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The Learning & Development Change Grid, by Don Taylor

April 14, 2014
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| Categories: curated content, L&D, Leadership, Learning, learning & development, learning and development, learning department, Training, Training Manager

Donald H Taylor, chairman of LPI, LSG & the Learning Technologies conference explains how Learning and Development Departments need to change their attitude to risk in order to keep pace with the rest of the business in today's modern world. He describes 4 quadrants in which L&D departments fit: Learning Leadership, Unacknowledged Prophet, Comfortable Extinction and The Training Ghetto and explains how and why all L&D departments should join the quadrant of Learning Leadership.

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False Positives by David Small

April 13, 2014
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| Categories: constructive feedback, curated content, feedback, Leadership, Management, negative feedback, positive feedback, team leadership

A great post by David Small on Dan McCarthy's blog Great Leadership about serving your team with honesty, even when it’s uncomfortable."How often do we have members of our team that we say “good job” too, even though we know they could be doing better? Did you know you could be doing more harm then good by not pointing out their shortcomings? Here are four tips to build up your team without giving them false positives."Read the full post False Positives.Author bio:David Small is the author of the bestselling book The Wandering…

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Lessons in Professionalism

May 25, 2013
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| Categories: Leadership, Learning, Management, professionalism, reflections

I  love watching Grey’s Anatomy, an American television medical drama series. While the human drama in the series makes it a gripping watch, what I find really amazing is the professionalism of characters in the series. The surgeons and interns are intensely competitive, and yet are completely professional about their jobs, irrespective of the positions they hold, or not hold for that matter.I feel there are many life management lessons to be learned from the series. What do you do when a peer becomes your boss? What do you do…

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Delivery Led or Sales Led Redux

April 23, 2013
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| Categories: business, delivery, leader, Leadership, Management

About two years ago I had pondered over the question of who is a better leader for business. Is it someone rooted in delivery and operations or someone with a sales background ( http://manishmo.blogspot.in/2011/01/delivery-led-or-sales-led.html)? I think for a business to really grow, the leader has to be sales led. Having a sales oriented leader is all the more critical when the organization is in the business of service delivery. Perhaps in a products business where the product is evolving, a delivery oriented leader who is entrenched in product development and…

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Storytelling: Transforming through tales!

February 17, 2013
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| Categories: Animals, Beliefs, Devdutt Patnaik, Humans, Leadership, Meaning, NASSCOM, Storytelling

Another great session I attended at NASSCOM ILF 2013 was by Devdutt Patnaik. Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik is an Indian physician turned leadership consultant, mythologist and author whose works focus largely on the areas of myth, mythology, and also management. He has written a number of books related to Hindu mythology. He is the chief belief officer of Future Group, one of India’s largest retailers, bringing the wisdom of Indian mythology into Indian business, especially in human resource management. He writes a column for the newspaper MiD DAY. There are many…

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Listening to Industry Leaders

February 17, 2013
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| Categories: Cross Border Leadership, FDI, Leadership, Managing cultural differences in business, Managing cultures, NASSCOM, R Gopalakrishnan, Social Media, Trade unions, Vineet Nayar

It was great listening to industry leaders in this year's NASSCOM India Leadership Forum. One of the sessions I enjoyed was listening to Vineet Nayar and R Gopalakrishnan. While the session was titled Cross Border Leadership, the discussion was not limited to that.Vineet Nayar is Vice Chairman and Joint Managing Director of HCL Technologies Ltd., a $4.3 billion global information technology services company and author of the highly acclaimed management book “Employees First, Customers Second". R Gopalakrishnan is an Executive Director with one of the largest Indian business groups - Tata Sons, a…

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Firing is Easy

July 1, 2012
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| Categories: appraisal, constructive feedback, feedback, firing people, HR, Leadership, making people succeed, Management, negative feedback, people, people management, performance, performance management, Success, Work

We mostly hear how hard it is to give negative feedback and fire people. I have been wondering about this. Yes giving negative feedback is hard and firing people is harder. However come to think of it, actually this is a easiest thing. We are all critical of others and so giving negative feedback comes naturally. We more often than not, find it easier to find mistakes rather than appreciate what's going on well. And if a subordinate isn't working out, firing is an easy way out. The work pressures…

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Delivery Led or Sales Led

January 26, 2011
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| Categories: business, Leadership, Management, Ponder, Question

I have been wondering about this for a while now. What’s better for a business – to be delivery focused or to be sales focused?  Who’s a better business leader – a delivery focused leader or a sales focused leader? I know of companies bracketed as being sales focused or delivery focused. Sales led/focused companies are known for their aggressive attitude towards grabbing business, at any cost, at any promise, irrespective of its delivery capabilities. Deliver led/focused companies are known to be more focused on selling only what they can…

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Would You Get Your Boss Promoted?

November 10, 2010
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| Categories: Boss, Leadership, Promotion

I have never come across a post that talks about getting your boss promoted. So this post by Dan McCarthy is a refreshing change. We don’t seem to like our bosses, managers are always complete nincompoops, idiots who seem to have gotten where they are because of anything but competence. Everyone rushes to the ‘rescue’ of the poor worker from the clutches of the incompetent ‘manager’.So why would you even want to think about getting your boss promoted? Dan provides useful insight. He says:I’ll bet when you worked for a…

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How to Become a Thought Leader – Part 2

November 10, 2010
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| Categories: Brand management, Branding, Leadership, Management, Thought Leader

Sometime back I had written about how to become a thought leader in three easy steps. Dorie Clark takes it a step further in detailing it out. She provides some useful tips on how you can share your thoughts and be publicly recognized as a thought leader. She recommends following the six steps to jump-start your thought leadership:Create a robust online presenceFlaunt high-quality affiliationsGive public speechesAppear on TVWin some awardsPublish a bookRead her full post on HBR Blogs.

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