1. …speak only what everybody wants to hear;
2. …trust the wisdom of the crowd;
3. …generally have excuses ready for not doing something that matters;
4. …are afraid to get out of the status-quo;
5. …are reactive, almost always;
6. …never question the decisions you’ve taken in the past;
7. …believe that they don’t understand.

Start being exceptional instead – Being exceptional begins with presuming absolute personal responsibility of your actions and their consequences.

See Also:

1. Look for a Mediocre Profile Who Has Low Self-Esteem
2. Have you become enough experienced, Huh?
3. To Make a Difference…
4. Software Professional, Are You Developing Yourself As An Aspiring Mediocre?
5. A Better Way to Deal with Situations Worth Complaining About

1. Look for a Mediocre Profile Who Has Low Self-Esteem
2. Have you become enough experienced, Huh?
3. To Make a Difference…
4. Software Professional, Are You Developing Yourself As An Aspiring Mediocre?
5. A Better Way to Deal with Situations Worth Complaining About

That’s the question you need to ask post each confrontation.

Sure, it’s a powerful tool in bringing your team members to the next level but pausing and measuring the progress is even more important.

Confrontation is more of a cost v/s benefits issue so measurement is required. And, the thing about progress is that the progress will be always positive if you let it.

Key here is to look dispassionately at the whole set of confrontation events and take corrective actions whatever those might be.

What’s the point of continuing an activity if there are no returns?

…no matter what your business is.

Leading a Business is unlike any other role of an organization, because it’s always dissimilar.

Unstructured, unpredictable, atypical…a right brain activity.

No predefined set of rules or guidelines are much of help because everyone leads their business differently, and what flourishing business leaders have in common is that they are flourishing.

The only way you and your organization is going to make a difference in the market is the way you lead.

Not by reading some leadership books, attending some leadership courses or following external expert’s advice.

What works for you and your market might not work for other business leaders or their market.  It’s like playing your own inning of your chosen game.

Find your own articulatio because business is not a Ph.D. thesis that can be copied from somewhere.

See Also:

1. You Don’t Need Your Own Business to Become an Entrepreneur
2. Your Business Is Thriving If…10
3. Distinctions of Landmark Forum
4. Three Vital Business Processes For IT Companies That Surmount

1. You Don’t Need Your Own Business to Become an Entrepreneur
2. Your Business Is Thriving If…10
3. Distinctions of Landmark Forum
4. Three Vital Business Processes For IT Companies That Surmount

There are a few grounds to stand a team member who makes inordinate requests:

• You anticipated you would;
• His skills are peerless;
• He’s a great grapeviner – has good political influence that you think would help you one day;
• Consequences of informing the client that you’ve sacked him are much worse ;
• He’s indispensible…

It’s probably worth sacking a team member if:

• He intentionally spoils inter-team relationships;
• Your project is suffering from him doing less than great work consistently;
• He’s politically unwise – makes you vulnerable;
• He diverts you from creating win-win-win for the customer, your company and your team members;
• He’s easily replaceable…

Many a time, leaders are afraid to sack their team members, no matter how inordinate or unreasonable their requests are.

Much stupid is to forget that the cost of NOT doing the right thing is ALWAYS to be paid, with interest.

See Also:

1. Zen of Team Handling for Software Projects
2. How To Inaugurate Effectiveness In Your Project Team
3. How Team Relationships Are Affecting Your Ongoing Projects?
4. If You Want to Have a Great Project Team
5. More On Better Team Relationships 12

1. Zen of Team Handling for Software Projects
2. How To Inaugurate Effectiveness In Your Project Team
3. How Team Relationships Are Affecting Your Ongoing Projects?
4. If You Want to Have a Great Project Team
5. More On Better Team Relationships 12

Often, Delivering is burdened with threats and perils.

Every time you stand up, send a text message, write a piece of software code, publish a blog post or write a tweet, you’re exposing yourself to disparagement. Not just disparagement, but the possible negative consequences that come with your actions.

It’s no wonder why most of us are afraid to deliver.

It’s uncertain if you are provided with more options, though. A life spent in safe harbor of the known seems less risky, but in fact, avoiding change and living a passive life is the most dangerous home for a human.

Considering the pace at the world moves, It’s certain that a passive, delivery-less life would turn out to be failure sooner than later.

You can’t get away with Delivering, then why to deliver passively?

While climbing the mountain, everyone gets exhausted. The winner is the mountaineer who unriddles how to lead the process of being exhausted and how to release is after the mountain is climbed up. Sure, he’s exhausted. Everyone is. That’s not the point. The point is to mount.

Learn how to bring harmony in the process of getting exhausted. Keep delivering despite all the odds.

See Also:

1. I’m not a project manager. Why do I need to learn project management?
2. Smart as a Whip 101
3. Are You (too) Searching for Someone to Check Your Work?

1. I’m not a project manager. Why do I need to learn project management?
2. Smart as a Whip 101
3. Are You (too) Searching for Someone to Check Your Work?

Look at 2012 from a different lens, COMMITMENT, not just a plan is required to make a difference.

1. Keep complaining
2. Be a Yes-man
3. Take shortcuts
4. Do not tell the truth
5. Threaten your people
6. Operate in your own silos
7. Offer compelling excuses
8. Opt for short-term, sacrificing the long-term
9. Show respect only to strong people, not to all.
10. Do not show your gratitude publically
11. Keep shouting on subordinates

Become aware of how you behave. Everyone around you anyways notices it.

See Also:

1. Weakness 17
2. My Happy Clients 12
3. Know how to walk first, running comes later.
4. Effective listening leads to effective actions and thus, better execution!
5. What Matters to You? Beiing Nice or Being Honest?

1. Weakness 17
2. My Happy Clients 12
3. Know how to walk first, running comes later.
4. Effective listening leads to effective actions and thus, better execution!
5. What Matters to You? Beiing Nice or Being Honest?