Tag: leaders worth following

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, Strategy

How Can You Lead When Everything Changes So Fast?

In this video, I talk about the challenges that leaders face in an emergent world that is shifting and emerging at an ever rapid velocity. I share a 4 step framework that can help leaders practice “Emergent Leadership” and become Leaders Worth Following. They deliver clarity when chaos rules everything else. They provide stability when uncertainty is all around us. They provide us hope when hopelessness has taken root. They earn our trust in a world where almost all other leaders have lost it. Chat with me on WhatsApp: • Read my books: • Your Startup Mentor: https://www.rmukeshgupta.com/mentor • Thrive: […]

Leadership

Leaders Worth Following Know How to Design our Behaviors

I read this post titled “The Door is Not the Problem” on GapingVoid blog and was reminded of a couple of things that are important to remember if we want to be a leader worth following. Firstly, we need to realize that our behavior is much more impacted by our environment than we think. Every element of design of a product or service or the way we design our environment (intentional or unintentional) – it has elements of affordances and signifiers (Affordances are what the design makes possible. Signifiers make you aware of these possibilities). Consequently, how we design our […]

Leadership

Leaders Worth Following Know When to Go Against Conventional Wisdom

I had seen this TikTok video a few months back and remembered about this again when I saw this LinkedIn post by Dr Paige Williams about the importance of knowing about positive deviance and how leaders worth following know when to apply this concept of positive deviance. In this TikTok video, Arielle Schmitt shares the strategy adopted by the Chinese team in the Youth Olympics. One of the athlete (the gold winner) adopted a unique strategy to win the race. The winner did something that has never been done before in such a race. The runner up (also Chinese athlete) […]