Attitude not just Abilitiy

Dr. Amarnath Ananthanarayanan, CEO, Bharti, AXA General Insurance says:

"The best leadership lesson I learnt:
If as a boss, you take risks with people and not only give the right amount of freedom but also the required support and guidance, they can really deliver out of the box solutions. So the biggest learning for me was that the Attitude of a person plays an even more important role than their ability , when it comes to being successful at work.
On managing work life balance:
Watching stalwarts of Carnatic music and dance performance in the evenings and weekends and getting acquainted to Chennai /Tamil life style as I grew up at Delhi."

RM 2 -- Research Problem

What is a Research Problem?

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http://www.slideshare.net/drpadmashankar/research-problem-38855252

Coping with Gen Y leaders

Millennial Leaders (ML) or Gen Y leaders as they are called are people who are born between the 80s and the 90s.
If you have a Gen Y  as your leader, then the following points shall help you to understand him or her. Devashish Chakravarty, Director, Executive Search at Quetzal.com explains how it is followed:

• ML has reached there for good reasons and thus has the potential to succeed. Believe in him or her.
• Contribute to the initial excitement of your leader, go along with the flow, help the ML in establishing accountability and defining metrics for yourself and others.
• Use data to reset unreasonable expectation. Seek more responsibilities--you will be evaluated on your contributon to the present assignment and not your past record.
• Gen Y is social Liberal, open, inclusive and accepts diversity easily. Brace yourself for cleary articulated feedback on what works and what doesn't . An inability to handle criticisms won't get you far.
• Sometimes you may have to nurse your bruised ego, after an especially loud interacton with an over confident gen Y. Appreciate that you brash new team leader is likely to stand up or her ideas and her team even in impossible situateion.
• Gen Y leader has a marked preferenmce for a collaborative approach to problem solving. Use your new found freedom to colloborate with others and grow faster. Establish trust early to get honest feedback.
• ML had grown in a flat world, less likely to respect ancient structures and process . Expect  blurred reporting lines, less communication barriers and cross functional work. Rely on your people skills rather than bureacratic frameworks.
• Figure out a more efficient tech-enabled method for completing each task. Be a willing learner; digital skills your master now will become essential for a success full careers.

Source: Economic Times, Wealth, Sept1- 4, 2014