September, 2016

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Friday Five: The Art of Intentional Leadership

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Friday Five is a new weekly series at QAspire where I curate five articles (with excerpts)/quotes/tweets/visuals shared on my personal learning network each week that I found particularly useful, and hopefully you will find some of them valuable too! This edition features insights on authentic leadership, change, rationality and transformation. Quote Via Neil Walker.

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5 Cā€™s for Great Talent

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What do you look for when you look for talent? Competence is the key to solving problems but competence alone is not sufficient for success. In current context, I would define talent as a combination of competence, commitment, learning agility, attitude/character, communication skills, ability to collaborate across different cultures, critical thinking and creative problem solving.

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In 100 Words: Finding Inspiration

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We either wait for inspiration to happen to us or try finding it from somewhere (books/blogs/videos etc). I have spent countless hours trying to wait or find inspiration. It helped, but only for a short while. A better way to create inspiration, in my experience, is to get down to doing things. Once you dedicate yourself to the cycle of doing, delivering and improving, that becomes the source of your inspiration, the one that feeds more inspiration.

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Making Work More Effective

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Here is what leaders often do ā€“ when faced with a complex situation at work, they add procedures, rules and structures to make things more complex. What we need to handle complex challenges is simplicity that leads to effectiveness. Simon Terry , whose thinking I really admire, write a short post titled ā€œ Five Ways to Make Work More Effective ā€ offering vital ideas about efficient work.

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The Neo-Generalist

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The books I love the most are not the ones that offer off-the-shelf ā€œsolutionsā€ but ones that start a conversation, catalyze thinking, elevate understanding and help in thinking about a topic in novel ways. And thatā€™s why I loved reading ā€œ The Neo-Generalist ā€ by Kenneth Mikkelsen and Richard Martin. It is a book that bridges the gap between two extremes of specialism and generalism and introduces a neo-generalist as: ā€œThe neo-generalist is both specialist and generalist, often able to master mu

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Friday Five: The Philosophy of Management

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Friday Five is a weekly series at QAspire where I curate five articles (with excerpts)/quotes/tweets/visuals shared on my personal learning network each week that I found particularly useful, and hopefully you will find some of them valuable too! This edition features insights on the softer aspects of leading others and why they are so important and on how streams are changing the way we lead and learn.

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Nobody Rises To Low Expectations

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If you are dealing with a mediocre team or average performance from people, check what you are expecting from them. People respond to expectations (implicit and explicit) and raising the bar of expectations is a great way to enable growth and potential in people. Raising Expectations Doesnā€™t Mean Pressurizing People. Setting high expectation means providing clarity of purpose, helping people find meaning of their work, helping them see what success looks like and then helping them along the way.

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