Here’s what we need. Of course, as I always say, mine is a view from a point. Walk to this point and choose to stay there, only if it serves you to take powerful, effective actions to create unimaginable, impossible, magical outcomes that are authentically yours.
 
A. You need someone

1. Who relates to you as extra-ordinary, and keeps reminding you of it even when you keep forgetting it.
2. Who holds the space for your Greatness, even though you may be living a small life right now.
3. Who believes in you and in your crazy, impossible, unimaginable dream to transform the world.
4. Who gives you unconditional love and acceptance, however you are and however you are not.
5. Who teaches you to nourish and nurture all the five bodies of your Being – Physical, Energy, Emotional, Mental and Spiritual.
6. Who supports you to find the purpose of your life that connects deeply with your heart, mind, body, energy and soul.
7. Who teaches you not to put her / him on a pedestal and teaches you to have a relationship of equals with her / him.
8. Who does not want to be a Hero of the story of your life; instead coaches you to be the Hero of your own story.
9. Who holds you to account to your Greatest Dreams.
10. Loves you so much that (s)he doesn’t care you not loving them by having the courage to show you the mirror to make you see what you don’t want to see and take you to places you don’t want to go to.
11. Who knows they can never walk for you, that only you can walk the path to your Highest Self.
12. Who knows that their knowledge cannot support you to live a great life, that what would truly support you is their guidance for you to access the knowledge inside yourself through direct experience. That is when knowledge transforms into wisdom and is of any use.
13. Whose teaching gives you access to increase your performance, productivity, creativity and innovation.
14. Whose mentoring supports you to have it all – deeply fulfilling, successful, profitable business; loving, harmonious, positive, uplifting relationships at work and at home; happy, healthy, responsible, confident kids with their genius joyfully expressed;  nurturing and nourishing yourself to the highest level of health, fitness and joyous well-being; and making a massive difference in the world through the work you do.
15. Who teaches you to not believe her / him blindly; instead encourages you to explore, experiment and arrive at your own conclusions which is when you get access to powerful, effective action to live in the experience of your greatness.
16. Who stops you from being a copy of them, but give you the space to be the ‘authentic you’.
17. Who awakens you to your highest purpose to serve humanity through your work, irrespective of what job you do or the role you play or the level you are at.
18. Who coaches you to relate to yourself as extraordinary; coaches you to give unconditional love and acceptance to your own self.
19. Who coaches you to have an agile mind to experience a 360-degree view of reality; having you realize that at 180-degree, there are contradictory views of reality that are equally valid.
20. In whose space, you discover yourself.
21. Who coaches you to look within with Raw Honesty to shine the light of awareness on your blind spots for you to transform every blind spot into an opportunity for growth.
22. Who has the courage to lead you to dark places within that you don't want to go to, to dark places within that scare you, to dark places within that you didn't even know existed for you to dissolve all your inner barriers for you to realize your highest potential, make a massive positive impact in the world and have it all.
23. Who coaches you to transform each one of your breakdowns into breakthroughs for you to fly high in the vast sky of your limitless possibilities. 
24. Who coaches you to relate to everyone as extraordinary; give your unconditional love and acceptance to each one in your space; relate to everyone and everything with love, gratitude and reverence.
25. Who coaches you to grasp the secret of creation – that all that you want will only come to you by giving it to others.
26. Who coaches you to find the Hero inside yourself by being of service to all in your space.
27. Who coaches you to communicate powerfully in the world of others with vulnerable authenticity that creates willing partnership with people in your life supporting you to fulfil on your intentions and realize your dreams with ease and grace.
28. Who coaches you to be authentic about your inauthenticities and through that, find a way to your highest self.
29. Who coaches you to discover your own Truth and stand up for it with courage, confidence and commitment.
30. Who coaches you to experience the joy of authentic human connection with all beings in your Space.
31. Who inspires you instead of motivating you. Inspiration is an internal force (sustainable over a long period of time) moving you into action. While motivation is an external force which doesn’t last long.
32. Who coaches you to deliver on your word - to do what you said you would, by the time you said you would, in the way you meant to do it.
33. Who coaches you to walk on the path to your Greatness and become the Master of your Craft, a Thought Leader in your Industry; making a massive difference in the world, leaving foot-prints in the sand of time.
34. Who continues to learn, grow and evolve as a channel for your ongoing transformation.
35. Whose coaching leads you to experience yourself as whole, complete and perfect as you are right now; experience people in your space as whole, complete and perfect as they are right now; experience all of life as whole, complete and perfect as it is right now. In that experience of wholeness, completeness and perfection; you get access to transform yourself, people around you and life itself.
36. Whose coaching ultimately leads you to viscerally experience unconditional love and acceptance for who you are right now, unconditional love and acceptance for all beings in your space as they are right now, and unconditional love and acceptance for all of life as it is right now. As this experience dissolves all resistance in your mind and dissolves all fears in your mind (conscious, sub-conscious, unconscious), you become who you truly are - infinite love, infinite joy, infinite equanimity, infinite loving kindness and infinite abundance. And, in that becoming, you get full access to your Power to Create to generate Reality in alignment with your intentions and dreams.

