Two of the writers for this week’s readings left great teachings for me. Clayton M. Christensen mentions in his article How will you measure your life? that one of the strongest relations we need to cultivate and care about is family relations because these are the ones where we feel happier. I understood that family relations are the most important because family is the base of all our relations outside the home and if we don’t feel good about our relations at home and we are not happy, this is how we can measure happiness. I feel that at home is where we gain the confidence to go outside and shine to our potential.
Jeff Hawkins as well talks about effective choices and his decision to eat breakfast and dinner with his family and he is a great entrepreneur that made the choice of always being close to his happy place. He talks about the longer days at work won’t warranty success but the right decisions will do it.
Once we decided on our happy place and cultivate this happy feeling then is when we can find what do we love to do? in his talk, Tom Kelley mentions an experiment that personally I started to do and is having a notebook with me and write every time when did I feel at my best during the day. Tom Kelley also advises to look at what are your good at? what are you born to do? And when are you the happiest? Ant this will help us as a guide to see what we should do and be happy about it because as he said “Do what you love, not because you just want to be, you know, self-interested”, he says “do it because you'll be better at it… you'll be willing to put in the extra time; the extra mental energy because you love it”.
Finally, I want to mention is Sharon Mays’s mother said: what are you so scared of either do it or stop talking about it. I think these words come after we discover first the priorities that make us happy and then we discover what we love to do in life and put all our work to do it.
What’s a Business For? Was a great informative article that emphasizes virtue and integrity and the vital role in the economy and according to the author Charles Handy, he compares trust with fragile china that one’s cracked is never the same. He brings his comparison to a business and the trust people put in a business and those who lead it. Because we do business with companies to cover a need and both the company and the customer get the benefit, but now the benefit has been shifted to only the shareholders and not even the employees. But greed has taken over and according to the article there has been a report “that CEOS in America earn more than 400 times the wages of the lowest-paid workers”. With this evidence then integrity and virtue are vital to have the customer's trust and so far we don’t have that and the little we do is getting extinct. According to Handy the real justification for the existence of business is “to make a profit so that the business can do something m...
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