Category: Mindspeak

The below is an excerpt from: “Living with a Purpose: The Importance of ‘Real Intent.’”, Randall L. Ridd. The relevance to individuals and organisations in the 21st century is integral to personal and business success.

In turbulent times, one of the key challenges an organisation faces, is keeping morale within the organisation high and ensuring the team is motivated to ride the storm. However, this is easier said than done unless you identify the BAD apple that’s spoiling the whole bunch.

As per the associations of certified fraud experts, companies across the world lose between 4- 6% of their revenue each year to employee and executive fraud and data theft.

An interesting fact is that if any organization or institution of repute loses trust among its customers, or even amongst its honest employees due to one dishonest act, the same organization needs to invest much more to demonstrate its honesty on many more occasions to convey to its customers that it has now mended its ways.

Empathy is actually getting down on your knees, looking at someone else in the eye, and realizing that we could be them, and that all that separates us from them is luck and destiny.