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. […]

Leadership

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 […]

Leadership

How to Help People Hear You

As a leader, one of the most important way we show up and get work done is through communication – written or spoken. So, the impact that we have depends a lot on how well are we able to communicate. Stated in another way, the impact we have as a leader depends on how well do people we communicate with understand and act on it in a way that you expect them to. So, we need to learn not to communicate the way we like to but in the way that the people whom we lead are able to hear, […]

Leadership, Personal Growth

How to Get Ready for the Higher Order Tasks when AI is Ready for the routine One’s

Premise: There is a lot being said about the capabilities of AI tools and how they can bring in so much efficiencies and free up humans to do higher value tasks instead. So, I have been thinking about what these higher value work would look like? Given the depth and width of knowledge and skills that these tools have amassed, is there any skill that we can bring to the table to ensure that we are not becoming redundant? Here is what I have come up with. There are 5 skills that are still uniquely human and that any AI […]