Leadership

The Willing Embrace of Training

Steven Pressfield, the author of one of the most iconic book on Creativity and its so called nemesis, the resistance – “The War of Art“, in his recent blog post talks about the importance of training for creative professionals. I totally believe that leading is an act of active creation and therefore what is applicable for creative artists is also applicable for all of us leaders (and yes, that also includes you if you are aspiring to be a leader). It is true that deliberate, specific and repetitive training, programs our System 1 (as defined by Daniel Kahneman, which is […]

Ancient Wisdom, Inspiration, Leadership

Insanely Interesting People who Influenced me – #8 His Holiness – The 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet

For the rest of the year, I would like to take a moment and thank the people who have had a significant impact on me as an individual. The way they have lived their lives and their body of work has had an outsized impact on how I think about life in general and and work, in particular. Some of these are contemporary thinkers and some of them are just a memory. Some of them are famous in their own rights and some of them are yet to be found by others. Some of them are young and some of […]

Leadership

The 3 M’s of Effective Management

I read a post in which the author – Daniel Gross, tried to summarise his learning from the recently concluded COP26 Summit. What he shares is not only applicable for how he summarised the COP26 Summit, but to management in general as well. Lately, I have been talking a lot about leadership and how important it is to lead. However, in that conversation, we should not forget the importance of management as well. If we have to think of both leadership and management, I would say, that leadership is like driving a car in a high traffic area or when […]

Inspiration

Insanely Interesting People who Influenced me – #7 Dan Ariely

For the rest of the year, I would like to take a moment and thank the people who have had a significant impact on me as an individual. The way they have lived their lives and their body of work has had an outsized impact on how I think about life in general and and work, in particular. Some of these are contemporary thinkers and some of them are just a memory. Some of them are famous in their own rights and some of them are yet to be found by others. Some of them are young and some of […]

Leadership, transformation

Are you Driving Digital Transformation or Leading IT?

I had just shared the impact and influence that Seth Godin has on me and my thinking. Here is his latest observation about leading. On his blog, he writes and I quote, Tug boats don’t usually tug. They push. That’s because pushing is more mechanically efficient than pulling. When we pull, there’s tension and slack in the ropes, and the attachment between the puller and the pushed keeps changing. But the metaphor gets far more interesting when we think about leading instead. One bird at the head of the flock can lead 100 others if they’re enrolled in the journey. […]