Shravan's Random Notes - Let go of your self and experience life http://shravanshetty.posterous.com Most recent posts at Shravan's Random Notes - Let go of your self and experience life posterous.com Thu, 28 Oct 2010 10:59:48 -0700 M.I.L.E -APJ Abdul Kalam:"A Leader Should Know How to Manage Failure" http://shravanshetty.posterous.com/mile-apj-abdul-kalama-leader-should-know-how http://shravanshetty.posterous.com/mile-apj-abdul-kalama-leader-should-know-how
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Knowledge@Wharton Interviews Former Indian President APJ Abdul Kalam.



 
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Thu, 28 Oct 2010 10:56:00 -0700 M.I.L.E - Nobel Prize Video- Desmond Tutu on Leadership http://shravanshetty.posterous.com/mile-nobel-proze-video-desmond-tutu-on-leader http://shravanshetty.posterous.com/mile-nobel-proze-video-desmond-tutu-on-leader

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The 1984 Nobel Peace Laureate Desmond Tutu discusses what makes a good leader.

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Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:51:15 -0700 M.I.L.E - Heroes - A interesting Inspirational Video By cadburys? http://shravanshetty.posterous.com/mile-heroes-a-interesting-inspirational-video http://shravanshetty.posterous.com/mile-heroes-a-interesting-inspirational-video
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This video is doing the round for many years.I  have always wondered if Cadburys created it or sponsored its creatiion. Watch it completely and trust me you will also wonder !!!
 

 
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Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:07:23 -0700 M.I.L.E - Harvard Business School - A leadership Panel discussion with Nitin Nohria http://shravanshetty.posterous.com/mile-harvard-business-school-a-leadership-pan http://shravanshetty.posterous.com/mile-harvard-business-school-a-leadership-pan
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The panelists reflect on important leadership lessons they have learned and how to apply these lessons in times of crisis.

Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala Chairman & CEO, Ayala Corporation;

Jamie Dimon Chairman & CEO, JPMorgan Chase & Company;

Orit Gadiesh Chairman and CEO, Bain & Company, Inc.;

G. Richard Wagoner Chairman and CEO, General Motors Corporation;

 
 
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Thu, 28 Oct 2010 08:24:56 -0700 M.I.L.E - Martin Luther King Jr Famous Speech - I have a dream http://shravanshetty.posterous.com/mile-martin-luther-king-jr-famous-speech-i-ha http://shravanshetty.posterous.com/mile-martin-luther-king-jr-famous-speech-i-ha
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Martin Luther King Jrs Famous Speech

" I Have a Dream"  speech given on August 28, 1963.



 
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Thu, 28 Oct 2010 08:22:44 -0700 M.I.L.E - Martin Luther King Citing Gandhi as his inspiration http://shravanshetty.posterous.com/mile-martin-luther-king-citing-gandhi-as-his http://shravanshetty.posterous.com/mile-martin-luther-king-citing-gandhi-as-his

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In this interview, Dr. King explains how he was first exposed to the ideas of Gandhi and the philosophy of nonviolence
 
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Thu, 28 Oct 2010 08:19:19 -0700 M.I.L.E - Movie 1 - Gandhi By Richard Attenborough - Speech in South Africa http://shravanshetty.posterous.com/mile-movie-1-gandhi-by-richard-attenborough-s http://shravanshetty.posterous.com/mile-movie-1-gandhi-by-richard-attenborough-s
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From Gandhi (1982) is a biographical film about Mohandas ("Mahatma") Gandhi, who was a leader of the nonviolent resistance movement against British colonial rule in India during the first half of the 20th century. The film was directed by Richard Attenborough and stars Ben Kingsley as Gandhi; both won Academy Awards for their work on the film. The film was also given the Academy Award for Best Picture..

This is a effective video to use for workshops on Articulation, Handling conflict , leadership Etc.

I have used it to good effect

 

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Thu, 28 Oct 2010 07:48:58 -0700 Media Integrated Learning Exchanges - CNN Anderson Cooper show - Interview with Malcolm Gladwell - The 10000 Hour rule http://shravanshetty.posterous.com/media-integrated-learning-exchanges-cnn-ander http://shravanshetty.posterous.com/media-integrated-learning-exchanges-cnn-ander
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Malcolm Gladwell , The Author of "The Outliers talks about the 10000 Hour rule to be ana expert and be successful :)
 
 
 
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Thu, 28 Oct 2010 07:22:34 -0700 Media Integrated Learning Exchanges- Leadership ... That Mysterious Talent http://shravanshetty.posterous.com/media-integrated-learning-exchanges-leadershi http://shravanshetty.posterous.com/media-integrated-learning-exchanges-leadershi
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Here is a video on that mysterious talent called leadership...



