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Interesting depiction, Base is always Core Financial Accounting

I wrote a post recently about being brave enough to stop self-victimising yourself and your situation and be brave enough to change it. Such insightful comments from Prateek Sanjay and Bree Rockwell highlighted the thought that happiness (or sadness) is a self-built construct; it’s a state of mind or being that leads to the self-realisation that only you can change that construct (or environment). One of my most memorable mentors and friends, Don Cope helped me through a difficult time I was having as an introvert, trying so desperately to climb the greasy leadership pole at Johnson & Johnson. His sapient advice was, an organisation is nothing more than an entity that will continue to survive under the momentum of size and scale, absolutely irrespective of your individual input. The entity does not care whether you’re here or not - there’s always a willing and congenial “empty suit” to step right in to take your place. So, as an individual, you have 2 choices - you can choose to “change yourself” or you can choose to “change your environment”. At that time, I chose to change myself - that involved the necessity to carefully and humbly rebuild relationships to show that I can be what they want me to be for the sole purpose of reaching the Top 200 executives in a 140,000 strong company - I didn’t want to be beaten so, needed to show capability and congeniality that would have made Sandra Bullock proud! However, a personality and style transplant can only hold an independent thinker for so long - within my next company, after the first 3 years of toeing the line, I chose to challenge my environment to drive my leaders to think beyond their current narrow field of self-preservation. The eventual realisation that they were never going to change from good to great, led to to difficult decision to change my environment to one where lateral thinking was acknowledged and, for the most part, encouraged. Back to Pratek & Bree’s insight - imagine being on Hollywood’s “A” list as the most magnificent “Superman” that ever took on the role, Mr. Christopher Reeve - had he decided against horse riding on that fateful day, he would never have had to survive for the remainder of his existence, trapped within his own body, through Tetraplegia. How would any of us honestly cope with a severed spinal cord at the C1 vertebrae if it were to happen, without notice, this afternoon? How would every goal and everything we thought so important to us just 5 seconds before, be less than insignificant now? Why are we so adamant that our problems are insurmountable - the ignorant boss, the report that we didn’t finish, the meeting where we know we have to completely “wing it”, the customer meeting we don’t want to do since it’s raining… aren’t our bubbles so pathetic? So what did Christopher Reeve do? The man in the cape was simply an actor playing a role - the man in the chair IS the real Superman.

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🏆 Natus Vincere are the champions of the first CS2 Major. This is a victory of management The Navi era has begun. This is a win for the management and coaching staff first and foremost. First, they were able to take away the star player factor, and show that it is possible to win a Major with their system. I'm not going to shout that "S1mple was the problem", because there's also the Electronic and Perfecto factor. They didn't make it very far either, although there was a lot of noise. If they can still sell Simple expensively to the Falcons, it will be the 21st century cybersport management award. The second point that has been shown is that in 1.5 years it is realistic to build a roster from scratch that will win a major. The second case, which will be analyzed by managers and psychologists. 

Our President & CEO Eduardo Garza (LT) is the Wisconsin Titan of the Day! This marks his second recognition as a Titan 100 for supporting his team and the Veteran community. Check out his page on https://lnkd.in/drYW2NZz and show your support by leaving a comment below!   #CVIVets #Titan100 #TitanCEO #LeadershipQuotes #BusinessLeadership

So well deserved for such a distinguished career.

Great podcast with my two good friends Host Ashutosh Garg and Guest Bob Newmark. Bob is an M & A lawyer who provides great learning for his audience. Check it out! Full conversation is linked below.

A core reason why Satvacart did not start as a marketplace model and stuck to it while the market was in a rush to raise funds and expand PAN India in 2014-15 ... Grocery is a product that is directly connected to food. When it comes to food, humans are highly sensitive. One can only imagine the experience when you deliver pizza cheese, toppings and pizza sauce but tell the customer that the base went out of stock ... or send across ice cream for a party in a melted state ... In grocery having an end to end control over the customer experience is critical. If you cannot control the experience high chances you will not be able to retain the customer. A kirana is good to serve customers doing a walk in ... at a scale of 50-100 walk ins a day with an assortment of 150-200 skus. It is not the best approach when you have to serve 6000+ skus at a scale of 1m transactions a day or 100m transactions a day ... or at a future 1bn transactions a day (possible in grocery, given every human consumes food)

Watch this Video announcing the 2024 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Winners!

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