In today’s ever changing, connected world, people & organizations face all kinds of adversity in life. There are personal crises, such as illness, loss of a loved one, abuse, bullying, job loss, and financial instability....
The most important rewards for an individual or a team for their contributions are feedback, respect, and recognition. All these are intertwined in such a way that one feeds the other. The first important factor...
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey tweeted he’s stepping down as CEO and sent the entire world into a tizzy. Parag Agrawal (CTO) will be replacing him, he declared in his resignation tweet. The news media world...
In any process, analysis is critical because you generate a lot of data and all data is not actionable. The analysis of the data is where the action and the mitigation take place. How do...
Change Managers use different approaches to conduct a Business Impact Analysis. There can be several approaches to conduct a BIA. We have discussed an approach that we have carved out based on our change management...
The students of B-schools who are aspiring to be Managers have to be groomed to be future leaders. Grooming can happen only when we practice what we preach. So as a Professor in a B...
Many successful leaders in the corporate world fail in startups. Why does this happen? Are there any additional traits of leadership that are required to be successful in a startup environment? Having worked with a...
The World Economic Forum in Davos is a gathering of the global elite. This year’s meeting has shown very clearly just how much the leaders present were longing for leadership themselves, says DW’s Andreas Becker....
Whether we accept it or not, we prejudge and discriminate on the basis of every conceivable ground starting from race, ethnicity, religion, region, language, caste, class, colour of skin to even food habits. However, what we...
The more you popularize something the more stereotypical it becomes. Leadership is a classic example! You may still end up finding people who don’t believe in religion or God, however, it is a highly unlikely...
Are Parenting and Leadership both skills that one can develop over a period of time? Yes, certainly. One of the ways, to become aware, develop and sharpen these two very essential skill sets in personal...
Of late, a friend of mine started burning the midnight oil at work. She confessed that, with the recent exit of her boss she had started taking on the additional work in the hope that...