If there is a recurring problem in an organisation, it means either the leaders do not see it as a problem or it is not important enough or they are apathetic. Like Chennai and rains.Chennai(and other costal TN regions), which has water shortage throughout the year, loves rain, as long as it is a slight …
When things do not pan out well, one of the excuses is about non performing team. You could hear something on the lines, The team was not good enough We did not have A players Wish the team was mature enough to handle the complex task The team did not take any responsibility The team …
There is a Tamil saying – Sometimes God is ready to give but the priest denies. This is relevant in so many places. The decision maker would be so humble and easy to meet and talk to but the assistant / manager would be creating a big fuss. In corporates, sometimes employees on-site create an …
Our preferred hospital is bit far compared to many others close by. The reason is they care. Right from nurse staff to doctors to pathology to emergency everyone cares. There is a longer wait time, patients crib but they don’t go elsewhere. But the hospital never says they care. It is a given. We live …
Throughout my career I always felt comfortable with leaders who were mostly consistent in how they respond to different situations. To an extent you know how they will handle a situation and that eliminated lot of uncertainty. Only when leaders are blow hot blow cold type it becomes very difficult. And most of the times …
Success Equation i– && u++ 👨💼When a sales person talks about how great their product, company, platform we get bored and just want the meeting to end. We want to know how the product can help us rather than product itself. 🙋♂️When an employee needs help and boss keeps talking about himself and his point …
When you hear your team say they are more productive working from home it means… Sorry, got interrupted…What was I thinking about? Yeah got it, focus. “Hey, has client made the partial payment?” “Whats the status of this bug?” “Quick question, Are we having the client call today?” “Is the issue resolved, the client called …
How does your bad news timeline look like? We are going to miss the production schedule. We uncovered couple of critical issues. We are not going to get the deal. We have serious performance issues in new flows. The customisation could not be done. The service we consume has issues. When something goes wrong how …
Two Sincere, Honest, Hardworking employees might still need to be handled differently. In any team we come across different types of employees. Some are generally termed as good workers based on above attributes and sometimes are treated the same way. The aspect which get ignored is taking the initiative part. And that makes a huge …
Writings been on the wall, but have been looking at the wrong wall. Catastrophic failure need not be at wework level. It happens in companies of all sizes in terms of projects, programs, small ventures, initiatives as well. But sometimes what is common among those failures is they were anticipated by most except the leader …
