Tag: Leadership

Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Strategy, transformation

Four insights on Achieving Resilient Growth Consistently

The best selling authors of the book – Blue Ocean Strategy, recently sent an email in which they speak about the 4 pieces of advice they give to their customers on how to build resilient growth for their organisations. Here are the 4 pieces of advice. 1. Focus on building a healthy, balanced portfolio of market-competing and market-creating strategic moves. Both are important. While market-competing moves generate today’s cash, market-creating moves ensure tomorrow’s growth.   2. Don’t wait for growth to slow to make market-creation a strategic priority.Prepare in advance. You’ll be buffered by your market-creating move in a downturn cycle […]

Ideas, Leadership

When your coworker does great work, tell their manager

I read this post on my feed and thought this was a very interesting post about recognising one of your co-workers.   You can read the entire post here.   However, to summarise the post:   1.  Ask before you write a glowing email to someone’s manager, if it is ok. There could be many different and valid reasons why someone might not want the praise. 2.  And when you do write, be specific about how they helped and the kind of impact it created. 3.  Send it to them and their managers. Each of them can use this differently. […]

Leadership

A Checklist Every Leader Should Be Thinking About

I follow the  “The Great Game of Business” team and the work that they do to help enable businesses become open book and transparent to all their employees. If you are an entrepreneur, it is worthwhile to check their work and explore if it is a good fit for you and what you are trying to achieve. Yesterday, they posted a blog post (I have used the same title) which I found to be very useful to me and am sure will be useful to all leaders. You can read the full blog post here. The Checklist: This is a checklist […]

Ideas, Leadership

Lessons in Creativity and Leadership

The team at FilmBilder has done it again. They have created another fun way to depict an important concept in a fun and engaging way. Have a look at the video before we can go further. What I learnt from the video: 1) The most important criteria for creativity to flourish is the presence of exploration and fun. True innovation happens when we step back from our routine. Creative ideas come when we are looking to have fun while working. 2) Creative ideas will start off by causes some disruption or negative effect before it can effect positive change and […]

Ancient Wisdom, Leadership

Ancient Wisdom for Modern Life – Qualities of a Good Leader

Of late, I have been reading some of the old Indian texts written by sages and wise men. One such work is a section within the larger epic poem “Mahabharata” called Vidur Puran. This section is a conversation between a distressed king and one of his wise ministers. The king knows that the action he is willing to take is probably not the right action but wants to hear that it is ok from the wise minister. In this wide ranging conversation, the king asks a lot of questions around life and how to lead a life of virtue and […]