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DECEMBER 5, 2023

Trust is the currency of leadership. In their article on HBR titled “Begin with Trust”, authors Anne Morriss and Frances Frei share very interesting stories and insights on how to build trust with others. Trust is at the heart of everything we do in life and in business.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

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! You Can Only Get There From Here – The Art of Intentional Leadership by Scott Mabry.

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JULY 31, 2021

High-impact managers are those who are adept at driving high-level agendas without losing focus on small things (that are actually big things) that go on to define good leadership. In this context, I recently read the article “ 25 Micro-Habits of High-Impact Managers ” that contains some very useful insights from First Round Community.

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APRIL 10, 2023

Updated: Visual Leadership Pack of 65+ HD Sketchnotes If you liked the sketchnote summary above, check out the Visual Leadership Pack of HD Sketchnotes – a compilation of high-resolution sketchnotes with 68+ powerful (and timeless) ideas to elevate your leadership and learning game. Enroll Today!

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JANUARY 24, 2016

Leadership starts with influence and influence starts with trust. Our first instinct as human beings when we assume a leadership role is to show our strength, competence and skills and prove a point about our fitment to the role. Here is a short summary of key insights that stood out for me from the article in a sketch note form.

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MARCH 6, 2016

Ability to tell stories that foster change is a critical leadership skill. In his classic HBR article titled “ Telling Tales ”, Steve Denning outlines seven aims of a good narrative. The article also provides an excellent context of leadership storytelling and offers practical ways to frame your narrative depending on your goals.

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JUNE 1, 2014

Welcome to the June 02nd 2014 Carnival of Leadership Development. I am thankful to carnival leader Dan McCarthy for allowing me to host this event - a wonderful collection of very practical insights on Leadership Development. Dr. Anne Perschel from Germane Insights shares “ The Secret Ingredient of Great Leadership ”.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Effective leadership is about making it worth for them. Credit to Sesil Pir for the term “The Great Awakening” as a way to refer to the phenomenon commonly called “The Great Resignation” Read her Forbes article here. Updated: Visual Leadership Pack of 60+ HD Sketchnotes. Related Posts at QAspire.com.

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JANUARY 30, 2023

Updated: Visual Leadership Pack of 65+ HD Sketchnotes If you liked the sketchnote summary above, check out the Visual Leadership Pack of HD Sketchnotes – a compilation of high-resolution sketchnotes with 68+ powerful (and timeless) ideas to elevate your leadership and learning game.

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JULY 17, 2016

There is no leadership, personal or organizational, without listening. In this respect, I loved reading a recent article on Harvard Business Review titled “ What Great Listeners Actually Do ” by Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman. The article provides an excellent round up of how to truly listen.

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APRIL 14, 2016

There is no real leadership without change. If you are simply “sustaining” what already exists, you are not a leader because real leadership is about change – moving people, processes, outcomes and culture to a better place. In an organizational context, there is no change without some leadership. Leadership: Start With Trust.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In this context, I read a fantastic article by McKinsey titled “ Future proof: Solving the ‘adaptability paradox’ for the long term ” with great interest (HT to Helen Bevan for sharing it). I encourage you to read the full article for insights that definitely need more attention in organizations today.

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JULY 31, 2021

High-impact managers are those who are adept at driving high-level agendas without losing focus on small things (that are actually big things) that go on to define good leadership. Managers are linchpins who have a big impact in building an organizational culture where people thrive.

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OCTOBER 26, 2015

One of the crucial leadership skills for today and future is ability to learn constantly from various high quality sources, synthesizing information and collaborating with a community to get a better grasp of the constantly changing reality. Leaders also need this vital knowledge to scan the horizon and trends to make better decisions.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2013

I was invited to write a series of articles on the topic “ Indispensable Traits of a Collaborative Leader ” for the blog of All India Management Association (AIMA). My first post in the series outlines the foundation of collaborative leadership. Graceful Leadership 101 – in Gujarati language.

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JANUARY 3, 2022

” In her The Washington Post article as well as on Dare to Lead podcast with Brené Brown , she offers valuable guidance on how we can cope with the Pandemic Flux Syndrome and also help others around us cope with it in leadership/organizational context. Updated: Visual Leadership Pack of 60+ HD Sketchnotes.

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APRIL 18, 2023

Updated] Visual Leadership Pack of 68+ HD Sketchnotes If you liked the sketchnote summary above, check out the Visual Leadership Pack of HD Sketchnotes – a compilation of high-resolution and high-signal sketchnotes with 68+ powerful (and timeless) ideas to elevate your leadership and learning game. Enroll Today!

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JANUARY 3, 2022

” In her The Washington Post article as well as on Dare to Lead podcast with Brené Brown , she offers valuable guidance on how we can cope with the Pandemic Flux Syndrome and also help others around us cope with it in leadership/organizational context. I highly recommend that you check them out.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Effective leadership is about making it worth for them. Credit to Sesil Pir for the term “The Great Awakening” as a way to refer to the phenomenon commonly called “The Great Resignation” Read her Forbes article here. Employees, after all, are volunteers who exercise their choice of working with you.

