Tag: scale

Leadership

How to Lead Teams to Drive Innovation, Efficiency, Growth or Transformation

Premise I watched this short video in which HBS professor Linda Hill shares her experience from engaging a Life Sciences company and how they went about building teams and leading for innovation. You can watch the full video here. I have written many times about this topic (here, here, here, here, here, here and on innovation here). As leaders, we need to adapt and change depending on what we are trying to achieve and what our objectives are. Leading for Innovation If we want to drive innovation, we need to foster a culture that enables, engages and encourages the team […]

Leadership, transformation

Leading in a VUCA World – One conversation at a Time

I recently read a blog post by Marcella Bremer for the Leadership and change magazine. You can read the entire blog post here. In the post she shares her learning from a talk that one of the founders of “Appreciative Inquiry” Ron Fry shared in one his talks during the Leadership Reset conference. Basically, the big idea from the blog is the importance of “Conversation” as the most significant and important tool in a leader’s toolkit in leading his organisation in a VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous) environment. We now live in a constantly evolving environment, thanks to the […]

Entrepreneurship

Are you an Entrepreneur or a Freelancer?

Earlier this week, I had to take my wife to a clinic to get her an ultrasound scan. When we called up the diagnostic center, we were told that if we needed an appointment, we have to wait for at least a couple of months and if we wanted to get it done sooner, we can walk in on any day and wait there at the reception and they will sneak us in whenever they have a gap between their appointments. Since we wanted to get the scan done sooner than later, we landed at the diagnostic center at 7:45 […]