What gets measured gets done – anonymous. Measuring what we do leads to high performance. It’s important to measure (only) what (really) counts, for all that can be measured don’t (really) count. Also, how it’s measured needs to be simple enough, so that it gets measured on a consistent, constant manner; complex measurement / metrics …
Research shows people tend to pay more attention to bad / negative things than to good / positive things (known as Negativity bias). In a way, negativity is an attention magnet. When faced with challenges, we seem to be wired to focus overly on what’s going wrong; missing to learn from what’s working well. Leadership …
37 roles (out of 12,000 employees) drive 80% of the value for Blackstone, according to a McKinsey publication. These jobs are filled with Leaders fit for the task, says the article. It’s true with every business – a few roles determine, influence a large part of overall outcomes. These may exist at multiple levels – …
1 in 60 Rule in aviation states that after 60 miles a one-degree error in heading will result in straying off course by one mile. This means the further we travel, farther we are from the destination. Straying off course is likely in our businesses too, for a variety of reasons. Constant tracking and course …
‘You shouldn’t focus on why you can’t do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps you can, and be one of the exceptions’ – Steve Case. What we focus on expands. When we focus on why we can’t do something, we find excuses. When we focus on why perhaps …
How much of my potential am using right now? If we’re not terrified a third of the time, we’re probably not pushing ourselves hard enough to reach our full potential; Rule of thirds, propounded by Nandita Bakhshi encourages us to spend ‘one third time in my comfort zone, one third a stretch, and one third …
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