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Thu, 28 Oct 2010 07:18:41 -0700 Media Integrated Learning Exchanges - Imagine Leadership | By XPLANE & Nitin Nohria http://shravanshetty.posterous.com/media-integrated-learning-exchanges-imagine-l http://shravanshetty.posterous.com/media-integrated-learning-exchanges-imagine-l
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Nitin Nohria and Amanda Pepper of Harvard Business School's Leadership Initiative collaborated with XPLANE to create this video in order to generate a discussion of the value and importance of leadership to address some of societys most pressing problems.
 
 

"It is my desire to inspire people of all ages and social demographics to think about leadership on a broad level, contemplate what it means to them and what individual impact they can have when it comes to leading," says Nohria.

- MORE INFO, SOURCE FILES: http://hbs-leadership.wikispaces.com/

- HBS: http://www.hbs.edu/leadership/

- XPLANE: http://www.xplane.com/



 
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Sun, 17 Oct 2010 13:07:13 -0700 Celebrating the Spirit -Michael Jordan http://shravanshetty.posterous.com/celebrating-the-spirit-michael-jordan http://shravanshetty.posterous.com/celebrating-the-spirit-michael-jordan

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Michael Jordan - The Greatest To Ever Play The Game!
Michael Jordan, the greatest basketball player ever retired at age 40, for the third and final time in 2003. No player in NBA history has achieved so much in any amount of time. Michael Jordan is a five-time league MVP, a ten-time scoring champion, a six-time Finals MVP, and a six-time NBA champion. This time Michael Jordan left the game of basketball on his own terms. His two-year return in the NBA will never diminish his legacy. Jordan finished his career with 32,292 points, his career average 30.12 ppg is the best in NBA history. Even the Miami Heat retired his number, marking the first in sports history where another team retired a player's jersey in his honor. Thanks Michael for coming back one last time!
 
 
 
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Fri, 15 Oct 2010 22:49:28 -0700 Celebrating the spirit- Anil Kumble (bowling with a broken jaw) http://shravanshetty.posterous.com/celebrating-the-spirit-anil-kumble-bowling-wi http://shravanshetty.posterous.com/celebrating-the-spirit-anil-kumble-bowling-wi
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ANIL KUMBLE - The Spin King
 
Retired Indian spinner Anil Kumble will be known for putting the team before himself, bowling with a broken jaw against the West Indies in the 2002 Antigua Test..
 

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Fri, 15 Oct 2010 22:38:58 -0700 Celebrating the Spirit - Steve Prefontaine http://shravanshetty.posterous.com/celebrating-the-spirit-steve-prefontaine http://shravanshetty.posterous.com/celebrating-the-spirit-steve-prefontaine
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Steve "Pre" Prefontaine
International Track Star - Hometown Hero - Running Legend

During his brief 24-year life-span, Steve Prefontaine grew from hometown hero, to record-setting college phenomenon, to internationally acclaimed track star. In a similar span of years since his death in 1975, Pre has become the stuff of enduring legend.

His rare combination of talent, discipline, determination, and star-quality with a human touch made Pre the idol of those he called "his people" — the devoted fans who came to watch him run and entered into the performance with roars of encouragement, "Go Pre!"

At no place is the celebration of Steve Prefontaine and his story more personal than in Coos Bay, Oregon, where he was born in 1951 and discovered his gift for running fast and far as a student at Marshfield High School. Here, he developed his hunger to be the best in the field, and more, to do it with style—to create beauty when he ran, to show people something they had never seen before.

Steve Prefontaine is honored every year at the Prefontaine Memorial Run, a challenging 10K road race across one of his old training courses, with its finish line at the high school track where he first competed. This is where he tested his mettle and felt the possibility of greatness, and his hometown saw greatness, too.

