Sunday, July 10, 2016

Lessons from the Field — Leading People to Execute Projects

Having Spent more than 15 Years at a Top Indian IT Services Company I thought I could share some of the learnings on my journey of Leading Projects and Empowering people. My Inspirations have been Ram Charan’s ‘Execution’ and The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment I’m not going to write paragraphs round each of them since they are mostly self explanatory and it is for you to dig deeper if you would like to. It would give you the experiential learning. My inspiration to ‘put it out to the world’ came from watching Kamal Ravikant’s talk.  Love and Entrepreneurship

You never know who can benefit from this. So here goes.

1. Ask Critical Questions of People. Make them think of the Answer .

2. Really Empower your team to decide within a framework of what’s accepted. Give them a Framework of ‘What’s Accepted’.

3. Monitor to the extent necessary and set expectations of non-monitoring.

4. Relax with your team — even get down and dirty (involved).

5. Don’t take non-sense from Management to the extent possible. Challenge them.

6. Read Books that others are not reading eg — Lynchpin by Seth Godin, Execution by Ram Charan & Larry Bossidy,The Art of War — Sun Tzu, Any work by Peter Drucker. It will expand your toolset & widen your thinking.

7. Learn about Emotional Intelligence and Use it. The Benefits will astound you.

8. Take Care of your Physical Health — it has a very great Impact on all Areas of your life.

9. Always Give and Encourage others to go beyond the expectation and excite the Customer.

10. There is nothing wrong with a healthy spirituality and it can improve your Performance. Eg Power of Now (Living in the Present Moment)

11. Leadership is way beyond Management — get to Leadership.

12. Constructive Dissent brings out the best in people — Encourage it while balancing the Power.

13. Acknowledge your faults and failings — it ain’t so bad after all. Nobody deliberately seeks failure.

14. Be Impeccable with your word & action — Its about Integrity.

15. Above all — Love who you are and what you do. You are the best you there is — Right Now.