Ascent Quotes

“Leaders are passionate about the Purpose, while Managers need to be passionate about the Results!”
― Amit Chatterjee, Ascent: A Practising Manager’s Growth Mantra

“Management is the kitchen that produces a delicious meal, where Leadership is the Chef hooked by a purpose across the canyon of risks that adds the fragrance and taste to make it go beyond expectations.”
― Amit Chatterjee, Ascent: A Practising Manager’s Growth Mantra

“No! Leadership is not the business of people who need to be motivated!”
― Amit Chatterjee, Ascent: A Practising Manager’s Growth Mantra

“The Practising Manager’s Growth Mantra

-Growth in an enterprise is created through remarkable achievements, not incremental achievements like efficiency or effectiveness.

-Remarkable achievements are possible only in complexity.

-Only volitional engagement can work in complexity. Luckily, there is no certainty in complexity. Hence, motivational engagement cannot work.

-People who make choices based on the purpose can only be volitionally engaged—they are the growth managers, the leaders.”
― Amit Chatterjee, Ascent: A Practising Manager’s Growth Mantra

“We have good leadership only by chance, not by management.

And we need to change that!”
― Amit Chatterjee, Ascent: A Practising Manager’s Growth Mantra