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Organizational Leadership

Mini Saga – Reward (Or do you feel like being squeezed?)

March 12, 2011

Effective leaders believe in developing their team members. First, they recognize potential in a team member and then do everything possible to make sure that the selected team member play to his/her own limits and reward him/her self, the project and the organization at large. Often team members guess that their boss uses their skills [...]

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Are You Limited by Your Own Creativity (Which used to work earlier but now not)?

March 8, 2011

Though it brings rewards in the end, most of us are afraid of challenging our own thought patterns as if it were an invasive brain surgery. We’re designed this way, right? Wrong. But yes, we’re conditioned this way. Few weeks ago I had a weekend discussion with one of my friends who shares a rare frequency [...]

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Want To Get Promoted? Do You Know How To Navigate Without A Map?

July 29, 2010

When the performance appraisal happens and one colleague is promoted,  many of his co-workers don’t feel good. They compare themselves with him and conclude that their boss favors only who flatters her. Always, that may not be the case. For example, read the below story called Navigate Without a Map. Photo Credit: David Masters’ Flickr photostream [...]

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“Contribute Beyond Your Title…” Finds Place In Several Different Blog Carnivals And Round-ups

June 7, 2010

I’m happy to denote that my post Contribute Beyond Your Title With Assumed Responsibility And Take The Right Decision! – which is a story about a Leader Beyond His Title who led to create a win-win-win situation for the organization, the client and the individual – is selected in several different Blog Carnivals and May-2010 Leadership Round-up [...]

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Contribute Beyond Your Title With Assumed Responsibility And Take The Right Decision!

May 23, 2010

Easier are the decisions where one side is right and the other is wrong however in most situations, leaders do not have that liberty. Instead, they need to choose between the two rights. They are literal sticky situations specifically because each side is strongly embedded in one of the core, elemental paradigms. Here is a [...]

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