Do I ask for help? ‘Asking for help’ is a powerful enabler for Business Leaders to action their thoughts, realize their dreams. ‘Asking for help’ helps them turn their vision into reality. Steve Jobs once said: ‘I’ve never found anybody who didn’t want to help me when I’ve asked them for help. I’ve never found …
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing – Peter Drucker. How tuned we are to be Effective? To do what’s needed? Leadership Presence helps one to be Effective. And efficient. The good news is that we can enhance one’s Leadership Presence.
Ideas matter, but execution matters even more. An idea is (only) as good as its execution. It’s essential therefore to build Excellence in Execution alongside creating Winning Strategies. The ability to do both can be the difference between success and failure for a CEO / Entrepreneur / Business Owner. #ceo #scaleup #leadership
One of the key ingredients of enhanced Leadership Presence is the ability to Simplify – Simplifying the thoughts, Simplifying the plans, Simplifying the communication… Simplifying leads to peak performance. When we Simplify, things become clearer to us; and to the teams / stakeholders. Am I striving enough to Simplify? #ceo #scaleup #leadership
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter – Mark Twain. Brevity, using precise, concise words in communication, is key to Leadership. Brevity helps Leaders communicate effectively, with clarity, saying truly what needs to be said; And demonstrates their respect for those around and their time. Am I practicing brevity? #ceo …
Separating signal from the noise is inevitable as a Leader, though it’s becoming increasingly difficult. Signal when picked-up, provides clarity and takes us closer to our goals. Noise is deceptive, distracting and moves us away from where we want to go. Consciously training oneself to differentiate signal from noise therefore adds to one’s Leadership Presence …
Leaders are expected to be decisive, even amidst chaos and uncertainties. Leadership calls for making choices and taking decisions swift enough, yet not in haste. Gathering intelligence and information are important, but waiting for 100% lucidity leads to delay, indecision, or an irrelevant decision. Accelerated decision making or 70% rule as Jeff Bezos calls it, …
All organizations are perfectly designed to get the results they get – Anonymous. Scaling-up provides an opportunity to design many things – Where to play, How to play, Values, Business Principles, Org structure, Review systems and the like. The Organisational outcomes depend on the design. How invested am I in getting the designs as appropriate …
While giving (or receiving) feedback, the emphasis is on the past. It has its benefits, shortcomings. When we practice Feed-forward, the focus shifts to the future – to forward-looking, future-oriented solutions. For example, from providing critical feedback on the way a Customer was handled, to Feed-forward, providing suggestions and encouragement on handling Customers going forward. …
Trust is an essential part of Leadership presence; A Business Leader wants to be trusted – inside and outside the Organisation. How do I build, enhance my Trustworthiness? A study by Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman published in HBR found there are 3 key elements to Trust: 1. Positive relationships 2. Good judgment / expertise …