For more on Steve Prefontaine, log on to http://www.prefontainerun.com/

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Fri, 15 Oct 2010 19:40:08 -0700 Attempt the Impossible http://shravanshetty.posterous.com/attempt-the-impossible http://shravanshetty.posterous.com/attempt-the-impossible
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Thu, 14 Oct 2010 09:27:00 -0700 Leadership Basics http://shravanshetty.posterous.com/leadership-basics http://shravanshetty.posterous.com/leadership-basics

 


Leadership is a verb and not a  noun. Leadership is what we do and the roles we assume.
Here is a presentation from a keynote lecture i gave to close to 300 school leaders from different schools in Bangalore on Laedership Basics at Rotary Balbhavan in Bangalore in 2009.Check out the presentation on my slideshare section on my linked in profile.
Hope this is interesting for you

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Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:54:00 -0700 Lessons from Infosys http://shravanshetty.posterous.com/2009/06/lessons-from-infosys.html http://shravanshetty.posterous.com/2009/06/lessons-from-infosys.html

There is nothing like a soldier teaching another soldier about war

In Learning and development one needs to create programs and processes to leverage the cumulative learning and pass it on from one generation to another through formal and informal means. You will find below a initiative at Infosys

Business Is the Curriculum, and Leaders Are Teachersby Michael Chavez, Sushanth Tharappan and Gil McWilliam
Having organizational leaders teach employees seems like a wonderful idea, and generally speaking, it is. But to be a truly effective means for instruction, it has to be applied at certain times and in certain ways.
To CEOs, teaching may sound like a genteel retirement activity, though in fact, today's organizations have little choice: To keep their pipelines healthy, they need their senior most talent to teach as well as lead. Given global demographics, it will be more difficult to fill senior positions as people retire, so today's leaders are increasingly pressed to pass on their accumulated knowledge and wisdom before they leave.
Is it even possible to claim the title of leader without being a teacher? Management guru Noel Tichy writes in The Leadership Engine, "For winning leaders, teaching is not a now-and-then sideline activity. It is how they lead and at the heart of everything they do." Companies want more than mentoring, coaching and being a role model. They believe that at least some of their top executives ought to be seen as teachers in a more traditional sense, taking a turn at the front of a class of senior colleagues.
Expectations tend to run high for a leaders-as-teachers (LAT) initiative, but good planning trumps good luck: In short, there are plenty of ways to get it wrong.
One example of an organization using LAT successfully as a leadership development tool is Bangalore-headquart ered Infosys Technologies Ltd. Infosys' LAT initiative, called the Leaders Teach Series, is anchored by the Infosys Leadership Institute, which has organized and conducted more than 50 LAT offerings around the world.
Why Bother?
At Infosys, as elsewhere, three principal considerations drive the LAT approach to employee development:
a) Companies want to access tacit knowledge locked away in the minds of leaders. This knowledge, while often critical to business success, is wrapped in unique, hard-to-replicate experiences and a leader's professional context. Familiarity with customer requirements, sales methodologies, techniques for achieving operational excellence and processes for driving innovation are subjects that often are career-specific, rather than industry-specific or company-specific. Firms want to access and transfer this deep background in a way that it can be reapplied to new problems.
b) Companies hope to leverage the benefit of linking the medium with the message. By bringing leaders to the forefront of the process of developing other leaders, it sends a powerful signal to the organization about the value of specific insights and the importance of the development process itself. How might you, as a program attendee, prioritize an educational intervention taught by an outside expert as opposed to one taught by your boss?
c) Embracing LAT offers hope to organizations frustrated by the chasm between HR and the business. Engaging leaders in teaching leaves little room for disagreements on learning priorities between learning and development professionals and top dogs. To fully deliver the messages, frameworks and tools, leaders must be fully part of the process and supportive of the content. In such an environment, true partnership between HR and the line leaders should be much easier to achieve.
Five Caveats
The way of LAT, however, is fraught with peril. Certain factors weigh heavily in deciding whether LAT is the right tool for the job. Let's consider the tradeoffs:
a) LAT is like world peace. Who would argue it could be a bad thing? Shouldn't leaders always be the ones who convey the most important messages, strategies and knowledge?
But think carefully about why this approach is required. Putting leaders in front of their people as educators makes sense to participants only when this role reinforces the explicit strategic learning outcomes for which the program was designed. Three reasons stand out:
