Enterprise Yoga - Aditya Yadav

1. “Running an Agile Fortune 500 Company”
Aditya Yadav, aditya.yadav@gmail.com
in.linkedin.com/in/adityayadav76
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*A Typical Global Company
*Fortune 500/1000
*200 Divisions
*40 Countries
*25000 Employees

3. @ Acme Inc.
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*Original Question “How do we promote Focus
and Clarity Of Thought in our Strategic Decision
Making? Do we need better Frameworks? Tools?
Excel Models?”
*The Correct Question - “Those certainly Help.
But those are more superficial factors. The real
factors which have the maximum impact are
slightly different. Allow me to explain.”

5. And The Philosophy Behind The Answer
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*The Human Brain has
*About 50 thoughts / minute
*About 3000 thoughts / hour
*About 72,000 thoughts / day
*The psychological present is defined as a window of
3 seconds in the human brain
*Everything else is either the past or future
*We have 29k such moments of present in a day
*Or about 20k such windows when we are awake (16
hrs)

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*70-80% of our 72,000 thoughts per day are either (i)
nonsense or (ii) negative
*Neither of which is a problem at all.
*Unless, some of those thoughts become persistent
and repetitive. [Rule!!!]
*R‟ber the easiest test of Insanity is repetitive
thoughts ;-)
*The fallacy is that people consider negative or
nonsense thoughts to be problematic. We have
discussed that the process of thought emergence is
in deterministic and what comes out cannot be
chosen.

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*Humans with an Analyzed Life, or a Clear
Purpose for their Life are better able to
channelize thoughts into meaningful actions
*It is very well known that post (i) trauma or (ii)
life threatening situations most humans
develop a better sense of their life‟s, purpose
i.e. Analyzed Life. They develop focus
*Which doesn‟t happen normally if you are on a
roll or if you are drifting from one day to
another mindlessly

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* More or Less thoughts can be either of - good or bad
* Contrary to the popular belief that humans use just 10% of their brain capacity, humans actually use
virtually every part of the brain, and most of the brain is active all the time. You need Yoga to use the
Brain more Effectively.
* Meditation/Yoga gives you
* Higher Self Awareness
* Better presence in this World
* An Analyzed life
* Puts your Windows of Present in the context of your Analyzed Life
* Breaks repetitive thoughts, prevents insanity, reduces stress
* Reduces Both (Mental & Physical) Fatigue
* Reduces need for sleep to 4-5 hrs/day
* Clear Thoughts and Stable Flow Of Thoughts
* Both Energy & Clarity to convert those thoughts into Actions within the context of Purpose
* Everyone ignores the Fact that Steve Jobs was very Spiritual for a large part of his life and that most
CXO‟s use Yoga (as in Meditation) though they will not openly accept it, to increase their clarity of
thought, vision, purpose and strategies.

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* This presentation is not about making you a Saint and give up
all worldly things
* It is not about giving up all hopes and desires and fears
either…
* Rule: R‟ber none of those are bad at all. Only repetitive and
persistent thoughts of ANY KIND are a killer.
* If you give up all Worldly Needs and Desires you are as good
as dead, and never been born. That‟s the trivial solution in
an optimization problem (which is the Origin i.e. Zero,Zero)
* This presentation is about Material success for Individuals
and Business‟s. Its about Enjoying all the Materialistic and
Spiritual Benefits and Your Existence on this
Planet, Responsibly.

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Enterprise Yoga is what delivers benefits analogous to Yoga for
an individual, but for an organization
1. List down the Why‟s!!!
2. Define the Purpose, Philosophy and Direction-> Analyzed
Existence!
3. Cut democracy, endless opinion based debating and such
nonsense
4. Institutionalize Critical Thinking and Actions/Decisions
5. Just enough Simple Rules to guide but not restrict severely
by being cast in stone
6. Simplification
7. Kill Paralysis, and anything that prevents Agility

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* <Internal Criteria>
* An Organization has limited
liabilities
* It has to make sure it has sufficient
CashFlow, barely enough for it to
sustain their operations and buffer
against variations in supply and
demand
* It is inevitable that to succeed
organizations have to maximize (i)
their debt capacity and (ii) the debt
they carry. Optimized to the
maximum without default.
* Debt and Depreciation also have a
Tax Benefit which accrues with
time, growth and leverage

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* <Internal Criteria>
* R‟ber we are not preaching sainthood which according to us is the Origin (0,0) solution in an optimization problem.
* We are saying one has to enjoy one‟s existence on this planet responsibly.
* We are saying that an Individual is a Unlimited Liability Entity
* Individuals mostly spend money on Pleasures of Life, e.g. a Car/TV which depreciates the moment it is bought to
zero instantly or in „x‟ years. Or a Vacation/Restaurant/Tourism which has no Book Value. And we use Debt for that
* Generally any Individual should AVOID/MINIMIZE DEBT
* Success for an individual would mean to Cover CashFlow Requirements and make sure one is CashFlow positive even
in worst eventualities for „x‟ years
* You might underestimate this statement. But this is the one and only one reason behind personal success (Internal
Criteria) on this planet. Think of this, if you were cashflow positive for the next „x‟ years would you care about
losing your job, junking your car, theft of your laptop, … at that point such things don‟t give you grief and
stress, you don‟t lose sleep over them, you enjoy life. And on the positive side you are immensely strong in
everything you do and deal with, to the extent you would be tempted to say things like “My way or the
highway”, “Take it or leave it. Let me know”
* Every ill in the Human Society stems mostly and directly or indirectly from a persons Cashflow situation. *Period*
* Managing CashFlow leads to the best Existential Experience for Individuals
* This is the actual opposite of an Organizational Scenario where CashFlow needs to be just enough but Debt needs to
be maximized.
* The worst people in this world Minimize Debt in their Organizational Roles and Maximize Debt in their personal
lifes‟.

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Aditya!!!