Right Metrics Key to Organization Success

“I don't know how keen we are to have problem solvers in government. The assessment is on who has spent maximum funds rather than who has solved a problem or achieved something. How can a bureaucrat innovate or disrupt amidst such a straight-jacketed approach to them?” Comment made by Aruna Sundarajan, secretary in the electronics and IT ministry at candid talks on performance and functioning, top bureaucrats had with the Government.

Leadership learning: Choosing right measures and assessing wisely is key to the success of a performance-driven company.

Problem Solving and Visualization

“I am a technology person who looks at any problem as a black box. Looking at a problem as a black box allows me not to be biased by the nature of the problem.Then we can find a solution dispassionately.” - M Jagadesh Kumar, VC JNU

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Adopting or adapting visualization tools,  techniques and concepts borrowed from professional, spiritual and experiential fields, can become effective problem-solving methods. - #TheThinkingCoach
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What Leadership Style Works Best for You?

Latest research by McKinsey across 81 countries, across diverse geographies  indicates the  4 key skills of successful leaders as:
1. Solving problems effectively,
2. Operating with a strong results orientation,
3. Seeking different perspectives and
4. Supporting others:

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Search for ‘leadership’ on the Web & you get thousands of results. Research too, constantly throws up new and diverse results. But what works best for you? #CoachConnect

Nursing Innovation

#LivingStories
“If you inject a live virus into a healthy body, the body will react to it. And it's the same thing with organizations. They say they are promoting innovation but they are not, really. And if you happen to be in the innovation/disruption team, then the organization will attack you. So you need to find a way around it“. - Tobias Digswell,  Nobel Museum curator

#MyLearning
Do not stop at just innovating a product or a process, think through the strategy of how to inject and nurse the innovation through the whole system.

Rules of Decision-making

Children Not Allowed, But The Child In You Is Welcome, says a sign outside a Mumbai eatery. A Chinese restaurant meanwhile, has a dress code for patrons - No Shorts Please.

#MyLearning
Age confers wisdom on us, while children have an insatiable curiosity to know and constantly question the status quo. So think curious wearing the shorts of childhood and act wisely wearing the pants of adulthood.

What to Do When Stuck

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes it was 29 years.

#MyLearning
When stuck, it is a good idea to surrender yourself to your subconscious mind. Many solutions to niggling problems come to you during the 'Brahmakalam', the early morning hours between 3 and 5 when, acording to Hindu scriptures Brahma's consort Saraswati, the Godess of knowledge, resides in the brain. In other words the mind is at it's best. - Stephen Hawking