“There is one aspect of a leader’s personality that is both their greatest asset and greatest potential liability at the same time. And if it is not dealt with correctly, it has the ability to stop a promising career dead in its tracks. That element of human personality is ego, and its power is seductive. Early in a leader’s career, it helps a young...

I was looking into my blog, and found this article, which I shared almost a year back, however, I realized it was not published and kept as draft. It came as a great conincidence as I am reading the ‘Steve Jobs: Biography by Walter Isaacson”. One of the thing I personally admire about Apple and Jobs is how they nurture overperformance and excellence,...

Very often, I emphasize on the importance of “facing the brutal facts” for businesses to overcome their challenges and have a good strategy for winning. Unless you know, unless you acknowledge, unless you accept that a problem exists, you simply can not fix it. This is simply what Professor Richard Rumelt attempts to explain in his insightful article at...

Recently, I was part of an audience for several product demos. This was part of a bidding process to select an enterprise solution for my company. A specific audience, with various calibers, expertise and interests were assembled from IT and business. There were finance managers and executives, procurement officers, project managers, business analysts and...

Interesting report by Gartner! Read it online at Gartner.com. “By 2012, Companies with the Top 25 Percent Earnings Growth Will Have an Entrepreneurial CIO Egham, UK, January 11, 2010 — The impact of an entrepreneurial CIO is greatest when the need for productivity leverage is greatest, as in the current economic environment, according to Gartner, Inc....

I’m sharing an article from HBR blogs that summarizes and adds to the 2010 IBM Global CEO Study, a wonderful and insightful piece of work to energize today’s corporations. Go thru the article, and download IBM study here. “IBM just released its 2010 Global CEO Study based on face-to-face interviews conducted with over 1,500 CEOs spanning 60...