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October 19, 2019October 20, 2019

Cultivate a fearless culture in the organization

Every failure is lot of learning and learning is key for the success. Question is can we not learn without the failure, may be. But failure is not bad if you don’t stop there.

You have seen this subject already in many articles on this I do not want to talk about it but I would like to talk about building a culture in the organization to encourage people to take risks without fear of failure which result in loosing your job . Leadership in the organization should be able bring the innovation to accelerate the growth.

If there is a fear about the losing the job due to failure, they will be scared to execute a change. Instead, they try to stick to safest route to save their own ass. It is the dangerous thing to happen to an organization because that organization will die due to the lack of innovation. We have read about the companies like Kodak, Blackberry, Nokia etc. those who forgot/late to make much needed changes.

October 19, 2019October 20, 2019

Egg or Chicken first? I don’t care.. I eat both

Do you see your ideas are not accepted by your management because you are not so experienced as others? If yes, I think it is not right. Experience always play good role in taking decisions and selecting a solution which is right but that should not be limiting in accepting ideas from others.

I just read this below caption from a restaurant in Chennai. It was an interesting caption.

Taken from Parkway Inn Restaurant Chennai

It is important for every team to build a culture to encourage everybody in the team to come up with ideas and award them for the good ideas. It would help the team to be more innovative, innovation is key for success.

What is key for this? Good leadership team who does not think ‘Egg or Chicken First’

August 24, 2019August 25, 2019

I did it, we will do it together now – Dependency Created.

“You cannot run it without Tommy”

We often create dependencies to protect ourselves and show our value in the team. I have seen people go on vacation and his/her colleagues struggle to back him/her up during his vacation due to poor hand over

and knowledge sharing. That leaves the client and leadership team says, “You cannot run it without Tommy” (Tommy is just imaginary Mr. Depended). This isn’t good for the organization, team members and himself. It is the negative way, I wouldn’t want work with such people, and I would not rate Tommy high no matter he is doing his assigned work well. Continue reading “I did it, we will do it together now – Dependency Created.”

June 9, 2019June 9, 2019

You don’t be that FROG in the well.

I remember I learned about a frog that lived in the well. Since frog was in the well entire his life he thought that the Well is the world and there is nothing beautiful than that until the water in the well dried and frog had to come out of it.

We should not be that FROG in the well.

Froginthewell

There are lot of things in the world that we have not learned and seen yet. We must be open to learn. You might be able perform well in your job today. But we need to think about tomorrow. The world is changing too fast, so we need to learn faster and act swiftly to survive in the world.

It is not just about learning, we also need to look around and check are we doing it properly. It this the best of doing? There are 100s of people in the world doing similar stuff differently. It is a challenge to get know about how others are doing. That is where you need to collaborate with others, engage yourself with others in the world, hear other, share your thoughts, arranged hackathons to bring new ideas and encourage openness in the team to bring new thoughts. We never know, the ideas can come from junior in the team. Remember an idea can change your world !!!

Continue reading “You don’t be that FROG in the well.”