The purpose is the reason for being. Why does your organization exist? Why does your team exist? Why do you exist? A clear purpose focuses the team to a common agenda and helps attract the right team. Winning companies spend a lot of time defining their purpose. You want prospective staff and partners to read your purpose and resonate. Figure 1: aligning personal purpose to organizational purpose Personal purpose Why do you exist? What do you hold dear? What values do you live? What causes do you support? To win, start by defining your purpose as it guides your outlook,…

Do you love watching competitive television shows for leisure? MasterChef Australia is one such show that never disappoints. Different chefs are challenged to make the best dish to test the contestant’s food knowledge and preparation skills. Episodes are varied to make them unique. In one of the episodes, new contestants were given a menu and challenged to go to the supermarket and buy food (raw materials) to prepare the meals on the menu! How brilliant. And indeed, a good soldier knows when and how to use his or her tools and weapons at disposal. The same applies to staff productivity…

The legendary Martial Artist, Bruce Lee, is quoted as having said: “Do not pray for an easy life; pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.” In these COVID-19 times, we all need to say this prayer. We are living in challenging times. There is nothing as worse as having a year of missing school. And that is not for just one class or a few students. But the whole country. Only very few lucky children of the middle and high-end class parents are attending school via zoom. It is these kinds of privileges and opportunities that keep some…