Lessons LEarnt - Leaders Worth Following

February 20, 2025February 20, 2025Leadership

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) […]

April 16, 2024April 17, 2024Leadership

Lessons in Leadership Transition from the Transition of Leadership in Singapore

This post talks about the lessons all leaders can learn from the transition of leadership in the SIngapore Government announced earlier today.

June 9, 2020June 9, 2020Innovation, Leadership, transformation

Lessons in Leading Transformation

Premise: We are living in a world where a lot of organisations are being forced to transform the way they operate. As we all know, being forced to change is not a good place to be in. The ability of leaders to lead their organisation through this transformation process will be paramount in enabling their organisations to continue to remain relevant. I came across an old video (from 1993), where Dr. Barbara Lawton shares her perspective and the perspectives from Dr. Deming and his principles on how to lead a transformation process. I could not believe what I […]

May 12, 2020May 12, 2020Ancient Wisdom, Ideas, Personal Growth

Life Lessons I learnt from the movie “Same Kind of Different as Me”

Premise: Living in a lockdown comes with its own fringe benefits. You end up watching a lot more movies or reading a lot more books that you would have otherwise watched or read. One such movie that I watched recently with my family is was “Same kind of different as me” starring one of my favorite actress Renee Zellweger, Greg Kinnear and Djimon Hounsou in a pivotal role. The movie is based on a memoir of the same title, written by Ron Hall and Denver Moore (the real life friends). Watching the movie was a moving experience, […]

May 9, 2020May 9, 2020Personal Growth, Recommendation, transformation

Importance of Taking a Pause, Reflect and Celebrate the Journey

Premise: The past few weeks of lockdown have had some kind of impact on each and every one of us. Most of the people that I speak to (and believe me, I speak to a lot of people every single day) tell me that they have become busier, more meetings, more work, more calls. I’ve seen something similar happen to me as well. Are you busier now than pre Covid? This is surprising on many levels. One would expect that the exact opposite to happen. Most businesses are closed. Not much is being produced or sold or […]