“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,...

Interesting research! “A new white paper from The Ken Blanchard Companies shows that poor leadership is costing the average company an amount equal to 7% of their annual revenue. That’s over a million dollars a year for any organization with $15 million dollars or more in annual sales. The three big culprits? 1-Employee turnover. Poor leadership is...

Perfectly said. Thanks John. “Confidence is an attribute that every leader needs to embrace and to foster in others. But when confidence goes too far, it can become hubris. Overdosing on confidence is easy to do. Jim Collins writes about the organizational side of hubris in his latest book, How the Mighty Fall. Stage 1 of organizational failure is...

“Let’s sit you down in front of a video camera and and ask a simple question: What is the biggest mistake a leader can make? What’s your answer? My initial response, after pondering the recent fates of  Tony Hayward, Mark Hurd and Gordon Brown, was this: The biggest mistake that can be made is to surrender humility (the greatest asset any leader can...