Business & Personal Growth

  While we see a lot of factors that contribute to the successful journey of any ultra-high achievers in this world, right from having the right vision and goals to honing the right skills and talent along with being high on morals and ethics, the one thing that we often overlook is the power of being persistent and staying on course throughout one’s journey. This only trait once imbibed can have an exponential effect on one’s improvement journey, which in turn, will shorten one’s time-span in attaining one’s goals.   Today I would be unlocking the enormous benefits one can realize by being persistent throughout their journey in achieving success at the highest level possible.   As opposed to conventional wisdom, it is never that one defining moment that differentiates a successful from the ordinary ones, it is always a constant daily effort that brings them to the level when one crosses a threshold and everyone starts noticing it. Till the time it’s noticeable, there...

  Living in these unprecedented times has led organizations across industries & sectors to rapidly transform their strategy to stay in sync with the continuously evolving business needs. Technology became an underlying aspect and a major enabler in transforming their business model. They are forced to recalibrate their operating model, purpose & strategy, processes formulated, talent acquired and technology used so that they adapt to these changing times and disruption. Digital transformation is about restructuring their products & services in such a way to provide the right solutions at the right place at the right time. It is about ensuring the realization of the maximum business value to their existing & their potential customers by going digital in their offerings and value-chain. While redesigning the business strategy might seem like a drive from the top-level C-suite only, there needs to be wide distribution of this decision-making initiative across an orga...

  In one of the previous weeks, I wrote on a few effective ways one can adopt while working remotely for the team to stay motivated, productive and accountable in completing their tasks. This becomes highly relevant for the one who finds himself in a team-handling role. This article would focus more on the things that need to be taken care of in remote working at an individual level.   The sudden outbreak of pandemic has left many unprepared in embracing this new way of working. While remote working was offered during pre-pandemic times as well, it was only provided to a designated few largely based on the scenario they are into. Such mass adoption of remote working is unprecedented and so it is vital to discuss those aspects that could negatively affect the employees. This transition definitely brought some relief in terms of cut-down of the need to commute, however, working for longer hours under one roof without much movement and interactions has really taken its toll on ...

  The role of a Project Management professional has gone far beyond just managing the projects. They are being viewed as a disrupter and their role has become more prominent in an organization than ever before. They lead a program, an endeavor that an organization forms itself on. With the kind of ever-changing business landscape we live in, there is a far greater need for a Project Manager to look beyond managing project deliveries and gain complete control on achieving the business outcomes as well. They need to break out from their traditional, predictive methodologies to adapting a more non-conventional, dynamic and agile approach in their quest to achieving the strategic goals. Below are some areas a Project Manager needs to focus/work on to cultivate a contemporary mindset required in these challenging times:   Collaborative Leadership:  Agile philosophy has coined a new term called “Servant-leadership” which bears a strong relationship with having collaborative...