While working on Business plans and strategies we frequently ask this question – ‘What’s going to change in next 3 years, 5 years, 10 years’, tuning our business strategy accordingly. Jeff Bezos advocated a counter-intuitive approach to this, by asking his team – ‘What’s not going to change in the next 10 years?’, and crafting …
Successful Leaders and High-performance Teams learn fast. This is made possible by (consciously) developing and practicing a constant learning mindset – that enables them to experiment, try new things unafraid of failing, focusing on the aspect of learning all the time. It’s further aided by exploring questions such as ‘Is this the best that we …
As Leaders, the comments we make, the feedback we provide, have significant impact on the business performance. A study found that the ratio of positive comments (eg: I agree with that, That’s a terrific idea) to negative comments (eg: That won’t work, I don’t agree with you) was 5.6 (ie. more than 5 positive comments …
Leadership is about being decisive, and taking decisions in-time. A recent survey found, among CEOs fired over issues related to decision making, only a third lost their jobs due to bad decisions; the rest were ousted for being indecisive. Taking decisions and keep moving at the right pace is crucial. #ceo #leadership #scaleup #decision
We become what we become due to the choices we make – Anonymous. True for businesses too. Businesses become what they become due to the choices they make. Situations, people, strategy, direction, speed, action plans, execution – As leaders, we get to make a host of choices; on a daily basis. What we become is …
Due to the heat expansion of the tower’s iron in the summer sun, the Eiffel Tower’s height can grow by up-to 6 inches. As leaders, can we consciously build and keep flexibility in our structures, ways, means, and methods?
While on a Scaling-up journey, businesses have a tendency to accumulate fat at wrong places – for eg: fat in the belly. One needs to pay attention, needs to be mindful, that we remain fit and healthy as we grow – for eg: Financial fitness, Marketing fitness, Sales fitness, Operations fitness, Talent fitness… Need to …
What we have done so far is one story – that’s not indicative of what we are capable of doing going forward. As Humans, we have immense possibility to create a story ‘now on’ that’s significantly different from the one ‘so far’. It is our dreams that energise us more than our abilities – said …
We might be seeing opportunities and possibilities floating around us in different types, shapes and sizes. Many of them might even look tempting to go for. Saying yes to them may make us incredibly busy. Whether it would translate in to a successful business outcome is always in question. As Steve Jobs said once, if …
Best outcomes happen when we are in our best versions. Therefore the leader’s priority is to get the best versions of every team member, every day. How do we get that? One way is to be the best version of ourselves. Then, the chances of getting the best version of others are high!