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5 Simple (But Not Easy) Steps Every Manager Can Take To Improve Work Culture

Sep 10, 2020 | Coaching, Deploy Yourself, Leadership and Management | 0 comments

If you are lucky enough to be someone’s employer, then you have a moral obligation to make sure people do look forward to coming to work in the morning. – John Mackey I have been leading teams for 12 years in companies such as Yahoo, Booking.com, etc in India...

3 Ways Strong Leaders Manage Intimidating Employees With Poise and Confidence

Aug 15, 2020 | Deploy Yourself, Leadership and Management | 0 comments

If you are a leader or manage a team, it is not uncommon to come across someone in your team who intimidates you. This might be because they are better than you in a particular skill and that brings your insecurities to the fore. Or it might be because the person...

Busting The Myth of Individual Performance. A Radical New Equation For Improving Performance At Work

Jul 30, 2020 | Deploy Yourself, Leadership and Management | 1 comment

What causes employees to put themselves between a customer and bullets from a terrorist attack? It is very difficult to imagine anybody valuing their work so much that they put their lives at stake to protect customers. Yet, that is what many employees of the Taj...

Tired Of Outdated Processes In Your Organisation? Here Is A Step by Step Guide To Change or Remove Them

Jul 25, 2020 | Leadership and Management | 2 comments

Why would a monkey not go after a bunch of bananas placed within his reach? An experimenter puts 5 monkeys in a cage. High up at the top of the cage is a bunch of bananas. Underneath the bananas is a ladder.   The monkeys immediately spot the bananas and one begins to...

Do You Know the People Behind Your Colleagues? And 5 Reasons Why It Matters

Jun 9, 2020 | Deploy Yourself, Leadership and Management | 0 comments

I stood next to my car door, stunned and frozen in place. I had just walked out of my workplace to leave when a stranger walked up to me and casually handed me a large, white envelope. Divorce papers. My children were waiting at a friend’s house for me to fetch them....

How To Get Rid of Impostor Syndrome and Make Confidence a Habit

Mar 10, 2020 | Emotional Intelligence, Leadership and Management | 0 comments

Bryan, an 18-year-old, graduated high school at the top of his class. He then headed off to attend Columbia University. Now, Bryan feels petrified. He is convinced that the admissions department at Columbia has made a terrible mistake. He feels he does not deserve to...

How to Have Career Development Conversations With Your Employees? or How to Care for Your People?

Mar 29, 2019 | Coaching, Deploy Yourself, Leadership and Management | 1 comment

One of the most fundamental human needs we all share is to make meaningful progress in what we are doing. At the workplace this means knowing how does the road ahead looks, and how can we learn and grow to the next milestone on that road. If you lead people, you can...

The Distinction Between Meaningless Activity and Meaningful Actions, And Why It Can Make All The Difference

Apr 20, 2018 | Coaching, Deploy Yourself, Leadership and Management | 0 comments

In today’s age of always-connected devices and nonstop notifications, we all have more to do each day than the hours can fit. Crossing items off the to-do list always feels good and gives one a feeling of accomplishment, but have we ever stopped and asked ourselves...

Have You Discovered Your Leadership Lighthouse? Why Should You?

Apr 20, 2018 | Deploy Yourself, Leadership and Management | 0 comments

A Global World Today, we live in a globalized world which is more connected than ever before, and the movement of people and goods has never been easier. It is driven by economics and money, and it is possible to sit on your couch and order what you want from the...

Five Things A Leader Must Do By Default

Mar 8, 2017 | Deploy Yourself, Leadership and Management, Life | 0 comments

In today’s corporate environment, after a few years of doing your job well enough, chances are that you will be asked to step up and lead a team. You trained and studied to be good at your job, and now getting to manage people seems like a reward for a job well done....

Investing in Yourself and Making Powerful Choices

Nov 11, 2016 | Deploy Yourself, Leadership and Management, Life | 1 comment

John was pushing on the gas as he didn’t want to be late for this meeting. If he can crack this deal, it would be a game changer for his company, and he had worked hard for it. But just as he was visualising what he would say in the meeting, his car engine fell silent...

The Only Real Opponent You Have, In Work or in Life, Is Yourself

Jul 2, 2012 | Deploy Yourself, Leadership and Management, Life | 3 comments

Mahatama Gandhi once said – “As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.” And indeed, it is one of the greatest myths of this world that we have to...
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  • Leadership Journeys [19] – Prakash Palani – “My leadership style is, people comes first, everything else follows.”
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