Co-Operation Is A Must For Survival!

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Today every organization wants immediate delivery of results from all employees right from the day one. Some of the leaders even say: There is no honeymoon period!

The definition of immediate for them is instantaneous. No time for settling down at all. Begin delivery right from the day one. 

Isn't it against the law of nature?

Mother Leadership

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Leadership is all about getting the best out of your followers for achieving specific goals. Isn’t it?

Who could be more appropriate in that role than a Mother? Because, she lives to get the best performance out of her children, come what may.

Remember your own Mother and thank her for what sacrifices she made to make you what you’re today!

I won’t elaborate further on her role, as we all know about the extent she can go to make her children successful in life. Right?

Leaders too must believe in this concept and must act like a mother to make their followers as successful, and go beyond what they themselves achieved in their life.

Mother Leadership is what we require today to make this world worth living. Yes, I have conceived and coined this term and the concept itself.

I know that people would embrace this concept in due course of time and even write several books on this. In fact, that’s what I wish as I invite all to think it over.

Let this world be governed by Mother Leadership in future.

Abraham Maslow and the Realm of Self Actualization!

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"Self Actualization is the intrinsic growth of what is already in the organism, or more accurately, of what the organism is." Abraham Maslow.

Maslow argued: Humans intuitively have a natural drive to become the best possible persons in terms of both physical and mental health, including a high level of spiritual achievement.

Education: Your Children's Future!

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My question to best financial minds from ever rising Indian middle class parents with tons of cash flowing in to their pockets post liberalization era: Have you ever calculated how much money you have invested to ensure a luxurious present and a secured future for self against your children's education up until they finish class XII ?

Come on, I know you haven't!

Are You Designed to be A Leader?

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Designed to kill: Some are but not all, is what we observe in animal kingdom, and I’m sure, we too are basically animals in one way or the other -- courtesy, evolution!

So, can we apply the same principle to one of the most controversial issues that has been haunting us for a long time: Are leaders born, or made?

If you have worked with large Corporates for few years, mingling with a wide range of profiles, or you’re into a profession that demands meeting tens of senior level employees on daily basis, I’m sure, it wouldn't take more than a few minutes of genuine analysis to come to the conclusion: Leadership is not everybody’s cup of tea.

13 Essential Qualities of A Successful Personality!

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Life is never a bed of roses. In fact, it's otherwise. All of us, with a unique set of complex issues pertaining to our own existence, are always struggling for survival.

Some of us; however, demonstrating enough stamina and perseverance, move towards achieving stupendous success in life: materialistic, spiritualistic, or both.

But, that doesn't happen overnight. Tremendous efforts, spanning over a long period, in the right direction, with right strategy, finally take them to the destination.

Social Intelligence: Key to Success for HR Professionals

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He called up and desperately, requesting me to look for an immediate placement for him as he has already been serving the notice period. He is the same person whom I have been repeatedly calling up for past several months, but in vein. He never bothered to pick up my calls, neither called back. Simply put, he refused to maintain a decade old relationship while riding the success wave.

Another professional, who would always give me an appointment, but would refuse to meet at the last moment , not once but several times, demonstrates a weird behavior that needs detailed analysis to identify the root cause of such an irrational approach. Ideally, when you're not interested to meet someone, the best way is to let him know it outright instead of agreeing first and then aborting it at the last moment.

A Volcanic Eruption of Corporate Ego!!!

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First of all, let me thank those professional friends from Corporate India, who keep encouraging me to highlight some of the business issues pertaining to talent management.

I'm neither a seasoned writer nor a management expert, but my objective of writing these blogs is to share with my readers -- some of the issues, both in professional and personal domains of life, that truly deserve a brain-storming.

Yesterday, in the evening, while talking to the VP-HR of a multinational company, which has recently undergone a global restructuring, when I, unaware of the final structure, casually made a remark about his reporting matrix, he got extremely annoyed and told me to avoid making such statements without knowing the facts.

Is Your Organization System Driven? If not, Quit Immediately

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The purpose of a system is to design the rules of the game, so as to ensure that the show must go on in accordance with a specific set of activities defined for a particular role in any organization.

In nutshell, it means, even if someone is on leave the work doesn't suffer, as the other person who takes over his place is guided by a well-defined set of procedures regarding all the activities pertaining to that role.

