Bombay Challenge – The challenge is to drive auto-rickshaws from Mumbai to Chennai & in the process raise money for a good cause.
This is exactly what a Dutch colleague of mine is doing along with a bunch of his mates in autos. Apart from contributing to a cause & having fun, they are having experiences that they will cherish for the rest of their lives. After all, what is life but a series of experiences.
Way to go guys!
(Photo from iStockphoto)
The below quote is from Blake Jennelle (The Blog) – a blog I stumbled upon today:
“The difference between Olympians and everyone else is not that they don’t feel pain and panic, because they do. It’s that they want something so badly that they are willing to feel pain and panic as the price of admission. Sometimes everyday.
Being an Olympian is a choice, and it’s not for everyone. It’s a choice to endure intensely human pain to achieve super human things. That’s why Olympians are worthy heroes. That’s also why the world desperately needs more of them.”
More often than not, the “intense human pain” is inertia. Inertia holds us back to status quo & stops us from taking the necessary steps towards what could be – “super human things”. The reason it is termed “super” is because so few make the choice.
Yesterday at work, I had a discussion on vision statements. And today in my inbox is a FastCompany post on the same subject. Coincidence or what!
One of the articles referred to by the author is a good resource for anyone working on framing vision statements. The five practical tips shared by the author are:
#1 Articulate your organization’s “core idea” — help make decisions
#2 Don’t zoom out, choose — makes hard choices to create focus
#3 Make the vision concrete — concrete goals helps everyone share common picture of the destination
#4 Show why employees should care about it — make your employees feel proud & want to support it
#5 Consider the virtues of single focus – change can happen quickly when leaders orient the company toward a single, bright-line goal.
