Pushing Beyond the Obvious - Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed
Pushing Beyond the Obvious is a podcast dedicated to help entrepreneurs succeed in a hyper-competitive & ever-changing business environment. We will invite practitioners and thought leaders to share their experience, strategies and secrets about their success, that can entrepreneurs can apply in their day-to-day life. Join us on a journey of discovering new insights every week.
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In this episode, I discuss how to become an inspirational leader.
I believe that leaders should not start with the goal of becoming an inspirational leader, as that is a self-centered perspective. Instead, becoming inspirational is a result of certain actions and learnings. Key ways to become an inspirational leader:
1. Be inspired In order to be inspirational, you need to be inspired. One way to be inspired is by keeping the comp...
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In this podcast episode, we host India's biggest and best Executive Coach Shital Kakkar Mehra. She has trained more than 1000 CxO's and more than 40000 leaders about how to develop their executive presence.
We talk about how the we lead and ...
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Almost all leaders today lead in an environment that is ripe with disruptions and ever changing competitive landscape.
The challenges of leading in this constantly evolving landscape are very different from that of leading in a stable envir...
In this episode, I want to share a brilliant story written by one of my favorite marketers, Dave Trott, titled "Strategy is Sacrifice".
The story takes us back to World War II. At the time, standard military strategy assumed that for a bomber to survive, it needed more armor, more guns, and a larger crew. Planes like the British Lancaster and the American B-17 were massive, heavy, and slow because they were weighed down by defenses...
Welcome back to another episode of Pushing Beyond the Obvious. I recently read a blog post from the MIT Sloan Management Review titled "Your people are not all right," which highlights the immense overwhelm and stress employees are currently facing. This inspired me to talk about a critical responsibility we have as leaders: having a clear understanding of what is happening in our team members' lives, not to spy on them, but to gen...
Standing out starts with choosing to see, think, and act differently from the default, and then designing your work, relationships, and systems around that choice. This means intentionally ques...
Teams that are engaged perform better, collaborate more, and stay longer. I often talk about how employee engagement sits at the heart of every high-performing team. The real question is: how do leaders actually build it in day-to-day work?
Hire for Attitude Before Skills
Engagement starts much earlier than most people realise — right at the hiring stage. I believe that while skills can ...
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In today's fast-paced world, every organization and leader feels the relentless pressure to innovate. We're taught to hunt for that game-changing idea, that single "Eureka!" moment that will redefine our market. But waiting for a random stroke of genius is an ineffective and stressful strategy. The myth of the lone visionary struck by a sudden, brilliant insight is just that—a myth.
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Confidence doesn't always come naturally, especially when you grow up rarely seeing people like you represented in leadership, media, or success stories. In a world where visibility often determines opportunity, learning how to show up fully becomes essential. Sheena Yap Chan, a keynote speaker, leadership strategist, and author, shares powerful insights on confidence, identity, and visi...
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The real job of a leader is not decision-making. It is decision capability-building and this can be done by creating better leaders from those that they lead.
Bad leaders manage how work is being don...
In this short narration, Quentin Tarantino talks about the role of a director and it is a classic definition of what we need to do as leaders to become a leader worth following.
Very early in his career, he asked Terry Gilliam on what was the job of a director in the making of a movie and here is what he was told –
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Introduction: The Vicious Cycle of Feeling "Stuck"
Have you ever felt completely stuck? Maybe it's a low mood you can't shake, or a physical exhaustion that makes every task feel impossible.
When you're in that state, it can feel like a vicious cycle you can'...
This is the recording of a live conversation I had with Dr. Efrat Goldratt-Ashlag to explore how the principles from the Theory of Constraints can be applied to multi-project environments (Digital transformation efforts) to deliver projects on time, on budget and on spec.
She shared insights from her latest book (now available in Worldwide) Goldratt's Rules of Flow to help us understand how to increase the velocity and throughputs ...
In this episode of the podcast, we host the inimitable and unapologetically ambitious, Sophie Krantz. We had a conversation about leadership and the need for economic growth and opportunity. We discussed the possibility of creating positive change in the world through frameworks like exponential organization (ExO) and coaching ordinary people to do extraordinary things.
In this conversation with @DrAlanBarnard, we explore how the principles of the Theory of Constraints (originally created by Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt) can be used to not only drive significant business results but also to help us make high stake decisions as leaders.
In this freewheeling conversation, we explore Dr Barnard's story about how he met with Dr. Goldratt and ...
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- What it takes to lead in an ever changing world
- What are some of the key skills leaders need to cultivate to thrive
- What are some of the things that leaders need to avoid to thrive
- How AI or Artificial Intelligence will change the face of the organisation and therefore the role of a leader
- The importance of having a clear strategy or a "True North" when everything around us is chan...
In this interesting conversation, Speaker, Author and Advisor (and Public speaking coach) @ColFink shares his perspective on the importance of clear and effective communication for leaders.
He also shares insights on how to get good at communication and specifically when speaking to an audience (internal or external).
He shares how leaders can learn to communicate to inform, inspire and connect...
In this first episode of a new series, which will be focused on leadership, we host a practicing leader - Pankaj Rusia. He currently works for SAP as the Head of Customer Success for the SAP HR Cloud business are and is based out of Singapore. As the Head of Customer Success for SAP South East Asia, he is on a mission to make customers look great in front of their leadership, employees, and manager...
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