Spotting, developing, and retaining talent is critical for business success – more so for the ones that are scaling-up. In a scaling-up business, existing roles expand faster; and new roles keep emerging. Spotting, developing, and nurturing talent on an ongoing basis therefore assumes significance. CEOs and Business Leaders may practice an active talent focus, within […]
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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Building an A-Team (a Team of A-Players) is critical for Business success; especially for Scaling-up. A-Players generally have a sense of security, integrity, and the ability to attract and nurture the best team working for them. A-Players hire people smarter than them; whereas B-Players hire C-Players who are assured not to outsmart or outshine them.
According to a recent McKinsey study, most large Organisations derive disproportionate value from just 25 to 50 Roles that are critical. And many Organisations are uncertain about which Roles are most critical, where the high performers are, and how to bring these two together. Critical Roles are scattered across levels and functions within the Organisation.
Priority is a force multiplier. We tend to focus on our priorities; and the energy flows where the attention goes. The choices we make, the decisions we take, and the actions that follow, are a direct consequence of our priorities. If we have too many priorities, or when everything is a priority, then, nothing is
The Top-5 enablers for successful business scale-ups, according to a study, are: Focus – clear positioning, alignment of internal resources to business purpose / goals Dynamism – being open, flexible, agile Preparation – on multiple fronts, areas, functions Growth-based thinking – empowering teams, people Excellence in execution #ceo #scaleup #business
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Leadership plays a crucial role in Scaling-up a business. It involves enhancing one’s Leadership impact. It also involves consciously building and developing Leadership at multiple levels within the business. To Scale-up the business, we need to Scale-up the people operating it. Leaders could significantly enhance their Leadership impact, and nurture Leadership within the business, working
Leaders who speak last in Team meets tend to have increased leadership impact. Leaders speaking last allows, encourages Team members to express their views, opinions and insights, uninfluenced by what the Leader thinks or what his / her opinion is. This facilitates generation of more ideas and thoughts. Leads more options to emerge. The key
Simplifying inspires action; and Scaling up needs action. A lot of it. When we simplify, we are effective, more productive, less stressed, more efficient. And we save time. One of the ways in Simplifying is cutting things down to its essence – minimalizing – rooting out extra steps, and doing only what’s truly needed. This
It’s the Emotional drive that fuels the Scaling-up process – though strategy, logic and the like are often over-rated. The Emotional urge one has towards the business, towards the purpose, powers the Emotional drive – for self and the Team. It’s the Emotional drive that helps one go beyond comfort zones, navigate the course despite