In a study of 10,000 plus senior leaders, 97% of them said being strategic is the leadership behaviour most important for Organisation’s success. Interestingly, 96% of the leaders surveyed said they lacked time for strategic thinking! Why we are unable to make time for strategic thinking? Providing time and space, on a daily basis, for […]
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We become what we become due to the choices we make – Anonymous. True for businesses too. Businesses become what they become due to the choices they make. Situations, people, strategy, direction, speed, action plans, execution – As leaders, we get to make a host of choices; on a daily basis. What we become is
Leadership presence is the hallmark of successful leaders. By definition, when I have leadership presence I’m able to exert influence on others beyond that’s conferred by formal authority. Being present, genuine, clear, authentic, trustworthy, consistent, resolute and resilient significantly contributes to building and enhancing leadership presence. The good news is that we can build leadership
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My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there – Anonymous. By and large the future shapes up based on what we think and do today. We have the power to make choices – as to what to do, what not to do – that shapes
I’m convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance – Steve Jobs said once. There are such rough moments that most people give up – he continued. As a Business Owner one faces multiple challenges on various fronts. Grit, perseverance comes handy to persist, keep moving. And
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Due to the heat expansion of the tower’s iron in the summer sun, the Eiffel Tower’s height can grow by up-to 6 inches. As leaders, can we consciously build and keep flexibility in our structures, ways, means, and methods?
While on a Scaling-up journey, businesses have a tendency to accumulate fat at wrong places – for eg: fat in the belly. One needs to pay attention, needs to be mindful, that we remain fit and healthy as we grow – for eg: Financial fitness, Marketing fitness, Sales fitness, Operations fitness, Talent fitness… Need to
What matters is where we are going to! As human beings we have immense possibility to influence our future, change our story, decide, determine and live a new story. In that sense, what’s ‘Now on’ can be different from what’s ‘So far’. What we’ve done so far need not be indicative of what we’re capable
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As a leader one needs to take decisions, make choices, frequently, on a variety of things. Having required information is a key pre-requisite while taking a decision. The pertinent question is how much of it? ‘Most decisions should probably be made with somewhere around 70 percent of the information you wish you had. If you
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What we have done so far is one story – that’s not indicative of what we are capable of doing going forward. As Humans, we have immense possibility to create a story ‘now on’ that’s significantly different from the one ‘so far’. It is our dreams that energise us more than our abilities – said