Author: Mukesh Gupta
How To Make this Year Your Best Year Ever
Premise: I was invite to deliver a workshop on how to set up your year to be “Your Best Year Ever” recently and here is what I had shared with them in terms of how to think about or approach this task. I believe in order for any year to be our best year ever, it needs to be balanced and see success and growth in all areas of our lives. And I think the key areas that we need to consider are as below: If we have a year where we are able to balance our health and wealth […]
How to Mentor More People Without Getting Burned Out
Premise: One of the things that all leaders, sorry, all good leaders, get asked, is to mentor someone. The better the leader, the more such request that we tend to get. However, the time that we have for mentoring is fairly limited. While the mentee’s benefit a lot from the mentoring, there are reasons to believe that mentoring also benefited me as much as a mentors. So, it is in our best interest to mentor as many people as we can, given our limited time, and do so in such a way that we don’t burn ourselves out. Here are […]
Story of the Creation of the Humble Mouse as Narrated by Steve Jobs and Its Lesson in Leading Innovation
Earlier today, I stumbled upon a video of Steve Jobs talking about the creation of the humble mouse and why he had to go to David Kelly Designs (which later on became IDEO) to get it done. You can watch the video here. In the video, he shares that content is more important than process, when it comes to innovation and creativity. The question is what does he mean by content? He is not talking about the content that we refer to. He is talking about the sum of character, knowledge and the curiosity of the people as their content. […]
PBTO: Mindsets to Become a High Performing Leader
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In this live presentation that I delivered at an event, I introduce a model or a framework of leadership that I have created – The Butterfly Model of leadership and then go in detail about one of the key pillars of this model, which is “Leaders Mindsets” which allow them to perform at a very high level. “Mindset change is not about picking up a few pointers here and there. It’s about seeing things in a new way” – Carol Dweck, Author: Mindset – The New Psychology of Success. As Carol said above, the mindset we have in any given […]