Category: Leadership

Leadership, transformation

Lessons in Leadership with Ken Wilcox, Emeritus chairman of Silicon Valley Bank

In an interesting conversation with Todd Jick (Reuben Mark Faculty Director of Organizational Character and Leadership at Columbia Business School), Ken shares lessons in leadership from his personal experience having been a leader for more than 3 decades. This is a 45 mins video, which i would recommend that you watch. Have a pen and paper with you to make notes, and you will end up with a lot of notes. You can watch this conversation here. Here are the lessons I made a note of: Becoming a leader is an intentional decision. Reflect and think about why we want […]

Leadership

Three Modes of Communication – Where do you spend the most of your time as a leader?

As leaders, when we engage with our teams, we usually communicate with them in one of three modes and the mode that we use most often has a significant impact on the team and the kind of culture we create within the team. Here are the three modes of communications: Declaration (Tell): In this mode, we declare something to be a fact or truth or something that we want our teams to accept as it is. When we are using this kind of communication, we are typically engaged in a one way communication. This is all about sharing our perspective […]

Ancient Wisdom, Inspiration, Leadership

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 […]

How to be an Inspirational Leader
Inspiration, Leadership

How to be an Inspirational Leader?

One of the expectations as leaders that we have of ourselves is to be inspirational. Everyone talks about how it is important for leaders to be inspirational, to lead their teams to places that they may or may not want to go, to achieve a lot more than they would have achieved if it were not for the leadership. I strongly believe that we should not start with the goal of becoming an inspirational leader , as it is a self-centred perspective. However, I have been thinking about this topic for some time and I believe that there are a […]

Inspiration, Leadership

Insanely Interesting People who Influenced me – #14 Chip and Dan Heath

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 […]