Author name: generativeleadership

I worked at and ran a business school for 21 years of my life. I thought you learn management and leadership in classrooms. I went and collaborated with one of the four federal universities and then the second largest University in the UK.

About 5 years ago, I wrote a blog post presenting an interpretation that sometimes your experience may be your biggest constraint. I stopped at that. In this article, I have suggested steps to ensure that your experience works for you, rather than be a constraint.

Do statements like these sound familiar to you?

• Because he delayed sending me the data, I was not able to complete my report on time
• I had to drop my child to school today so I was delayed for the meeting.
• This product is not good enough and that is why the revenues this year have not risen.

In a day from now, we will be celebrating the Republic day of India. On 26th January 1950 – the Constitution of India came into force.
Coming from the world of Generative Leadership, believing in ‘Inside-Out’ leadership – meaning thereby when you lead yourself well, can you set yourself up to lead teams, organizations and nations effectively….

A fascinating year is about to end. It is only another 2 days before 2016 starts. There are two things that you can do:

1. Make a powerful entry into 2016; or,

2. Float into 2016 and happen to simply show up in the New Year.

Irrespective of your designation, your industry, or your role, your presence must be an important area for you to look into, and develop if necessary. At IGL-India, we claim that your presence has a great deal to do with the trust people have in you, and also it has a great deal to do with your success.

If Presence is indeed so important, let’s first begin with what does Presence even mean?

Freedom is one of those intriguing distinctions. Everyone wants to be free, and yet, very few choose to be free. In this blog post, I try to distinguish what freedom really means. I also look at the different ways to access freedom. (In this blog post, I am not discussing freedom from the point of view of being free from slavery, detention or oppression.

I wonder if this is my story, or the truth

My heart tells me this is the truth

My head tells me this is my story

I don’t know which to believe!

Ownership is a grossly overused word in meetings in the corporate world. My assessment is that while people think they understand the meaning of this word, the comprehension of the real meaning, I believe, is at best broad and lacks depth. This post will introduce you to the important elements of taking ownership.

Last weekend I attended this fascinating event called “Ideas on India”. It had some big names from the current and the previous government speaking on their ideas on India. The program also had some well-known and senior ex-servicemen as speakers, who shared the idea that India is (I love the concept of