Leadership

Soft is Hard

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 […]

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Listening

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.

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Curiosity

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

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Listening

Most people have a marked preference for speaking over listening – Jonny Thomson. A leader needs to listen. It enhances one’s leadership presence significantly. It works at all levels. Interestingly, researchers analysed more than 25,000 sales calls and found salespeople made the most sales when they spoke 43% of the time, and the customer spoke

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Simplifying

Simplifying is one of the key elements for enhancing one’s Leadership Presence. One of the ways to simplify is to think in terms of first principles. Getting the basics right, before moving on. Breaking things down to its elementary parts, and working forward from there. It unravels complexity, provides clarity as to what to do,

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Focus

Where focus goes, energy flows – Anonymous. It’s about where our focus is; it’s about what we focus on. Also, what we focus on, expands. Am I focusing on the right areas? As a team, are we focusing on the apt areas? #ceo #scaleup #business #leadership

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Being Present

Leaders are present. ‘Being present’ enhances one’s Leadership Presence significantly. One could consciously work on being present – in whole, wherever we are; with the person(s) we are with, in the situation that we are in. It also means focusing on one thing at a time (instead of multi-tasking) – shutting out distractions. Being present

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Leadership Presence

Enhancing one’s Leadership Presence helps Leaders inspire, influence, and impact more. ‘Every next level of your life will require a different you’ – Leonardo DiCaprio. It’s about consciously operating from a different coordinate, an elevated orbit, a more resourceful state. The good news is that we can enhance our Leadership Presence. #CEO #Scaleup #leadership #business

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Flexibility in Schedules

Business Owners / CEOs often experience packed schedules – back to back with engagements, reviews, meetings – literally fighting for time. It’s important that Leaders build flexibility in to their schedules – to attend and respond to the unexpected; to think; to reflect. Some of the ways are scheduling ‘me-time’, having short recovery breaks between

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