Leading the Transformation

This story, authored by Jeff Haden , was originally published by Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Happiness—in your business life and your personal life—is often a matter of subtraction, not addition. Consider, for example, what happens when you stop doing the following 10 things: 1. Blaming. People make mistakes. Employees don't meet your expectations. Vendors don't deliver on time. So you blame them for your problems. But you're also to blame. Maybe you didn't provide enough training. Maybe you didn't build in enough of a buffer. Maybe you asked too much, too soon. Taking responsibility when things go wrong instead of blaming others isn't masochistic, it's empowering—because then you focus on doing things better or smarter next time. And when you get better or smarter, you also get happier. 2. Impressing. No one likes you for your clothes, your car, your possessions, your title, or your accomplishments. Those a...

Words from a visionary, now known as Apple Jobs, are just so fitting in our lives. Recently I was listening to one of his most famous speeches at Stanford and with every sentence he was making more and more sense. There are so many things in life that we just settle thinking we may not get what we love and because ultimately we quit, we take it as a truth that thing was never meant for us. You aspire for a job and you try hard but just before the finish line you give up OR you want to marry a girl but couldn’t convince her to convince her parents and you lose hope just before your test was about to finish OR you are just running a marathon but you just stop in the half way because one part of your mind has lost to other part. There are so many examples in our life that we just leave on our fate. I can’t say we are wrong every time but few of those circumstances could be converted into fulfilling your dream. So what I get from this is … Keep looking, work for the best … but be ready fo...

What is the best you can give to your subordinates? Somebody recently asked me this question. My answer was "support". As a manager or leader nothing else but the feeling of somebody who is standing by them can win the confidence of your subordinates. Anytime, you expose your subordinate in front of people higher in the hierarchy for any wrong reasons; understand that the confidence that sub ordinate had in you is diminished by a degree. At many occasions, you might find that your subordinate has made a mistake; here our responsibility is not to expose him or her but to take the ownership of that mistake on our shoulders. If a subordinate doesn't learn from his/her past mistakes it is utmost important that we understand the root cause behind that. We should exercise the last option of escalating the problem to our bosses only if we have tried all other resorts. As a manager, you should not only be approachable but also be seen so. You should understand and empathize with ...