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Aditya Dehejia

success

Rethinking the Meaning of Success

By Aditya Dehejia / July 29, 2023 /

Moving from ‘What We Have’ to ‘Who We Are’ and ‘How We Feel’ “He is a wise man who does not grieve for things which he has not, but rejoices…

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Anything Worth Knowing is Complicated

By Aditya Dehejia / July 23, 2023 /

We all would benefit from seeing nuance and complexity in the world. Nothing worth knowing is ever simple enough to summarize in a few sentences or 30 seconds of video. …

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Thoughts on Motivation: When Things Don’t Seem To Be Going Well

By Aditya Dehejia / July 15, 2023 /

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” — Viktor E. Frankl (Man’s Search for Meaning) Would you like to feel motivated…

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selling to the cfo

Selling to the CFO

By Aditya Dehejia / July 8, 2023 /

Convince them that New Initiatives are worth the risk and better than the status quo. “The biggest risk in the world is not taking any risk. In a world that…

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control

Lessons from Vacation: Control, both an Illusion and really Important

By Aditya Dehejia / July 1, 2023 /

A definition of ‘Control’: “the power to influence or direct people’s behavior or the course of events.” I really value being in control. Or at least the feeling of having…

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business metrics

Selecting Metrics to Track Business Performance

By Aditya Dehejia / June 24, 2023 /

“That which is measured improves. That which is measured and reported improves exponentially.” – Karl Pearson As modern humans we love to measure things. We measure so that we know how…

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learning

It’s Hard Work to Keep Learning

By Aditya Dehejia / June 19, 2023 /

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”  — Henry…

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visionary, strategist, doer

The Visionary, the Doer, and the Strategist

By Aditya Dehejia / June 10, 2023 /

The optimal mix of leadership skills in building a successful company. “omne trium perfectum” —Latin saying translated as “Everything that comes in threes is perfect.”  (This post was inspired by…

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motivation

I Don’t Feel Like Doing Any Work

By Aditya Dehejia / June 2, 2023 /

Thoughts on Getting Your Motivation Back “We can’t go over it. We can’t go under it. Oh no! We’ve got to go through it.”  – We’re Going on a Bear…

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We Can’t Be Good at Everything

By Aditya Dehejia / May 21, 2023 /

Acknowledging and accepting that we will miss the mark and often not perform at an optimal level. How would you rank your experience with our product / service today? I’m…

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Do You Want to Hire a ‘Head of’, ‘VP’ or ‘C-Level’?

By Aditya Dehejia / May 13, 2023 /

“There are really three parts of this question of the right people. The first is the right people on the bus. Second is the wrong people off the bus. But…

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Explore vs. Exploit

By Aditya Dehejia / May 6, 2023 /

“Should I Stay or Should I Go” — The Clash (1982) Trade-offs are hard. The question of how to choose between the thing one knows and a potentially better unknown…

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