22 Quotes & Sayings By Gyan Nagpal

Gyan Nagpal is an author, motivational speaker and an entrepreneur. She has been a professional writer since the age of 19, and has written multiple best-selling books on leadership and motivation, the most recent being the book "The Eight Step Formula for Success" which has been published by HarperCollins and is available on Amazon. She is also the winner of the National Speakers Association's Best Speech of 2011 award for her speech on "The Eight Step Formula for Success." Her other book is "Think Like a Superstar" .

In changing times, question everything you take for granted.
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In changing times, question everything you take for granted. Gyan Nagpal
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It is our courage which defines us, not our constraints Gyan Nagpal
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Innovative solutions to new challenges seldom come from familiar places Gyan Nagpal
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Most revolutions start small and simmer under the surface gathering strength, adding to an ideology, gaining favourable opinion- first as acredible alternative and then as the majority view Gyan Nagpal
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Stop obsessing about where you invest your money. Focus instead, on where you invest your time. Gyan Nagpal
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Your career has but one goal: To ensure your book of life is more than an anthology of salary slips. Gyan Nagpal
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Experience, when no longer a measure of security, becomes what it is now:freely exchangeable currency. Gyan Nagpal
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Stop obsessing about where you invest your money. Focus instead, on where you invest your time. Gyan Nagpal
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Experience”, when no longer a measure of security, becomes what it is now: freely exchangeable currency. Gyan Nagpal
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If we agree that the education, employment and retirement continuum is no longer a linear “cradle to grave” construct, then several tools for managing this reality are increasingly proving redundant. Job descriptions used for hiring are one such example. Hiring managers often write these as a reflection of their own experiences, ignoring the fact that we are entering an era where the emphasis should be less on ready competence and more on transferable skills. Gyan Nagpal
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The employment equation used to be built on a foundation of two-way loyalty. The world has changed. Today, successful employment relationships can only be sustained on a foundation of two-way honesty Gyan Nagpal
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Careers increasingly come with a reboot button, and companies that realize this early possess a competitive talent advantage Gyan Nagpal
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While mistakes may be local, in today’s connected world embarrassment is global Gyan Nagpal
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Best practices are useful reference points, but they must come with a warning label : The more you rely on external intelligence, the less you will value an internal idea. And this is the age of the idea Gyan Nagpal
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Talent, just like gold or any other precious commodity is subject to the same demand & supply economics Gyan Nagpal
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Always solve for the big picture, not for the problem Gyan Nagpal
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Annual planning cycles doom you to short term fixes for long term problems Gyan Nagpal
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Mankind, as history tells us over and over again, seeks the least painful solution and, as a result, ends up exchanging one problem foranother Gyan Nagpal
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Breakthrough innovation occurs when we bring down boundaries and encourage disciplines to learn from each other Gyan Nagpal
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The “quality revolution” in the latter half of the 20th century has taken us to a point where all products that reach asupermarket shelf work. The competitive differentiators of the future will be products which are the most innovative, even though they may not be the best Gyan Nagpal
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The only way to control chaos and complexity is to give up some of that control Gyan Nagpal