Goals Require Accountability

“Weight loss goals are never achieved just by getting on the scale. Similarly, thinking about NPS as simply a score, without changing the way you actually do business, will never improve customer loyalty.” - Cvetilena Gocheva

Insight
Goal achievement begins with intention but produces intended results only with a planned and consistent change in the way we have been doing things.

Obvious? Yes, but also a reality many of us on the goal achievement path are oblivious to.

Become accountable #Connect2Coach

The Enlightened Leadership Dynamic

“Our greatest hope as leaders of this country is not to go down in history as the best ever. Our aim is to go down in history (as having helped)  Singaporeans to stand tall and see further.” - Singapore Labour chief Chan Chun Sing

Insight
Our personal philosophy of leadership is a dynamic and constantly evolving journey from self interest to enlightened self interest. An ultimate state, where our self-interest lies in furthering the interests of others.

How well are you dealing with the leadership dynamic?  #Connect2Coach

Collaborative Leadership

A man once asked Pablo Picasso why all his art was so screwed up? Why didn't he paint reality instead of these distortions? Hesitating for a moment, Picasso asked, “So what do you think reality looks like? “
Showing him a picture of his wife, the man said, “Like this. It's my wife. “
“Really?” said Picasso, “She's very small. And flat too. “

Insight
Reality is subjective. Encouraging open discussion, leaders can surface  the subjective realities of their team and uncover new perspectives. By incorporating the suggestions & addressing the objections, the decision becomes a commitment to action.

Life Choices

Bookmyshow's founder-CEO Ashish Hemrajani believes, "Ambition is a positive energy.  Desire can be unrelenting. I still live in the same house,  work from the same office and I am pretty much the same man I used to be when I started off 16 years ago."

Insight
"Don't give money way too much power over your life. It's not about how much you make, but the life that you make with the money you have. “ is an advice Suze Orman, TV financial guru says, she would have appreciated when she was 22.

What are the life choices you have made? How well have the served you?

The Art of Change Management

“Like old masonry buildings—such as the Musée d’Orsay in Paris ...that have new glass & steel added to their existing structures, today’s leading companies must integrate the contrasting elements of stability and speed to create a more functional, modern whole.” de Smets et al, McKinsey Quarterly

Insight
Change management is an art akin to the 4 arts of music. Thus you:
INTERPRET what needs to remain unchanged to provide stability & what needs to change to provide speed of customer response
ARRANGE priorities
COMPOSE change activity and
IMPROVISE along the way
Let the music begin!

What's your insight?

Feel For Your Customer

Hard-sell  morticians at the China Dragon Garden graveyard in suburban Beijing set up hundreds for gravestones bearing the names (living) local residents in gold letters. Sales staff would show residents their names, saying, “Look! That could be you.”

Insight
Being close to your product is good, and creative marketing even better, but not at the cost of distancing yourself from customer sensitivities. Know your customer, feel for your customer. #KnowYourself #Connect2Coach

The Advantages of Setting A Range of Goals

“It's impractical to have a growth target being a number. A range is more practical. It gives more room for policymakers to exercise their creativity boost the economy” - Iris Pang, Greater China Economist

Insight
An important objective in setting goals is to make them both challenging and attainable. Emerging evidence suggests that shifting from single number goals to high-low goals offers an increased advantage.
For instance, the impact of being set a high-low goal on members’ sustained motivation to pursue their goal was striking. Only half assigned a single number weight loss goal persisted with the longer-term target, but nearly 80% of those assigned a high-low range weight loss goal did.

Don't Take Your Success For Granted

“We aced at everything, creating products and designing them etc. Going in, I thought, that was it, that’s all we needed. Marketing, HR, and media relations were all BS. How I was proved wrong. Having a great product will not sell itself.” - Rahul Yadav at IIT E-summit 2016

Insight
On his desk, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz keeps a bottle of Mazagran, a carbonated coffee drink he introduced in 1994, and which failed to sell.

