Tactical Withdrawal in Business

“You have to try different things & you define time frames within which you get to a certain milestone. And if you don't, it's OK to drop them and move to the next one.” Rishad Premji, Chief Strategy Officer WIPRO

Insight
Launching, and then withdrawing a project/product/service, is a difficult decision for leaders - it's a public sign of failure & their ego is on the line. Defining time frames & milestones, & withdrawing if the goals are not met, displays leadership maturity. E.g. Ola is to shut down its struggling grocery division barely a year into its launch as it failed to meet expectations.

Baseline Leadership Qualities

“Our human resource system must recognize people who are able to exercise judgement, who know when it is time for man or woman to make rules. This involves courage, heart, purity of intentions and a very human touch.” Ong Ye Kung, Minister, Singapore.

Insight
This list of baseline leadership qualities is a handy checklist for anyone aspiring for a leadership position. Discover,  Develop, Demonstrate your leadership strengths. #Connect2Coach

Picture: People Matters

Ideal Decision-Making

Ryoma, a 19th century samurai, played a key role in the movement to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate & end Japan's 300-year isolation. He established the nation's first trading company & helped Japan become a naval power.
A portrait of Ryoma, hangs in the office of SoftBank chief Masayoshi Son. Every morning when he comes to office, it reminds him to make a decision worthy of Ryoma.

#MyLearning
Ideals are born, not of logical analysis, but of feelings which have no language of words to measure them. Holding ourselves to the ideals of our heroes invests the ideals with a measure for our actions.

Driving Desire

"Some dreams need wings, some ride on a chariot of desire." From an advertisement for a jeweler.

#MyLearning
The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad says, "You are what your deep, driving desire is. As you desire, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny." Great things happen as a result of  a deep driving desire.  Dreams too require this desire in order to take wing.

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.