Success: Being in the Spotlight?

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What is meant by success? Is there an universal definition of success? Can we pin point, yes, reaching that particular milestone is called success?

For an animal, primary success is all about being alive: For a predator, success means achieving the daunting task of killing her prey for the next meal; for a prey, success is the manifestation of her ability to stay away from those killers on daily basis.

An Amazing Story of Leadership Connectivity

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If you're not able to connect with key people in your professional circle, emotionally, I don't think you would ever make it happen as a leader. And that's exactly what I just discussed over phone with HR Head of a large Indian corporate -- and he agreed.

By connectivity, I mean, building emotional connection with professionals in your domain of operation: Team members, Suppliers, Service Providers, and keep them sufficiently motivated to maintain and improve upon their current performance level.

Why I Sacrificed the Virtual Self!

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Sorry friends, for changing my blog's address. Frankly speaking, the reason is very simple: I don't have a credit card any longer, required to renew the domain through U.S. based domain provider GoDaddy.

So, I shifted this blog to another domain, that I had purchased from a local service provider a few months ago with cash.

You must be wondering, why did I get rid of my credit cards?

Right?

Change Agent: Are You the Right Choice?

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The top leadership of every growing company are mesmerized with an idea of bringing on board a magician, who would bring about a much desired cultural change in their organization.

For them, money is not an issue for getting the best available talent. So, they pay hugely, quite often unreasonably, to pull the best reputed change agent in.

3 Steps to Leadership Success

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One of my ex bosses, with whom I had worked for more than 4 years, achieved his target of making a turn around in less than a year against 3 years specified by the top management.

Conventionally, it was an impossible target, especially when the company was on the brink of getting blacklisted by most of the customers in view of major quality related issues.

However, he made it possible through a unique combination of 3 strategic and tactical initiatives. The key areas that he attacked first, and never retired until making them almost flawless, were:

The Last Nail in the Coffin of HR!

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It took me more than an hour to decide about the heading of this post. Having decided, at last, I'm sure, there couldn't have been a more revealing one.

Today, I noticed, and sadly, the ultimate demise of a function called Human Resource Development.

Let me tell you, how and why:

Do You Take Your Life Seriously?

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How many times you have heard this proverb - from how many people - who, trying to inspire others, would say: "Don't worry, be happy?" Several, times and people; I'm sure!

Sounds nice, and quite soothing as well, when a caring voice delivers such reassuring sentence. But often, this, instead of helping you get out of trouble -- may push you more into it.

Be A Sparkling Leader!

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Success materials, never in their life, ever look for sympathy/empathy from anyone; neither they play with others' emotion, even while negotiating through a down-turn.

They just wait for the right time. And, when time comes, they ruthlessly destroy traces of sarcastic smile on the faces of those human predators, who, appearing to be friend, look for tasting the blood oozing out of others' wounds.

Don't Let Down the Reputation of HR!

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When a senior HR professional, who recently received an offer from a 3 billion dollar Indian company as global HR Head, called me up to inform that he had declined the offer, because, none of his well wishers - with whom he had shared the news - encouraged him to take it up, because of the company's outstanding reputation in the market as the mother of 'Human Resource Destruction,' I sat quietly and thought it over seriously.

Frankly speaking, I have been watching this drama, for long, of the Indian company owners making a mockery of HR and sharing the same in their private circle.

Stop Selling Hopes!

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"Effective leaders are not born, they are built!"

Very few people dare disagree to this statement. But, having worked in corporate for a decade and half and running my own consulting firm for the same period -- which gave me the opportunity to meet and assess more than a few thousand professionals so far - I fail to agree.

I don't think you can make a lion out of a goat, even through imparting the best of behavioral trainings that you can ever think of designing and conducting for humans on earth. No way!

Sun Rises in the East -- Chimps too Know about It!

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7 years ago we’re retained by a small Indian corporate, willing to pay the recruitment fee which was 50 pct more than the common trend at that time. To start with, Managing Director of the company established a direct communication channel with me, following up vigorously, to ensure successful completion of each and every critical assignments.

Since then we’ve been working hard for his company: Identifying right candidates from target organizations, and successfully pulling them out of their comfort zone. In that process, we must have recruited a few hundred professionals so far, including 4 of the 6 current business heads and more than a dozen of senior level executives.