I listened to this video when it was released, and I loved it. After having worked as an advisor to the CEO of a tech company for the last two years, I went back to this video, and now I am loving it even more, so much so that I am taking notes from it and writing them here.
1. Don't care for credit. You will be rare, you will be valued like so. If you are heading an institute of your own, then it makes sense to care for credit, otherwise as an employee, let the credit go for those who seek it. You get things done. Everything is possible in Pakistan, if you don't care about who gets the credit.
2. The cost of success is to be toleratent of envy, injustice and lies. You will constantly be bombarded with if you are on the path to success.
3. Hamdardi → Khairat. You want to do charity for someone, give him charity, don't give him a job. IF he's eligible, let him apply on the basis of egligibility not victimhood.
4. Qualified/Suitable → Job. If someone is capable for a job, don't withhold it. Don't get caught up in language, cast, creed etc.
5. Relatives → Stipend. If your relative comes to you for financial help, don't give them a job, and also don't give them charity. Give them a scholarship. Pay their MBA fees, pay for their course, pay for their English language learning etc. Do muzarba with him in a way that their skills go up.
6. Status → Friendship. If a person of status of influence cross path with you, befriend him. Don't give him job. He will help you get unblocked in life.
7. Paisa painkh, tamasha dekh Things that can get unblocked by giving "some money", get it done. (This is the author's point of view, I do not agree with it)
8. Be scared of people's Egos. People will tolerate everything, love you, care for you, but kill you if you hurt their egos.
9. Value Intelligence. It's rare to find Intelligence and Hardworking together. Intelligent peopel are usually not hardworking. If you come across intelligent people, don't entangle them in "hard" work, let them do what they want to do.
10. Save the person. One person cheats you, you make one policy, another cheats you, you make another policy. In the end, after working with 100 people, you're left with thousands of policies; an innocent sincere hardworking person comes to work with you, and he feels suffocated because of all those thousands of policies. If sincere people fail to follow rules, relax the rules, or ignore the rules, but save the person.
11. Selfish Leaders. If someone comes to you, and says 'I don't care about your vision/mission/impact. Tell me what salary I will get, how much and what work I will have to do.' Value such people. They're rare. You can hand over the entire company to them, and since they're moving towards a goal, they will take your company to that goal. The person is here to make trade with you, not be your disciple.
12. Don't be a critic. Do the work, stop critisiing other people and their jobs. And when you're criticising other people, you're not listening to anything new.
13. Don't listen to appreciation. If a kam-zarf gives you appreciation, it's worse than humiliation.
14. Honesty. If you're honest in Pakistan, you're a rare gem. Honor your commitments, if you do that, you will be valued like a diamond. Your quality should be with your name, and not with the compensation.
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