Leadership In Action

Leadership (Part -2 ) :Work the Talk

You don’t need to be great to get the work started but you can become great by doing that work.

“Always deal in your core competency area. If you are into manufacturing, do that, don’t try selling but know your core competency area as well.”

        By – Ram Charan   Indian-American business consultant

“We need Leadership at Organization level, Country Level with Global Mindset. Be Optimistic, Do best at whatever you do. We need to bring people up by giving training to unemployed and making them hirable this will serve our CSR with broad vision.”

                                 By-Mrs. Rajashree Birla Former Chairman of Aditya Birla Group

“Success is very easy to get but to come out of failure, it takes lot of efforts and failure is a great teacher.”

“Unless you fail you never realizes importance of success”

                                  
                                 By- Amitabh Bachchan

“There is a vacuum of qualified and motivated people with practical competence at grass root level we need to bridge that gap.”

            By-Pawan Munjal             Managing Director and CEO of Hero Motocorp

How to do things is major question than what to do. Any work should be started only after proper planning. Once started no procrastination should be made. Challenges will definitely come in between.

                    By-SS Mundra Chairman and Managing Director of Bank of Baroda

Leaders delivers result but they also build capabilities with people who deal in influencing and building future. They identify and seize the opportunities as it arrives.

Guys, just for a minute think of three business leaders in your company (who not only create the vision but also work the talk) what three things they do?

1. ...........
2. ............
3. ............  

Once you are done with the answer, you will get to know what you need to do.

The most important characteristic that a leader must demonstrate is 

CLARITY

and
SPECIFICITY

RIGHT PEOPLE
and
WORK ETHICS

LASER SHARP DOMINANT PRIORITIES

REVIEW AND DIALOGUE

FOLLOW THROUGH

 DO PRACTICE YOUR WORK RIGOROUSLY SO

 DO  

                      PRACTICE >> PRACTICE >> PRACTICE 

                    

                                               

• They are clear and specific: they have their priorities clear.

                   Eg: Airtel

1.     Get the largest number of people in network.
2.     How to get price lower at large number of people.

• They get the things done. In other words they serve the commitments at the same time leveraging the knowledge of others.

• How to choose Right People

It is only up to you. You have to define three things required to succeed in job.

What is the natural talent of a person[not degree and psychometric test ]
How good he is fit in option 1 and option 2.
                   Noting overcomes a wrong person. He will flush out everything.

It’s really very important to get the right product at the right time even when your market share is declining to keep moving forward.

• Review and Dialogue
  

Operational reviews are very important; it gives a mirror how you conducted.

                People always wander what content it should have, so here is the answer

                  1)    It should foster values, integrity and ethics.

2) What did you do better in the competition?[By working the talk]
3) Analysis what happens to behavior and nature

My personal suggestions would be

• Don’t wait for the year end. Be specific and clear throughout the year.
• Never perform meeting closure without confirming who will do what.
• Closure is important for Accountability.

Always remember Young Millionaires are coming you have to bring them from 50,000 feet to 50 feet. Never ever, degrade them or underestimate them.  

References and Thanks Notes:

•  International Management Conclave
•  IIM Indore
•  Indore Management Association