 
Assess every guru, coach, mentor, guide or a teacher on the above parameters; before giving them the right to be your guru, coach, mentor, guide or a teacher.
 
A good question here would be – Why does one need someone outside of our self? Why does one need a guru, coach, mentor, guide or a teacher? There are many reasons but the most important is that we cannot see our own blind spots. Growth is available to us only in continuous uncovering of our blind spots as only that allows us to take powerful effective actions effortlessly, which is not available to us before the uncovering.

Check in with yourself on a scale of 0 to 10 if you have an Inner Knowing if the coach is meant to be your coach. 

Even if the coach is 9.9999 on 10, don’t take them on because a coach is a channel of your transformation and growth. You will pull through that channel, whatever you need on your Hero’s Journey from good to great to realize your dreams only if you have a 10 on 10 Inner Knowing about them being your coach.

Trust your Inner Wisdom, your Inner Knowing to guide you to your coach.

With a less than 10 on 10 belief in your coach, you will not be able to fully receive from the channel that the coach is and it would become an ineffective relationship. If you are not a Hell Yes about a coach, just be a Hell No and walk away.

A coach is an important part of our Hero’s journey, our Good to Great journey to realize our greatest dreams in deepest communion with our highest self and have it all because the coach is our truth-teller, way-shower, space holder for our greatness,  blind-spot mirror, doubler of our thoughts and feelings, unshakeable believer, unconditional nurturer, wind beneath our wings for us to fly high in the vast sky of our limitless possibilities.
 
B. You need to be – You need to be committed to realize your greatest dreams in deepest communion with your highest self.
 
C. You need to do – You need to take action every single day, action that accelerates you on the path of fulfilling your intentions and realizing your dreams.
 
D. You need to have – an intense burning desire to live your Greatest Life. You need to have an impossible, unimaginable, crazy Dream that brings stars to your eyes, a song on your lips, dance to your feet, joy in your heart, peace to your mind, love in your soul and yet, it scares you a wee bit too otherwise the dream is not big enough. The size of your dream limits the size of your life, limits the growth available to you this lifetime, limits the potential you will realize this lifetime, limits the positive impact you will create and therefore, limits how happy and fulfilled you are. 
 
E. You need to surround yourself with people who are on the path to their Highest Self, who are on their own Hero's journey from Good to Great because you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.
 
When you can cause all the above five to come together, you will find yourself living in the expression of your Light, your Genius.
 
Wishing you aliveness, deep fulfilment and joyous freedom of experiencing and living in the expression of your undeniable Greatness this lifetime.
 
Loving you,
j.
​Edited on: 2-Aug-24

Here’s my definition of intellectual laziness: Working long hours and not having the time to have it all - deeply fulfilling successful profitable business, joyful loving relationships, happy responsible confident kids with their genius joyfully expressed, lots of nourishing nurturing me-time; while making a huge difference to the world.
 
If you are upto some intellectual gymming, let's get started to understand how to reduce your working hours and yet increase your impact and prosperity as a by-product of that.

