Thought Leadership

  In Leadership Journey Never Forget These 3 Three Engagements    Click the Link Below to Read 👇   https://www.linkedin.com/posts/shahnawaz-qasim-ips-16583110_humanityleadershipseries-leadership-activity-6748241352338812928-mXiv Photo by Daria Shevtsova from Pexels

Literature Celebrates Diversity and That is Leadership    Click the Link Below to Read 👇 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/shahnawaz-qasim-ips-16583110_humanityleadershipseries-merrychristmas-kindnessmatters-activity-6747945521282920448-Aeoq  

The One Thing You May Be Missing in Your Problem Solving Abilities      Click the Link Below to Read 👇 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/shahnawaz-qasim-ips-16583110_humanityleadershipseries-leadership-activity-6747860585221799936-wY8O   Photo by Dylan from Pexels

Once we understand this then it becomes easier to move ahead     Click the Link Below to Read 👇   https://www.linkedin.com/posts/shahnawaz-qasim-ips-16583110_humanityleadershipseries-leadership-activity-6747488422371368960-1r08 Photo by Tatiana Syrikova from Pexels

  The Greatest Danger to Thought Leadership You Must Know    Click the Link Below to Read 👇 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/shahnawaz-qasim-ips-16583110_humanityleadershipseries-leadership-empathy-activity-6747004122945396736-uInl Photo CREDIT by Ryutaro Tsukata from Pexels

The unfettered leadership?  The concept of leadership within an organisation is not unfettered with limitless possibilities. It is constrained & disciplined by the vision, mission & the ideology of the organisation.  The leadership cannot independently create its own vision ecosystem. Even if some innovators attempt at it this generally remains within the broader framework of the organizational core tolerance limits.  Let us take the example of commercial entities. Can the leadership go beyond the stated & endorsed boundaries of profit making?  It is far fetched option  It is far-fetched to even think that someone will transform commercial bodies into a non-profit humanitarian organisation & still get away with the successful leadership tag For that matter it is also not possible for a non-profit entity to start making huge profits through individual driven efforts & still claim the leadership tag for that leader  Both the scenarios w...

What you Think is More Important Everybody thinks. Nobody can survive without thinking. Thinking is central to our existence.  But what we think decides our higher purposes in life Everybody gets some ideas which they think are unique. How many times we may have hit upon some brilliant ideas but which remained buried in our thoughts for the rest of our lives unimplemented But what separates great minds from the rest are the “ centrality of the thinking ” & “ groundings of their ideas ” out of the thinking The Successful Thinkers Successful thinkers put their ideas on the ground & believe me most of such ideas are simple in essence At the same time some brilliant ideas just remained thoughts because it was never implemented & tried Most of the successful startups are basically effective implementation of the simple ideas Your thinking can give mental prowess to you but the implementation of those thinking can give solutions to the many What is Thought Leadership  Th...

The Aim  The aim of concepts are far more wider than what we think of. Somehow the concept of Thought Leadership wrongly became the field of winning & success only But it is way above & beyond this temporary destination Thought Leadership adds value The sole purpose of Thought Leadership is to provide "Value Addition" to the domain. It is a more philosophical framework of understanding There are many Thought Leaderships that seemingly failed to become famous J. C. Bose work on material radio signal made Marconi famous but is hardly acknowledged Ibn al-Haytham, the 10 th century Arab Mathematician no one knows. But his works on optics made Roger Bacon famous centuries later Jerome Cardano the unsung Italian genius who invented practically the Quantum Physics & Probality Theory but is hardly credited by any Can we deny.... Can we deny the value additions of such great minds though they are not famous & successful? The collectivity of failings in Thought Leadersh...

Metaphors are signs ...They are saying something The Metaphors are the first signs of knowing things which are literally unconnected to each other. The Metaphors are the first flight of stairs to the realms of Metaphysics What you see plainly are the obvious & the connected dots of our existence. What we don't see easily are the higher thoughts of existence If we can tether the known with the unknown with metaphors our minds get trained to think beyond the common & the observable Thought Leadership & Metaphors  To understand the first step in "Thought Leadership" is to acknowledge the science of metaphors If we cannot talk in two different planes at the same time by metaphors it simply means we may be lacking in conditioning our mind for the "Leadership of Ideas" To read a phrase is one aspect & to understand it is altogether another matter. But to relate it to the metaphors and give it wings of metaphysics is the higher dimensions in Thought pro...

