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February 17, 2025February 17, 2025Leadership, transformation

Leaders Worth Following Understand the Difference between Change and Progress

The most common cliche today is “The only constant is Change”. As with everything else, not all change is created equal. In my experience, not all change leads to progress. Leaders worth following know this and are always intentional about any change that they are advocating for. They are always looking at and talking about the progress that the change will lead us toward. If there is a re-org being initiated, it should actually lead to a change in behavior for everyone who is impacted by the change. If the behavior of people affected by the initiative doesn’t change, then […]

February 15, 2024February 15, 2024Leadership, transformation

Turning Status Quo into Your Ally

I recently read a blog post by Seth Godin titled, “The four cohorts of the status quo“. It reminded of the fact that as leaders, we need to understand the concept of status quo, how to leverage it and deal with it, as appropriate. This ability to not allow status quo to hinder our pursuits is a high leverage or impact skill for any leader. In the post, Seth talks about the four kinds of people and their relationship with Status quo – those who actively benefit from it, those who care about the stability that it provides, those who […]

January 19, 2024January 19, 2024Innovation, Leadership, transformation

The Art of Possibility Thinking

Average leaders react to their situations; Good leaders respond to them BUT Great leaders find the opportunity within them! This doesn’t happen by itself but needs intentional thinking and a specific mindset and go looking for these possibilities. I talk about how to go about doing that here and here.

April 18, 2022April 18, 2022Leadership, transformation

3 Questions to Ask Before We Start Any Transformation Effort

One of the biggest challenge when it comes to successful transformation efforts, is the stickiness of change in behaviour expected as part of the transformation. Any intervention is considered successful only if it leads to a lasting change in behaviour. And this is where most transformation efforts fail – they do not create a lasting change in behaviour that it set out to create. When we think about the reasons for this, we usually find the following: 1. People do not want to change This is the most common situation. This can happen when the change is being forced on […]

December 2, 2021December 2, 2021Leadership, transformation

Lessons in Leadership with Ken Wilcox, Emeritus chairman of Silicon Valley Bank

In an interesting conversation with Todd Jick (Reuben Mark Faculty Director of Organizational Character and Leadership at Columbia Business School), Ken shares lessons in leadership from his personal experience having been a leader for more than 3 decades. This is a 45 mins video, which i would recommend that you watch. Have a pen and paper with you to make notes, and you will end up with a lot of notes. You can watch this conversation here. Here are the lessons I made a note of: Becoming a leader is an intentional decision. Reflect and think about why we want […]