Leadership Articles
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The power of presence
Apr 05, 2017It was a 9 hour flight from Heathrow to Mumbai. The departure was pretty eventless and on time. The flight had leveled off to a cruise. Tired from the...
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Belief Drives Leadership Behavior
Mar 31, 2017A young woman got married. She was instantly pushed out of her comfort zone and had to build new bonds. To her credit, her culinary skills were above ...
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Respecting Alternate Perspective Powers Effective Leadership
Mar 29, 2017My personal effectiveness as a leader grew rapidly as I started practicing the subject line. I would like to narrate an example from my personal lea...
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How do I fasttrack myself as a leader?
Dec 23, 2014As an invited speaker, I was addressing a group of young engineers and budding leaders in Chennai recently. This team was in an offsite meeting with t...
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The Talent Economy Dynamics
Nov 01, 2014This blog post is a very simple abstraction of some basic concepts that shape the economy. It is not meant to be a detailed and accurate walk of histo...
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Fending monkeys is a leader's key competence
Aug 30, 2014If you do not develop this competence, you will soon find that you are doing the work of your sub-ordinates. Eventually, your smart sub-ordinate may ...
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Becoming a better innovator
Aug 19, 2014Innovation can be disruptive or incremental. By disruptive innovation, completely new behaviours are unleashed. Internet shopping (what amazon.com did...
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Building Trusted Relationships
Aug 18, 2014Have you ever observed a mother and child communicate with each other? Without any verbal communication, a child and mother can totally empathize with...
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The Human Mind
Nov 25, 2012Percieved blank at human birth, the human mind can be identified by the five distinct things it does, namely:...
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Is there a blueprint to becoming an inspiring leader
Jul 30, 2012Following the earlier blog post - Two Ways of Getting Followership, there have been a number of questions on the subject....
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Two Ways of Getting Followership
Jul 15, 2012A human can be made to follow another human in one of two ways.When followership is not a long term requirement, using strategies to engineer such fol...
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Leadership Competence - Self Awareness
Mar 02, 2011There are a few pitfalls that trap most humans involuntarily. A leader should constantly evaluate if s/he is in such a trap.The first pitfall is about...
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My way of breaking through emotional upswings
Mar 02, 2011As a leader, one cannot avoid being consumed by emotions. It is human nature to be emotional. Although popular writing states that your state of mind ...
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What should drive results - the heart or brain?
Feb 19, 2011Last week I participated in a team building session with a set of very successful leaders/ managers. Roughly about 50 people participated in this sess...
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It is belief that matters
Feb 19, 2011Today morning as we were doing our usual weekend morning walk at the beach, I saw a young girl learning to ride a bicycle. I guess it was her father w...
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Are We There Yet!
Feb 13, 2011This post is not about time management but about the psychology of how we perceive time and the world around us at two distinctly different stages of ...
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Jugaad
Feb 13, 2011Recently I heard one of my US friends mention this word 'Jugaad' in a positive note about India during a lunch conversation. I was surprised and amaze...
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If.. A Poem By Rudyard Kipling
Jan 16, 2011Today I read this poem for the first time and I am thoroughly inspired by its simplicity and clarity. If you can keep your head when all about youAre ...
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Factors That Drive Followership
Jan 06, 2011The core theme of leadership never changes. It is always about change. Positive leadership is always to bring about a change for better in the thought...
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Silence Is A Golden Strategy
Jan 02, 2011Silence is a perfectly appropriate option in certain situations. The truth is that silence communicates. It does so very powerfully when used right. T...
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Always Wear A Positive Attitude
Dec 29, 2010A leader will face many trying situations during any leadership journey. A leader does not have everything under the sun in his/ her circle of influen...
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My Journey To Improve Articulation
Dec 26, 2010As a leader, have you ever come out of a meeting feeling that your articulation of a point did not reach all the audience? Did you find it hard to ge...
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Leadership, Stewardship, Rulership, Lemmingship
Dec 22, 2010The book titled Walk the Walk written by Alan Deutschman defines leadership as the act of changing the way people think, feel and act. A leader does t...