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DECEMBER 19, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Leadership and Maintaining a Positive Outlook Conversations are at the core of good leadership and how/what a leader communicates reveals the personality of the leader. I read this on Twitter recently - conversations are the currency of leadership. Don’t Kill It!

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JULY 16, 2017

Ultimately, leadership is all about ability to act on the ideas. Leadership is a very broad term and leaders in organizations come in all shapes and sizes – from introverted to extraverted, charismatic to simple, people oriented versus task oriented and the differentiation goes on. Leadership: Assessing Organizational Health.

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JANUARY 16, 2011

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Gandhi, Leadership And A Few Lessons On Simplicity I have been a great admirer of Mahatma Gandhi - one of the greatest leaders India has ever produced. I recently visited Sabarmati Ashram , one of the residences of Gandhi, where we got a glimpse into Gandhi’s life as a national leader.

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OCTOBER 31, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Thoughts on Project Leadership and Choices I love project management as a subject not only because it gets so much work done, but also because project management manifests how people operate. I have written before that Projects are a great opportunity to practice leadership. Don’t Kill It!

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JANUARY 5, 2016

In a world that is often described as VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and ambiguous), there are major tectonic shifts that demand a new mindset of leadership. Weave Ecosystems for Human Engagement: One of the biggest leadership challenges is to create an environment that taps into intrinsic motivation of people.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2014

My experience so far suggests that these time-bound and finite interventions fail over a long run in developing leadership capabilities. They needed a change in mindset and not just techniques, process or best practices in leadership. Use of incorrect “make-believe” metrics to gauge effectiveness of leadership development programs.

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JULY 22, 2019

As business theorist Arie de Gues said in his 1988 HBR article titled “ Planning as Learning ”, “We understand that the only competitive advantage the company of the future will have is its managers’ ability to learn faster than their competitors.”. Social Media for Better Leadership and Learning.

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DECEMBER 8, 2009

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Invisible Cost of “Toxic” Leadership Many organizations today are plagued by so-called leaders who don’t carry a leadership mindset. We all know that leadership is a mindset, a way of thinking and attitude. It has little to do with title/designation.

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AUGUST 31, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Great Leadership: Beware of These Nine I’s I wrote earlier about Nine I’s and Great Leadership. Ineffective : Leadership delivers performance. Tip : For a better understanding and correlation, read this post along with my earlier post Nine I’s and Great Leadership.

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APRIL 21, 2013

We often see humans behaving like ostriches in families, teams and in leadership positions. and I am glad to have contributed to the first edition in form of my article “The Passion Equation” (read web version or read full article in magazine , page 24). - – – – -. Photo Courtesy: National Geographic.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer #QUALITYtweet at Reflection Leadership (Thanks to Tom Glover) Tom Glover is a “Leadership Friend” who hosts Reflection Leadership Blog. I came to know Tom via our common leadership community over at Twitter. I sent him a copy of #QUALITYtweet for review a few months back.

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JANUARY 17, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Book Review: The Leadership Test by Timothy R. Clark Businesses today are plagued by people who are "installed" in leadership positions just because of their prior performance as a "worker" I have seen some excellent technical brains failing miserably as project leaders.

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APRIL 8, 2013

and I am glad to have contributed to the first edition in form of my article “The Passion Equation” (read web version or read full article in magazine , page 24). Great Quotes Improvement & Development In 100 Words Leadership Managing Career Self Growth conformance conformity Differentiation groupthink'

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MARCH 15, 2016

Before leadership be effective, it has to be true. And the truth of leadership is essentially human. If we have to raise the bar of leadership, we need to first cultivate truer leadership at the core. In the same post, he offers 5 timeless qualities of true leadership.

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AUGUST 31, 2018

Friday Five is where I curate five articles (with excerpts)/quotes/tweets/visuals shared on my personal learning network that I found particularly useful, and hopefully you will find some of them valuable too! 5 Questions to Surface Your Leadership Beliefs. This edition features insights on slow media, the downsides of speed reading.

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APRIL 2, 2017

I encourage you to read the full post and here are my visual notes from the same article. It adds on to the ideas we have explored further and provides fresh perspective on how to catalyze learning within teams.

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MAY 7, 2017

Effective leadership that works hard to build trust, respects people, engages in seamless conversations and treats people as colleagues and not as “resources” goes a long way in building a performance culture. This article originally appeared as Cover Story in PeopleMatters Magazine April 2017 Edition. It is all around us.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2016

If you are undergoing a large scale transformation or planning for one, I highly recommend ThoughtWorks article titled “ Seven Pitfalls to Avoid During Organizational Transformation ” with insights from Anupam Kundu and Tarang Baxi. This article also features my sketch note summarizing the ideas presented. Related Posts at QAspire.

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