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Measuring Right: Understanding Goodhart’s Law

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A bank executive once insisted that I do him a favor by getting a free credit card (even when I did not require it). If you don’t frame your metrics right, they can distort behaviors. He was one customer short of being eligible for a quarterly bonus. He suggested that get the card now, and as soon as I get it, I can block or cancel it.

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Leadership: Humility and Focusing on Others

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Humility is like the banks of a river that gives direction to the flowing water without possessing it. ”. Like banks of a river, leader holds the context together in order to channel the energies of people. In one of the leadership workshop I attended in early years of my career, the trainer beautifully described humility as.

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In 100 Words: Humility, Life and Leadership

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After listening carefully, the trainer said, “ Humility is like the banks of a river that gives direction to the flowing water without possessing it. ”. “In Some people defined humility as ‘modesty’ while others said it was about ‘seeing the self as a means to an end and not an end in itself.’.

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Thoughts to Build On

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Invest in creating your memory bank. In most cases – all avoidable – we initiate our own troubles by two actions: Unnecessary involvement, or much worse, over-involvement, and Unnecessary reaction or, much worse, over-reaction. Go to interesting, unusual, memorable places. Do interesting things. All of us direct our own lives by the choices.

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No Pain, No Gain. Life Lesson on Endurance

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He went through a painful process of starting up, getting space on lease and getting some funding from the bank to get some basic equipments. He was a marketing executive with a large pharmaceutical company when he decided to pursue his calling and start a fitness center. He neither had space nor money to start out.