When riding waves of success remembering our past failures can serve us well.
#KnowYourself #Connect2Coach

The Positive Energy Within

“Unpark your life. Let your inner you out to play. Stop what you are doing. And just go.” - Ad for the Subaru XV

Insight
There is a powerful source of positive energy within all of us, and when you have an awareness of that, you can consciously allow that energy to flow freely through you and apply it to whatever you are doing.
#KnowYourself #Connect2Coach

Elevating Your Storytelling

“Elevate your storytelling from just a taxi ride to the story of life and its meaning….While Uber is about transportation you can still inspire people with a good story”. - Uber founder Travis Kalanick

Insight
The key to a compelling story begins not by asking , “What's my product?” but by asking yourself, “What business am I really in?  What am I passionate about?” When your true passion becomes the subject of your communication, it serves to truly inspire your audience.
#KnowYourself #Connect2Coach

Your Life Plan Should Evolve

We have to find our own way forward. There is no perfect model that can imported and therefore rather than strive for “unworkable perfection” from day one, Singapore opted to let it's political system evolve to suit it's unique needs. - Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, referring to the country's Constitution

Insight
Rather than live life on borrowed templates, continuously evolve your life plan, and customise it to suit your particular needs and circumstances.
#KnowYourself #Connect2Coach

Simplifying Complexity

“If I look at the mass I will never act. If I look at the one, I will.” —Mother Teresa

Insight
The problem in decoding complexity is because we want to find the perfect solution in one step. Take a step back, find out what you have to do and start by restraining yourself within the limits of your comprehension and doability.”

The Voices in Our Heads

We have two very basic forms of thought: System 1 and System 2.
System 1 is intuitive, instinctual and automatic, makes us prone to look for patterns to better understand our world, and to seek meaning in events.
System 2 is the voice in our head – the narrator who never seems to shut up – that enables us to plan and think logically.

Insight
The first voice is that of our biases that have to be questioned, and the second the voice of our instincts that have to be evaluated and critically examined. Both require a deep dive within and thoughtful reflection.
#KnowYourself  #Connect2Coach

Filter for Leadership Ideas

“This consuming interest in leadership and how to make it better has spawned a plethora of books, blogs, TED talks, and commentary. Unfortunately, these materials are often wonderfully disconnected from organizational reality and, as a consequence, useless for sparking improvement.” - Jeffrey Pfeffer, McKinsey Quarterly

Insight
Ideas for sparking improvement of your leadership style need to be curated using a two level filter system:
Are they relevant to your organizational reality and context?
Do they feel a comfortable fit with who you are and where you want to go?
#KnowYourself   #Connect2Coach

A Career That Excites

“I wake up every day excited and daunted by all we have to do here at Instagram.” Instagram COO Marne Levine, to a question whether she would go back to her previous role in the government.

Insight
Without challenges, the work we do becomes routine and unexciting. If the challenge is that the work itself appears boring and holds no excitement for you, it is time to rethink your purpose and life goals. #Connect2Coach

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

Energy of Motivation

“Success is never owned; it is only rented -- and the rent is due every day.” - Author Rory Vaden

Insight
Success can either inflate our ego, or it can inflate our motivation to do even better. The first is least desirable.  The second, motivation, can create positive energy which should go into defining new priorities that emerge from the strength and the consequences of the success to create a new balance. #Connect2Coach

The Art of Leadership

"The art of leadership is not to spend your time measuring, evaluating. It’s all about selecting the person. And if you believe you selected the right person, then you give that person the freedom, the authority, the delegation to innovate and to lead with some very simple measure.” - Pierre Nanterme, CEO Accenture.

Insight
As a leader how much do you trust yourself to trust your people? How much do you trust yourself to tell your people what to do and let them do it their way?

Your Paths to Happiness

Seven years ago, Adam Newman, co-founder & CEO, WeWork weighed 30 pounds less, smoked 2 packs of cigarettes a day and his hands used to shake. Then he met his present wife, who told him he didn't understand life - he was chasing money, which was never going to work. And even if it did come, he would never be happy. Instead, she told him, he should be chasing happiness.

Insight
Yogic tradition teaches that the four desires, Purpose, Prosperity, Pleasure and Spiritual fulfilment are the basis for all human happiness. What paths to happiness have you chosen within each desire? Connect2Coach

A Leader's Most Powerful Weapon

After reviewing the lives of 11 leaders, from Margaret Thatcher to Martin Luther King, Jr.,Harvard social scientist Howard Gardner concluded that the single most powerful weapon in the leader’s literary arsenal, was their ability to communicate a compelling story, “narratives that help individuals think about and feel who they are, where they come from, and where they are headed.”

