PIRKEI AVOT 4 - Secrets of our sages for managers and leaders - Rabbi Guy Avihod, M.A., MBA

Kind: captions Language: en [Music] last week we spoke about the mishnah of shimono zadek who said that there was three pillars to life his student antignos teaches us about focus and about motivation antigonus the men of soho received from shimon the righteous he would say do not be as servants who are serving the master in order to receive a reward rather be as servants who are serving the master not in order to receive a reward and may the fear of heaven be upon you what does this mean antignos knew that some people may think that because shimon the righteous had such a clear vision of life there's three pillars there's a way of doing things then you always have to be in focus antigonus knew though that if you're always in focus you get hammered down you can't you can't pull through so you have to get out of focus sometimes so that you can be in better focus daniel pink famously spoke of fedex days what are fedex days these are days where the employees of a company can work on any project for 24 hours they have to deliver that's why it's called fedex days they have to deliver but it has to be a project that has nothing to do with what they regularly do what was discovered and this is why it was adopted in many companies is that not only amazing inventions were made in during these 24 hours but also taking out of focus helped them focus better in their regular job so the first thing is keeping focus and keeping you interested this is exactly about motivation drive is motivation if you are motivated only by the toys if you're only driven by the prize don't be as servants who are looking for the pride for the prize because the prizes are limited the prizes don't give you self-actualization they don't give you the thing that pushes you through we know many people who worked at great places had amazing salaries and left it all because it didn't touch them it didn't come to their drive that's why antigonus the man of soho says be don't be like servants who are looking for the prize rather have the fear of heaven upon you fear of heaven is not fear it is rather the big picture look at the big picture look where you can change the world look what motivates you what drives you you have to discover this within yourself or else you're not going to get far we have to do this within ourselves we have to look at what what motivates us and what helps us go we also have to look at our employees for managers we have to look at what drives our employees sometimes it's recognition sometimes it is something else it is the motivation of doing something interesting in the world of something something that changes the world and that's what we have to focus listen to yourself listen to people around you and discover the motivation often it is not just the money it's not just the choice that's the lesson of shimonitzade of antigonus he says don't think of the prize but think of what's other than that other than price what's your focus and what's your motivation if you want to know more please contact us and you can study the pilgrimage you