The concept of day one means you have to perform every day as if it’s your first day and re-earn the trust of team members.
The concept of Day 1 promotes personal growth because there’s accountability to perform at a high level.
It urges you to keep a high standard and continue to develop your skill sets, keep the momentum and not be so comfortable with the results you get in the past.
If you are stuck, have a mindset of endless possibilities so you can move past limitations!
3 examples of organizations that failed due to a lack of innovation
- MySpace Industry: Social networking service
Reasons for failure:
- Lack of loyalty to its users
- Lack of innovation
- Too many advertisements on the portal
- BlackBerry - Industry: Mobile Phone Manufacturing
Reasons for failure:
- Failure to Adapt
- Ignoring Its Competition and Losing Its Core Market
- The BlackBerry Operating System
- Lack Of Innovation
- Compaq - Industry: Technology
- Reasons for failure:
- The DEC merger
- Demotivated staff
- Poor-quality products
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The concept of “day one” is like treating everyday as if everyday is the first day. A day where we should feel like we still have more to do and more to prove and more space and time for growth. That the things that we do never really stop there.
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The concept of “day one” is important because it helps us get motivated to not take the milestones we completed for granted. I personally could relate this to the latin word “magis” which means to “more” or “greater”. It is an ongoing growth and questioning how we can live bolder, better, and more loving. And as a group/organisation, it pushes us to perform well everyday and that benefits us in a way that we get to continue existing and growing everyday and moving forward.
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a.) websites like MySpace were taken over by Facebook and has seemed phased out on the social media circle.
b.) Mobile companies like Nokia and Motorola was not able to catch up with the new phones technology.
c.) Girl Groups like Fifth Harmony disbanding because one member chose to do “day two”
- It is the concept that on the first day we have at something we give everything we can
- Because, by keeping ourselves in it, we always try to give our best. Therefore, we constantly achieve the best results and push the scene forward as much as possible
- Blockchain, Nokia, Blackberry
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Please explain what the concept of “day one” means.
It means that every day is the first day of the rest of our lives - we must do our best work every day, and not just on special occasions. Today sets the standard for tomorrow. -
Why is the concept of “day one” important?
It allows us to maintain a competitive advantage, where the competition slacks off and gets complacent. Allows us to cultivate the habit of innovating, and not letting “good enough” be. -
Please also give 3 examples where you saw people or organisations fail because they stopped treating every day as “day one”.
- Blockbuster failing to Netflix
- Banks failing to Web3
- Complacent colleagues in a previous corporate experience
1&2. Every Day is another new beginning, where you have a new shot at giving your best, coming with better ideas, proving yourself and to your colleagues that they can rely on you and viceversa.
It also allows us to always stay ahead of the game, being competitive and cultivating a culture of innovation.
3. Traditional companies who still require people to go to an office and not adapting to the new and better ways of working; banks still working in the same structure for decades and not innovating; colleagues who don’t give their best or just go to a job for the money/stability, without improving anything in the world.
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Each day is the first day. It means that we don’t relax, instead we try to prove and improve ourselves every day.
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Because once you get to comfortable you start to lose focus, which will lead to losing market shares.
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Nokia, Ericsson, Playahead
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Day one basically means to do the best you can in any given situation, be it work, health, gym, etc. Don’t accept mediocrity or averageness, and this is also a principle I follow in my day to day life. This also ties to a quote from Jordan Peterson: “Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.”
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This concept is important in order to live a fulfilled life in general, because in case you are slacking, the world will forget your achievements. And not only the world, you yourself will forget the achievements and progress you have made, quickly.
3.1 Footballer Eden Hazard failed to maintain the high standards after his switch to Real Madrid, and basically lost all that great potential.
3.2 Nokia lost it’s progress and failed, although they were the number one phone manufacturing company.
3.3 My brother got chubby and depressed because he didn’t treat gym as seriously.
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Treat every day like the first day where you put your best work for it and prove yourself and your worth and earn the trust your coworkers every day.
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Only the best it’s relevant the market does not care what you did in the past only what you are doing today. You have to perform your best every day. If you don’t put your best effort in you risk becoming irrelevant ass an individual and organization.
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Newspapers, Barnes & Noble, Blockbuster.
- Every day is “Day One”
- It is important to treat everyday as if it was the first day so that you hold yourself and those around you to a higher level of standard to keep improving.
1 - Work every day like its the first day. Every day you have to prove yourself, you have to earn your position.
2 - When you relax, when you think you can work less, is when things start going down. It doesn’t matter what you did yesterday, it matters what you do today.
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Day1 means that you never rest on your laurels. You treat every day the same. Go after your goals, vigilantly.
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If you don’t do this you can slide off track and become irrelevant.
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1My father let his business go because he essentially gave up. Massive life lesson for me. 2Where is Blockbuster? 3My cousin used to stick to diet and workout regiment but once they gave up they have never been the same.
1.- Please explain what the concept of “day one” means.
Prove ourself,earn the trust.
2.- Why is the concept of “day one” important?
To continue building great things.
3.- Please also give 3 examples where you saw people or organisations fail because they stopped treating every day as “day one”.
- Blockbuster
- Banks
- Blackberry