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How to Get Ready for the Higher Order Tasks when AI is Ready for the routine One’s

Premise: There is a lot being said about the capabilities of AI tools and how they can bring in so much efficiencies and free up humans to do higher value tasks instead. So, I have been thinking about what these higher value work would look like? Given the depth and width of knowledge and skills that these tools have amassed, is there any skill that we can bring to the table to ensure that we are not becoming redundant? Here is what I have come up with. There are 5 skills that are still uniquely...

How To Guide Your Team to Do Great Work

This video is based on a blog post by  Mike Shipulski in which he shares his insights on what leads to great work. I chip in with my insights on the same topic and add some color to the same. If you want to read the original post by Mike, you can read it here. If you are interested, click here to chat with me on WhatsApp. We can talk about how we can all become Leaders Worth Following.

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How Can You Lead When Everything Changes So Fast?

In this video, I talk about the challenges that leaders face in an emergent world that is shifting and emerging at an ever rapid velocity. I share a 4 step framework that can help leaders practice “Emergent Leadership” and become Leaders Worth Following. They deliver clarity when chaos rules everything else. They provide stability when uncertainty is all around us. They provide us hope when hopelessness has taken root. They earn our trust in a world where almost all other leaders have lost it. C...

Surfing the Edge of Chaos

If there is one word that we can use to describe what we have been experiencing, right from the time of the spread of Covid-19 virus, it has to be “CHAOS”. The havoc that Covid had on our lives, the supply chain disruptions, the new war zones, elections around the world and their impact on the geo-political stability of the world, the tariff wars, the Sino-US escalations, I can go on and on. When we are expected to lead our organisations in an environment that is as chaotic as the current busine...

Leadership Can’t be Taught, it needs to be Learnt

In this short video about learning, I reference a blog post by John Hunter from 2014, which I still find incredibly relevant today. My key point centered on the difference between managing and leading, and how we typically teach these concepts. Drawing on Dr. Edward Deming’s ideas, I emphasized that while instruction can be very direct, truly effective leadership comes from hands-on experience. Considering today’s rapidly evolving world, developing the ability to both manage and lead requires a ...

Leaders Worth Following Know How to Design our Behaviors

I read this post titled “The Door is Not the Problem” on GapingVoid blog and was reminded of a couple of things that are important to remember if we want to be a leader worth following. Firstly, we need to realize that our behavior is much more impacted by our environment than we think. Every element of design of a product or service or the way we design our environment (intentional or unintentional) – it has elements of affordances and signifiers (Affordances are what the design makes possible....

Become a Leader Worth Following by Understanding the Power of Leverage

Leaders Worth Following Know When to Go Against Conventional Wisdom

I had seen this TikTok video a few months back and remembered about this again when I saw this LinkedIn post by Dr Paige Williams about the importance of knowing about positive deviance and how leaders worth following know when to apply this concept of positive deviance. In this TikTok video, Arielle Schmitt shares the strategy adopted by the Chinese team in the Youth Olympics. One of the athlete (the gold winner) adopted a unique strategy to win the race. The winner did something that has never...

Five Ingredients of True Improvement

In my last post, I wrote about the difference between Change and progress. Today, let’s talk about progress from the point of view of improvements. In one of his lectures, Peter Scholtes talks about 5 ingredients of true improvement. While his lecture is at least 30 year old, the principles he laid out still are practical and applicable to any innovation or change or improvements that we make in how we run our business. This is true for any innovation efforts or for any change that we want to ma...

Leaders Worth Following Understand the Difference between Change and Progress

The most common cliche today is “The only constant is Change”. As with everything else, not all change is created equal. In my experience, not all change leads to progress. Leaders worth following know this and are always intentional about any change that they are advocating for. They are always looking at and talking about the progress that the change will lead us toward. If there is a re-org being initiated, it should actually lead to a change in behavior for everyone who is impacted by the ch...