Category: Leadership

Leadership, transformation

Personal Focus in a Word for 2015

I read on Mitch Joel’s blog about the concept of 3 words in a year that Chris Brogan started and Mitch and others have made into a tradition. I tried this out last year and decided to go with a single word instead of three – “Transformation”. I must say that this helped me a lot by being my compass in everything that i did and I grew more than I had ever did. You can find my post at the start of the year and my self-appraisal at the end of the year. So, it is time to pick […]

Leadership

Making Choices – The Most Important Job of a Leader

Seth Godin published a blog about Choices and how these choices define the kind of people we become. As an entrepreneur or a business owner, it is even more important to understand and improve how we create and make choices. It is in fact the only thing that a business owner is responsible to do – to make choices – whom should he hire; should he hire or not; what work to do himself and what to outsource or delegate; which project to start and which one to stop; which one to ship and when; should he take funding from a VC or to […]

Leadership

A Blueprint for Success

Maya Hu-Chan wrote a blog post titled “Are you a global thinker” in which she explores what it takes to succeed in a global leadership role. She lays down a 5 step in becoming a global thinker: Understand your company’s global strategy and ambitions: Embrace a global mindset Get out there! Build a support system to sharpen global thinking Help others to think globally too If you look at the suggestions and read a countless other posts that talk about how to succeed in any realm of life, there are some similarities that I find. Reflect: Irrespective of the field of […]

Leadership, Uncategorized

The Art of Leading Change

Hindu scriptures talk about three basic components that all matter is made up of: Sattva – A bias towards Knowledge Rajas – A bias towards action Tamas – A bias towards inertia These are the same components that are required in leading change initiatives. Knowledge: It is critical that the leaders of the change initiative know the reasons for the change that they want to bring in. They should have answers to questions like Why is the change necessary? Why now? What will successful transition look like What is in it for everyone who is involved? What needs to change […]

Leadership, Podcast

PBTO13: @LetsGrowLeaders – In conversation with Karin Hurt

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Who is on the show today: In today’s episode, we have Karin Hurt. Her award-winning blog, Let’s Grow Leaders, has grown into a highly interactive, International community. Her book, Overcoming An Imperfect Boss is available on Amazon. Why is she on the show She has a diverse background of executive leadership experience in sales, customer service, call centers, human resources, merger integration, training and leadership development – the last 20 years of which have been with Verizon. Most recently, she served as Executive Director of the Strategic Partnership Channel at Verizon Wireless where she transformed customer service outsourcing, working with companies and call centers to build […]