Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others - so said the master Jack Welch. The quality and quantity of our output is so critically dependent on the performance of the team members. We will seldom have the choice of constructing teams from scratch
Author: Rajiv Srivastava
a question…of motivation…..
The search for enduring excellence in organisations has 3 stages of break throughs - disciplined people, disciplined thought and disciplined action. Disciplined people is all about level 5 leadership and the team and Jim Collins in his wonderful book "Good To Great" describes such leaders as those who channel their ego needs away
attitude…..
Just like a great building stands on a strong foundation, so does success. And often the foundation of that success is attitude! It is not what happens to you that counts. It is how you react to what happens to you. Simply because there is so little that we all control.
paradox of time…..
Until we manage time, we can manage nothing else - famous quote from Peter Drucker! How often have we felt the non-availability of time to do something - spending some moments with our near and dear ones, catching up with a friend we haven't met in a while, taking a stroll, going for a drive, managing our
communication…..
Communication is such a strategic tool for making things happen and generating business results. So many of organisational problems are a direct result of people failing to communicate effectively and enough. I know of an organisation that seemed like floundering - everyone had a different idea of what they were trying
inspiration…..
"Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life or do you want to change the world?" The famous inspirational question popped by Steve Jobs that helped him to steal the CEO from Pepsi. People want to be inspired. A whole class of people will follow an inspiring
the big picture…..
We can devote this and a few subsequent posts to certain key leadership attributes. One of the great qualities of leaders is to be able to see and visualise the big picture. Many of you would have heard the temple story.... One day a traveller walking along a lane came across 3 stone cutters working
take your chances…..
In one of my earlier scripts I had mentioned of leadership as the ability to create followers. Now this clearly is an age defying phenomenon - people of any and all ages have the capability of lighting the path, of leading the way. The video below - which a lot of us would have surely seen
Let go……
A recent first time manager, this friend of mine was faced with a very interesting situation. On the fast track, you got to meet her to realise how remarkably focussed she is, taking lots of initiatives and just moving everything and everyone to get stuff done. Loves being in control, in complete know of all that is relevant. These attributes
