Introduction Starting a new job usually comes with excitement and high expectations. You receive your welcome email, complete paperwork, attend orientation sessions, get access to company systems, and meet your new colleagues. Everything may appear organized, but there is often a gap between being introduced to a company and actually becoming successful within it. There is a good chance your onboarding is failing you, and it may not be your fault. Many organizations focus their onboarding on policies, procedures, training sessions, and administrative requirements. These things are important, but they do not always prepare a new employee to perform effectively. Knowing how a process works is different from understanding how an organization actually operates. Onboarding Teaches Processes, But Performance Requires More After leading large supply chain and logistics operations across warehouses, export networks, and global teams, I have seen this situation repeatedly. A ne...
Introduction Self-Mastery refers to the ability to control one's own desires or impulses. It can be defined as self-control i.e., to be able to exert a strong will against the impulses of oneself to create the future that we wish to create. Master Shi Heng Yi discussed 5 Hindrances to Self-Mastery in the TEDx VITOSHA. He grew up in two different ways of life as he was born in Germany and at the same time, he got the chance to learn about the ancient art coming from the Shaolin Temple. At the age of four, he got introduced into the monastic practices for the first time, nowadays known as Shaolin Kung Fu. A master from the Shaolin Temple told him a story in which a man, who was living close to a mountain, every day thought about how would he climb that mountain and what would he see on the peak of the mountain? Finally, when the day came, he arrived at the foot of the mountain and asked more than 30 people about how they got up the mountain and what did they see there? They all told ...