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How To Support Someone Who is Going Through A Tough Time

All of us go through and experience tough times at some point in time. So, it is expected that sooner or later, we will face a situation when someone on our team is going through a difficult time. It can be personal or professional. In this video, I share what we can do as leaders in that situation. Since this is not a question or if it will happen, but when will it happen – we can prepare for this situation in advance. There are only three ways to respond to this well: Any one of them is good e...

What you Need to Know When you Step Up to become a Leader

In this video, I share my perspective on the transition from being an expert to becoming a leader in an organization. Every transition (from being an expert and an individual contributor to a manager managing people to manager managing managers to manager managing organizations) requires us to unlearn some things and learn some new things. Each transition requires us to move further and further from being an expert or specialist to becoming a generalist, towards thinking abstractly and toward th...

How to Help People Hear You

As a leader, one of the most important way we show up and get work done is through communication – written or spoken. So, the impact that we have depends a lot on how well are we able to communicate. Stated in another way, the impact we have as a leader depends on how well do people we communicate with understand and act on it in a way that you expect them to. So, we need to learn not to communicate the way we like to but in the way that the people whom we lead are able to hear, […]

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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....

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