Big Ideas
Organization and Execution: Productivity
- We must have Action Orientation
- 3 step process to getting things done
- Action Steps
- Back burners
- Reference
- Understanding Urgent v/s Important
- Create Windows of Non-Stimulation: 2-3 hours/day
- Creativity X Organization = Impact
- You don’t have to have a score of 100/100 on creativity in order to make an impact.
- A high score on Creativity but a low score on organization will lead to little impact.
- Examples of creatives with big impact:
- James Patterson
- Thomas Kincaid – Prolific painter with a big business. Maligned by art critics, but very
- You don’t have to have a score of 100/100 on creativity in order to make an impact.
- Having Rituals
Communal Forces: People/Collaboration
- Getting Feedback is crucial – share ideas liberally
- You have to constantly get feedback
- Customers
- Readers
- Community
- Society
- You have to constantly get feedback
- Force of Competition – Competition is a great motivator. We must use it.
- Story of Photographer who Photographed himself daily for 5 years
- Discovers someone else doing this … In a week he puts together a public video
- Story of Photographer who Photographed himself daily for 5 years
- Accountability – Accountability is key to getting things done.
- Commit Publicly
- Mastermind/Circles – Use the Power of Masterminds/Circles of people in the same field as you
- We must enroll others in order to make big things happen
Leadership
- Finding Extremes
- and holding on to them
- Don’t get burdened by consensus
- Self Leadership
- Self awareness