A. Commitment: The first step is to make a commitment to make it happen. Commit to reducing your working hours and yet increasing your impact and prosperity as an outcome of that. 
 
B. Choice: The next step is to make the choice to believe that you can reduce your working hours and yet increase your impact and prosperity. If your whole Being is rebelling at the preposterous idea, then pretty much you are blocked from exploring, experimenting and creating your way forward. We need Agility of Mind to turn our mind 360 degree around any reality. 

You ask how? Let's do an experiment together. Place a box with different colours on each side in the centre of a circle. Walk around the box, on the perimeter of the circle always looking at the box. Can you see that at each point on the perimeter, you have a different view? Infact; at two points 180 degree apart, you see completely different colours. Imagine 2 people standing at 180 degree looking at this box called Reality; refusing to acknowledge there are 360 different views of the same Reality and shouting – You are wrong, I am right – on the top of their voices. Who is right, who is wrong? Till each of them don’t focus their energies to increase their Leadership Depth by strengthening their Agility of Mind to recognize, acknowledge and accept with reverence every view of the Reality, however contradictory; is there any progress available to either of them?
 
Therefore, I am asking you – Do you make the Choice to Believe that you can reduce your working hours, and yet increase your impact and prosperity?
 
There is a very real reason why you may not be able to make the choice to believe, inspite of intellectually appreciating the view from my point. And, that is – Maybe, you don’t want to reduce your working hours. It could be you want to work long hours:

1. to escape the complexity of your emotional life.
2. to avoid taking responsibility in others areas of your wheel of life (relationships, home management, kids, your own self).
3. because working long hours gives you a sense of importance and self-worth.
4. because of the acknowledgement that you get at work, which you may not be experiencing at home.
5. because the work keeps you busy being busy that you get to escape the endless gibbering of the monkey called ‘mind’.
6. because you believe that one needs to work hard by putting in long hours to create success and wealth.
7. because you really enjoy working and it is more stressful to not be working.

 
Self-awareness is the foundation for fulfilling your intentions and realizing your dreams. It is important to be aware, very aware of your choices and the reasons behind your choices; really be authentic about your own inauthenticities – that is when you progress with velocity.
 
If you made the choice to believe, move forward to explore and experiment. If you are in the space of – Prove it to me, then I’ll decide; then you don’t as yet have the mindset of exploring and experimenting; and the outcome will prove to you the belief that you originally started with.
  
C. Create: 
If you are an entrepreneur (start-up or seasoned), here are five broad ways you can create to increase your impact and prosperity as an outcome of that, while reducing your working hours:
 
If you are a corporate professional, view yourself as a solopreneur with your organization as your customer and the work you do as the service offered by you in return of which your customer gives you a fixed retainer month on month. Go ahead and read all the below five ways you can increase your impact and monthly income (you can call it salary, if you like) as an outcome of that.
 
C1. Process Innovation: Reducing the number of hours taken for a particular process through Business Excellence, by making each of your process repeatable and scalable. 
Questions to ask yourself for a breakthrough in this area:
 
a. Which mistakes keep happening again and again? Can I put a checklist at those points with measurable input and output performance indicators to reduce the mistakes to zero? (Repeatable)
b. How do I re-design this process that it can function effectively and efficiently without my continuous supervision or me? (Repeatable and Scalable)
c. How do I simplify this process that with a single day’s training, a new employee will be able to deliver results as per the defined performance indicators? (Repeatable and Scalable)
d. Which things the team members or I keep doing multiple times during the week or during the month? Can I batch them together? (Scalable)
e. Are there too many people on this process? What if I had to manage this process with half the number of resources? (Scalable)
f. How do I de-expertise this process – meaning how to re-design the process to reduce the dependency on experts? (Scalable) 
 
C2. Value Innovation: Increasing the value of your product or service for your customer that they are willing to pay you more by you playing the game to be the world’s best in what you do, through deepening your Craft Mastery, 

The value of your product or service to your customer increases by your customer being able to achieve more in less time.
 
