He believes that synthesising conflicting or diverse views is the key to growth Companies across India are looking at how to have diversity at the leadership level, and mostly they refer to lack of women in management. But diversity is not only about female and male, gay or straight, Hindu, Muslim, or Christian, young or…
With the right purpose and approach, your work and life can be meaningful Dreading work is common. That’s why weekends were invented. Ah, it’s the weekend! Oh no, it’s Monday! Or you have a new assignment, a new boss, restructuring is going on, or maybe you’re simply bored in your role — and you ask…
Technical managers moving into management roles is a script that plays out every day in large tech companies. Managers with the best technical expertise and ability to reach performance goals consistently are the first consideration for senior management roles. It is clearly an expectation from managers that they are promoted to management; the management thinks…
Leadership is about communication, and the most powerful skill is ‘storytelling’ How many of your management team are true leaders — those who can inspire the organisation, set a vision, teach important lessons, define culture and explain what the organisation is? Of those who are, how many are great communicators? Turns out some of the…
Read excerpts from Rakesh Shukla’s talk on July 4, 2018, at the ANZ Bangalore “The one great advantage of losing everything is that it gives you great clarity on what are the essentials of your life. Once you have a real baseline that few have, you can go anywhere you want from there” — Rakesh…