Most people confuse leadership with management, especially among the executives in organisations. The only real challenge to achieving great leadership is to understand it. Most managers and leaders are lost in mistaken business beliefs and practices inherited from the industrial and factory model of management. Kamil presents a solution in his book Separating Grain from […]
If you are going to fail, fail quickly, but if you are going to succeed, do it steadily. I heard the first part of this statement from someone, but I have decided to complete the second part. Quick success often turns into a failure overnight, but a culmination of success is gained accumulatively. It is […]
Great leaders are those who found their purpose, created meaning for their lives and inspired others to transform theirs. They are part of a mission that is bigger than themselves. Such leaders are fully aware that their organizations can have an impact not only within their organizations but socially, environmentally, economically, and globally. This is […]
If a farm experiences poor crop yields for many seasons, it means three things: the quality of the seeds may be bad, the environment is not suitable for farming, or the farmer crops’ cultivation is not proper. Similarly, if a business has been in a state of continuous decline, it means three things: the foundation […]
Is there a guaranteed outcome? Certainly no, embracing this no allows you to embrace the risk in any given situation. Understanding that there is a risk does not mean that you are accepting the risk. This is what it means to think in probabilities. Since the outcomes are not always guaranteed, it means that there […]
Developing the organization means developing the leaders in the organization. Leaders should be humble enough to understand that they cannot move an inch in developing their organizations unless they develop themselves first.
Companies are full of managers whose ability to inspire and drive positive change in people’s lives is extremely limited. Managers know how to manage reports, capital, and assets, but they do not know anything about the business of inspiration. How do they lead and inspire people? They are inexperienced in the way they inspire and […]
Ultimately, a leader’s job is merely to inspire people to do great things and look after them while doing so. If you are not that leader, then it is advisable to reconsider your leadership. It does not cost money to do that, but it does require a radical behavioral change in putting people first before […]
If you are 100% focused on what greatly matters, the result will be certainly amazing. A little distraction weakens your position. Some people are good multitaskers. Is their final product outstanding or mediocre? This is the question that measures their output. The best strategy is focus. Are you focused on what matters?
Working with different organizations in reassessing their cultures and empowering their people, I have reached a conclusion that the major causes of failure that are found in most organizations can be cascaded down to two: The overwhelming influence of management thinking. The inability to understand and apply the right model of leadership. Do you think […]
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