Sunday, July 31, 2011

Habits

In business world, we make plans and set goals. After all you 'set goals to get goals'. But in business as in life, things never happen according to plan. Missed targets lead to low morale and disappointment. We are told to learn from failures and move forward. But question is what to learn?

In one word: Habits.
Some behaviors and practices work, like laws of physics and others do not. Focus on the practices and behaviors that work and make them habits. Try learning good practices from others and make them habits. Habits lead to predictable results.

As Aristotle said: We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Finding My Calling

I am not great at most of the things that I do during my work, just good enough. This sort of work i call good work. This has been filling a large part of my work lately. That's part of the CEO's job. Build a company.

I am really great at one thing: visualizing where the next technology breakthrough will happen in energy and environment sectors and coming up with a plan to exploit that. The thing called VISION!! This is great work.

I want to be able to do Good Work for 50-70% of the time and great work 20-30% of the time. So I want to build EnNatura into a Company which can let me be the resident 'visionary entrepreneur'. That's what EnNatura will always need and that's what I can contribute most effectively.