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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s grand image has created ripples in Indian politics. His marketing antics combined with his charismatic leadership style made him popular not only in India but also across the world. He has been touted as India’s Prime Minister with the highest popularity ranking among people. All this was made possible through his campaigns that created a difference; in this article I will decode his strategies, giving you insights on how he made it big in the 21st century.

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map-showing-south-india-water-flow-routes In a landmark judgment, the Honorable Supreme Court asked Karnataka to release water to Tamil Nadu. This water-sharing row has led to massive protests and bandhs called by pro-Kannada leaders. Major highways in Karnataka were blocked, leading to incendiary acts by protesters. I was watching the news and heard people’s views on the Cauvery River water sharing conflict; the people in Tamil Nadu need water for their farming, while people in Karnataka want the same water for their own consumption. Both of them feel they are right in the positions that they have taken – and both of them feel wronged.

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More than 100 students from IIT have been affected because of last minute revoking of job offers by start-ups in India; students are left alone on the road to corporate success. These students had visualized their careers in these booming start-ups but now they have been pushed into a no man’s land.

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Management Lessons From The Navy SEALs
After reading the book “Extreme Ownership: How US Navy SEALs Lead and Win,” I was in awe of the tools and strategies used by one the world’s elite forces to succeed in the most hostile environments. From taking decisions in the midst of heavy bombing to executing missions in IED (Improvised Explosive Device) laid areas, managing a team of high performing Navy SEALs is a task every SEAL Commander must master.

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One of the things we love about our work is the opportunity to have conversations with various business leaders about the challenges they face. In one such recent conversation, a business leader raised this interesting topic – with teams becoming more spread across geographies, and technology becoming an all pervading force, a lot of the interaction with team members happen virtually – specifically on the phone. While conventional leadership programs address behaviours related to leadership, most of them are focused on face to face interactions that the leader has with teams. More and more, leaders need to demonstrate leadership behaviours even in the virtual world of smartphones and internet.

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We spoke in one of our earlier blogs about team work in the animal kingdom. That got me curious if there are similar stories from the plant kingdom as well. Some research in the subject was enlightening for me – flora and fauna are equally rich in examples of good team work! Yes, you heard that right – plants also show some of the same behaviors that are observed in the corporate world like collaboration, cohesiveness and common goals!
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“There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else”.  Sam Walton, Founder of Wal-Mart 

The importance of a satisfied customer cannot be overstated. Little wonder then, that most of us are regularly faced with the customary “feedback forms” – after every meal at a restaurant, every stay at a hotel & every flight in an airline.

Often times though, the overuse of a tool can dilute its effectiveness. Here is a truth test for you: When was the last time you enthusiastically filled up the restaurant feedback form? Here is another: How many times have you pretended to be asleep when the air-hostess comes along with the feedback form? The answer to these two questions highlights – how tired most of us as customers have grown of the standard methods of measuring customer satisfaction.
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Everyone we meet in corporates seem to agree that “building teams” (I will not use the word “team-building” since it seems to be clichéd and makes people think of “funny activities which we are made to do at offsites”) is critical for success. The choice infact looks like a no-brainer – “A great team vs a few brilliant individuals?” – but of course, we will take the team.

But do great teams happen by chance – or is there an effort to make it happen? Our experience so far, unfortunately points to the former being the overwhelming belief. Is it our individualistic Indian culture? Is it our hyper-competitive corporate culture? Or is it just a matter of not putting enough thought into a key variable like “building teams”?
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This article from McKinsey Quarterly looks at identifying some of the common issues that plague top management teams across organizations and also offers honest insights into actions that can kick-start the development of a good team at the top.

Organizations across the world have identified the importance of having a strong team at the top but fail to set down criteria for identifying key leadership talent and developing them once recruited as leaders.

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