Agility is critical to success. But thinking faster before acting fast is the real idea. " On the edge of a new millennium, on the brink of a new stage of human development, we are racing blindly into the future. But where do we want to go ? " Alvin Toffler questioned this aimless and maniacal focus on speed without clarity of direction in his pathbreaking book Future Shock. Speed is the quintessence of success. Whilst those who succeed in reaching new destinations when the p

Disruptive Innovation...shifts paradigms...influencing organisations to indulge in Design Thinking...that leads to developing Quantum Leadership...which thereafter focuses on Organisational Change and its Cultural Transformation #Organisationalskills

One marketing lesson on timing for 'New Product Launch' which I had learnt but subsequently forgotten...well, I relearnt it again through Social Media However relevant and interesting your immediately following post may be, if followers have taken fancy to your previous post and it has gone viral , the chances of your immediately following post not being liked much and being rated as only average, are very high. You need to maintain a safe-gap of timing between two interestin

This piece is about Intellectual Capital which is the only long term, sustainable market differentiator of a firm. Lots of friends have requested for a post that enlightens them on an overall primer to upgrade their appreciation of finance. However, being not a finance professional, I would prefer to give it a pass and rather discuss the concept of CAPITAL as understood by Leadership. For the leadership uninitiated, a firm has 5 types of capitals... Financial Capital...physic

For a professional to succeed in a 'dog-eat-dog' competitive market, he needs to be a master of positioning his 'Presence'. Effectively it means that a person should be able to align and manage the balance between the two types of Power that simultaneously work on him - 'Personal Power' and - 'Social Power' Rightly points Howard Thurman that ..." there is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide

Versatility is what champions are made up of. You can't be a winner only on certain types of special courts. That is too limited. Championship is more about your winning mind-set and about your ability to quickly modify your game given a change of context than being dependant only on the nature of the turf you are playing. To be a real champion, you got to be a winner on all types of turfs, particularly at times like these where ability to predict the nature of future challen

If you play the same celebrated piece of music at a Metro Station like Joshua Bell did, incognito, 3 days prior to his concert where he played the same piece to a standing ovation, you will realise the point. Same brilliant artist, same piece of music, the same 2 M $ violin . At Metro he earned 33$ collectively. At the concert, each ticket was priced 125 $ !!! Organisational Leadership is no different. Unless you have an organisation that has the need & the ability to underst

Work life Balance is about enhancing the 'Authenticity' quotient of the work-place such that the need to keep-up with pretentious behaviour is reduced to its lowest. The work place has to feel like home where one behaves spontaneously with the family. Whenever we have conducted 'pulse-interviews' for our clients on the theme of 'Work-life Balance', we realised that most respondents misunderstand the concept of 'WLF' to a single-point agenda..spending more time at home! That i

Read this lovely poem and thought of sharing it with all you my dear friends... Another Tack When you suspect you're going wrong, Or lack the strength to move along With placid poise luĺamong your peers, because of haunting doubts or fears: It's time for you to shift your pack, And steer upon another tack ! When winds and waves assail your ship, And anchors from the bottom slip; When clouds of must obscure your Sun, And foaming waters madly run : It's time for you to change y

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And hope forever....I believe in hope. I live for hopes. Says Martin Luther...everything that is done in the world is done by hope. No merchant or tradesman would set himself to work if he did not hope to reap benefit thereby. Hope thus is the corner-stone of all progress. The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure , but from hope to hope. Melvin motivates people by saying that the men who build the future are those who know that greater things ar

The Medici Effect...the magic at intersections is a very interesting book by Frans Johansson. We live in an interconnected world where quantum learning happens at the junction where sciences, philosophies, finance and art converge. This is called the Medici Effect. The book by Frans Johansson highlights this unique quality of the interaction between domains of different sciences and learning. Together it has potential to forge a new world based on emergence of new ideas...the

The Medici Effect... the magic at intersections We live in an interconnected world where quantum learning happens at the junction where sciences, philosophies, finance and art converge. This is called the Medici Effect. The book by Frans Johansson highlights this unique quality of the interaction between domains of different sciences and learning. Together it has potential to forge a new world based on emergence of new ideas...the same as what the Italians saw under influence

In our hidden desire to taste succeess at any cost, we become too anxious to please..bend much beyond what we would have otherwised liked to and yet, surprisingly, we did ! To differentiate between behaviours of service & behaviours of servitude, one needs a mirror. Behaviours of positive service are desirable & they take you a long way. Behaviours of servitude unfortunately, take you nowhere. Momentarily, they may please the narcissist Manager who enjoys sychopancy in a domi

Life is like a CROSS -WORD....looks complex up-front but turns out to be simple once you start thinking of options and learn to align the web... The vocabulary of your experiences helps to solve it faster. That is perhaps the only thing that matters...in Cross-Words as in life. #Organisationalskills

Your brand should make your clients believe they will win with you. Your journey may begin with finding a gap in the market. But you will have to determine if indeed there is a big enough market (particularly interesting for you ) in that gap. Having found that interesting market gap, determine how you choose to be different from other service providers. ('The FiRM' believes its strategic differentiator emerges from its unique ability to 'Execute' bespoke business solutions t

Re-Mastering new Fundamentals when the Path Winds makes Champions... Till the road is straight and you have mastered the fundamentals, you can keep excelling if you follow the rules. But at the point of strategic inflection where the fundamentals change , success is re-determined.Talib in his famous book - The Black Swan rightly says that we cannot predict the future from the past, so we must expect and prepare for the unexpected. Complacency is a natural state of the mind ad

Reciprocal Capabilities...you wrongly believe that your ability to gossip about others is your unique capability. Infact, where do you gossip atall ??? They call it gossip...you are only exchanging factual information with your point of view on it !!! You thus get shocked when others are exchanging factual information about you along with their point of view !!! Such gossiping in the FiRM is harmful to the cultural fabric and should be immediately be strictly enforced.. #Orga

Business Performance & the Quality of Talent need to be in a quid pro quo relationship contributing to success of the Firm. Performance of the Firm is a direct outcome of how yr people maximise & capture potential opportunities to create value in the market. Remember Step 1 : Revenues are success avenues !! Yr Firms P&L a/c to that extent directly reflects the current quality of yr Human Capital that interacts with potential customers & clients in the market. The FiRM that in

And the story goes... Unless you know the secret that the hero was actually the only love child between scions of two powerful but warring business families, you will not understand the real story !!! You will not understand what was protecting the hero all the times despite his involvement in all types of shoot-outs in the streets ....Drama lies in the story for such disclosures of relationships are made only towards the end of the story. There is always a hidden story of mi