Leadership

You Become a Leader Worth Following When You Can do This..

In this video, I share one of the traits of leaders that make them Leaders Worth Following: Effective Leadership is the process of replacing despair with hope and cynicism with purpose! This single sentence contains the essence of what it means to elevate our leadership to the next level. When we are able to do this, we truly become a leader worth following. Despair with Hope The ability to replace despair with hope is only possible when we truly believe that a better future is possible and within our reach. It is only possible when we truly believe that we […]

Leadership

Goldratt’s Rules of Flow to Improve Throughput

Here are the Rules of Flow that Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt learnt in all his work during his time and was codified by his daughter Dr. Efrat Goldratt-Ashlag. In this video, I share just some things that I learnt from this book and also from everything else that I have read about the Theory of Constraints as created by Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt. 1. Avoid bad multitasking, control your WIP. 2. If you don’t want to get stuck, verify full-kit before you get going. 3. Triage to ensure you are working on the right priorities. 4. Ensure synchronization between your tasks/people/ resources. […]

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How To Support Someone Who is Going Through A Tough Time

All of us go through and experience tough times at some point in time. So, it is expected that sooner or later, we will face a situation when someone on our team is going through a difficult time. It can be personal or professional. In this video, I share what we can do as leaders in that situation. Since this is not a question or if it will happen, but when will it happen – we can prepare for this situation in advance. There are only three ways to respond to this well: Any one of them is good enough. […]

Leadership

What you Need to Know When you Step Up to become a Leader

In this video, I share my perspective on the transition from being an expert to becoming a leader in an organization. Every transition (from being an expert and an individual contributor to a manager managing people to manager managing managers to manager managing organizations) requires us to unlearn some things and learn some new things. Each transition requires us to move further and further from being an expert or specialist to becoming a generalist, towards thinking abstractly and toward thinking in frameworks / theories. Each transition requires us to focus on different things. From being focused on developing our own […]