Every year businesses make sales plans, business budgets, operational plans, OKRs, and so on – normally focused for an year. Scaling-up businesses need to work on plans, budgets, measures, and reviews that go for periods beyond 12 months too, for building growth. These could be matters such as preparing to enter new geographies, product / […]
It’s often said that the business success hinges more on execution than on strategy. To enable excellence in execution, it’s crucial to communicate the strategy in a manner to catch the imagination, heads, and hearts of the Team; Break it down, and communicate the strategy in simple terms for the constituents to understand and execute;
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As the world gets more complex, simplifying becomes even more relevant for businesses – both in terms of Strategy and Execution. Simplifying the Strategy makes it clear and actionable. Simplifying the Execution leads to excellence in execution. Complexity, wherever it exists, adversely impacts the business performance – making it imperative for a Leader to simplify.
Globally (only) one in two employees know what is expected of them at work, says a research report. This means half the employees worldwide don’t know their role well enough, and if they’re succeeding or failing. Not knowing what’s expected causes confusion, anxiety, higher levels of stress, loss of sleep and disappointment to the team
In business softer aspects seem harder to execute. Research shows only 1 in 3 strategies is executed successfully – the key reason being that change generates resistance. In businesses, especially the ones on scale-up phase, getting the soft stuff (aspects relating to people and culture) right can be hard stuff. As a leader, am I
Brevity enhances one’s Leadership Presence. Using precise, concise language in speech and writing, significantly improves clarity, articulation, and effectiveness. Mark Twain once said ‘If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter’. Brevity is a leadership priority, as it not only makes the communication impactful, but also demonstrates respect for others, and
Aligning accountability with ability to influence outcomes (read as authority) is critical for high performance. Therefore, it needs to be factored into the roles, responsibilities, measures and metrics in our business. This also means people and teams need to be goaled and measured on metrics and expectations that they influence, that results from their actions;
Great Leaders are good listeners. Listening has always been an important constituent of good leadership. It continues to play a significant role in enhancing one’s leadership presence, and thereby the leadership impact. Leaders who listen find themselves closer to the realities. They tend to see things as they are, than what they think they are.
Smart Leaders are Curious, Open, Life-long learners. Jeff Bezos observes that the smartest people are constantly revising their understanding, reconsidering a problem they thought they had already solved. They are open to new points of view, new information, new ideas, contradictions, and challenges to their own way of thinking. Michael Dell once said ‘I would
Successful business scale-up happens through deliberate effort, hardly by accident. Our time, attention, resources and efforts therefore need to be focused on things that enable business scale-up; things that really matter to facilitate accelerated business growth. Are we deliberate with our scale-up effort? Are we investing enough, in terms of our time, attention and resources,