He was an unknown Writer  He was not known outside his friends circle. He was a writer but his works no one knew. He wrote dramas that failed miserably to glow  He decided to migrate to the oriental literature & try his fate again. The persian poet Jami became his subject of research. From this love affair came out the English translations of Jami’s Salman & Absal to the world  This too further sealed his fate towards the oblivion unknown.  He never gave up Hope  But he never gave up hope. He decided to translate the Persian Quatrains of Omar Khayyam & spread the fragrance of poetic wisdom to the world  Thus came out one of the most famous translations of the Persian poetry ever. This work too did not generate the initial fame  But slowly it became the talk of English literary world Yes, I am talking about Edward FitzGerald and his magnum opus translation “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam”  The rare Thought Leadership  There are rare ...

The Moon & the Water  Some news does catch your eyes. Just yesterday it was announced by the scientific community that they have discovered water molecules on the moon  Though it is a great piece of discovery but not very surprising after all. This fact was waiting to be discovered for we have been trying to find traces of water on the moon for decades. It was just a matter of when  Light is Civilization  Water is actually the synonym of life for humanity. Where there is water there is life & there evolves civilization.  But to me the most surprising aspect of the discovery was something else. It was the particular region on the moon on which the water traces were discovered that fascinated me The water traces were discovered on the sunlit portion of the moon. This has a huge metaphorical significance if we can think beyond the obvious  Thought Leadership is showing Light in Darkness  Anything that is lit has life just like the sunlit porti...

The 4.5 Billion Year Old Stranger  The journey of 200 million miles. The journey to meet a stranger whose age is 4.5 billion years old. The same age as our Earth Imagine waiting for 3 years for the messenger to come & deliver the message from the stranger. Envisage the efforts that will go in to decipher the encrypted message & understand the mind of the old stranger  And the message is nothing but 60 grams of dust, dirt & few pebbles  Then you realise the fact that the messenger after delivering the message will go into the oblivion never to be seen again  Apparently it would look simply outrageous to undertake such a long long journey for just dirts, dusts & pebbles  Would you plan for such an arduous journey ever ? NASA Osirex-Rex & Bennu  Yes. I am talking about the expedition of NASA’s Osiris-Rex to asteroid Bennu to find the truth about our universe. The truth that would also reveal us about our own human origins  Some...

Advices are  game changers   Sometimes some advice can be a game changer. It can establish as well as ruin the entire future prospects of the heeder more so particularly in the professional field  Generally such important advice is sought from experienced & professional people who have spent years in that profession. We do not seek such seasoned advice from a teenager more so if he has no knowledge of that field  Nizami took the Risk  But this is exactly what Nizami Ganjavi the 12th century AD Persian poet did when he was offered a professional literary task. Nizami was an accomplished literary figure  He was offered the project to write the famous Arabic love story of Laila-Majnu for the Persian readers. His advisors bluntly told him that a sad love story of a commoner would not attract readers. Further this would besmirch his philosophical poet image  Nizami was confused. He sought the final advice from his wife & his teenage son. They bo...

The biggest Thought Leadership Honour  The Nobel Prize (NP) is the biggest recognition of Thought Leadership in that field.  The NP for Physics 2020 has been awarded to 3 people of whom Roger Penrose is the main recipient. The NP Committee states that Penrose has been awarded for the “discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity” What does it mean? This statement actually means that “Leadership of Ideas” are like the chains. The longer the chain the wider it has the reach It hints at the proposition that “Nothing is Original Per se”. Everything is built one upon the other structures of Ideas Penrose discovery affirms Einstein’s Theory of Relativity & links it to many other theories of Astro-Physics Penrose discovery is not in isolation but in conjugation to already existing Ideas Thoughts are built upon connected thoughts. Ideas are conceived upon existing ideas. Discoveries are made upon discovered realities Civilizations ...

The Uniformity in Digital World  The European Union(EU) wants to create a common charger for all the phones. It wants complete uniformity in electronic accessories The EU wants to reduce the electronic waste due to diversity in the phone chargers The similar efforts in 2009 failed due to interoperability between devices But in Technology the uniformity ultimately gets achieved for the ease of doing business Diversity is Humanity  But imagine creating similar controlled uniformity in human thoughts, ideas, ideology, perceptions etc in our existence It would be a Herculean disaster in the leadership of Ideas What looks as absolute necessity when we deal with Natural Sciences looks totally unscientific when we interact with the Social Sciences We as the people must know that there are worlds existing within the world. There are mini universes being born & breathing within the same universe Let me tell you the greatest Thumb Rule of human existence “ Uniformity is a blessing ...