Insight
As a leader, what narratives are you paying attention to, and communicating to your people? How do you collect the stories you want to tell? What forums have you created to share them? #Connect2Coach

Picture: Bates Communication

Becoming Exceptional

One of CEO of WeWork Adam Neumann’s earliest mentors told him, “I expect you to be a great husband, then a great father, then a great friend, then a great leader and then a great entrepreneur. And if you do all these together, this is what exceptional people do.“

Insight
To be exceptional you have to manage two things exceptionally;
1. Your intention
2. Not your time, but your energy,
#Connect2Coach

Wise Business Budgets

TaxiForSure founder Aprameya Radhakrishna believes the first half of 2015 saw a lot of money being poured into startups by investors. The plenty made startups splurge on things. Now with some biggies questioned on their spends, there is an overall correction.

Insight
In good times companies spend indiscriminately on initiatives, but when a slowdown hits, there is indiscriminate cost slashing. By making sure their today’s ‘Now’ is positioned in the long-term trajectory of organizational purpose, they can make sure to put the right resources behind where they want to head. #Connect2Coach

The Soft Side of Leadership

SoftBank president Nikesh Arora’s corporate identity has been of a no-nonsense high achiever who valued his privacy. However, at a recent business awards ceremony, Arora, held his wife's hand through much of the evening. And when it was his turn to speak, he choked up talking about his ailing father and family.

Insight
When a leader reveals his soft human side, people warm to him. Displaying vulnerability is as much required of a leader,  as showing the strong invincible side. The wisdom of leadership lies in knowing when.

Caring Leadrship

Mitu Chandilya, CEO, Air Asia India, left early from a recent business awards ceremony held in Mumbai. The reason? His people in Delhi, were having to cope with the problem of delayed flights due to the fog, and he wanted to offer them a much needed morale boost.

Insight
Not big gestures, but little ones like Chandilya’s go a long way to increase a leader's Personal #Leadership Power. They cost nothing, but show his human, caring side.
What does the Leader In You demonstrate to people? #CoachConnect

Each of Us Is Different

A post on Linkedin asks people to give an advice in 4 words. In the 3 months it's up, it has received 4000+ responses, each in some ways different from the rest. Presuming 20% of the messages may have had similar advice, that's a huge 3000+ different pieces of advice!

Insight
Life teaches us different lessons and shapes each of us differently. Reason a coach suspends judgement to look at the world from the coachee’s perspective. He brings to the coachee’s world an eye trained to spot gaps in her thinking. The coachee’s world does not change, but the coach has provided new eyes to look at it.

Brand You's Purpose Statement?

In the 1890’s,  William Hesketh Lever, founder of Lever Bros (now Unilever), wrote down the purpose for Sunlight soap, his revolutionary new product for the times.”Make cleanliness commonplace; lessen work for women; to foster health and personal attractiveness, that life may be more enjoyable and rewarding for the people who use our products”.

Insight
How about the purpose statement of Brand You? Have you got down to it yet? Do you want to? #CoachConnect

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:

Insight
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

Navigating Emotions

To navigate something as intangible and changeable as cologne, industry “noses” require a vocabulary of sorts. But the key among all the nomenclature is the ”family” to which the fragrance belongs (eg ‘floral’, ’aquatic’, woody’). Like human families, these boxes often bleed into another and you can end up with unusual hybrids. - Bloomberg

CoachConnect
Human emotions, like fragrances, are just as intangible and changeable, and they too can end up as unusual hybrids. The coach, by helping the client give appropriate labels to his emotions provides a handle to better deal with them. 

Unproductive Emotions Take a Toll

The key to projecting an air of power is being self-confident, says the Business Insider. And the worst thing for self-confidence is having a nagging thought about a flaw in your appearance. No one may notice the missing button on your jacket, but as soon as start to worrying about it, your behavior may unconsciously draw attention to it.

CoachConnect
Has it happened that what you are worried most about, turns out as inconsequential as that missing button on the jacket? Unproductive emotions take a toll on our priorities. Conversations with a coach, help take a healthier perspective on life.