Questions to ask yourself for a breakthrough in this area:
a. How can I give 10 times the return on customer’s investment on our product or service?
b. What is the real problem the customer is trying to solve through our product or service?
c. How can I deliver 10 times more value while reducing customer’s time 10 times in consuming our product or service? 
 
C3. Impact Innovation: Increasing the impact your product or service has on your customer’s life through increasing your Leadership Depth by you willing to take responsibility of all that is not working and willing to give away credit for all that is working. When you shift your Being to that depth, you will suddenly get access to increase your impact in the world by transforming your customer’s life in ways beyond the direct scope of your product or service. 
Questions to ask yourself for a breakthrough in this area:
a. What is not working for which I am not taking responsibility?
b. What is working for which I am taking all the credit and not giving it away?
c. How does our product or service fit into the life of the customer?
d. What is the customer’s purpose of life? What can I do to support him / her to live that?
e. What are the customer’s intentions and dreams? What can I do to support him / her to fulfill them?
          
C4. Increasing Personal Productivity: Here are few ways you can increase your personal productivity –

a. Applying the Ultradian Rhythm – Pioneering researcher Nathan Kleitman discovered that our bodies operate in 90 minutes rhythm not only during the night but also during the day when we move from higher alertness to lower alertness.

In his renowned 1993 study of young violinists, performance researcher Anders Ericsson found that the best ones all practiced the same way: in the morning, in three increments of no more than 90 minutes each, with a break between each one. Ericcson discovered the same pattern among other musicians, athletes, chess players and writers.

Experiment with scheduling your day in slots of 90 minutes interspersed with 15 minutes of break.

Reference: HBR Article - For Real Productivity, Less is Truly More by Tony Schwartz 
b. Define one big win to focus on, the day before.
 
c. Applying Pareto’s Principle – Pareto’s Law: 80% of the outputs result from 20% of the inputs.
Alternately,
80% of the consequences flow from 20% of the causes.
80% of the results come from 20% of the effort and time.
80% of the company profits come from 20% of the products and customers.
 
Identify your 20% that will give you 80% results, the day before, and focus on completing that 20% before 11 am.
 
d. Applying Parkinson’s Law - Parkinson’s Law dictates that a task will expand in perceived importance and complexity in relation to the time allotted for its completion. The end product of the shorter deadline is almost inevitably of equal or higher quality due to greater focus.
 
Therefore, identify few critical tasks that contribute most to your income and schedule them with very short and clear deadlines.
 
e. Do not multi-task – Experiments have proven that multi-tasking actually reduces productivity and efficiency. Have one task at hand and focus all your energies on completing it; then move on to the next.
 
f. Schedule email, whatsapp, social media time once during afternoon and if needed, once in the evening. Restrict your usage strictly as per this schedule 
 

C5. Increasing Personal Creativity and Innovation Index: You can increase your personal creativity and innovation by nourishing, growing and evolving all the five bodies of your Being – Physical, Energy, Emotional, Mental and Spiritual by dropping Limiting Habits and adopting Growth Habits in each one of these bodies.
 
The questions to ask yourself to get an access for growth in each of your five bodies are: 

a. Physical – How healthy am I?
b, Energy - How joyously energised do I feel to do all that I want to do?
b. Emotional – How happy am I?
c. Mental – How well can I focus on something?
d. Spiritual – Why am I doing all of this? What is my purpose?
 
Measuring Impact and Prosperity
 
Money is a measure of the difference we are making. More we serve, make a difference and contribute to our customers (external and internal), more we earn. Money is a perfect expression of our creativity and the positive impact we are creating through our work.

This write-up is about reducing your working hours and yet increasing your impact and prosperity.  How will you know if you have achieved your objective year on year; if we don’t have a way to measure?
 
Lets call this measure the Impact Index and define it as the amount you earn per hour spent in working.
 
In Year 1, you worked 12 hours a day, six days a week and earned USD 1,000,000 in the year.
 
In Year 2, you worked 8 hours a day, five days a week and still earned USD 1,000,000 in the year.
 
In which year, did you create more impact?

