Tag: Skillsets

Leadership, Quotes

Winds of Change

We now live in a world where the winds of change rage faster and faster. The attitude and the ability to build windmills will make or break our careers in the mid-to-long term. Are you ready? Do we have the necessary mindset, the required toolsets and the skillsets to make this a reality? I have been talking about the need for leaders to understand that almost all leadership is about leading through change. So, if we want to be better leaders, we need to be able to lead our teams through the raging winds of change while building windmills that […]

Leadership

Leading Successfully in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Premise: I was talking to a friend, who is also the President of a mid-sized business earlier today and we were discussing his role as a leader of the organisation. He was recently promoted to this new role and was sharing some of his challenges with me. One of the things that he shared was the speed at which everything is changing and how difficult it has become for him to not only keep track of all of these changes but also to respond to them intelligently and in a way that drives the business outcome that he is trying […]

Ideas

3 Principles of Leading Under Conditions of Uncertainty

Premise: We are entering a phase where there is a lot of uncertainty. There is a consensus building up about an impending recession. There is a lot of flux within businesses. There are some sectors that are laying off people and at the same time struggling to find the right people to hire. The general tendency of the people towards work is shifting. Some want the flexibility of working from wherever and whenever and some want the benefit of the serendipity of bumping into colleagues at the water-coolers. On top of all of these are the new capabilities that technology, […]