1% Rule – Try to improve our key performance parameters 1% at a time! Learned yesterday from my Client. Be it reducing the wastage, decreasing re-processing, improving yield, improving margins,…
Big Picture
When we are faced with endless opportunities in our journey, it is quite easy to get lost in small details, specifics. Small details have a knack to catch and retain…
What I really want
What I really want and what I think is possible (and therefore work towards) can be different – at times, vastly different. The stealthy irony is that in most cases…
Right things
Knowing what’s right doesn’t mean much unless you do what’s right – Theodore Roosevelt. Doing right things – a leadership trait that is so significant apart from doing things right.
Simplifying
Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you…
Action
It’s not the thoughts that change our life, it’s the action – Anonymous. Action – that is decisive, thought-out, that bridges the gap between ‘where we are’ and ‘where we…
Preparation
Each one of us is on a journey from ‘point X’ to ‘point Y’. A few thoughts that might help us gain clarity and momentum (towards ‘point Y’) are: By…
Choices
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails – William Arthur Ward. What I do, don’t do, and how – whose…
Lead measures
Lead Measures – those 2 or 3 things that trigger, and when executed leads to, my (our) success; things that I (we) can do something about, that influence the outcomes.…
Letting go
Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day – Zen proverb. Letting go of limiting beliefs. Letting go of practices, habits that get us…