1. You cannot separate the teacher from the content. Alignment around goals, priorities and practices is central to the learning outcomes. Whether you like it or not, bringing leaders to the front of the room signals to participants that their messages should shift people's focus or that they should change their emphasis on content areas on which leaders present. What happens, though, if you didn't intend for your people to change focus? Maybe you just wanted to humor a certain executive.
2. You cannot separate what is being taught from its context. If a finance organization has turned to a new profit model to help managers evaluate projects and wants to socialize the model through a decision-making toolkit, perhaps the person best-suited to teach is the finance executive who led the effort, not an outsider - and not the CFO who was two stages removed. Find the intersection at which your organization' s unique expertise and knowledge meets the right senior leader.
3. Leaders must engage actively, not passively. Remember the old paradigm, "There is no better way to learn than to teach"? Having leaders prepare, engage and dialogue with participants puts them in the midst of developing organizational capability. They become part of the change that the educational program is pursuing. Not only will leaders learn more about how to articulate core concepts, frameworks and practices, but through teaching, they become champions and supporters of such change.
b) Great teaching involves the co-creation of knowledge. When leaders teach, the stakes are higher and the risks greater. Being a good presenter does not mean an executive will make a good teacher. Teaching is not telling. It is asking great questions that set the learning agenda and get people thinking and talking.
It is not enough to "transmit" knowledge from one mind to another. (To be sure, teaching would be an expensive way to do this; reading a book or paper is more efficient.) Rather, teaching involves both the teacher and the student - in the creation of new meanings, in finding applications and examples and in stretching the learner's and the teacher's imaginations.
A benefit of teaching by questioning is that executives-cum- teachers inevitably engage in a process of assumption-checking as part of their preparation, thinking through their actions and beliefs at a deeper level than they might have done while busy implementing their strategies in the first place, or when they were immersed in a welter of daily tasks.
At the same time, people vary in their teaching ability. Some are naturals. Some respond well to coaching or practice. Some are not naturals and have no stomach for coaching or practice. Given this variability, the learning organization must minimize the risks while enabling leaders to take their place at the front of the classroom.
c) Consider the opportunity cost. LAT requires leaders to invest a lot of time preparing so participants come away with new knowledge, behaviors and beliefs. One Fortune 100 company that employed LAT experienced extreme difficulty getting its top management to understand the time required. Management would say, "Sure, I'd love to do the session. When do you want me to show up?" In their minds, this would be like any other talking-head session: fly in, whip out some slides, speak and leave. That's not "Leaders as Teachers;" it's "Leaders as Communicators. "
To pull off LAT, senior leaders have to work closely with internal learning and development professionals - and often outside consultants and educators - to build learning outcomes and design the content, refine the materials and design, and rehearse the delivery. They may not be prepared to invest the time.
d) Don't think about it as an all-or-nothing approach. Still, there's no cause for despair: Sometimes the right answer is a more manageable blend of methods and teachers. To use finance as an example, outside educators might best deliver theory and generic example - such as setting up "Finance 101" concepts necessary to understand the logic behind the new profit-evaluation scheme - while an internal executive could teach its application to company-specific situations.
e) Scalability costs more, not less. Senior leaders may find it difficult to deliver multiple programs in multiple locations for multiple levels. In order to scale LAT throughout the organization, the task of teaching must be spread among many educators, an internal cadre that follows the program as it cascades.
Happily, there is a significant side benefit: the alignment of executive teaching staff at every level around common frameworks, tools and messages. Doing your LAT program on a large scale does, however, mean significant time and energy to "train the trainer" - several times more than for an ordinary program in which the educator pool is relatively fixed.
Those Who Can, Do - and Teach
To sum it up, we are seeing that more and more companies are focused on enhancing their organizations' capability to execute strategy. Indeed, today more than ever, building alignment around strategy has become a critical task for senior leaders. Although it's subject to several important caveats, if the strategy is important and the leaders willing and capable, they should teach.
Sustainable alignment comes not when leaders talk at their people about what needs to get done, but when they engage real issues, work with them directly and teach from experience. LAT programs, done well, can be an extraordinarily valuable tool to build the leadership bench. Institutional memory and organizational wisdom shouldn't have to retire when the leader does.
[About the Authors: Michael Chavez is a regional managing director at Duke Corporate Education. Sushanth Tharappan is head of deployment at Infosys Leadership Institute. Gil McWilliam is an executive director at Duke Corporate Education.]

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