Traditionally management gurus have always said that good communication skills are very important for a person to become a leader. But how important is it really?
Can someone become a leader without being good in communication skills? Or can someone become a leader only because he/she has good communication skills?
If you have to choose one from the above what will be your answer?I think i will go for the 2nd option even though i know that there are many examples for the 1st option also.
Is fear in any way helpful? I have heard many successful people saying that they all fear about one or another thing but ultimately they overcome those fear to become successful.
Yesterday I watched an old interview of an Army officer in the midst of a war and reporter asked him if he fears for his life? He casually answered that yes as a human he does fear initially thinking about it but overcomes it in few seconds. Then he said this what he has been trained for so many years and if he can’t over come his fear quickly then all his years of training and hardship would go waste.
Therefore we can say that everyone feels fear, its just how quickly you overcome it becomes the deciding factor in winning or loosing.
Fear for me is like a distant friend who comes to visit my house quite often from a far off place. If it stays for sometime then we talk and share a lot with each other about things around us. But if it starts living with me at my place then the problem starts. At that time i usually ask my friend on his face to go off to the place from where he has come and for that, sometimes i have to become a bit rude also.
I can’t avoid seeing him once in a while as he is a good friend who sometimes gives me a lot of good advices but i always try to make sure he doesn’t stay at my place for long and always say goodbye to him before its late for me.
Working in a big MNC i have alwasys wondered if “Politics” is part of our work culture or not. I am not talking about what the Company guidelines or rule book says but what happens on the ground.
Can we do our work without being affected of politics happening around us. The answer seems to be no. Then next question will arise- then what should we do? We have three options:
Which one will you choose?
In large MNC where number of employees is huge, we can easily find inefficiency creeping deep down to their roots. Why is this so? Because the people working in these companies have become inefficient and working more towards their own benefits rather than as a team.
Politics and team work doesn’t go hand in hand. Ideally to avoid inefficiency these large MNC should have small teams and the leader of the team should make sure that no team member is playing politics.
Difficult to achieve but not impossible.
Priorities…we all talk about it many times in our personal and professional lives. But how many of us actually have clear and defined priorities in our lives ? We always complain that we don’t get time for things and it is difficult to live up to the expectations of the jobs in hand.
One solution for this is to have a list of priorities even though flexible but do keep them. First go and type or write down the list of priorities in your life , and keep writing the list everyday when you get up in the morning and review it at the end of the day.
This list of changing priorities will give you a good idea about where your life is going to.
How motivated we feel for something depends upon how passionate we are for it. But mind you passion looses its intensity with time and you need to do few things which will reinforce your passion. This means that you need something to motivate you. What are those things?
Freedom with discipline can bring spectacular changes in your lives. You can achieve many of those things which you dream off, if you allow your freedom to be controlled by discipline.
A simple example i can give is like its a horse race, and your freedom is like a horse and discipline is like a jockey. If the jockey is good and can control the freedom then their team can win the race easily.
Whenever i get a chance to read,work or think about any startup it gives me immense feeling of freshness. Everything looks so lighten up and vibrant that you can’t stop getting attracted towards it.
If you are a startup and need some help or guidance or just want to share things then you can always contact me at rajesh@rajesh-singh.com. I would be very happy to share the freshness across to my group.
Do we usually ask Whys?? “Whys” are very important aspect for getting success in what ever we do. Try remembeing last time you asked Why and what did you learn from it?
15th Aug 2010 celebration in a special way
On 15th Aug 2010 we celebrated India’s 63 independence day in a special manner. Please follow the link to read more on this http://www.playandlivefoundation.org/