The Great Imbalance  Have you ever realised the great imbalance we have created in our Self Communication System . Though inadvertently developed but it has a profound & lasting impact on your leadership attributes Speaking, listening & writing are the core  Self Communication System   which connects your personality to the outer world. It's like the visa by which you enter the other people’s mind  But to avail the visa one has to first get the passport    Picture credit : Thought Catalog from Pexels  The Passport to Success  Reading is the passport of your personality. Without it your entire  Self Communication System    is an exercise in self deception  We must have read upteem articles about personalities & their reading lists. Their list is not so important. But the fact that they read is some pointer towards their success  Now the basic question is what to read. The answer is a simple formula which I have ...

The Epic of Gilgamesh "If you want a new idea, read an old book" said a wise man onceThe earliest recorded epic is from the Sumerian Civilization called the "Epic of Gilgamesh"(3000 BC ). It is in the form of five surviving poems Gilgamesh was the ruler of Uruk. He wanted to go to war with the kingdom of Kish Gilgamesh knew that Ego has no place in leadership matters First he consulted the council of elders who always opposed him. As expected they opposed his ideas & plans Next he deliberated with another council of elders who supported his course of actions Now it was Gilgamesh turn to take decisions based on the different advices What Gilgamesh did afterward is another matter of debate Hear all the Sides  Leadership means hearing all the sides of the arguements including the one opposed to your vision, strategy & tactics Those who are convinced & have faith in their own vision have the confidence to hear all shades of the arguements Those who desist fr...

The Rip Van Winkle Saga  Rip Van winkle was a farmer. One day in the forest he saw some mysterious men playing the game of nine pins The mysterious men called him & asked him to join the game. RVW joined the game & enjoyed the drink offered to him Slowly he felt drowsy and fell asleep RVW woke up and remembered those mysterious men. There was none to be found Life has changed He found his beard has grown very long. His musket has rusted. His dog was gone. His clothes has worn out. He found himself to have aged a lot He walked down to his town. He did not recognize anybody. Nobody recognized him too. The whole town has changed Luckily his daughter identified him & brought him home. RVW was missing for 20 years He came to know that all his friends have died. His wife too had died. He felt very sad RVW was at the crossroads of life. Whether to give up by cursing the past or rise up & reinvent himself again Humanity at the Crossroad  Humanity is also at the Rip Van...

But Why ?  Some of the Boeing 747 planes still use the 3.5 inch floppy disc to upload the softwares related to navigation, way routes, airport details etc. Every month the SW is loaded via the floppy disc by engineers otherwise the flight won't be in operations  But Why ?  The Comfort Zone  The possible reasons for not transitioning from the floppy disc era to the latest methods are not far to seek. The hardware mechanics of the plane are so rigidly built that it does not allow the upgrade. The other reason could be that since it is serving its intended purpose there is no need to upgrade it  The later reason seems quite possible as it is nearer to our human thinking behaviour  Is necessity necessary for change ?  Most of the time we also do not update, upgrade & change ourselves simply because we feel that there is no necessity for it. Everything is going fine & we feel blessed to be cocooned maintaining the status quo in our own comfort zones...

The Inter-Disciplinary & Cross Sectoral Knowledge Approach  The study of the history of knowledge reveals an interesting fact. It is the Inter-Disciplinary & Cross Sectoral Knowledge that propelled the advancement in human progressA mere glance at the history of knowledge reveals that great stalwarts did not belong to any particular field of study All the Greek thinkers were not domain experts but had inter disciplinary knowledge across mathematics, astronomy , medicine , philosophy etc They did not confine their intellect to a particular field of knowledge though they may have given more attention to a particular area History of Knowledge  is testimony to this fact  The same interdisciplinary approach is seen in the ancient Indian knowledge system The Arabic-Persian-Turkish knowledge world continued with the Greek system of Cross sectoral knowledge The modern world is obsessed with hardcore domain knowledge. But those who continued with the Inter-Disciplinary ...