You created the same impact in both the years but you did DLCM in Year 2, which is Do Less to Create More Value.
 
It is in the domain of possibility that in Year 3, you work 8 hours a day, five days a week and increase your earning to USD 2,000,000 through Process, Value and Impact Innovation; and by increasing your Personal Productivity and Creativity & Innovation Index.

Therefore, in Year 3, your Impact Index was the highest.
 
 
In Conclusion
 
Here is an over-view of the three steps to increase your impact and therefore, your prosperity, year on year, while reducing your working hours:
 
1. Make the Choice to Believe that it is possible.
2. Commit yourself to it.
3. Create through
a. Process Innovation
b. Value Innovation
c. Impact Innovation
d. Increasing Personal Productivity
e. Increasing Personal Creativity and Innovation Index

Looking forward to applauding you as you fly high in the vast sky of your limitless possibilities; creating massive positive impact, contribution and prosperity, as an outcome of that; while Having It All:
i. Deeply fulfilling successful, profitable business
and
ii. Loving, harmonious, positive, uplifting relationships at work and at home
and
iii. Happy, healthy, responsible, confident kids with their genius joyfully expressed
and
iv. Nourishing and nurturing yourself to the highest level of health, fitness and joyous well-being;
and
v. Making a massive difference by living your Purpose through your work, leaving footprints in the sand of time, creating a Brave New World of Love, Peace and Joy.

Loving you,
j.

 
If Leadership is not working, it is because the ​foundation of Values in the organization aren't strong. If Parenting is not working, it is because the foundation of Values in the family aren't strong. Values not just as a concept or something to talk about but as a way of life. How so?

Before taking that on, lets first attempt to answer what is the meaning of Values. Oxford Dictionary describes Values (in the context of what we are discussing) as - Principles or standards of behaviour; one's judgement of what is important in life. 

Our actions and communication with others determine the results we create. Reactive actions and reactive communication result in ineffective outcomes or outcomes not aligned to 100% of our intentions. Values are our promise to the Universe and to ourselves of who we are committed to Being. Having Values give us an access to step back and respond powerfully; instead of reacting blindly. For example, my Values are Love, Gratitude, Reverence. Why did I choose them to be my values? I chose them because they connect with me, they inspire me. Therefore, it is my promise to be, act, speak, think from there; irrespective of the chaos inside or outside. They become my Rock of Gibraltar; which I can hold on to in the crashing, forever changing waves of the ocean called Life. Then, life becomes easy because there's one part of life which is unchangeable. Everything may change in the world around me, but my values are constant and help to soothe & still the crashing, forever changing thought waves in my mind. In that stillness; creativity, innovation, performance, productivity and effectiveness bursts forth.

Value-based Leadership and Value-based Parenting is what will give you sustainable, joyous, deeply fulfilling results. Never believe what someone else asserts because wisdom can only be accessed through direct experience. No amount of teaching, coaching, reading, learning, training will ever lead you to wisdom. The only thing that will is your jumping into the court and playing. Inviting you to play and experiment to find out your truth for yourself. Here's how you play:

1. Make a Choice of your Core Values - Ask yourself: What am I committed to being? Being what inspires me? The answer to these questions will give you an access to your core Values. Remember, values would have the energy of giving and not the energy of receiving. Therefore, success is not a value but an outcome you want to receive. Being Happy & Fulfilled can be a value, if you mean that you will make the choice to be positive, happy & fulfilled irrespective of anything and anybody, without making other people or situations wrong; because then it has the energy of giving.

2. Make a Commitment - Promise yourself to be your Values, irrespective of the situation or people. Make a commitment by saying aloud to yourself and keep reminding yourself of who you are - 
I am ____<your values>_____ .
Fill in your values in the blank above.

3. Play The Game - Its a tough game but here's my promise - Play the game to be your values, moment by moment; and you will find your performance, productivity & effectiveness enhanced exponentially. If it doesn't, write to me at [email protected] and I will respond to tell you what you may have missed. 

