Vishen Lakhiani argues that companies should make personal growth the primary goal for employees rather than prioritizing revenue or sales metrics. He describes Mindvalley practices—such as having lunches with every new hire to discuss one-year goals, recommending fitness/nutrition/meditation programs, and encouraging transformative challenges (e.g., Spartan races)—and claims that focusing on growth raises performance across projects, culture, confidence, and ideation. He also promotes Mindvalley Mentoring for Listeners as a resource for bringing mentors into organizations.
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Have you ever wondered why your employees get stuck? Why people in the company sometimes hit a ceiling? What may be happening is that you're not pushing them hard enough. But I don't mean pushing them to deliver more work or to deliver more profits or to deliver more sales. What I mean is pushing them to grow as an individual, to become healthier, to become more confident, to go into transformation, to embrace personal growth. What if the push that we gave people in an office was, first and foremost, growth? As the goal At Mindvalley, I decided to make that number one. Not just for myself, but for everyone who works with me. I literally have lunches with every new hire and I talk about where they want to be one year from now. And then we discuss if they're going to be participating in a spartan race. We discuss the best way to optimize their nutrition. We might recommend a new meditation program or new books to read. When you make growth the number one goal, everything else will rise. Because when you grow, everything you touch, everyone you interact with, every project you take on is going to grow with you. So growth should be the number one thing. And where you want to push your people most is to push them to grow, to light a fire under their ass so they decide to become the best versions of themselves. While goals like more revenue, more profit per employee, more sales are all wonderful things, the number one goal has to be, how fast are you growing? How much are you transforming? How are you becoming the best version of yourself so you can show up as greater and greater iterations of yourself every day at work? So from better bodies to better minds, to more compassion, kindness and care, to better culture and better confidence and better ideation, you might want to check out mindvalley Mentoring for Listeners, where we're bringing in the world's best mentors to now come and give powerful, meaningful, life transforming insights to people in companies and governments all around the world. Because the best people to work with, the best people to hire, the best people to be friends with, the best people to lead, you are the people who focus first and foremost on becoming the best versions of themselves.
