Leadership
Growth Emotions
Have you ever wondered how today’s billionaire family business founders felt when they arrived in a new city with no money, leaving behind their childhood in a village with their parents and siblings? Can you feel their pain, lostness, fear, next-several-hours-of-no-meal? Can you imagine and feel for few breaths their state of minds and hearts?
Leaders who create, don’t hope
Dear leaders, Don’t hope for the best. Leaders who create, don’t hope. They know. Has it ever occurred to you what it takes for creators? Creators of reality. The realities that would have never existed without them. The subtle difference as it may appear between Creator-ship and Leader-ship, can be hugely advantageous. If you are stuck for long
Want to become a $100 billion company? | STEP ONE: DECIDE
It is no surprise when you find spearheading leaders, whom I call limitless creators, stop at nothing. Recent studies of leadership at Walmart ($657.3 billion yearly revenue; Market Cap: $569.37 billion), Alphabet, Google ($ 318 billion yearly revenue; Market Cap: $2.203 trillion), Apple ($381.4 billion yearly revenue; Market Cap: $3.437 trillion), Amazon ($590.4 billion yearly
Your tunnel vision is killing your potential
“I have thought about it. I don’t think I need to focus on this now. This project can wait.” “My company is earning profits. Why bother about transformation?” “I have a plan for my business. I just need good people to execute my plan.” Sounds familiar? In my working with close to 200 global chairman, leaders,
A true leader embraces fantasy (and does not dismiss it as nonsense)
During one of my chairman coaching session, a 62-year young chairman of a 5th generation family business asked me: Chetan, why do you insist on discussing the next level of fantasy that I may hold? I am rather finding it difficult to think about it. I asked him: Do you have grandchildren? He replied: Yes, a lovely
Leadership is seeing in the mirror, or even in your daughter’s eyes, and being able to say “I am proud of what I am committed to create.”
Leadership is based on authenticity. Authenticity is a developable skill and not a virtue. Its intentional development stems from the belief that you have an irreplaceable uniqueness in the world. However, this authenticity is only truly expressed when you commit to being honest with yourself for the entirety of your life. This is hard for
Easy is the enemy of best & Cheap is the enemy of a thriving life
Does the title above speak to you? Take a moment and form your own mind around this. Let me add few socially awkward but truths nonetheless, to help you come around right on this critical perspective. First, what is cheap? Notice your feeling when you mind processes this word. Think of the following: Cheap food.
Ownership thinks in money. Stewardship thinks in legacy and time.
It is rather funny and concerning even when you notice that leading family businesses haven’t yet formally decided (and if decided then acted) on timely succession. Why so? Why family-owned businesses’ ownership and operating command do not begin formal succession until they reach age tipping point or ailments or a combination of both? Why, at
Developing an accountable family business ownership
When owners start talking about their rights rather than their responsibilities, a family business is in trouble“. – Smith Lanier Most family businesses today are battling the challenge of ownership and succession from one generation to the other. In one such conversation with a family of 4 brothers with nearly 7 next generation ownership members,