We talk about brand values, organizational values and have them be plastered all over the walls in our swanky offices. It makes zero difference because we, as leaders at the helm of our organizations, have to live and die by those values first. Not to show our employees but to feel them deep inside in the most authentic part of ourselves. Leadership is about doing, being 10 times what we expect others to do and be. So, we have to live our values with 10 times the intensity for it to percolate in our organizations and families. That is the only way it works. If I say - I am living all these values - and don't have anyone outside of myself to show me the mirror; then it's only a tall claim and may need to be verified.

Wishing you a joyous, deeply fulfilling journey to lead your organization from good to great.

Love,
Jyoti.

 
Let's first understand that time is a created concept. It did not exist when we were hunters and gatherers, in the beginning o​f our evolutionary cycle. As we progressed, along with other inventions to make our lives simpler, time was also invented. Time doesn't have a physical reality as you cannot hold it, taste it, touch it, hear it, smell it or see it. Therefore, time is not real. It is something that we create. 

Then, the question is not why there is not enough time to do all that I want to do. The real question is why am I not creating all the time that I need, to do all that I want to do? When you ask yourself that question, you will end up facing a reality that you have been avoiding by hiding behind the wrong question.

The reason why we don't create time for what we think we want is the truth, hidden beneath many layers, that we don't really want to do it. You may belligerently shout at the top of your voice - What nonsense? All I am saying is you have been running around from moment to moment, busy being busy and whatever you have done hasn't helped you to create time. Why not listen to what I have to say and consider it just for the time you read this article? 

Consider that the reason you don't have time to do all that you say you want to do is because you don't really want to do it and you hide that fact from yourself to avoid doing it.

Play along with me for a while. Bring with you vulnerability and courage to be authentic to your own self. Make a list of all that you want to do and haven't as yet found the time to do. Against each item, ask yourself the following questions. When you ask yourself these questions, make a conscious effort to still the jabbering monkey-mind by focussing your attention on your breathing, as it comes out and as it goes in, as it comes out and as it goes in, as it comes out and as it goes in.
1. What would be available to me if I did what I haven't found the time to do?
2. If this is important to me, why am I not doing it?
3. What is my fear?

Do this exercise in your journal by writing down the answers to each of these questions against every item you say you want to do and yet haven't found the time to do; from the list you wrote at the beginning of this exercise. If you really do this exercise with stillness in your mind and body, you will get present to fears buried deep inside. The only way forward is to drop the fear by working with all your four bodies of your Being - mental, emotional, physical and spiritual. When you drop the fear, you will suddenly create time on your calendar to do that for which you had no time before. Yes, the fear is real. I know you will feel it in your body if you pay enough attention to it. What's the point of ignoring it, keeping it under the carpet? It will not vanish by you not looking at it. It will only cause further and greater pain, the more you allow it to remain underground. Once you see it, I also know you will soon have all the data-points to tell me why you need to hold on to your fear. Why not focus on why you need to let it go? When you do that; you will fly into light, into freedom, into the vast open sky of limitless existence.

The most important step is to recognize that the fear exists. It is the first step without which you cannot move forward. This is Nature's way to support us to grow and evolve, which is the reason each one of us is born - to be bigger than who we were when we took our first breath on this planet.

The best part is the unfolding of your productivity, performance, effectiveness, aliveness and fulfilment not experienced before; as you progress on this journey. Wishing you courage to walk the path to your highest self and live in the expression of your Light, your Genius because that's who you really are.

You may be cynical and resigned about Life and about yourself, or may say you are just being practical. I know you are extraordinary, having studied masters and understood the science of what it takes to realize your greatest dreams in deepest communion with your highest self and have it all. Nobody is born a Genius. Each of the Geniuses have used their lifetime to uncover the light inside which each one of us has; with the single-pointed focus on making it happen and taking action in that direction - day in, day out. The human being; who keeps walking undeterred, persistently like the tortoise, step at a time; is the one who finds gold at the end of the journey. The one who is more a show-horse than a plough-horse gets side-tracked like the rabbit, loses the game and misses to find the treasure; though it is there waiting to be found.

Love,
Jyoti.

