Strategy, Culture & Leadership

Four Key Steps to Enhance Quality of Revenue

Entering the cycle of QOR sometimes takes a higher order capability or switching to a different capability. In the last 10 years, enough has been said about QOR (Quality of Revenue) and how high-quality revenue enhances bottom lines, ensures sustainable profits, and gives higher shareholder returns. But a common question many have is: Where do we …

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Quality of Revenue is Worth Pursuing

Once revenue comes – pivoting to quality of revenue is critical. Sai Kumar Chandran Running a business effectively and efficiently to maximize revenue is critical. No business can survive without it. However, in the last 15 years, management pundits have increased their call to action on another subject: Quality of Revenue. Whether you are a product …

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Managing Business: A fine balance between Leadership and Management

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. …

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High Performing Teams –
A key to Strategic Success

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, …

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Who is a ‘Responsible Leader’?

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 …

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Build a Leadership Fraternity at your peer level to succeed faster

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, …

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Dealing with Politics around you – The ABCDEF Approach

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 …

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What is destroying psychological safety, change agility and collaboration agility?

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 …

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