Extreme self-motivation The other day I was watching “Koun banega crorepati” (KBC), the 2014 season Hindi edition of “Who wants to be a millionaire”. With viewership well into the tens of millions, the biggest draw is undoubtedly Amitabh Bachchan, the Bollywood icon and the show’s compere. From a leadership and self-development perspective, the first candidate …
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Hobby as a mainstream career One of my earlier posts, “How to prepare for a Solid Career in a Dynamic Environment” elicited numerous discussions. As I read and thought more on this interesting topic, the one topic that keeps coming up is about one’s hobby as a mainstream career. The idea of having a hobby …
Step It is possible for leaders to send out high potential, powerful and influential leadership messages without much fanfare. In an earlier post, I had written about how one can alter someone else’s actions by changing one’s own. Similarly, by putting in an irreversible action or by taking an un-retractable step, you can send out …
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In an earlier post on the topic of orchestrating a turnaround culture change, I described the situation at a bank where I worked in 1995. The story continues in this second part. During the first few weeks I spent considerable time after office hours, trying to catch up on balancing the ledgers. Since the branch …
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Culture change at a bank Every so often you will draw the short straw and get an unenviable assignment where you would need to orchestrate a turnaround culture change. The department or the team would be in shambles. Nothing will seem right and you will feel depressed. There will be negative attitudes all around and …
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Leadership and culture-change In continuing with our series on leading by example, I’d like to relate a story on leadership and culture change. This is the story of how an effective leader took charge and secured a quick win. In his own style this person stamped his leadership qualities in implementing a culture change in …
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“Ian”spirational captain – Ian Chappell Continuing with our leadership survey results, inspirational leadership qualities is another key aspect of effective leaders. I remember playing in the second division of a league a few years ago. We were a first division team but poor performance the previous year relegated us to the lower division. The poor …
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Building leadership courage From our survey analysis last week, it became evident that building leadership courage and confidence is a very important activity to become an effective leader, or at least to be recognized as one. Courage and confidence are two different qualities. Courage is the opposite of fear, and is defined as the ability …
Leadership Credibility In “Building Leadership Credibility” we saw ten tips on building credibility. This post is an attempt in highlighting some of those tips with an appropriate leadership credibility story. Leadership Credibility Story 1 – Keep your promises In 2000, a new contractor had joined our company on a six-month contract. After the first two …
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Turnaround Once in a while you will draw the short straw and get an unenviable assignment. The department, assignment or the team would be in shambles. Nothing will seem right and you will feel depressed. There will be negative attitudes all around and your spirits will be dampened. The challenges will be huge and you …
