Change

Change requires commitment and belief that a user’s life will get much better with it. Our human tendency is to stick to the default. We cannot change it overnight. The change will happen if :

  • The solution is better than the existing one.  
  • The user is committed to using it.

Some other steps which will help with change come down to:

  1. Present the idea: People feel more comfortable when they are part of the change. When done with a group of people, everyone feels part of it instead of being alone.
  2. Identify the pulses: People see negatives first. It is one of the dynamics of change. Focus on positives. 
  3. Have people express their obstacles. Let users talk in “how to” instead ” you cannot”. 
  4. Work the problems together by getting ideas on how to resolve the issues. People should involve together in solving the problem.
  5. Develop next steps: Work closely, iterate, and find out the immediate pain and fix it. 
  6. Follow up: talk to the users regularly and take feedback.

Reference: customer culture by Michael Basch

Together

Since we have crossed the webinar and thought leadership around entrepreneurship during COVID19, I can write it.

This COVID19 is a test of your leadership. All your principles painted on companies’ walls in huge fonts will be tested. Everyone will look upon you: customers, investors, and team members.

Now is the time to find real team players and customers, who are with you as a team as a believer. Everything is at the test: virtue, loyalty, love, trust, empathy. One day you feel winning, another in the rubble.

As a leader, this is the best time to build for the future. You have to lead it from the front and as a root sparkle your positivity among all. It is not easy, but remember breathing is not easy either.

The belief that we are all in it together is going to differentiate your team from the rest. It is time to mold freshers and cement them for future leadership.

kid

I understand the world we are in runs on money. We have to run, crawl, sweat for it. It is not easy to earn a respectable living considering the economy and price rise.

A newborn child or a growing child needs love as much as he needs a diaper, cereal, milk, or iPad. Growing up in a toxic family where parents are drunk, fighting will create havoc on his worldview. His growth will adversely be affected.

The money you will leave for him will worth nothing because he mentally undeveloped.

Your kid needs equal love, empathy, and family conditions for his growth. He needs mother and father to get mentored from, hear lullaby before he goes off for sleep. He needs his dad as a friend who will teach him how to ride, go fishing, hunting, or mend fences.

fear

I was unaware of what fear of death could do to a relationship. I am starting to see a trend in the elderly population and taking the challenge of COVID19 together.

On other occasions, they lived on their own. Sometimes the same roof with a different ideology, viewpoints, and opinions. I am seeing change happening, couples uniting and working together, and taking precautions, taking care of each other.

Fear of death via COVID19 will foster bonding among broken relationships I had never anticipated. It is like two poles uniting, something unheard of in physics.

comfortable

How many founders build a company where employees feel part of the journey, A sort of comfort which goes beyond salary stock options. Where the employee feels he is part of building the rocket ship, his voice gets heard and where he gets love and respect.

I have seen many founders change their persona and offloading the entire culture to their subordinates and end up re-writing culture with their limitations. The organization ends up being multiple silos and everyone fighting for superiority.

The brand ends up becoming a living zombie. What kind of company are you building? One where there exists radical transparency, openness, or where everything goes to rock bottom?

An organization is not to serve the persona of a founder but a rocketship where every member plays their role.

Are you making yourself comfortable or your team comfortable or overall a comfortable organization?

shut down

Are you killing yourself with information overflow? So much so that you have forgotten about your life. Your attention span has gone to shit?
Is your brain confused with multiple things at the same time?

How do you take control of yourself and your consciousness? Is there a way to get back your lost focus?

Is a simple approach is to close your gadgets and disappear from humans around?

What is the quick way to Shut Down everything to get back finding yourself?

one

We are all connected, the same family tree and same ancestors. With externalities, we differed with our country of origin, skin color, or wealth.

Why even all being the same are so different? Same us but different conditions: one dies of overeating others because of being underfed.

Do we have blame nature for the artificial wall we created among ourselves? This division in the name of religion, caste, color? What was his or her fault to be born being poor? Was that a jackpot which made you son of richest man?

The creator wouldn’t have envisioned the division we humans have created: The religious war, the war in the name of freedom, or accumulating more wealth.

We are one species and are so different. Not sure what happened to our Oneness.

we

My little journey of running a small team has taught me one thing: people. It is about making teammates comfortable, believing in them, and helping them in getting better. We, humans, strive for love care and recognition. The power of togetherness, we are all in it trumps over toxic transactional work culture environment.

I understand the nuances of hiring a dozen folks, throwing money at them, and making them work like a donkey and delivering quickly. In the long run, it backfires, and the team will leave you in crisis.

reflect

I have lived half of my life. Struggle, love, belief, failures, trust has been part of it. I think living for seventy years should be fair. It might not hold for a next pandemic or a nuclear war.

The journey in most had struggle because I have not been a great student. So passing every other class in school, college or engineering has been a pain in the ass. It has been a struggle because I was clueless about what I want from my life. It has been a struggle because I lived most part what and how society governed. It has been a struggle because of the expectation set by loved ones.

The journey so far has been joyful because of family, grandparents, many other friends, and people. Some have departed. Many others and are still cheering. The journey has been full of love because of the strangers who opened up their arms, helped me when I was drowning in guilt, sorrow, or misery.

The journey has its share of failure because I gave up too early. I don’t know. Or did not give my hundred percent effort. It could have been my ego, being hot-headedness.

The journey got better in the latter half as I started questioning myself, the society dogma. I got lucky finding a lot of believers who trusted in me, who gave me the ladder and taught me how to walk. Whenever I failed, I was allowed to fix myself. Not many get it.

My life’s learning: find more mentors, believers, make the best of every opportunity and be more kind towards self and others around. This world is not even. Some parts of it have rough edges, let us work towards mending it.

equilibrium

I don’t know If it is my age or experience with that is teaching me so well. The world around us has an equilibrium: rich/destitute, good/evil. It is on our way of how we see and take things. We can be critical of everything or accept it.

But what more and more we should do is having an equilibrium. Having a view but not on prejudice, bias, and previous experiences.

The world we are living in wants to throw its opinion on us. It wants to condition us with self-enforced belief. Be it caste, religion, nationalism, or world view. Most of us will fall prey to it. Our consciousness stays with social media apps, news, and movies.

Bhagwad Gita’s equanimity was long forgotten anyways.