The journey of transforming your organization from good to great begins with you transforming from good to great. Fortunately or unfortunately, the organization mirrors the leader at the helm of the organization. Fortunately because that means the power is in your hands to make this happen. Unfortunately because it is easier to work on the outside than on the inside.

For the organization to shift gears from good to great, there are actually 3 journeys that the CEO will have to undertake simultaneously:
​
1. Business Excellence
2. Leadership Depth
3. Craft Mastery

Even before we begin to explore each in greater detail, let us define what is good and what is great to assess whether it is even worthwhile to be on this journey. A good organization makes profit but struggles to do so, is in the red ocean of bloody waters with competition nibbling at its toes, primary motive is financial survival, does not have any significant impact in the world, employees work half-heartedly and only for their salary. Employee engagement is a huge focus because disengagement is so rampant. Employees don't feel connected with their own selves or with each other or with their leaders. Its stressful to be working and everyone is waiting to hang-up their corporate boots some day to follow their heart, to come alive. There are offsites to discuss mission, strategy, future etc. and everyone uses these as a way to get a breather from the boring routine and nobody remembers anything once they are back at work. Nobody understands what love is or what's that got to do with work. Leadership is bottom-line and top-line focussed. Another word for good is mediocrity and the organization is only leading itself to a certain death sometime in the future.

A great organization is purpose-inspired; significantly and positively impacts human consciousness and evolution; passion, commitment, accountability, self-inspiration and purpose light up the employees who joyously work with their heart, mind and soul; is in the blue ocean, is a market leader running a monopoly  with its nearest competitor miles away; is in an effortless self-sustaining cycle of creativity, innovation and profitability. No employee engagement programs are needed because employees are deeply engaged and connected with their work, with each other and with their leaders. Employees live their purpose of life through their work; leave the day at work feeling rejuvenated and refreshed. There's focus on value-based leadership with leaders creating a space of compassionate love through nurturing, coaching and leading authentically by themselves doing 10 times what they tell their people to do. This results in breakthrough performance, productivity and profitability.

Well, isn't leading your organization from good to great then a worthy goal?

If it is, then let's deep dive into what it takes to make that happen. There are three journeys that the CEO, the leader at the helm of the organization would need to undertake simultaneously: 
​

1. Business Excellence

This is a journey over 5 mountains:

Mountain 1: Inquiring into his / her own Purpose, the CEO identifies a real experiential link between his / her purpose of life and what the organization is up to in the world. Without this, there will be mediocrity and death which is the only outcome available to a good organization. For the organization to be on the path of greatness; the CEO has to be on the path of greatness working with a mission to transform the world, committed to make a huge difference, driven to leave footprints in the sand of time.

Mountain 2: Discovering your organization's Blue Ocean and a Compelling Value Proposition that has prospects chase you to become your customers instead of your business having to chase the customers. Till the time you don't have anything to offer that has customers chase you, you are playing a losing game.

Mountain 3: Iterating to create a robust Repeatable, Scalable and Profitable Business Model, giving your business a solid foundation of long-term value-creation for your customers and for your organization. Here's how you test whether you are ready to cross this mountain - 

a. Profitability - Is the cost of customer creation and product / service development & delivery substantially less than what she is willing to pay for?
b. Repeatability - Can you repeat the entire value creation cycle (from customer creation to post-sales service) following the same steps, with the same inputs and the same outputs, every time; delighting the customer the same extraordinary way each time?
c. Scalability - Can the entire process run without you?

Mountain 4: Scaling-up your business through Business Development, Operational Excellence and Extraordinary Service. 

a. Business Development: Your sales team is more committed to the well-being of the community that your organization serves (your customers) than to the commission that they will earn. 
b. Operational Excellence: Bottoms-up continuous process automation and innovation to reduce costs, reduce time to do any specific activity and increase quality.
c. Extraordinary Service: Delighting customers with such amazing service, at levels that the customers have no right to expect.

