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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Coin toss – making a decision As a leader you will be constantly confronted with the “make or buy” decision. Unknowingly, you may have set up certain conditions in your mind as you made this decision in the past. The purpose of this post is to look at this from a competitive advantage perspective and …
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An election speech is a very valuable, important and powerful communication tool. All other things being equal, a stirring election speech has the power to shift a large section of the electorate in favor of the candidate. Alternatively, if the candidate botches up the speech, the opposition can gain ground without delivering their speech. The …
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Personal Development Framework For an effective personal development framework, one can just take what works for successful corporations. Similar to competitive advantage and performance management, what works well for a business also works wells for individuals. Just as businesses need to grow to fulfill their potential and promise, so also at a personal level we …
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Setting Annual Goals The start of a New Year brings on an additional desired task, that of setting effective annual objectives also known as New Year resolutions. According to the University of Scranton, of the 45% of Americans who set new year resolutions, only 8% keep them. How to avoid failed New Year resolutions: …
Self-confidence Continuing with the responses to our survey analysis, lack of confidence is another big factor that was pointed out as a deterrent to someone taking up challenging leadership initiatives. Lack of confidence is very closely related to fear of failure. In this post, we look at confidence from a different viewpoint, and that …
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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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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 …
Important vs Urgent matrix Most leaders are good managers, but the converse is not always true. Some very efficient managers fail in bridging the gap towards becoming effective leaders. While charisma, looks and a magnetic personality play a small part in the physical make-up of a leader, there are some conscious attributes that can be …
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Recognition One of the primary roles a leader plays is in inspiring and motivating team members. Some of the intangible things that motivate team members are: a. Feeling good about what they do (job satisfaction) b. Learning new skills, gaining experience and job knowledge c. Being an effective contributor in team/company success d. Gaining …
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