Category: Leadership – To Be A Good Leader

Leaders have a problem – is the team really following you? Just because everyone seems to be moving in the same direction does not mean that everyone is on the same team! The Chinese has a very nice saying for this “Same bed, different dreams” Of course, that saying originally pointed at broken marriages, but…

Sometimes, it is better to follow than to lead. You see, when you are walking behind, it is the person in front who has to watch out for the pot-holes, push aside the obstacles, watch out that we are all going in the right direction and keep everyone cheerfully trudging along! In this sixth of…

This is the fifth part of our Leadership series. When we grow up and enter the workforce, we heaved a sigh of relieve; no more exams! If we only knew better. The world today moves at a break-neck pace. It is not just machinery that experience obsolescence in today’s business world. You, with all your…

This is the fourth part of our Leadership series. It is being a leader sometimes. Just think about it, there you are, driving for hours and then suddenly, without mercy comes the shrill echoes “Are we there yet!?” It is so strange. Are we not all in that same car, travelling the same road, going…

This is the third part of my leadership series. Links to the first two parts at the end of this post. If you have ever been lost going through MacArthur’s Maze or the New Jersey Turnpike, you know the value of having a map. Better yet, if someone who knows where he is going sits…

This is the second installment on Leadership. If you missed the first one, you can read it here: “Leadership – Articulate your Personal Values as a Leader“. It is so easy to talk. Afterall, it’s only words. Yet, these same words can come back and haunt you in the worse way. As a leader, this…

This is the first of a ten-part series on being a good leader. Over the years, we have read and learnt a lot about being a good leader. More importantly, we have actually experienced suffering under bad leaders and blossoming under good leaders. All this will either make you seek vengeance or to vow to…