expected future needs of target customers, staying one step ahead of the competition, and providing those goods and services in a package where revenues exceed costs plus required margin. If done well, everything else falls into place. Ill-treated employees won’t consistently meet the needs of customers, so a well-run company needs to take care of its staff. Customers will punish firms that abuse the environment or the communities in which they operate, so the needs of stakeholders are implicitly considered by effective businesses. If customer requirements are profitably addressed, shareholders will also be happy with the results. Bottom line, the purpose in my professional life is building a successful business. To do that effectively requires intense focus on understanding and profitably serving the holistic needs of customers. Everything else is a distraction.
Adding value to your digital transformation journey |Senior Manager at Elementz
4yMani James Incidentally I came across this article: https://lnkd.in/g7_F_sr And who knew procrastination is the new power nap ! Lot of new developments in the study of human brain how it works !
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4yFirst , It’s very thought provoking article to give enough reason to pause and think and strong reason to read Clayton Christensen ‘s thoughts .So , I would be happy to be part of this exploration Mani James . I would like to share one of the thoughts , I read few days before ,the way to begin to identify life purpose is to make a thorough review of everything you’ve ever done that has brought meaning, joy and fulfillment along with a sense of knowing why you’re on the planet at this time. Then you’ll want to intersect that with identifying how that meaning and fulfillment was tied to being of service – to another person, to your family or friends, to your community, organization, or to the world at large.I am finding it very closer to my thought , Your thought would be appreciable