Tag: Authenticity

Leadership

Are you Shaping the AI Tool or is it Shaping You?

This past week has been very interesting. I have met with a variety of middle managers from a variety of organizations. These are generally good people, doing good work and been doing it consistently. They have built up deep expertise and the good judgement that goes along with it. Their instincts in their chose fields are often on target. They can read and respond to a room full of executives. One thing that was common amongst all of them, they have been using one or the other LLM model for work and have gotten good at it. And almost all […]

Leadership

Stop Trying to be Cool

We spend a lot of energy in trying to be cool.. A cool manager, a cool dude, a cool dad or mom or boss. James McCrae has hit a nerve in me with this quote. Instead of trying to be cool (which we maybe or may not), we are better off being nerdy about the things that we love. We are better of being obsessed about the things that we find are interesting and passionate about. This shows our enthusiasm about the thing we love. This shows our true self. We turn up as authentic. And he is absolutely right […]

Leadership

7 Lessons for CEO’s from Aam Aadmi Party’s Revival in Delhi

In a remarkable feat, upstart political party – Aam Aadmi Party, consisting of non-political contestants swept across the elections for the Delhi Assembly poll. People across the nation had expected them to put a decent fight but not many expected them to win 67 of the 70 assembly seats. What makes this feat even more remarkable is that they did this after suffering a humiliating defeat during the national lok sabha elections that concluded less than a year ago. In my opinion, there are a lot of lessons for CEO and business owners if they understand the way this party transformed […]