This document outlines a philosophy for understanding employees and customers. It begins by noting that the question companies should ask is not just "how can we understand our people?" but "what is the nature of human existence?". It then lists 23 points about human nature, including that education and experience contribute to success, purpose provides motivation, humans seek control and experience pleasure from new experiences and relationships. The overall message is that truly understanding people requires appreciating broad philosophical perspectives on human nature and existence.

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

4. * Original Question “We need to better
understand our employees and our customers”
* The Correct Question - “Maybe its time to look
at a cheatsheet outlining the Human
Existence”
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And The Philosophy Behind The Answer

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Education and Learning’s are factors we build on – Learn -> Do
Work Experience is the journey to probable success starting with
the factors… Do -> Learn
Training is limited reinforcements in the same journey
Purpose is your definition of success in life and why you want to
do it in the first place
Ignorant of which you stray randomly and mindlessly. Most such
people also Question the Bigger Purpose of Existence of the
Human Race
Achieving your own self definition of purpose is Intrinsic
Motivation which is best facilitated … rewarding is
counterproductive
You achieve someone else’s purpose when rewarded by Extrinsic
Motivation … here facilitation doesn’t work
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Accomplishment is about progressing and finishing something
Reluctance is being overwhelmed mentally even before starting
something you might want to do
10. Betting is trying to convince yourself or others that you know the future
outcome today
11. Rationality is doing something in accordance with your purpose,
whatever that might be
12. Humans love to Play Games to be in control and make choices in an
alternate reality. In the real world they seldom have control over their
destiny and the luxury of freedom of making choices.
13. Human aggression, violence, conquests are all about Control…
14. Life on the planet is a Zero Sum Game with pockets of Non Zero Sum
collaboration and equity.
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Unless you are a rat or a monkey dopamine is in choosing to do something and
finding out how it turns out. Lots of dopamine leads to Great Experience
It is very Boring if you already know exactly how it will turn out
Vision is stating after winning that you knew the outcome and how things
would play out
Humans are addicted to Orgasms in the mind and Orgasmic Experiences of the
mind, and sometimes physical
The human brain is one huge perpetual Pattern finding machine
Procreation is in a sense immortality and continuance of an individuals existence in
some fashion until true immortality is made possible, which is the Ultimate Desire
of majority of humans
Humans value Relationships because they cannot draft detailed contracts for
everything and cannot goto court over every violation of agreements
Love and Religion are the two most Irrational things about Humans…
Everything else is more or less Nonsense
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10. Aditya!!!
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