Running a business (organization) is brutal, it is a sprint and a marathon in quick successions. Sai Kumar Chandran “The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.” – Steve Jobs One such bunch of crazy people are all the people who own or run businesses. …
Managing Business: A fine balance between Leadership and Management Read More »
Sai Kumar Chandran Success has many forms and faces. Success has many definitions. At the same time, in all open and fair discussions on what brought success or can bring success: a part of the credit for success will go to the person or the people involved and at the same time, some credit will …
Sai Kumar Chandran “The result of bad communication is the disconnection between strategy and execution.” Chuk Martin, former VP, IBM To pick up a question from here, “How badly does this impact organizations?”. Search popular business literature, and you will find that only about 10 – 15 % of organizations achieve all their strategic objectives, …
High Performing Teams –
A key to Strategic Success Read More »
Sai Kumar Chandran In our communities, institutions, and organizations today, there is a unique opportunity and space available for each one of us to occupy. This unique opportunity and space are about living in a progressive way, while positively influencing the rhythm and culture of things happening around us. This approach is about contributing purposefully …
Have you ever wondered, or wondered lately: What’s the world I am living in? What’s this world becoming? If you haven’t, pause now and ask these questions. And then, carry on reading as I help you make some sense of it, with the meaning I have been able to extract. The world around us has …
Dealing with a TODAV World, Developing a MIDAS Approach Read More »
Sai Kumar Chandran I was in a series of conversations with some leaders recently, and we were discussing how some senior and middle level professionals are more successful than others. Our conversations were centring around, what made these leaders more successful than the others! We looked at a variety of reasons: from education, to experience, …
Build a Leadership Fraternity at your peer level to succeed faster Read More »
Sai Kumar Chandran The English word politics has its roots in the name of Aristotle’s classic work, Politiká, which introduced the Greek term politiká. In this book, Aristotle discussed the city (πόλις : polis) or “political community” as opposed to other types of communities and partnerships such as the household and village. Eventually, the word …
Dealing with Politics around you – The ABCDEF Approach Read More »
Sai Kumar Chandran The world we live in, has four pursuits that a vast majority of us are stuck in (I won’t make an educated guess on the percentage, but will stick to saying a vast majority). These are: A pursuit of material possessions or materials for survival A pursuit of means to achieve the …
What is destroying psychological safety, change agility and collaboration agility? Read More »
Sai Kumar Chandran “Learning is not a one-time event or a periodic luxury. Great leaders in great companies recognize that the ability to constantly learn, innovate, and improve is vital to their success.” – Amy Edmondson in Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy Formal and informal learning can lead to insights; and it …
Why do leaders and professionals need to develop their capabilities? Read More »
Sai Kumar Chandran One of the greatest advantages for an organization that succeeds in combining a sharp strategy, a well-tuned culture, and a high-functioning leadership team is that they get their collective approach to excellence right. And it is such organizations that attain Collective Strategic Success – a phenomenon where the entire organization is doing well, and consistently exceeds …
