It’s going to get increasingly tougher to standout by being robotic when there are real robots buzzing around. Surely, machines will be better at any work that requires repeatability, learning and spotting patterns.
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5 steps towards re-organizing your team for high performance
Leading a group of people towards a common objective is tough. It constantly requires you to evaluate your decisions based on various changes. Sometimes, it requires restructuring your team to achieve a higher objective.
You may be driven towards a re-org because of many reasons.
If cofounders are such a pain, why do you really need them?
I have always found that when you announce your intentions, people will join you on your journey. A moving train going somewhere is more appealing than the one that's going nowhere.
What your founder wants you to know
Much has been said about entrepreneurs. But not so much about people who work with them.
It must be crazy to work founders. Sometimes they want this. Then that. Sometimes they say this. And then they do completely something else.
Experiments in tribe building
In 2011, Ivan Owen created a puppet-hand to attend a steampunk convention. Seeing his video on YouTube, Richard a carpenter from South Africa wrote him an email. Richard had lost his fingers and was interested in collaborating to create an artificial hand for himself.
To grow as a leader, be a sherpa
How do you grow beyond yourself? With the same amount of time, how do you get more done? Without burning yourself out.
Before we answer that, let's explore the path to leadership. Years ago, we created this 'growth formula' for ourselves in our company.
What if you allowed boredom to take you a little deeper?
In this day of excitement, we love change. Because it's easy to change. Whether jobs or phones or clothes. We want a constant stimulus. This and that. Here and there.
But what if we really did nothing more? And we stayed bored.
What holds up career growth
We have these notions of careers. Of course, most of them are acquired. A couple of decades ago, an entire generation wanted to be Jack Welch. Then a decade back, we wanted to be Steve Jobs. And now we slurp Elon Musk.
Pause before the year ends...for yourself and your team
In that period between end-and-beginning, there's a chance to shift gears. To progress in the direction that we want to. Individually and organizationally.
Yes, healthcare is spiraling out of balance. But can we counter that?
I don't know if you see this but healthcare is spiraling out of balance. Perhaps into self-destruction.
Our industry is a mess. And it's costing us dearly.
How? You ask.
Big meeting coming up? Here are 5 things to reflect on
That meeting is finally happening.
You are all over your prospect's LinkedIn page. You Google everything there is. And you prepare what you're going to say. You list out resistances. And think of counter arguments.
And yet...when the meeting finally happens, nothing happens.
Welcome to the age of collective soul-searching
Don't you sense a shift in people's expectations from their careers (and life)? Consider these observations that seem to be happening with greater frequency.
Let's not be weird. Just because we are so professional
This is the thing of our times.To create distinct spaces out of our lives. One for our professional selves. The other for personal. And many more in between. Suppressing our real-selves so much that we become confused about who we really are.