Everyone likes their leaders to take fast decisions and then stick by the decision in the face of diversity . They like leaders to be proactive and everyone else to be reactionary. Guess what – that is also how three year olds generally work ! But you don’t want your leaders to behave like aContinue reading “The execution challenge – are you a leader or a 3 year old ?”
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But ..but…I didn’t get any credit for all the stuff I did
This is by far the most common feedback I have gotten as a manager in my career – more or less in those exact words. And I admit that I have used those exact words with my managers in my early days. It is a challenge for both employees and managers to move past thisContinue reading “But ..but…I didn’t get any credit for all the stuff I did”
Facebook bought Whatsapp – I have mixed feelings
I don’t exactly know what to make of Facebook’s acquisition of Whatsapp for about $19B . Like many others – it was a jaw bropping moment for me. And since then, I have been trying to rationalize it in my mind, with limited success. There are some things that work in favor of this dealContinue reading “Facebook bought Whatsapp – I have mixed feelings”