Category: Leadership

Entrepreneurship, Leadership

The Art Of Making Progress

Making progress is about knowing what you have and making the most of it… Making progress is about moving in the direction that we want to move, irrespective of the circumstances.. Making progress is about knowing when to stop, step back and re-think about where you are going.. Making progress is about keeping our heads down and keeping at it.. Making progress is about knowing what we can’t influence and what we can and influencing what we can influence. We spend a lot of time thinking about how to change things that are often out of our control, instead of […]

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Why Are Meetings so Important and How to Make them Effective and Fun

Premise: Not a day goes by when I dont hear someone complain about yet another meeting that they need to attend and how it is such a waste of time, money and effort. Yet, there is enough written about the way Alan Mulally, the ex-CEO of Ford, turned around the company in his stint as the CEO, primarily using a weekly cadence meeting with his entire leadership team , called The Business Plan Review. You can read more about this and how he ran these meetings here. What he has shown is that meetings can be extremely productive for organisations and […]

Entrepreneurship, Leadership

A Simple Guide to Building an Engaged Team

Premise: We don’t need tons of research to tell us the importance of having employees who are engaged in their work. It shows up in a lot of different ways that we can see. The result of an engaged set of employees shows up when an employee goes beyond his call of duty to serve a customer or when a team gets formed organically to address some specific issue that has cropped up during the day. It is no surprise either when that having such an engaged workforce can and does become a true competitive advantage. This also means that […]

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The 12 Stages of Burnout

Premise: As leaders and entrepreneurs, we are people with a lot of drive and motivation to do stuff. In our hustle to make progress, we often don’t realise if we start suffering from burnout until it’s too late.  So, when I looked up for a reliable way for us to find out if we are suffering from burn out, I came across this white paper written by Herbert Freudenberger and Gail North. 12 Phases of Burn out They have divided burning out  into 12 phases. You can read their entire paper here.  The 12 phases are as below. The important thing […]

Entrepreneurship, Leadership

Leap When You’re “Almost Ready”

It was almost 9 years ago. We were at a team building outbound in an adventure camp. Among other adventure games, we also had the opportunity to try out Bungee jumping. It was not very high, maybe about 250 ft tall crane from which we were supposed to jump off of. Having participated in all the adventure games, we wanted to try bungee. Out of the 12 odd people in the team, only three people were willing to jump. I was one of the three. One of my friends who thought that this was a crazy act warned me and […]