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Strategies For Well-Being
Dec 22, 2010Here are 5 ways to wellbeing: Connecting with family, friends and colleagues Being physically active and eating healthily...
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Frames Of Reference - Why They Are Important !
Dec 22, 2010Let us first see a case study from my personal experience. It is worthwhile noting here that India climbed to fame as an IT powerhouse with Y2K as ...
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Power And Leadership Effectiveness
Dec 21, 2010The usual leadership training material talks about two continuum when discussing leadership effectiveness. These are namely the leader's care for re...
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Expectations Drive Accountability
Dec 21, 2010A team walks into trouble with eyes open. The team is full of well meaning people. The key questions to ask are 'How to navigate back to course?', '...
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When Movement Does Not Equal Action
Dec 21, 2010All actions need co-ordinated movement(s). However all co-ordinated movement do not necessarily mean action. Confusing? Here is an example. When I w...
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Mistakes Are Always In The Past
Dec 21, 2010First of all we are talking about well meaning leaders in this blog and not about villains and criminals. So we can boldly make the statement that f...
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Rhythm Of Life And Resistance To Change
Dec 21, 2010When a human transitions into any socially and/or emotionally acceptable situation from a position of discomfort, for some time he or she goes throu...
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Worry Is != Action
Dec 21, 2010The dictionary says that an action is characterized by physical or mental activity. Worry is mental activity. Still worry does not qualify as a usef...
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Positive And Negative Examples Of Leadership From Daily Life
Dec 21, 2010Aug 29, 2010 - I ran a seven kilometer Marathon run in Chennai, India. Chennai is a large metropolis. The marathon was a free run. The theme was 'I ...
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A Model Relating Experience And Leadership
Dec 21, 2010We definitely understand the inspiring leadership demonstrated by people like young Bill Gates and many young sports people. Young people can lead ...
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Do We Need Experience To Lead?
Dec 21, 2010The video below set me thinking. What are various aspects of leadership? How are they related to experience for leadership effectiveness? These were t...
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Power Has Immense Potential To Corrupt - Learning From A Movie
Dec 21, 2010'Raajneeti' is a Hindi movie. The word means politics. After the Oscar winning 'Slum Dog Millioner', this movie attempts to take us behind the 'IndY...
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Losing With Grace
Dec 21, 2010Aug 19, 2010 - Even when you are in a losing trail, you should stand up and respect talent... even when it is demonstrated by the opponent camp. That ...
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Leadership and Management
Dec 21, 2010The tweet from vineetsblog - True Leaders Are Also Managers. http://cot.ag/9MdBza #leadership - set me thinking. As the HBR article says there is a pr...
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Seek First to Understand Difficult Employees
Dec 21, 2010"Listen to difficult employess only while it is productive". I read this tweet and said to myself "How true!". To understand this better, we have to...
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Counselling, Mentoring and Coaching - What is the big difference
Dec 21, 2010When building his/her team, a leader should know the how and when of choosing from the three distinctive strategies mentioned in the subject. Mother...
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The Value of Drifting
Dec 21, 2010August 3, 2010 - I read an interesting article on the subject of this post in Mint yesterday. It talked about the valuable lessons learnt by an ent...
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Getting The Best Out Of Your People
Dec 21, 2010This question on leadership style is a very common one. Is there a formula that works? When thinking about it, the first thing that occurred to me was...
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Listening Actively
Dec 21, 2010Listening actively requires proper use your mouth, nose, eyes and the rest of your body apart from the usual ears during the listening process. Hence...
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Vidyagyan - An Inspiring Leadership Case Study
Dec 21, 2010Shiv Nadar, the Chairman of HCL speaks on Vidyagyan - his personal initiative to return back to the society and in that process transforming educati...
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Entrepreneur - Born or Built
Dec 21, 2010Entrepreneur is someone who mobilizes resources beyond his/her means to deliver value that is socially acceptable. Therefore, borrowing, risk taking...