The Coaching Approach

Intelligence, takes more than one form. There is the linear, which enables us to deal with the material world; & there is the intuitive, over which we have no conscious control. It is this latter intelligence that is the source of creativity. - Alan Garner
CoachConnect
“It is as if my every thought is getting a voice.” said my client D after a coaching session. This state is born of a deep trust & comfort of being with one who wishes only your success, This, along with a design thinking approach produces an uninhibited, nonlinear expression of ideas that tap into the client's ability to intuit.

Purposeful Resolutions

With his New Year's resolutions, Zuckerberg turns the high-powered innovation beam on himself. Every challenge he undertakes carries the end goal of solving for some aspect of himself that he'd like to develop further, some gap in his ultimate self-vision. It's a level of personal accountability that is nothing short of extraordinary.

CoachConnect
New year resolutions are notoriously short lived. This weakness of purpose dogs the other resolutions we make during the year too. But If you want to prove something, not to others but to yourself, get yourself an accountability partner. Get a coach.

Ruthless Prioritisation

“The conversation with you”, said client B, “made me realize that I am spending only 0.5% of my time on my key priorities“.

CoachConnect
This kind of a realisation is a result of a deep dive into what you really want in life, and how you want to take your business to new heights. It’s a process Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook would call ‘Ruthless Prioritisation’.

Want to know what your Ruthless Priorities are and fast track your personal and business growth? Get in touch.

Keeping Resolutions

#LivingStories
”I never keep my New Year's resolutions, so this year I resolve to gain weight, make less money, & hate my life”. - A cartoon by Glasbergen

#MyLearning
New Year resolutions are notoriously difficult to keep. The Vedas offer a 3 level hierarchy to test the intensity of our intentions.
L1: Abhilasha: A wish with little energy, with little impetus to move one forward
L2: Svatmi karana: Wish becomes important enough to influence thoughts and actions
L3: Iccha bhavana: Our desire, will, action, speech & thoughts, all become laser-focused on achieving the goal.

For L 3 focus, get a coach.

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.

Spirit of The Season

#LivingStories
60 years ago this month, at the height of the Cold War, the emergency phone rang at the US Continental Air Defense Command. When the in-charge, Col.Harry W Shoup picked up the phone, it was a child asking to speak to Santa. Turned out, a local store had carried the phone number in an ad asking children to call to speak to Santa. Realising there would be a deluge of calls, Shoup ordered his operators to respond to ”every child who phoned in that night.” The tradition continues to this day.

#MyLearning
The milk of human kindness overflows during the festive season. Put it to good use.

The Well-Formed Mind

#LivingStories
In his TEDx talk, Sashi Tharoor speaks of the response of a village woman he spoke to. Asked the benefits of becoming literate, she explained she was now able to read bus destination signs, which she previously had to ask others. She could also read the street signs and therefore felt more independent. Tharoor also speaks of how, having a well- formed mind is more import than having a well-filled mind.

#MyLearning
How can I use the benefits of being literate to develop my intellect?  To not merely know facts, but to regard them with mindful curiosity & make meaning of them?

Using Emotions to Your Advantage

#LivingStories
“McEnroe needed to believe that the world was against him, he needed to get angry, to stoke the competitive beast inside of him. He played his best when hard done by - with justification or otherwise. Especially in the 70s and early 80s when the world hadn't been exposed to the ‘competitiveness’ and ‘aggression’ of the modern age, Mac the Mouth was an aberration.”
“…..but being too nice comes with a price too, especially if you are nice to the wrong person.” - R. Kaushik In the Wisden

#MyLearning
Anger and politeness, both have their uses. Use with discretion.

Metaphors Make Communication Easy

#LivingStories
Persistent efforts by Rahul Bajaj to convince authorities that his small car, built on his 3 wheeler rickshaw platform, still qualified as a 3, and not a 4 wheeler, were futile. He was being persistent as 4 wheelers are liable to pay more taxes, which drive up the price. Finally, he decided to give the example of the Gillette 3 blade razor. When they added two more blades, making it a 5 blader, did it still qualify as a razor he asked.
He got the permission.

#MyLearning
By linking abstract information to a concrete concept, it becomes easier for people to understand the information.

