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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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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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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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 …
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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 …
Sai Kumar Chandran To being with, Built by the Organization, means producing our products or services which a customer/consumer pays for. And Organization Building, means creating the Structure, Staffing, Systems, Processes and Dynamics of the organization that creates the product or service. Before we dive right in, let me set a context first on Organization …
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If a good strategy were a well-designed automobile, a great culture would be its purpose-built engine and outstanding Leadership would be its steering, transmission, and braking systems. With that vision of how these three pillars of an organization are linked, I invite you to understand, how I arrived at this conclusion. Sai Kumar Chandran Strategy …
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