Hiring is not a problem to be solved but an opportunity to build the future of your organization – Julie Zhuo of Facebook. As a leader, am I conscious of this opportunity? Am I consciously involved in building and managing the talent pool that’s needed in my business? How much time, effort and energy I’m […]
Jeff Bezos (Amazon) feels it’s enough if he can make three good decisions each day. Taking a large number of decisions every day doesn’t necessarily indicate growth or success. As a leader, I need to make (only) a few high quality decisions every day. ‘Presence’, while taking those few decisions each day, is of extreme
For a business its Competitive Advantage provides a significant boost for accelerated growth. A couple questions that may help us find our competitive advantage are: What’s that we do that others don’t do? What’s that we do and others do, but we do it better, and we can prove it?
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‘People inspire you, or they drain you – pick them wisely’, says Hans F Hansen. It matters who we choose to spend our time with. It matters who we choose to work with. It matters whom we use as a sounding board. Similarly, we also have an option – to choose, while dealing with people
If I’d had more time, I would have written you a shorter letter – Mark Twain. Brevity – being concise, precise, succinct – makes communication crisp and effective. As a leader can I practice brevity, so that people get easily, clearly, what am trying to communicate?
You get what you look for – Anonymous. When I look for opportunities, possibilities – I get them. When I look for Challenges, constraints – I get them. When I look for positives, I get them. When I look for negatives, I get them. I get what I look for.
People who are right a lot listen a lot, and they change their mind a lot – says Jeff Bezos. It’s about listening. It’s about being open. Being open to changing scenarios, new points of view, new insights, new ideas, conflicts and challenges (with our earlier views) that may come up…
Overcoming criticism is one thing, overcoming the fear of criticism is another. Often, the fear of criticism kills creativity, innovation and new ideas. It’s important therefore to deal with the fear of criticism. In-time. How am I dealing with the fear of criticism?
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If you could do only one thing, what would it be? Asks Steve Jobs. True prioritization starts with answering this difficult question. Am I devoting most of my time, attention and energy to that one thing right now? If am not, why?
Learnt from one of my fellow-Coaches recently about a couple of powerful questions that a leader could ask his team members (on a weekly basis): 1. What support can I provide for you this week? 2. Where do you need me to give you more space? Where am I crowding you? This opens up powerful
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