Taking Time Out

#LivingStories
Twice a year, during the busiest and most frenetic time in the company’s history, Bill Gates still created time and space to seclude himself for a week and do nothing but read articles (his record is 112) and books, study technology, and think about the bigger picture. Today he still takes the time away from the daily distractions of running his foundation to simply think.

#MyLearning
Taking time out to refresh one's knowledge, and think about the past and the future to make sense of the present, can have a profound effect on all parts of you.

Life is Semantics

#LivingStories
“If you say that creating the Taj Mahal is indulgence,  then it is - in the eyes of the world”, says filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali. “If you say he loved her and he created a monument - then it is a monument. It is the way you look at it.” He claims what others call indulgence, he calls commitment and the two should not be confused.

#MyLearning
Personal truths, are a summation of experiences from the personal notes we make of them. Indulgence or commitment, successes or failure, profit or loss etc, are only the topic heads to a deeper set of self narratives of their meaning to us.

Your True Value

#LivingStories
The matriarch of a reputable business family, known for her vast collection of modern art possessed an enviable series of pahadi paintings by a well known miniature painter. The painter was her grandfather's family friend and had gifted her 18 miniatures paintings at her wedding. However, she unaware of the high value of the artworks until someone pointed it out to her.

#Coach perspective
How we see ourselves is a function of our mind, even the mirror captures only an image painted by our mind. How we value ourselves is also a function of the same mind. How close is  your true value, to the value you  put on yourself?

Check with a coach!

Your Workspace Talks!

#LivingStories
According to Aparna Piramal Raje, author of Working Out of The Box, the private workspaces spaces  of CEOs provide insight into their business priorities and personality. She has classified CEO workspaces into four distinct archetypes, based on their design, usage and purpose that provide valuable insights into the minds of CEOs.

Coach perspective
Private workspaces provide insight into the working style of leaders. As a Business coach, this observation is key to my coaching. 

Think
What do you think your workspace tells about you?

Using Weaknesses of Your Advantage

#LivingStories
Jaideep Barman, CEO of Faasos was asked what his social media profile saying, “Pretending to be a CEO” meant. He replied, “See I am a Bengali, so I am very lazy. From day one I have looked for people who can work their best. I am the CEO, but it is a job well done by the team.“

Coaching perspective
Weaknesses used creatively for the greater organizational good can produce effective outcomes.

Try doing
Write down  on the left side of a  sheet of paper all your weaknesses and on the other side people, places or things that can help to compensate them. Don’t edit anything. Just free associate as many compensates as you can with their specific contribution. Once you’ve found one that you think works, test it out.

Tell
In what ways have you used your weaknesses to your advantage?

Image: Openforum

Dealing with Dissent

#LivingStories
When Snapdeal’s Rohit Bansal made unflattering comment about talent in India,  Flipkart’s Sachin Bansal disagreed and tweeted,  “Don't blame India for your failure to hire great engineers.  They join for culture and challenge“.

Coach perspective
It may be perfectly OK to have an opinion that may not vibe with your colleagues. But how you handle the opposing point of view is an art.

Try doing
Speak to the person directly. If you two can't seem to find common ground, consider going  to a sound third party to defuse the situation.

Tell
How do you deal with people of a different opinion than that of yours?

Image: Otis

Sweet Spot for Peace of Mind

#LivingStories
Beyond a certain point , money is not something you live for, feels Kumarmangalam Birla. “If I didn't have the money to buy the two works of art that I want,” he elaborates, “I'd feel pretty bad about it, but more than two  works of art and two holidays. I've no need for money.”

Coaching question
What are the things you would want to buy, after which you'd feel you do not need any more money?

Try doing
Practice cutting down on your needs and limiting your wants. Aim to choose the sweet spot between your Needs, Wants and Lacks.

Tell
How do you view your lacks?

Image:Ian Brown Lee

Yes Is A World

#LivingStories
“Find a way to say yes to things”, says Eric Schmidt,  executive chairman, Alphabet. “Say yes to invitations, to a new country, yes to meet new friends, say yes to learn something new. Yes is how you get your first job and your next job, and your spouse even your kids.”

