Inspirational Leadership Training

I was conducting a half-day session on Leadership at the Institute of Company Secretaries of India today. The session was highly interactive as the participants played enthusiastically in the activities

While sharing my Five Rules of Leadership, I spoke about the need for Leaders to have a Bias for Action. One of the participants made the point that Bias is a negative word and I could have preferred the word "Preference". I agree that Bias seems to have acquired a negative connotation through usage and leans nearer to prejudice. But the word is essentially an indication that someone likes one option over another. A Bias for Action means we prefer to do things rather than simply keep analyzing. To lean towards something because you don't like something else, or you like something more than something else.

Businessdictionary.com defines Bias as the Propensity to act or decide without customary analysis or sufficient information 'just do it' and contemplate later. Popularized by Tom Peters, author of 'Search For Excellence,' as a distinguishing feature of agile firms.

Quotables

“The way you do the little things says a lot about the way you will do the big things.”

Quotables

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

- Bertrand Russel.

Quotables

“Great minds discuss ideas

Average minds discuss events

Small minds discuss individuals” – Anon

Visarjan 2010 Chennai

19.09.2010

It is Visarjan time and the roads are blocked with lorries carrying Ganesha idols of varying sizes to be dissolved in the Bay of Bengal.

An Itinerant Trainer

I am basically an itinerant rainer going wherever I am called teaching whatever I know to people who desire to know. My peregrinations have once again brought me to the Garden City.

Banglore is cool and pleasant. It is once again the Air Conditioned city I remember it to be except that, in those days the AC effect began even as early as July.

Here is a nice quote about learning and knowledge sent by my friend Lalitha a Bangalorean herself:

“For the one who knows to be able to teach the one who knows not, first the one who knows must know that he or she does not know all things; second, the one who knows not must know that he or she is not ignorant of everything. Without this dialectical understanding of knowledge and ignorance, it is impossible, in a progressive, democratic outlook, for the one who knows to teach the one who knows not.” Paulo Friere – in Pedagogy of Hope

The Power of Mathematics

A really funny cartoon from the book Cosmic Verses: A humorous Rhyming History of the Universe by James Muirden.