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
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 …
What we focus on, expands. What we focus on is where our energy flows. What we focus on influences our decisions. Often good decisions arise out of focusing on the right areas, areas that are relevant, areas that really matter. And the bad ones result out of focusing on wrong areas, that are less relevant, …
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 …
Happened to read about the 10:10:10 rule on decision making – that brings a perspective while seeking clarity on options available; especially when the solutions are not going to make everyone happy. It’s asking – how will we feel about it in 10 minutes from now? Would it (really) matter and how. How about 10 …
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
One of the key success factors for Leaders is to be able to make choices, take decisions in the face of uncertainty. Clarity is what’s needed to make an appropriate choice. Some decisions at that level may have a complex list of pros and cons. The best way to gain clarity in such contexts is …
When it comes to finding solutions, we humans have always been creative. One of the key aspects of Creative Solutioning involves starting from where we are. Using what we have. The resource constraint in a way fuels Creative Solutioning – starting with what we have, creating a minimum viable product / solution, though it’s not …
Being curious, being open is considered one of the most desired leadership attributes of current times. Invariably this leads to eliciting diverse, complex, conflicting views and information. This calls for leaders being able to interpret what they see and hear. And draw insights. The impactful leaders are those, who can interpret, draw insights from the …
The decisions we take have consequences. Often thinking (over-thinking) about them emotionally makes the decision making process confusing and awfully slow. The fact is that not all of them have long-term consequences. Not all of them are life-changing! One constructive approach while taking decisions is to think of what will be the consequences, what will …