Tag Archives: processes
A Zero Email Policy
As policies go this one is breathtakingly simple – DO NOT SEND EMAIL WITHIN THE ORGANIZATION. Read the news below. http://news.yahoo.com/tech-firm-implements-employee-zero-email-policy-165311050.html Various comments on the news item are also interesting: To talk about banning emails is talking about the wrong … Continue reading
Leaders and their decisions -2
Business leadership is all about making decisions. Decision making can not be easily taught in leadership courses, however good they are. See what is happening here. A CEO is meeting his management team. The subject is review of some proposals … Continue reading
Your workouts seem to be simple at first..
More and more senior corporate executives are undergoing Learning Leadership programs. Every program involves a set of well structured workouts. A senior executive said that “The workouts seemed to be simple at first. But as I started putting down my … Continue reading
Elevator pitch and coffee machine capers..
“We are the best brand in this vertical for delivery of enterprise computing and we have a global delivery model -this is what our VP told the that big prospective client. I was required to attend our presentation” Mitchell said … Continue reading
Leadership, innovation, and design -the Tata Swach
Leadership is not just about vision, values, and communication. Important though these are, great leaders do much more -create brands, create great products, and achieve process breakthroughs. Here is an example. The Tata Swach. Design Directions, our associates, provided industrial … Continue reading
Horror on hand…for you
The chances are that you never come back to it. That’s your fear, so you try to attend to every mail and every call in real time. You stay late and carry your blackberry and your laptop around. (Why do … Continue reading
My people are all hardworking but….
“My people work really hard. Many of my top managers stay up late and then take their laptops home. But somehow we are not turning out any superlative performance. Our customers think we are ok type. Our employees…the other day … Continue reading
Leadership workshop for the renal unit of hospital
I conducted a workshop Leadership -How Regenerate and Rejuvenate Your Business at the Renal Unit of K.E.M. Hospital, Pune, India on Nov. 16, 2009. The renal unit’s team had identified the need for delivering better services to patients by upgrading … Continue reading
A low down on leadership
Leadership is often described in terms of vision, inspiration, courage, passion, dynamism, motivation, change & transformation, mobilization etc. While all these are important outcomes or facets of leadership they do not offer many clues about how to get there if … Continue reading
Surprise and take-aways from a Leadership Workshop..
I conducted a workshop “Leadership -How to Regenerate & Rejuvenate Your Business?” at the Indian Merchants’ Chamber, Mumbai on August 1, 2009. It was a day full of interactions with senior level participants from industries like financial services, logistics services, … Continue reading