Category: Leadership

Leadership

Leadership Lessons from An Oscar Award Winning Animated Short Film

I came across this oscar award winning animated short film and fell in love with it.. Before we proceed, pls watch the movie below. The Sand Castle by Co Hoedeman, National Film Board of Canada I think that the movie is so cleverly done that everyone who watches it can take away something from it. My leadership lessons from the movie are as below: How critical it is to have a vision and communicate it clearly such that everyone around you understand it. It is important to lead from the front and remove obstacles for your team. Though it is […]

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Leadership Advice from Vijay Sethi, CIO, Hero Moto Corp

Last week, I had the opportunity to host Vijay Sethi, CIO at Hero Moto Corp as part of a Leadership Talk series at my work. Below are my notes from the talk and the Q&A that followed the talk. Hope there is some learning for you. I learnt some new things and some thoughts were reinforced. Notes from the session: Honesty, integrity, humility: the three most important virtues of a good leader. Diversity is only as relevant, as much as the leader is willing to listen to differing opinion. Motivation comes from within. External stimuli that motivates, can quickly turn […]

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7 Lessons for CEO’s from Aam Aadmi Party’s Revival in Delhi

In a remarkable feat, upstart political party – Aam Aadmi Party, consisting of non-political contestants swept across the elections for the Delhi Assembly poll. People across the nation had expected them to put a decent fight but not many expected them to win 67 of the 70 assembly seats. What makes this feat even more remarkable is that they did this after suffering a humiliating defeat during the national lok sabha elections that concluded less than a year ago. In my opinion, there are a lot of lessons for CEO and business owners if they understand the way this party transformed […]

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3 Things That I Look for When Hiring

We all end up in a situation when we are required to hire someone. It might be to grow your business or to replace someone who has decided to move on her career.  There is already lot of good advice on hiring best practices. However, I would like to share with you three things that i look for in a candidate before deciding to hire her.  Passion: The first thing that I look for in a person is passion. The passion could be for any topic, not necessarily their jobs or roles in the past but for any topic. I […]

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Life Lessons from the Tao Te Ching

Almost all the religious and philosophical texts have some very insightful ideas about leadership and how to lead our lives. One such text is the Tao Te Ching. Chapter 3 in the book reads as below (from the English translation by  Derek Lin): Do not glorify the achievers, so the people will not squabble Do not treasure goods that are hard to obtain, so the people will not become thieves Do not show the desired things, so their hearts will not be confused! Thus the governance of the sage: Empties their hearts, Fills their bellies Weakens their ambitions, Stengthens their […]