Day 3 - Quotes and Thoughts
Find a mentor to provide valuable feedback for your personal and career growth. Problem-solving requires collective minds and constructive feedback. Small, motivated teams led by effective leaders can drive innovation and success.
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Mentorship is like a revolving door. Whether you’re starting the climb to go big or starting to climb a new ladder, get the advisers you need at each new phase of your career. And if your old mentors are no longer helping, continue to show your gratitude, but otherwise cut the cord. - Linda Rottenberg (Crazy Is a Compliment the Power of Zigging When Everyone Else Zags)
Topics: mentorship, growth
Topics: mentorship, growth
- You need a right mentor who is willing to provide you constructive pieces of feedback to help you grow in each chapter of your life or each phase of your career. Such feedback is valuable because it comes from the knowledge and practical experience.
- A mentor can be someone who is in your social network or you're admired, and hence, it is not difficult to find one. However, it is mentally challenging to ask for being mentored. If you truly want to have a mentor, you will need to step out of your comfort zone.
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It is a common mistake to move in a nanosecond from identifying a tough problem to proposing a solution for it. Strategic thinking requires both diagnosis and design. - Ray Dalio (Principles)
Topics: problem solving
Topics: problem solving
- The dynamic of the real-world environment affects the correctness of the solutions generated by our expertise. Hence, solving a problem is not just about providing the solution based on our knowledge or experience, but critically diagnosing the problem with collective minds, gather constructive feedback and analysing the process of decision making while solving the problem.
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An effectively led and strongly motivated group, even when surrounded by an adversary many times its size and strength, can accomplish amazing things. - Steve Forbes (Power Ambition Glory)
Topics: mentorship, leadership, team management
Topics: mentorship, leadership, team management
- We often complain that we do not have a big team or enough resources to do innovation. However, we fail to motivate our current team to reach the peak of their expertise for moving towards the long-term goals.
- Every successful start-up did not start with the large team but a small team of people who are motivated and passionate about solving societal problems daily. Importantly, this cannot be done without an effective leader who is willing to coach and motivate the team to help them getting better day by day.
- It is challenging to be an effective leader because it requires both the technical expertise (i.e., for giving constructive feedback about their work) and emotion intelligence (i.e., for understanding the need to be motivated of each member in the team).