PBTO: Asking the Right Questions and Questioning the right things with Dr. Alan Barnard

https://traffic.libsyn.com/pushingbeyondtheobvious/76_PBTO__Asking_the_Right_Questions_and_Questioning_the_right_things_with_Dr._Alan_Barnard.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Email | RSSIn this conversation with @DrAlanBarnard, we explore how the principles of the Theory of Constraints (originally created by Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt) can be used to not only drive significant business results but also to help us make high stake decisions as leaders. In this freewheeling conversation, we explore Dr Barnard’s story about how he met with Dr. Goldratt and his famous motto. We explore who is a true expert. He shares how he got into an argument with Dr. Goldratt and how he then formed a life long connection with Dr. […]

SenseMaking for Leaders

Premise: One of the key tasks that leaders face is to make sense of all the different things that are happening around them – the shifting technology, geopolitical and competitive landscapes and respond (or find the opportunity within the context) appropriately. Nitin Nohria also writes about this in a HBR Magazine article titled – Leaders Must React. You can read the article in the magazine or online here. He also shares a framework called “The Reactive Management Framework”. The framework clearly looks at the various signals that leaders need to process and make sense along from the perspective of how […]

Leading Successfully in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Premise: I was talking to a friend, who is also the President of a mid-sized business earlier today and we were discussing his role as a leader of the organisation. He was recently promoted to this new role and was sharing some of his challenges with me. One of the things that he shared was the speed at which everything is changing and how difficult it has become for him to not only keep track of all of these changes but also to respond to them intelligently and in a way that drives the business outcome that he is trying […]

PBTO: The Art of Leading with Pankaj Rusia

https://traffic.libsyn.com/pushingbeyondtheobvious/PBTO_Pankaj_Rusia_.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Email | RSSPremise: In this first episode of a new series, which will be focused on leadership, we host a practicing leader – Pankaj Rusia. He currently works for SAP as the Head of Customer Success for the SAP HR Cloud business are and is based out of Singapore. As the Head of Customer Success for SAP South East Asia, he is on a mission to make customers look great in front of their leadership, employees, and managers, and to help them get the best out of their SuccessFactors solutions. Insights from the […]

The Law of the Loaf

One of the responsibilities of leaders is to organise our people and create contexts within which they operate. This context has a significant impact on the results that the teams can achieve. One way we put in place these contexts is through the culture we operate under (intentionally or unintentionally). And this decides how we interact with each other – as one entity moving toward the goal or as individuals working on each our own goals. It is fairly evident that we are much more effective when we are all working towards a common shared goal. So, the question is […]