Life Hacks for Leader in You

  If you have not tried and failed, you have done nothing new in your life. How dreadful life would be if we were stuck in the same place, however comfortable it may be. Leadership can be lonely sometimes. especially when you face a big setback. The fundamental of leadership is that the leader is finally accountable for the outcome. Good leaders use these failures as opportunities to rally the team around, learn from the experience, and pivot to move toward the next objective. Action is the best medicine to overcome procrastination and negative thoughts. Leaders should reach out to their network and deliberate on what happened, how things could be different etc. This helps the leader to look at things from an entirely new perspective and also share the learnings for others to benefit. Leaders always have a choice at all points in time. Success depends on the ability to decide quickly and decisively. Weak leaders get paralyzed and fearless leaders decide and act. Only actions convert to

  It is easiest to succeed in today's World. You must be taken aback and a bit surprised to read this when the most common thread we keep hearing is the crib about succeeding in the extremely competitive world. One most common traits that all successful people across the World who sustain success, irrespective of geography, culture, and time is:- "They have consistently given back more in value compared to what they get" Look around yourself, how many such people do you find around you? (Don't forget to count yourself in!). Negligible, isn't it? If you actually find somebody, you will not fail to notice that they will be highly in demand, always sought after, and generally more happy, content, and successful for their age and experience. So, you actually have very little Competition provided you decide to live by the Mantra of giving back more than you get. It takes very little to do that, just a bit of introspection and commitment to yourself.

  Many times in our lives, unknowingly, with all good intentions, we create a Bonsai of our loved ones, may be family or our team members. In our zeal to protect them from the wicked world and its hardships, we shelter them.  We would see many examples in our real life among our family, friends and relations. While we all want them to grow and flourish in life, do we really plant them into the open sky and expose them to all the vagaries of nature? A tree planted in the open soil, under the sky has infinite space for its roots to grow and its branches to spread out into the sky unlike a Bonsai tree which stagnates and remain a dwarf. Lets give them the space, allow them to flourish and achieve their full potential.  

Have you experienced that your star  performer has suddenly  become a liability? Such situations can be seen in organisations that are on a rapid growth trajectory such as startups or in their early growth stages. Some hi-potential talent who were great in early stages and smaller scale get pulled up the ladder along with the organisation's growth and may land up in such a situation. This happens very often when we elevate and promote a person too early in our enthusiasm to reward performance and of course our efforts to take our ‘winning team’ along the growth path sometimes. He is ‘My Man’ (using ‘He’ only to narrate, it may mean 'She' as well). The person gets placed in a position for which they are not mentally, emotionally and skill wise ready. They are not prepared for the stretch that comes with the new expanded and higher role. Also given the past performance reputation we assume that he will cope. Our lack of time for mentoring and coaching makes this a very likely

  Research shows than most of us have already forgotten our New Year Resolutions by end of the first week. But frankly we don't need a year change to start something meaningful. That’s 3,15,36,000 opportunities lost that every second brings us in one year. The very next second can be THE transformative moment in your life. A second ago he was Mohandas Gandhi and very next he was on his path to become a Mahatma; a second ago she was a Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, a humble school teacher in Kolkata and very next she took her first step to become Mother Teresa. We all get such moments and most of us ignore it. Every sunrise is restart of our life going ahead, with the advantage of hindsight, experiences and lifetime learnings preloaded. It is like a head start of many years on our life marathon. What more can you want!

One N ew Year resolution that will transform your life is starting Meditation. Simple. As we step into another Year of our life, open a new page and write your own future. Imagine that your phone has decided to play truant and starts displaying random apps on the screen in quick succession without your control! Your phone is almost bricked as it is of no use to you. Before you can take some action on the app of your interest, it disappears and another show up.  Are our thoughts that show up in our mind any different? Our mind keep jumping from one to another randomly with almost no control. While our brain has massive processing power and memory, unfortunately has only one CPU which can process a SINGLE THREAD at any given instant. If you allow the CPU to be loaded with irrelevant data, your human computer is as good as crashed. What a waste. We all know that thoughts turn into actions, which in turn decides where we go in life. There is a solution which can help, even if not 100% effe