Category: Leadership

Leadership

How to Listen as a Leader?

I read this post by Kevin Roberts (founder of Red Rose Consulting; business leader and educator; author and speaker; adviser on marketing, creative thinking and leadership) where he shares his insight on the current state of affairs, which in summary is “Everyone is talking and no one’s listening”. In his post he also shares that there are 4 types of listeners – People oriented, Action or Task oriented, content focused and fast. You can read his entire post (really short one) here. I believe that as leaders, it is paramount that we listen and do it well. However, as a […]

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Leading and The Future of Learning with Sanjay Sarma

Premise: We are inheriting a world which is seeing an unprecedented pace of change around us. This makes it super critical for us as leaders to enable a culture of continuous and on-going learning for our teams. We need to play a few different roles in this case. We need to practice what we preach, i.e., we need to continue to learn and do so publicly. This sends a message to all that continuous, ongoing learning is crucial for the organisation. This also creates a culture that supports ongoing learning. We also need to play the role of teachers, teaching […]

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007 Leadership Skills we can Learn from 007 (James Bond)

This is my 750th blog post on this blog and I wanted to write about something that I absolutely love. I absolutely love watching movies and have been a James Bond movie fan almost since the first time I watched him on screen (since Sir Sean Connery brought this to life). I was watching the trailer of the latest movie in the franchise – No Time to Die and got reminiscing about all the different Bond movies that I have watched in the past. I am looking forward to watching this one sometime soon. You can watch the trailer here. […]

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The Power of Initiative

I just read about David Aguilar, aka, “HAND Solo” and how he holds a Guinness Record for building the first fully functional LEGO prosthetic arm. He has gone on to iterate and now is at the fifth version of the prosthetic arm, MK-V, even carries a Spike Prime Hub – a programmable control unit capable of receiving and sending orders from sensors to motors. You can read his story at the original post by Sanj Atwal, on the website of Guinness world records here. You can also follow his journey on his YouTube channel. What this story shows me is […]

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Trusting Adults to Behave like Adults

I read a post on Nature.com which talks about lessons to be learned by governments about communications and trusting the public with hard truth. You can read the entire post titled “Covid Lessons: Trust the Public with hard Truths” here. I believe that the lessons are as much valid for business leaders as much for the governments and the public. Bureaucracy is usually a result of not trusting our employees to do the right thing in any given situation. Every time we see an employee make a mistake, the tendency is to create a policy around it so that, that […]