Category: Leadership

Leadership

Creating a Culture of Accountability

One of the biggest challenges that leaders face in creating a culture of high performance is their ability to create an environment where their teams are accountable for their results that they have committed to achieve. Creating a culture of accountability is exactly that — creating a culture. It is not easy and it starts with them. They are the custodians of the culture within their organisations. The culture is created one action at a time of the leader. So, if you want your teams to be accountable, you as a leader need to be accountable. So, what does being accountable […]

Innovation, Leadership

A Taste of Leadership – The transition from Either/Or to Both/And

I had the opportunity to watch a TEDx Talk delivered by Alf Rehn recently and blown away by not only the way he delivers the talk but also the way he presents a very important concept – we are today in an economy where we, as leaders need to move away from the either/or (ex: either your are process driven or you are creative) mindset towards “Both/And (you are both process driven and creative, based on the need of the hour) mindset if we are to tap into the creativity of our teams and succeed in an ever changing, fast […]

Leadership

ABC of Being a Good Manager

Today, I was talking to a friend who leads an business function within his organisation and we were talking about leadership. When I asked him, what were his top priorities as a leader for his function, he gave me his priorities as below: Alignment: Ensure that there is alignment between what the business wants to achieve and what the individual employees want to achieve. This is critical as this creates an organisation where everyone is running in the same direction (for whatever reasons) and hence creates momentum and the opportunity for great team work to flourish. Behaviour: As a leader, […]

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 […]

Leadership

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 […]