Blog - Leadership lessons

TRANSPLANTING TRADITIONAL WISDOM The crux of leadership is to be connected   Farmers in the fields offer better lessons in leadership and team building than universities do. Farmers work together as a team and enjoy their work. Sharing a common goal, each of them contributes to the fullest to reap a good harvest. In a management university, students learn the theories of leadership, team buil ... View More »

GREAT LEADERS STRIKE A FINE BALANCE  Should a leader compromise principles for profits or vice versa?   The end result is surely important for leaders. They are there to get things done, though perhaps not by themselves. So the relationship he or she shares with other members of the organisation is important. However, is the result more important or the relationship he has with the emplo ... View More »

Nowadays stress management has become fashionable. Leaders and managers report high stress at work. They go to stress management trainings and learn yoga and meditation. In a way, stress has become a status symbol. In the Nepali context, I am not yet quite sure if people really have enough work and critical agenda for real stress. Even if they are really stressed, the cause is not work, but their ... View More »

When you are in school or college, you may feel you are insignificant. You have yet to prove yourself. When you start a job, you feel you are something, but yet small. You feel the need to grow and develop yourself so that you can become someone big. Then you struggle and get a higher position in job and in society and you feel you are successful. The journey does not end there. It may take two ro ... View More »

I left my regular job two years back. I am totally enjoying living my purpose of helping out people in their development, except for one setback — to get people to understand my job. When people ask, “Tapain ko office kahan ni?” (Where do you work?) and I say I do not have a particular office, they frown with disapproval. They suggest with good intention that I should. It was so ... View More »

Does education produce leaders? The answer could be ‘yes’ and ‘no’. If education helps to solve societal problems, it is ‘yes’; if not, it is ‘no’. Every year, we hear about break out of diarrhoeal diseases in Bajura, food scarcity in Karnali, flood devastation in Tarai districts, problems of waste disposal in cities, among others. What is the role o ... View More »

It is the subtleties that make a big difference. What seems similar are actually not. In fact, many times they are opposites. There is great difference between being careless and being carefree, being lazy and being relaxed, being pushy and being proactive. Likewise, being greedy and intending higher achievements are very dissimilar qualities. In the same way, can you see the difference  ... View More »

There are two contradict-ory proverbs — ‘Look before your leap’ and ‘Opportunities never come to those who wait… they are captured by those who dare to attack.’ Which one is true? Well, both are, it is only limitation of language that requires the same truth to be expressed in two opposite sounding sentences. Wisdom is in understanding the truth in the paradox ... View More »

Many of us do not like our jobs. Some may like their jobs, but there are parts that they hate — people, certain tasks or particular aspects. If so, we need to give that a serious thought because we spend the most vital period of our life in our jobs. As James Autry says, “Work can provide the opportunity for spiritual and personal, as well as financial growth. If it doesn’t, we&r ... View More »

It is very common in our country to blame leaders for  failure or inefficiency. It is also a usual practice in organisations to make leaders responsible for anything that goes wrong. This blaming suggests that leadership is limited to few powerful positions that can make big decisions and differences in the lives of many people. It also implies that the rest are powerless. This is partially r ... View More »