India Knowledge @ Wharton’s “Business and Change” section has published an interesting interview of ICICI’s CFO and Jt. Managing Director Chanda Kochhar. She joined ICICI as a management trainee and the interview focuses on leadership challenges she faced as a banker over last two decades. One of the key messages here is that a leader has to be adaptable. […]
Organizations re-align and re-organize every new year. Each new year brings with it some fresh thinking and some great ideas. Then the year ends and we see that while some of those plans did take off and succeed, some of them never saw light of the day and a few ones failed. So what does it take to […]
Here I am – blogging again, after a break of almost 2 months. I would like to resume blogging with a fantastic quote that I read at “Chief Happiness Officer” blog. The quote says: Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should […]
Robin Sharma doesn’t fail to inspire me time and again with his thoughtful posts on his blog. He writes a post “The Paradox of Happiness” where he says: “Too many amongst us think that by getting, we will find happiness and fulfillment – at work and at home. But I believe happiness and fulfillment come […]
Work priorities in last couple of weeks kept me away from writing here – my feedreader however kept receiving interesting insights on management, leadership and quality from across the blogosphere. Here are a few interesting posts/links/excerpts randomly picked from what I read in past two weeks and my thoughts therein. Business acumen is so very […]
I suggest reading The Manager’s Cheat Sheet: 101 Common-Sense Rules for Leaders at InsideCRM.com (hat tip to this post at lifehack.org) – a great list of common sense management skills that really matter for us managers. A few random ones here: Lead by example. You can talk until you’re blue in the face, but the best way to […]
I read an interview of Kevin Eikenberry (author of “Remarkable Leadership“) over at Slacker Manager conducted by Phil Gerbyshak. Kevin also has a blog named “Remarkable Leadership.“ In response to one question, Kevin responds: “Take action. Identify one thing that you would like to improve on. It could be something you are already good at, or […]
Via Be Excellent Blog: “The critical question is not “How can I achieve?” but “What can I contribute?” Just go out and make yourself useful. There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer. He alone gives employment. Leadership is not rank. It is responsibility.”
There is an interesting post over at Slacker Manager which says “Retire now” – basically boils down to the saying that if you do something you love doing and you won’t have to work a single day in your life. “Retire now does not mean you stop working. It means you work at what interests […]