Make Your Mark by Jocelyn Glei

Make Your Mark

6.8/103 min read

3/31/16

  • How do you describe your purpose in life?

  • What does the world huger for? What does it desire? What does it need or suffer from a lack of?

  • What are the unique talents of the organization?

  • Who has the company timelessly been?

  • Who must it fearlessly become?

  • Defining your personal purpose

  • How will the world be better off thanks to you having been on this earth?

  • What are your unique gifts and superpowers?

  • Who have you been when you've been at your best?

  • Who must you fearlessly become?

  • You only get one life. You may as well live it to the max

  • Share emotionally intelligent stories

  • Who is your actual target?

  • What are you actually trying to accomplish in the world?

  • Why do we need it?

  • Don't just invent something, fix something

  • What problem are you solving?

  • 'Don't hate, create' - Ben Horowitz

  • Why are we here in the first place?

  • If we disappeared, who would miss us and why?

  • What business are we really in?

  • How can we become a cause and not just a company?

  • What cause are you benefitting?

  • How can we connect with customers on a deeper level?

  • What does the world need?

  • What are we willing to sacrifice?

  • How can we make a better experiment?

  • We are operating amid uncertainty and the purpose of building a product or doing any other activity is to create an experiment to reduce that uncertainty

  • What will we learn instead of what will we make

  • How can we offer x, y, and z instead of just x

  • How might we take what we do and use it to actually change the world

  • Make it bold and ambitious

  • Share it with your partners, employees, and customers

  • Tell them you are on a journey that matters

  • It invites others to help you answer this question

  • Figuring out what you want to accomplish is a continual search and questions are the means to the search

  • Create more value than you capture

  • Every good product I've ever seen is because a group of people cared deeply about making something wonderful that they and their friends wanted to use it themselves

  • Relentless focus on usability

  • Develop laser like focus on making one thing great

  • Dedicate yourself to relentless iteration and prototyping so that you can fail fast and learn fast

  • Create an experience that's simple, effortless, and delightful

  • Your job is to care about what they want

  • Be a customer-centric company

  • Show your users what you can do rather than telling them what they should do

  • Does this make my life better?

  • Is it easy to use?

  • What are you making?

  • Whom are you helping?

  • Making the focus of your work what you can do for people

  • Make your expertise available to the community at regular intervals

  • Focus relentlessly on our customers

  • Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity

  • How is your project going to change the way people think or go about their daily lives

  • Businesses centered on improving people's lives outperform their competitors

  • Transparency breeds trust and trust is the foundation of teamwork

  • Transparency allows you to gain invaluable feedback

  • Decide what you stand for and then stand for it all the time

  • The more one does, the more one can do

  • The most precious resource you have it time