Tag: Leadership

Ideas, Leadership

Leadership crisis

While reading the newspaper today, I realised that we are living in a world with a leadership crisis. Whether it is lack of strong political leadership or strong leadership in the corporate world. Is this because the current set of leaders never wanted to step down or nurture the next set of leaders? Or is this because we are living in a time of rapid change and the current crop of leaders don’t understand the dynamics of the change and are at a loss on how to navigate the change? Or is it because we, the common men know way […]

Ideas

Caught you!

While driving to my office today morning, I saw avery common sight in Bangalore (and in any city in India). There were 3 trafficcops waiting at a busy T-junction. Now imagine, you are in a hurry to reach your office(or wherever you are going). You see that the signal has changed form Green toYellow and you are right at the turn. You race to cross the signal before thesignal turns red. Alas! The signal wins the race and just turns to Redat the instant you are taking the turn. Bang! The waiting cops pounce on you and slap afine or […]

Leadership

The Ugly Indian – Leadership in action..

Today, I came across an interesting group of people called – “The Ugly Indian”. This is an NGO which has started its work by transforming how a busy commercial street in Bangalore – Church Street looked like.Introduction on their website is as below: They believe that it is possible to change behavior if one is able to understand the root cause and provide a sustainable alternative by being persistent and inclusive. They have found some interesting ways to solve the civic problems that plague all our cities in India. This methodology when applied can also be used to change deep […]