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What Footprint am I Leaving Behind?
Dec 21, 2010Our footprints of life have the potential to leave a lasting legacy behind. Think of leaving a legacy behind because life is a zero sum game. You brin...
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Playing With Trust And Confidence
Dec 21, 2010Trust and confidence are hard to earn but easy to lose. July 15, 2010 - I tweeted a little while ago about a hardware manufacturer hiding behind oth...
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Zen and the art of application development
Dec 21, 2010Most Indian software engineers value programming experience using a particular technology. Opportunities in latest technologies are always in great ...
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Impact of Leadership on Strategy
Dec 21, 2010A leader 's focus and preferences impact the outcome of strategic initiatives. Suppose an organization chooses to have a strategic initiative to upg...
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Leadership And Magnetism
Dec 21, 2010I think that leadership and magnetism are alike. Magnetism is characterized by it's field. The field is invisible. The field has a direction. The fi...
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Navigating The Gorge Between Strategy And Results
Dec 21, 2010Focused execution is the bridge to cross the gorge between strategy and results. Many get that 'deja vu' feeling when we bring up the subject of a w...
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What Do I Think Of Strategy?
Dec 21, 2010A leader drives change. There are several types of change. Some examples are... Changing self Changing a community Changing a business from one m...
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Watch Cameron Herold Talk About Bringing Up Children
Dec 21, 2010Bored in school, failing classes, at odds with peers: This child might be an entrepreneur, says Cameron Herold. In his talk, he makes the case for par...
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Connecting the dots - Are Gen Y any different?
Dec 21, 2010We asked earlier if Gen Y was any different from the previous generations. I had the opportunity to interact with and observe the Gen Y's in my work...
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How Aspiring MBA's should think differently
Dec 21, 2010June 21. 2010 - Today I was reading a Facebook trail of budding Indian MBA's discussing about work. They were basically expressing impatience with mun...
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Moulding Personality - Catch Them Young
Dec 21, 2010I wrote another post on how teaching a child to own up is important? Today, I read another interesting blog which talks about practical ways of helpin...
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Take A Turn! Straight Roads are Boring
Dec 21, 2010Has there been a moment in your life which you never forget? That is because life took a significant turn and will never be the same again because of ...
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Is Gen Y (Why) Any Different?
Dec 21, 2010Does Generation 'Why' really question with a deeper understanding and conviction? I set myself to think after reading this insightful blog by Vineet N...
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Regulate Emotion In Your Responses
Dec 21, 2010In an earlier post we saw the need to be emotionally aware. How can we use this awareness to our advantage? Humans are the most effective at context s...
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We Learn By Making Mistakes or Risktakes
Dec 20, 2010Humans learn by making mistakes. Learning also happens by taking some calculated risks. In the former case we believe we are good in a given situati...
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Attitude is Altitude
Dec 20, 2010Very touching and insightful message in this video...
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Building Relationships
Dec 20, 2010Leadership is about building relationships. Relationships run on the strength of what I call as emotional bank accounts on either side. Each positive ...
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Emotional Self Awareness
Dec 20, 2010Anybody wanting to lead relationships (professional or personal) has to be fully aware of ones own emotional state at all times. Otherwise, it is just...
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Leadership and Bonding
Dec 20, 2010People value four aspects that they feel will nurture and drive their career growth. These four aspects are closely interrelated. First is their own a...
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Understand the Bigger Picture
Dec 20, 2010I work for a company which is in the high technology industry and one of our key delivery strategies is process orientation. Process orientation mag...
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Competitive Advantage
Dec 20, 2010Competitive Advantage is a subject of leadership. Managers and leaders who run enterprises need to understand competitive advantage deeply to add valu...
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Taking responsibility for oneself
Dec 20, 2010In my childhood (and sometimes even today), as an Indian, I have noticed a parental behavior that is particularly interesting. We know children are s...
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You are what your brain allows you to be..
Dec 20, 2010Iconoclausts - in layman terms these are people who think it is possible to do what most other people believe cannot be done at all. To be an iconocla...