Mountain 5: Creating a Self-Sustaining Business. The fifth stage is when the organization no longer needs you and can function effectively without you, as you have not only created an organization with strong, robust fundamentals but also have created succeeding leaders to take the organization to its next level of evolution with even greater velocity. You are now free to contribute to the entire industry, leading the industry itself to transform through your thought leadership, impacting a lot more organizations simultaneously as you sit on multiple Boards of Directors and bring about social change, contributing to the evolution of the human race bringing people and countries together through who you have become as a human being as an outcome of leading your organization from good to great.
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2. Leadership Depth

You cannot lead your organization from good to great without deepening who you are as a human being, without being on your own journey of transformation and evolution from good to great. This is a journey over 5 Gears by dropping Limiting Habits and inculcating Growth Habits to create the highest level of fitness and well-being across all the 4 bodies (Physical, Emotional, Intellectual / Mental, Spiritual) of your Being. 

Each Gear is about elevating one’s consciousness by developing a specific leadership muscle, working at the level of physical, emotional, mental and spiritual habits. 

Gear 1: Discovering your destiny, your purpose this life-time. Strengthening Agility of Mind™ leadership muscle to experience unconditional love, gratitude and reverence for who you are as a human being. There is deep stillness within, with nowhere to go and nothing to prove.

Gear 2: Making a difference through your work, playing your big game with peace in your heart and mind. Strengthening Being of Service™ leadership muscle to see the light in everyone and have the leadership depth to give your unconditional love, gratitude and reverence to each one in your space, irrespective of however they are and however they are not. Experiencing oneness with the Universe.

Gear 3: Experiencing joy of effortless existence as the world around you experiences you as extraordinary. You receive unconditional love, gratitude and reverence from everyone as you strengthen your Communicating in the World of Others™ leadership muscle. 

Gear 4: Experiencing deep fulfilment as others in your space experience themselves as extraordinary and experience unconditional love, gratitude and reverence for themselves. The Authentic Leader in you is born as you get access to significant Power to Create™ by strengthening your Delivery on Your Word™ leadership muscle. 

Gear 5: People in your space experience each other as extraordinary and give their unconditional love, gratitude and reverence to each other. Your presence causes a shift in the space around you as you inspire a culture of trust, partnership and compassionate love; with each one supporting the other to be successful. The Master in you is born, as you strengthen your Excellence™ leadership muscle to have your Power to Create™ in full bloom. You become The Master Creator. You intend; it gets created effortlessly and almost instantaneously.


3. Craft Mastery

For the organization to cut-over to greatness, there is no other option but to be the world's best in whatever the organization is upto. And, for that to happen, the employees need to be playing the game to be the world's best in whatever they are doing as part of the organized work. For the employees to be on the learning path to be masters of their domain, their craft; you absolutely guessed it - the CEO has to be playing the game to be the master of the domain the organization is in. This is also a journey over five stages. 

1. Amateur: This is the stage of Passive Learning, when you learn on your own through reading works of masters in the field, training yourself through material available in the public domain.

2. Professional: This is the stage of Active Learning, when you implement whatever you are learning to make a difference to your chosen target community. 

3. Expert: You become an Expert by learning through Apprenticeship, when you learn directly from an existing Master of your Craft.

4. Mentor: You become a mentor when you coach others to become Experts in your domain.

5. Master: You finally become a Master when you coach Experts to become Mentors in your domain. This is when you go inside your craft and become it.

The most efficient way to travel on this path is to synchronize each of the five stages of Business Excellence, Leadership Depth and Craft Mastery because the three journeys are inter-linked. One journey is not possible without the other two. If you progress on one journey, your growth will stop till you don't progress on the other two journeys. 
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Yes, it is a long haul forward. Why should you make your life difficult to be on this path? Because this path supports you to have it all -
i. Deeply fulfilling, successful, profitable business supporting you to live your purpose of life; gifting you with impact, contribution and financial freedomii. Loving, harmonious, positive, uplifting relationships at work and at home
iii. Happy, healthy, responsible kids with their genius joyfully expressed
iv. Nourishing, nurturing yourself to the highest level of health, fitness and well-being (physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually)
v. Making a massive difference through the work you do

​The old model of leadership only gives you a successful career but at the cost of everything else. In this new model of leadership, you have it all. Then, why not?