Category Archives: Leadership

Book Review: It Happened In India

Posted on May 1, 2012 by RK

Long ago, Devdutt Pattanaik amazed me with his interpretation of mythology and how it can be put to use in business context. He was working as the Chief Belief Officer for Future Group, which is when I first read about … Continue reading →

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What’s your secret sauce?

Posted on March 14, 2012 by RK

To be of any relevance to other people, especially in business, you have to have a secret sauce. You may say it is your skill, your flair, your attitude, your perseverance, your sociability, your networked-ness, your professionalism or any combination … Continue reading →

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Job of a CEO

Posted on October 10, 2011 by RK

Reed Hastings, CEO of NetFlix, already committed multiple mistakes by making unplanned and abrupt changes to the pricing structure for its DVD and streaming based movie rental services. Consumers and investors don’t like uncertainty; and showing the path to future … Continue reading →

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Executive Mistakes

Posted on September 19, 2011 by RK

I felt the CEO of NetFlix attempted to make a connection with his customers in a personal sort of way, when he sent that letter of apology with some brutally-honest-sounding words in the message. Not long ago, if you remember, the … Continue reading →

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Organizational Roles

Posted on April 14, 2011 by RK

We call ourselves different things – analysts, programmer, customer service agent, chief executive officer, project manager, plumber, technician, accountant, auditor, baby-sitter, doctor, judge, evangelist and so on. If you strip the perks and grades, power and glory, territory size and … Continue reading →

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Leadership and Truth

Posted on October 14, 2010 by RK

Truth. One of the most powerful concepts intellectual human beings pursue in their lives. Yet for too many, this is a myth and unresolved debate. Of the many definitions, one that is prominent is the concept of subjective truth and … Continue reading →

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Leadership found here

Posted on August 21, 2010 by RK

Here’s a story I heard. I dont know if its a true story, but it brings goosebumps to me. Its leadership defined. Magnanimity in action. Empathy in its purest form. Queen Victoria was once at a diplomatic reception in London . … Continue reading →

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What do you seek?

Posted on July 20, 2010 by RK

You can be a programmer or a manager. You can be an airplane mechanic or somebody that flies it. You can be a painter or a clerk or a messenger or a typist. None of that matter. Even the tools, … Continue reading →

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What if you train your employees and they leave?

Posted on July 19, 2010 by RK

This is a question I saw written on a placard-like thing in an IT department head’s office. As organizations are forced into allocating more and more money in their training budgets, do they really have an answer to this question? … Continue reading →

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Have you exhausted your options?

Posted on July 6, 2010 by RK

This is the one question every single person ought to themselves at their every juncture in life. Every juncture where they think life played the wrong card on them. People face challenges of all kinds – some trivial, some catastrophic. … Continue reading →

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