Why background music is important in leadership?

I want to compare 3 recent cases for leadership – Bahubali, Sachin and Modi. In books, leadership may be about vision, truth, skill, attitude, values, or transparency. Many people have it. It is easy to find all these things in a common hard working person. But they are not public leaders.

Difference comes from background music. Common man ignores importance of drummers, chanters, and background music. You may have observed that whenever bahubali arrives on screen, there is huge chanting “Bahubali –bahubali “ … That creates aura and add followers.

Man has 100 yrs – Stephen Hawking

Stephen hawking has hawkish view on humanity. We have just 100 yrs and man should move to another planet. His hawkish view may not be that right but no one would disagree that humanity has definite end date. The threat is real.

“With climate change, overdue asteroid strikes, epidemics and population growth, our own planet is increasingly precarious.”- Stephen hawking

Why connection is so important?

We meet so many faces every day, do we really connect? Every relation/bond has bundle of emotions, haziness, doubts, and differences. Difference of opinion is ok but what matter is lack of trust. 100% trust is ideal or expected even in closest relations. That is only possible with people who live whole-heartedly. Haziness in bonds happens because of two reasons, one is shame and other is fear. Few examples of our shame and fear are…

Power shift: Killing families and corporates

Be it Infosys or Tata , change of guards is never easy. Even people like Ratan tata or Narayana Murthy feel emotional pressure. They don't want to give free hand to next generation. With age possessiveness increases and capability decreases. Smooth transition is rare. Leg pulling starts in family / corporate. Emotionalism takes over logic. People fight for small -2 things. Growth stagnates. We focus on other’s move. Ego, jealousy, pride, or hate, all negative emotions take over mind of both giver and taker. This is common problem and every home/family have to face it.

Career lessons from 3 Khans

3 khans have been ruling Bollywood for past many years. Despite in their 50’s they are doing great in very competitive field. Every day , new face comes in Bollywood but replacing them is nearly impossible till now. This is not luck. This is hard work, branding, sweat, and well thought strategy. They know their audience well and deliver consistently year after year. All 3 are not best build or best looked like their young counterpart but know their art of survival well. We can learn something from them

Bell curve –A Talent killer

Review time is nearby. Companies will fit their employees in a curve and will brand them performers and non-performers. And afterwards, work equations will change. Excellent will celebrate and some will slow down too as objective has been met. Angry birds will protest and will look out for better options. Emotional dynamics of teams will change. Some known and some unknown bias will come out. Ultimately, work will slow down.

No one can measure loyalty, integrity, talent and efforts. Faces decides grades here.

“Informer is the best performer “