Thought Leadership

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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...

Time is Everything  The importance of time no one can refute. "Time Management" is an academic discourse in all the leading management books.  Perhaps this is the only asset that depreciates continuosly without any change. We also know the rate at which the "time" depreciates and how it goes away never to show even its shadow again Time is the only progressve equation that progressess lineraly and never looks backward. Time never forms a cycle and it moves like a single straight line which has no end. Infinity, time & death are all linked together in the mystic mathemetical equation called life. The Poet Message on Time Management  Omar Khayyam talks about the importance of the present & living in the moment. It means that time can only be controlled by making our moments or the present beautiful & happy. That can be our only link to the future. Do not despair too much for things you can't control. Control the things that you can control and control ...

The equation of life  Everything exists to self destruct itself one day into oblivion. Nothing is eternal. Everything is ephemeral. Certainty of Permanence is antithetical to the existence of creation. The sun which sustains life on Earth is also destined to extinguish itself one day just like the lamp in the highway winds. Sun is nothing but a fading lamp of time. When our realities are not permanent our experiences also cannot be perpetual. High & Low are the processes of the ultimate equation of decay. When we understand the "Equation of Life" we acknowledge the solutions inherent in it Great leadership understand life  Great minds & exceptional leadership understand the Constants & Variables of the Equation of Life. They do not chase success nor do they understand failures. They only try & think about imprinting their ideas, thoughts, actions, behaviors etc on the impermanent canvas of their existence. They understand the limitations of the realities of th...

The 5 qualities of "Change Leadership" In my organisation & beyond I have observed successful leaders & their attributes specially their implementation of “Change”. The five qualities that were common among them to successfully implement change were 1. They have immense levels of conviction about the change they are bringing. They are well prepared, researched and do not fumble for response when asked about it. They are more than willing to take questions about it from every quarter and do not hide from the cynics 2. They have the ability to communicate effectively their vision of change to the last person in the organisation. Such leaders ensure the last mile connectivity as a priority 3. They fully engage with all the stakeholders and inform them continuously about the changes being brought. They clearly spell out the incoming benefits accruing to the different stakeholders 4. They start training their cutting edge workforce especially in mindset change from the fir...

The Covid Times  This is a time when many we know may have lost their job, losing their business & economically impacted one way or the other. These are Covid  times This is the hour not to be oblivious of our neighbors, friends,colleagues etc. We must connect & ask about their status. In this moment human touch is required more than ever We may not be able to solve all of their problems. We too may be fighting our own battle. But the very essence of talking, conversing & connecting reduces the pain. We never know sometimes the door of opportunities also open up Our leadership is under the test  I feel this is the era where human leadership of each one of us is under test. Every one of us can provide leadership within our own matrix of relationship. Such compounding of leadership can have tremendous mitigating effects Human capacity is limitless. This can be fought if the leadership standards of each one of us are exponentially increased Leadership must give t...

Leadership is influencing Yourself first Classically we understand leadership as the power & influence over others. But I have a different view on the matter & its development stages Actually leadership is the art of influencing & motivating oneself first. We must inspire our own self to accept the responsibilities & the road ahead. There must not exist doubts about our own capacity & mission. We should be a leader to our own self first The influence over our own ideas The 2nd stage is when we have power & influence over our own ideas, vision, goals, directions etc as part of the leadership journey. We must be very clear as to what we intend to do & where we aspire to reach. There must not exist conflicting goals & confused personalities within our own selves The influence over the others  The 3rd stage is when leadership has power of influence & motivation over others. This is the most visible & commonly understood aspect of leader...

The PHL Way  I belief that by using tenets of Philosophy, History & Literature(PHL) we can produce better Leadership. PHL also helps in understanding Leadership in much more humane ways Every leadership propagates certain philosophical intentions in their actions. Their actions have certain historical connotations. When we understand that undertone we can relate it to corresponding relevant literary emotions The idea is that we should focus more on PHL techniques to dissect leadership than mere Mathematical & Statistical tools Understood Leadership from Human Perspective  Leadership is a system of actions & behaviors where the Originator is human & the Receiver too is human. Also the fallout of leadership are human related mostly Thus sense requires that leadership must be understood more from Humanities.. PHL rather than from Natural science eyes Natural science is rigid & demands absolute results. But leadership is not absolute science. There are many ar...

The Deconstruction Concept of Derrida The larger philosophical concepts have intellectual depth to accommodate smaller theories on leadership, change,success etc The “Deconstruction Concept”(DC) of Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) has philosophical elements to help us understand leadership better Lifelong Loyalty Any Ideas are Illogical  The most vital meaning of DC is the proposition that we must not be too loyal to certain ideas, ideology, point of view POV etc so much so that it starts defining us We must also realize that sometimes opposite ideas, ideology, POV etc may be true but our socially, culturally & politically indoctrinated mind refuses to see it DC exhorts us to break the written texts, speech etc to understand the hidden meaning. Sometimes lofty words, theories etc hides the obnoxious truth below it The Aim of DC is to search for truth & not to accept whatever has been propagated & fed to us over centuries even if they are very famous & popular concepts Gr...

We are becoming judgmental In the age of socialmedia  we decide our likes, retweets, re-shares, comments etc within moments We are getting conditioned to value judge people, process, things etc instantly Our Role Models & Villains are decided by mere one post or by one visuals alone It seems we are in a great hurry to decide on everything We do not want to wait, think, ponder, contemplate, inquire, investigate etc on matters of importance Propaganda is deciding for us  Most of the time it is not our mind (intellect) but the eyes (Propaganda ) that are deciding things for us Our Impatience in decision making is forcing us towards culture of Strong Likes & Strong Dislikes The Middle Ground is slowly disappearing The Eye Culture (Visuals) defeating the Mind Culture (Intellect ) is creating “Analytical Infirmity”( AI) in society Leadership must not value judge  Leadership does not come from Mars. They come from society. The increasing AI is inimical for future le...

The Bug of ingenuity Some of us get bitten by the bug of ingenuity. We want to do things differently every time so that we become legends. But unlike Mathematics some problems of life require simple solutions Do not Romance your Problems   We feel that we have to “Think Out of the Box” for every problem. That is not true. Never get trapped in jargon & concepts Focus on solving the Problems. Do not Academically Romance your Problems Most Solutions are simple but we sometimes avoid it for the fear of being labelled unimaginative. Sometimes the solution is so simple that we refuse to believe it to be a solution Somehow we have been taught that most problems require complex solutions. But it is not so. Problems become complex only when it is left to fester like wounds Great leadership is boring Great leaderships are boring. They focus on the Base & the Core They believe that not all Glamorous actions are Great leadership They also accept that not all Great leadership are g...

If You Want to Succeed, Develop Leadership of Mind  If we are asked who Einstein was, almost everyone would answer it correctly.  If asked for what discovery he was awarded the Nobel Prize (NP), most of us will say “The theory of Relativity(TR)” But Einstein received Nobel Prize for the “Photoelectric Effect(PE)” & not for t he theory of Relativity. Why ? Henri Bergson Disputes Einstein TR  The Philosopher Henri Bergson disputed Einstein’s  The theory of Relativity  and said that it belonged more to the realms of Philosophy than Physics The Nobel Prize committee accepted Bergson’s argument. That is why  The theory of Relativity was not considered as a theory of Physics by the Nobel Prize Committee   Albert Einstein became a cult figure worldwide for  The theory of Relativity  & not for the  Photoelectric Effect(PE) Even during the Nobel Prize acceptance speech, he talked about   The theory of Relativity   ...