FROM DILIP MUKERJEA

"Genius is in-born, may it never be still-born."

"Oysters, irritated by grains of sand, give birth to pearls. Brains, irritated by curiosity, give birth to ideas."

"Brainpower is the bridge to the future; it is what transports you from wishful thinking to willful doing."

"Unless you keep learning & growing, the status quo has no status."

Wednesday, January 4, 2023

Just sharng my pet subject:

Legendary golfer Jack Nicklaus and his "Power of Creative Visualisation" routine, or better known as "Mental Rehearsal" in sports psychology, which I have had the wonderful opportunity to use it as a good example to illustrate how the human mind is so powerful, during my heydays of consulting and training:

"I never hit a shot, even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head. It's like a color movie.
First I 'see' the ball where I want it to finish, nice and white and sitting up high on the bright green grass.
Then the scene quickly changes, and I 'see' the ball going there: its path, trajectory, and shape, even its behavior on landing.
Then there's a sort of fade-out, and the next scene shows me making the kind of swing that will turn the previous images into reality.
Only at the end of this short, private Hollywood spectacular do I select a club and step up to the ball."
[Jack Nicklaus can be considered as the best legendary golfer in the history. You can see that this golfer who has the nickname of ‘The Golden Bear’ had collected 18 world champion titles of PGA tour. He also got the title of Master Golf Champions Tour for 6 times.
He decided to get retired in 1986 with the great reputation as the excellent golfer ever alive.]


Wednesday, December 21, 2022

TODAY'S VIP (VERY IMPORTANT POSE)

"If you live your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself...your dreams will come to you."

~ Randy Pausch, from his last lecture in September 2007, at Carnegie Mellon University, where he taught computer science; he was only 47 years old when he died from pancreatic cancer; he was, as the Independent of London put it, "the dying man who taught America how to live", and his book, The Last Lecture, is an international best-seller, which offers many wonderful lessons about life;


Tuesday, December 20, 2022

"The future demands that you reinvent. The only way to do that is to reimagine!" 

- Futurist Jim Carroll 

If what you sell, who you sell it to, how you sell it, and essentially, what it actually is - you've got to change things. If who you are how, how you learn, what you know, and what you need to know, you need to reinvent. That means you need to reimagine your future - because it will be fundamentally different from everything you know today.
That's why trend #14 of my '23 Trends for 2023' is Reimagining & Reinventing.
I see a tremendous amount of change within my base of global clients. Volvo/Mac trucks have had me in twice for senior-level leadership talks, with a core message that they are reinventing or transforming. The typical truck today contains more technology than a Cessna plane, and the company knows that they are no longer selling a truck - they are selling a service with guaranteed uptime because they know when it is going to break down. They can sell their clients - large fleet operators - a guarantee of uptime. They're going from selling a truck - to selling something different altogether. That's reinvention.
Starbucks is busy reimagining the 'gas station' of the future, knowing that when 'gas' disappears and electric vehicles become predominant, the opportunity for reinvention of the 'gas station' is pretty profound. People will be spending 10-20 minutes for a battery top-up, and will likely spend that time buying coffee and pastries - talk about an opportunity to reinvent the idea of a filling station! Time to reinvent and reimagine and pursue new opportunities!
Philips understands they are no longer selling relatively simple medical devices, but instead, are selling a type of hyperconnected intelligent 'smart thing; that does medical diagnosis and monitoring. They have essentially changed what they sell - and need to challenge their sales team to think differently as to how to sell it. That's reinvention - because it's not a widget anymore!
Heck, the company my son works for - a building inspection firm - recognizes that his drone work fundamentally changes the very nature of an external building inspection, doing it faster, with more accuracy, at less cost, than traditional manual methods. That's reinvention. The challenge is, it takes a lot of work to get people on the side of reinvention.
Everywhere we look, people reinventing. In each and everything case, there was a fundamental reimagination of what the future holds in store.
This is your future at a personal level too. Your career will change, your job will evolve, your skills base will change, and your day-to-day activities will be transformed. It's implicit on you to reinvent, and to do that, reimagine.
Because reinventing and reimaging is what most adults will do for a living from this point forward.

If you aren't busy reimagining your future, you'll never reinvent for what comes next.

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Duly noted!


When it comes to integrity, I subscribe to what C. S. Lewis had asserted:

“Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.”
Integrity means being authentic and honest, and also having moral fortitude.
A person with integrity behaves ethically, and always does the right thing, even behind closed doors.