The Happy Leader: Boost Your Happiness and Leadership Effectiveness
Our emotional states as leaders have a direct impact on the productivity of our teams. Emotions are contagious.
Category: Ancient Wisdom
Leadership and Happiness
One significant impact that Covid-19 had is that it has caused a sudden explosion of the importance of wellness all around us. The contrast between working from home and working from our offices has been stark. This has also initiated a lot of great conversations about mental health and the importance of the role of emotions within the business context. While this focus in the cultural zeitgeist is new, the research and our knowledge about the role that emotions play in our work place is not new at all. There is a lot of good research that have found that […]
The Art of Kintsugi and Lessons in Leadership
Kintsugi is an old Japanese art of repairing broken ceramic pottery with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold. Instead of hiding the fact that the ceramic was broken, the art accentuates and celebrates this by converting the ordinary piece of ceramic to a piece of art. You can find more information about this art and the philosophy behind the same in the video here. There are many some very important lessons in leadership that we can gleam from this art, if we so desire. Ceramic articles tend to break. That is in their nature. Same way, people make mistakes. We, […]
Insanely Interesting People who Influenced me: #15 Gary Zukav
For the rest of the year, I would like to take a moment and thank the people who have had a significant impact on me as an individual. The way they have lived their lives and their body of work has had an outsized impact on how I think about life in general and and work, in particular. Some of these are contemporary thinkers and some of them are just a memory. Some of them are famous in their own rights and some of them are yet to be found by others. Some of them are young and some of […]
Wisdom and Leadership
One of the key responsibility of a leader is to be able to perceive the difference between reality and what appears to be the reality, i.e., we need leaders who are wise. The question then is what is wisdom and is there a simple way to becoming wise. An old Indian metaphor can come to our help. It is that time of the day when it is neither dark nor light. You are walking through a park and you see something lying on the ground and you instinctively jump. That is our body reacting to keep us alive – better […]