Leadership, Personal Growth

Look After Yourself

Here is a short list that the team at Do Lectures posted on twitter about looking after ourselves. Spoke to me.  My score is 3/10. Need to improve that. What is your score? How many of these do you do?  Look after yourself:1, Celebrate small things2, Celebrate big things3, Don’t compare4, Make time for exercise5, Eat well6, Look for the good7, Stop being so hard on yourself8, Have some rest. And don’t feel guilty about it9, Give yourself a pat on the back10, Bed early— Do Lectures (@DoLectures) August 18, 2018 via “Do Lectures” on Twitter. 

Leadership

Leading In Tough Times

I follow Dan Rockwell’s blog – Leadership Freak as part of my reading list and am always looking forward to his take on leadership related topics. He brings a simple yet profound but practical approach to solving some of the most difficult issues on leading well. In his post 3 WAYS TO NAVIGATE TOUGH TIMES, he shares the following as the key steps that leaders need to take in order to successfully navigate tough times.  #1: Prepare before tough times arrive. #2: Nurture clear-headed thinking. #3: Reconnect with purpose and build the airplane in the air. – Dan Rockwell, The Leadership Freak I like […]

1000Entrepreneurs, Ideas, Leadership

Hiring Anyone Who Applies for a Job

As part of my reading list, I stumbled on to a post that talks about a bakery that gives a job to anyone who applies – no interview, no background checks, no drug tests, nothing. You enrol on a list and whenever an opening arises, the person at the top of the list is offered that job. Simple. They start as an apprentice for a 10 month period, post which they get an entry level job at the bakery. They practice Open Hiring.  This made me think. {I know ?}. I can already think of a 100 different reasons that […]

1000Entrepreneurs, Leadership

Succession Planning and The Peter Principle

At some point in our professional careers, we all have come across some managers and wondered – How on earth did this person become a manager. He seems to be so incompetent? Welcome to the world of Peter Principle. Peter Principle states that People in a hierarchy tend to rise to their “level of incompetence” – Laurence J. Peter In other words, people get promoted based on their past performances until they are no longer able to produce the same level of performance and they remain stuck there. The principle was proposed as a satire to the practices observed by Laurence Peter but seemed […]

1000Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Strategy

How to be Happily Busy

Time is the most precious commodity that we have. Attention is the second most important. And we need to trade both of these (depleting, non-renewable) with other people and organisations. This is almost non-negotiable (of course, we can go to the Himalayas for a retreat or become a Buddhist monk, but I am sure people who read my blog have neither of those intentions). That being the case, we don’t have a choice if we want to trade our time and attention but the choice is what do we trade it with.  If you are like any of my average […]