Helping folks with practical tips to manage themselves better
July 17, 2023
One of my favorite expressions is professional growth happens when personal growth happens. When you work at improving yourself, you get better on the inside, which helps you grow on the outside. As you grow professionally, at some point, you Read more…
June 23, 2023
You get the behaviors you are willing to tolerate. If you rank your team by performance level, your lowest performer is a public statement of the performance level you are willing to tolerate. That is what your team sees as Read more…
October 7, 2022
In my last two posts, Nobody Rises To Low Expectations and It’s On You I have reflected on leadership from two different perspectives. Continuing on the same theme, here is another perspective on the paradox of leadership. If you want Read more…
May 30, 2022
What does it mean to be a leader, and what does it take to be a leader? If you want to get a completely different perspective of what leadership means in our everyday life, take six minutes out to listen Read more…
May 13, 2022
Colin Powell was the first black U.S. Secretary of State. (Despite the smoking gun fiasco at the UN that led to the Iraq war!!) In the foreword to his acclaimed memoir It Worked For Me: In Life And Leadership, Colin Read more…
January 24, 2022
One of the early mistakes in my career was when I was promoted into a leadership role for the first time. I was a leader, and I had an eight-member team reporting to me, with three of them managing small Read more…
December 14, 2021
How Good a leader am I, and how do I get to the next level? I am sure anyone responsible for leading a team has this question in their mind. John Maxwell’s Book Five Levels Of Leadership gives an excellent overview of Read more…
October 22, 2021
I recently caught up with a young friend who is between jobs. He is moving into a senior management role with a regional mandate. He wanted some guidance and what he should do to be an effective leader. Having worked Read more…
October 20, 2021
For anyone in a leadership role responsible for managing and supporting a team, here is a quote by Antoine De Saint, a French adventurer and writer, that can work as a guiding principle for what good Leadership can be. If Read more…
April 10, 2021
A few backs back, an ex-colleague of mine who runs a successful business and I discussed about the most effective strategies to manage talent within the organization. What is the ideal leadership style- Is it directive, task-oriented, or supportive? When Read more…
