Nicholas Bate once sent me a bunch of inspiring cards made with lot of love. One of those cards read, “Every YES contains a NO (YES to staying late is NO to Lego with your daughter)” “Every NO contains a YES (NO to the gym is YES to more stress)” When we say YES to […]
As an organization grows, managing the flow demands work items to move from one team/department to another. In quest to make these teams accountable, very specific KPI’s are established and that breeds non-systemic thinking. People look at meeting their own numbers and push the work to next stage and often, what happens is that while […]
At the heart of living a creative life is ability to do something about things you don’t like. What we do instead is keep complaining. We all have our own circle of influence – things we can change ourselves or exert our influence to create change. Everything else outside this circle are circumstances (or circle […]
When I started this blog in 2006, I only thought of it as a repository of my own lessons as a new manager. Little did I know that this space will become one of the most important learning and sharing tools for me over years. The benefits of putting myself out there in a way […]
What differentiates companies that succeed over a long run from those that don’t? As the rate of change and disruption continues to accelerate, companies need a strong foundation of fundamentals that enable long term success and growth. In this respect, I recently read Leandro Herrero’s post on characteristics of companies that succeed in long run. […]
“Dwell in possibility”, borrowed from Emily Dickinson is one theme that is guided me so far and will continue to guide me in the future. Every single day brings along a world of possibilities and one thing that determines what we see and how we see things is out own attitude. If you look for […]
Leadership success is largely governed by, amongst other things, one’s ability to create an ecosystem of engagement, meaning, performance and growth. A leader creates this ecosystem through conversations, communication (leading to clarity), connection, systems, rituals, processes and decisions. Leandro Herrero, in his post, “Five spaces that the organizational leader needs to design and nurture”, calls […]
In moments of uncertainty, inspiration came to me in form of a tweet with a visual that read, “If you see shadows, it is because there is light.” I instinctively told myself, “If you face the light, shadows fall behind.” The mindset of abundance asks, “What’s possible?” instead of “What could go wrong?” and […]
Leading in an era of constant disruption, change and transformation is not easy. In such transformation efforts, soft aspects of leadership play as crucial role as the hard aspects like systems thinking, innovation and execution of change. Last week, I saw an insightful TED talk by Jim Hemerling where he outlined 5 ways to lead […]