Tag: VUCA

Creativity, Innovation, Inspiration, Leadership

Lessons in Leading Product Designers or Innovators from James Dyson’s AMA

If you are leading product development or any form of design teams or creative professionals or leading an innovation effort, I think you will find the short video very insightful. In the video, James Dyson answers questions on product design curated from twitter. I think that the selection of questions and the answers given by James Dyson as part of this AMA are really worth listening multiple times. You can watch the entire video here. One fundamental learning for us as leaders from his response and from his journey as an inventor / innovator is that, a truly innovative product […]

Creativity, Innovation, Leadership

Leading for Creativity and Innovation

One of the primary responsibilities of a leader is our ability to enable our teams to fuel their creativity and drive innovation. Kevin Roberts (who used to be the CEO and later went on to become the Executive Chairman of one of the most creative organisation – Saatchi & Saatchi) delivered a keynote on creativity and innovation and I think there is a lot that we can learn from the keynote. You can watch the entire keynote here. If you are tasked with coming up with innovation in your organisation, which typically, starts with coming up with creative ideas, I […]

Leadership, transformation

Leading in a VUCA World – One conversation at a Time

I recently read a blog post by Marcella Bremer for the Leadership and change magazine. You can read the entire blog post here. In the post she shares her learning from a talk that one of the founders of “Appreciative Inquiry” Ron Fry shared in one his talks during the Leadership Reset conference. Basically, the big idea from the blog is the importance of “Conversation” as the most significant and important tool in a leader’s toolkit in leading his organisation in a VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous) environment. We now live in a constantly evolving environment, thanks to the […]

Leadership

Your Greatest strength could also become Your Greatest Weakness

Premise In a recent post, Mike Shipulski, talks about how the core strength of a business usually also becomes the biggest weakness for that business, as it ends up consuming all of the resources to optimise its growth and starves all new ideas for resources. I recommend that you read the entire post here. I reckon that this hypothesis holds true for all of us as individuals and as leaders as well. When put in a corner or when we are challenged, we typically fall back to the strategies that have worked well for us in the past. In some […]

Entrepreneurship

3 Strategies to Retaining Your Best Employees

Hiring the right people in your organisation is by itself a monumental task, but the process doesn’t end once the hire ins your organisation. It is extremely critical to train and engage these employees so that you can help them attain peak performance. Apart from this, you also need to have a strategy in place to retain your talent. And this is not HR departments responsibility. In fact, the responsibility of retaining the best employees rests with the CEO or the leader of the organisation. Table stakes Having a good compensation and benefits package is table-stakes. If you falter here, […]