Leadership is a business imperative. Time and again, we’ve seen how leadership can make or break organizations and businesses. While the necessity of strong leaders is clear, there’s a stark reality in spotting such talent. Even after identifying and onboarding potential leaders, helping them settle in and succeed presents another challenge. Let’s assume for a
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Here I am, sharing five critical perspectives towards career. These are as much of my personal experiences as that of several others that I interacted with. 1. Job Vs Career: Let’s get this right upfront – if you are looking to make a career, one must be there for a long haul. It is not just
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Leaders are often expected to set an example by doing great work themselves and inspire the team to work well. We generally call this as ‘Leading from the front’. But with so much discussion around how companies want to scale up with high performing teams, the expectations from a leader have changed and it is
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In our previous blog, we came across Ramana Rao who came from a lower middle class family, with excellent record in academics. Even with his excellent academic record he was not selected in the interview. The question posed by him made me to think a loud. “Can’t my academic record help me in squiring a
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Several organizations allocate large sums of money towards employee learning initiatives. I noticed a pattern of higher resistance or indifference to learn when there are more choices of learning. Somehow an attitude prevails as if they are mandated to attend irrespective of their personal motivation to learn. Interestingly, where there are not many learning programs,
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On a few occasions, at the start of a training and learning workshop, I heard some very interesting comments from the participants which made me ponder over our attitude towards learning. Several years ago, I remember asking the participants a question (which was a wrong question to ask, as I realized later) – “why are
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