#MyLearning
E.E. Cummings couldn't have put it better when he said, “Yes is a world & in this world of yes live (skillfully curled) all worlds”. Truly, saying yes can open the door to so many exciting and unexplored worlds!

Image: Improvised life

Acts of Kindness

#LivingStories
“If you are unemployed and need an outfit cleaned for an interview, we will clean it for free”, says a sign outside the establishment of In The Bag cleaners. Below this is a personally signed note from Team Leader Dave Coyle, which says,  “When times are tough, we will help you look your best.”

#MyLearning
Reading the sign aroused a mixture of emotions in me - a slight constriction of the throat followed by a sunny feeling which Wodehouse would have described as, “The bird’s on the wing, the snail's on the thorn,  God’s in his heaven, all's right with the world“. If those my emotions, one can only imagine the feelings of the receiver of the act and the giver.

Each of us, whether In business or employed, have the capacity to do an act of kindness to those who are less privileged than us. It does not cost much, but can be immensely gratifying and emotionally rewarding to both the giver and the receiver of the act.

Sensitive Leadership

#LivingStories
When Shikha Sharma, MD and CEO, Axis Bank, moved to a new office, she took some radical decisions. Everybody, including the seniors in the organization, had desks of the same size. She was trying to demonstrate to the company the need to be more open.

#MyLearning
Symbolism in organization has a subtle and elusive nature but few organization members fail to notice differences in the size of offices and desks, quality of furnishings, parking privileges, and use of titles. Thoughtful leadership means being sensitive in dealing with the differences for organizational good.

Image:Jokeroo

Peace of Mind

#LivingStories
The governor's residence in Mumbai is a sprawling 47 acre ecosystem of rich biodiversity, filled with peacocks and other creatures. Two decades ago, to control the snake population, an officer released a pair of mongoose. Their progeny is now endangering the peacock population by breaking their eggs and eating their chicks.

#MyLearning
Our bodies ecosystem is  a self-regulated system operating in a state of perfect balance. Into this balanced system, we release the ‘mongoose’ of emotional stress, which uncontrolled, is often liable to endanger our peace of mind.

Image: Deviant art

The Identities We Own

#LivingStories
Business leaders often get carried away by the power their designations command. Nitin Nohria, Dean of the Harvard Business School understands well that position is not personality.  He is clear that the way people approach him today as the Dean of HBS may be different from the way they approach him as just the individual.

#MyLearning
Inside of us we carry several identities: inner and outer identity, professional (leader,follower), and personal (father, son, friend, subordinate) identity, and so on.

Be aware that the overlap of one identity by another, can be good or bad, or it can be something in between.

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Overcoming the guilt of 'Why'

#LivingStories
At a recent art auction, artist Souza’s painting sold for $4m. Before fame and fortune came calling, he lived in poverty. In a letter to his second wife on her birthday,  he wrote,”I wish thank you for raising my daughters… for a decade or you have me great joy Lisolette. What did I give you? I gave you children and a load of misery with my alcoholism. I simply can't fathom why?

#MyLearning
Before undertaking an action, to lessen the guilt of the ‘Why's’, follow the rule of the Indian roads. Look left, look right, look above, look below, look back and then look front again.

Then let your karma do whatever it intends to do!

Doing and Being

LivingStories
American businessman Mark Cuban believes the worst advice he has received is, “Follow your passion.“ He says everyone has multiple passions, “but those don't lead to career success.” What does, he claims, is finding something hard to work at. By following your effort instead of your passion, you can develop skill and learn to appreciate it.

#MyLearning
Doership has shades of nishkama karma, effort without expectation. But behind every effort is an emotion; anger (vengeance), fear (of loss) or passion (happiness). I'd rather let passion the healthiest of them all, drive my efforts.

Humour - A Great Leadership Skill

#Livingstories
At a function of the industry body ASSOCHAM, CEO Rana Kapoor asked celebrity guest actor Shahrukh Khan how he would counter the Chinese film industry and take Bollywood to new heights. In a witty rejoinder to the challenging question, Khan, speaking gibberish with a Chinese twang said, “I have responded to the challenge to the Chinese. You will not understand it, but they will get what I said.“

#MyLearning
A sense of humour is a great skill for leaders to have. It can help to fend off awkward questions and also help defuse  tense situations in a non-threatening manner.