Category: Leadership

Leadership, Podcast

PBTO43: How to Lead without Authority 

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In the future of work that we envisage, one of the key skill that would be needed for anyone to do well is their ability to influence people (upwards/side wards/downwards) with or without formal authority. This is an ability that anyone can build provided one is deliberate about building the skill. Here are four things that you need to work on in order to build up your ability to lead with or without formal authority. Building trust – Your Track Record One of the most important component of influence or lack thereof is the amount of trust that people have […]

Entrepreneurship, Leadership

10 Characteristics of Great Project Brief’s

One of the first things that we need to start a project is a project proposal or a brief. Most projects don’t achieve anything close to their potential because either their brief’s are too prescriptive or the people working on the project are not fully immersed in the project. I recently watched a video created by Bassett & Partners where they interviewed some stellar creatives from the advertising industry to understand what they thought about brief’s that they get as creative professional – what works and what doesn’t. I think that what is applicable to advertising agencies and brands is […]

Leadership, Marketing

The Rule of One

I reached home late yesterday. My son was waiting for me to come home so he can show off what he did the day and spend sometime with me, playing and simply chilling. I was tired and so distracted. While I was talking to him, I was also distracted and not fully with him. He was able to sense that and tell me to stop everything and be with him for sometime. My wife has caught me many times fiddling with my phone while talking to her. I understand that this is a cardinal mistake that I do when it […]

Leadership

5 Practices for Leaders of the Future #FutureOfWork

This blog post is for you if you plan to become or already are a leader who intends to lead their team in a world where change is the only constant and engagement (employee/customer) is extremely difficult to build. One of the biggest challenges that the future is going to throw at all organisations is their ability to cope up with constant change and to deal with the chaos that follows. We have seen that most organisations that fail (Nokia, BlackBerry, Kodak, etc), fail due to the inability of their leaders to see what the future holds and change course. If […]