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India-Pakistan Cricket Match: A Leadership Lesson
In India, the tension is very tangible and the air has a prickly feeling to it on the day of the India-Pakistan 2011 World Cup semi-final cricket match. The match has been called many things from the worn-out cliché “mother … Continue reading
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How Leadership Begins in the Family
Leadership development, despite its corporate underpinnings, begins in the family. Here are two examples. Continue reading
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Leadership requires a child-like questioning ability
Leaders need to be able to ask fundamental questions just as children do. Analytical leadership intelligence is an index of this ability. However, we train ourselves to make assumptions, to develop stereotypes–in short to cultivate a fog- that clouds our ability to ask the basic questions that should begin our analytical process. Continue reading
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Tagged analytical intelligence, assumption, children, leadership intelligences, question, questioning, stereotype
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Visual and Verbal Branding of Leadership: Gandhi&Martin Luther King
Leaders–whether unconsciously or self-consciously–become associated with brands. In fact, it is more right to say, they become brands themselves. Continue reading
An Example of Communicative Leadership Intelligence
Leila Chirayath Janah, Founder & CEO of Samasource provides an excellent illustration of communicative leadership intelligence in action.
A Pygmalion approach to pricing a service
Pricing is always a tricky problem where a service like training or teaching is concerned, because marginal price (i.e. the price to serve one additional customer) is almost zero (as with most informational goods). How much more does it cost … Continue reading
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What Matters Now: Leadership Intelligences
Seth Godin brought out a free e-book titled, What Matters Now (download it here). It’s a fascinating collection from many thought leaders. Each writer elaborates in one page on a theme s/he has chosen. It is a must read.I am … Continue reading
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How Mahatma Gandhi taught ethical intelligence
Ethical intelligence reflects the leader’s ability to recognize and act upon the ethical dimensions of an issue. It is not about the ethical beliefs of a leader or how ethical you perceive the leader to be. It is also not … Continue reading
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Tagged ethical inteligence, gandhi, India, leadership inteligences, mahatma gandhi, partition
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