Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

A manipulator will play on your negative emotions in order to elicit your compliance.” Understand the clash of belief systems. Influence becomes manipulation when it is about you. Manipulation aims at control, not cooperation. As leaders, we need to keep our motives in check.

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QAspire

AUGUST 5, 2010

We grow up on stories, so do our belief system and our world view. Stories reinforce the belief system. The stories I heard in my childhood, and the messages therein, are still afresh in my memory. My daughter almost gets hooked when a story is narrated. Inspire them with stories about the organization. Don’t Kill It!

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QAspire

OCTOBER 24, 2010

Most people in the organization can do a better job if they know: What are the key values and beliefs on quality/excellence in the organization? What key actions will help me to align myself to those values and belief system? How will those actions add value to organization? How will it benefit me? Don’t Kill It!

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QAspire

AUGUST 1, 2010

While all these things were known and read somewhere, a lecture like this with successful people helps a great deal in reinforcing them to your belief system. These lessons (and more) were nicely wrapped in powerful personal stories that engaged the audience. Don’t Kill It! Working and Walking – Where Are You Going?

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QAspire

MARCH 12, 2013

Compliance stems from our need to ensure certainty, reduce variability and adhere to a certain structure or model. Compliance may be explicit (e.g. to a certain specific belief system, way of working or ideology). The problem stems when focus is only on compliance. Compliance is always an external force.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

Beliefs drive actions and altering our belief systems will ultimately do more than anything else to amplify and reinforce the kinds of behavioral changes that, in the end, are the only measure that counts. In this blog post we'd like to focus on two belief shifts that are critical.

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