Category: Leadership

Leadership

3 Ways to Trick Ourselves to do What We Hold Most Important

One thing that I have understood very clearly after reading the research from various behavioural scientist is that, we as a race still haven’t developed the ability to decide when presented with complex choices. Another insight that i have from this body of work is that it is easier to hack our environment, thereby hacking our behaviour than directly attempting to hack or modify our behaviour. Our ancestors intuitively understood a lot of these phenomenon and created cultures full of ceremonies and rituals. Ceremonies and rituals that allow us to do what is good for the group and for ourselves. […]

Ideas, Leadership

What The World Needs Today More than Anything Else – Hope

We live in a time and age where there is hate all around… We live in an age where its easier to pick a fight than to make a friend… We live in an age where we are connected online, but alone offline… We live in an age where NEWS is neither new nor true… We live in an age where recognition is bought and not earned… We live in an age where its easier to find extremists than a pacifist… We live in an age where we are free to say what we want, with no control on who […]

Ideas, Leadership

Characteristics of A Great Employee Recognition Program

Organisational culture is turning out to be the last competitive advantage for businesses. One of the most important aspects of great organisational culture is engaged employees. Many studies have indicated the state of employee engagement and it doesn’t look good. One of the ways that organisations can increase employee engagement is by ensuring that they are engaged with their employees and recognise & celebrate good work. It is important to have a program for employee recognition that works. Some key characteristics of such a program are as follows: Catch them Doing something right: One of the habits that Sir Ken […]

Entrepreneurship, Ideas, Leadership, Strategy

Strategies for Employee Engagement in a Gig Economy

EY recently announced the results of a Contingent Workforce Study that unearths key insights into the nature of the freelance or contingent workforce (the “gig economy”). Some of the key insights from the study regarding the future state of the Gig economy that they quote are as below: By 2020, 25% of organizations expect to use 30% or more contingent workers and the proportion using less than 10% will fall from 35% in 2016 to 22% in 2020. The gig economy is going to continue to grow, by 2020 almost one in five workers will be contingent workers. Two in […]

Leadership

Bad News is Good News

Most of us don’t like to be bearer of  bad news, neither do we like to hear bad news. However, one of the most important things that you could do is to create a culture where the people you lead feel that it is fine to be the bearer of bad news – the earlier the better. This is critical for the following reasons: If there is any bad news, it is best if we bring it out in the open and deal with it sooner than later. Most bad news are not as bad as they originally seem to […]