“To be a good leader, you sometimes need to go down the untraveled path. Being bold in the face of uncertainty will help give your team courage and motivate them to keep striving when the going gets tough.”
Achievers have an innate sense of purpose powering them through troubled times and if at times they didn't know where they were going they were willing to take the risk of finding out. On the other hand, if you look at some people who are in a secure profession albeit in roles that they dislike, coasting towards the end of their working lives, you will find one thing in common, regret! The regret of not taking the risk to avail opportunities, the regret of unfulfilled desires and the regret of never knowing what their true potential really was.
Leadership is an onerous responsibility for you are responsible not only for yourself but for so many other people who look up to you as their leader. So, when you nurture hope as a leader, you nurture dreams and create possibilities.
On the last day of my job, one of the most common aphorisms that I heard was, “Prepare well for your second innings of student life.” I did not put much thought to it then, believed it to be just another adage used by people to bid you off on your journey. The gravity of the statement was realised by me only when I actually entered into the “second innings”. Trust me when I say it, sitting in classes is not the same as before. A few months back, you were one of the ‘artisans in making’ writing codes, handling logistics, consulting with clients and bringing profits to your company. Suddenly, you are back to the basics of all of this, sitting in the lecture rooms learning about these. Of course, you learn a lot while you work in a company, but experiential learning procedure is different from that of an academic curriculum. This made me come up with a small compendium for aspirants with work experience, who are on their way to join b-schools.
Every generation has occupied researchers, marketers, advertisers and advertising agencies for the last few decades. In fact, the study of generations has been a full-time occupation for some time. Each generation is a mystery to the generations before them, who spend hours and many tons of research trying to understand them. Unfortunately, while the generation gap was supposedly seventeen and a half years, my suspicion is that the generation gap is shrinking and it is about half that already, in the new age of the technology and the internet where human progress is accelerating.
In all your wisdom, you never really know what’s in store for you. There is seldom an assurance that you will achieve what you aspire for, much less within the timeframe that you intended.
CEOs are measured on outcomes and what the company has achieved under their leadership. Subjectively saying that a company has done well or that a CEO has performed well has no meaning unless it is backed by metrics that demonstrate what has been achieved. Even more important here is the value addition that the CEO has been able to achieve and demonstrate.
“To be a good leader, you sometimes need to go down the untraveled path. Being bold in the face of uncertainty will help give your team courage and motivate them to keep striving when the going gets tough.”
Achievers have an innate sense of purpose powering them through troubled times and if at times they didn't know where they were going they were willing to take the risk of finding out. On the other hand, if you look at some people who are in a secure profession albeit in roles that they dislike, coasting towards the end of their working lives, you will find one thing in common, regret! The regret of not taking the risk to avail opportunities, the regret of unfulfilled desires and the regret of never knowing what their true potential really was.
Leadership is an onerous responsibility for you are responsible not only for yourself but for so many other people who look up to you as their leader. So, when you nurture hope as a leader, you nurture dreams and create possibilities.
On the last day of my job, one of the most common aphorisms that I heard was, “Prepare well for your second innings of student life.” I did not put much thought to it then, believed it to be just another adage used by people to bid you off on your journey. The gravity of the statement was realised by me only when I actually entered into the “second innings”. Trust me when I say it, sitting in classes is not the same as before. A few months back, you were one of the ‘artisans in making’ writing codes, handling logistics, consulting with clients and bringing profits to your company. Suddenly, you are back to the basics of all of this, sitting in the lecture rooms learning about these. Of course, you learn a lot while you work in a company, but experiential learning procedure is different from that of an academic curriculum. This made me come up with a small compendium for aspirants with work experience, who are on their way to join b-schools.
Every generation has occupied researchers, marketers, advertisers and advertising agencies for the last few decades. In fact, the study of generations has been a full-time occupation for some time. Each generation is a mystery to the generations before them, who spend hours and many tons of research trying to understand them. Unfortunately, while the generation gap was supposedly seventeen and a half years, my suspicion is that the generation gap is shrinking and it is about half that already, in the new age of the technology and the internet where human progress is accelerating.
In all your wisdom, you never really know what’s in store for you. There is seldom an assurance that you will achieve what you aspire for, much less within the timeframe that you intended.
CEOs are measured on outcomes and what the company has achieved under their leadership. Subjectively saying that a company has done well or that a CEO has performed well has no meaning unless it is backed by metrics that demonstrate what has been achieved. Even more important here is the value addition that the CEO has been able to achieve and demonstrate.
