How to be a great game changing Business Leader

In this article you will learn the following

• -20 Things you need to be absolutely crystal-clear about and steps on how to become a great trail-blazing & game-changing leader

• -100+ ideas to be a trend-setting, path-breaking, disruptive leader

There is lot of truth in this statement – "even if you are on the right track – you would be left-behind - if you just sit there".

Trailblazers transform companies - trailblazers transform careers -trailblazers transform the world- trailblazers change how people take things and themselves.

When you are caught in an unprecedented disruptive phase with built-in rapid-changes - like what the world is witnessing right now -You may discover to your dismay and horror that - the solutions, the answers and the directions eludes you completely at times - and that you are completely opaque and foggy about the course of your future-actions

Few of these changes were triggered by covid19 but besides the corona-effect - there are also numerous-major paradigm shifts are taking place in technological-economic-political-social-economic-professional fields - which are impacting - our personal, physical, mental, emotional and relationship areas in most overwhelming and in most profound manners.

If you are a business-leader - then the challenges automatically becomes even more complicated, complex and ambiguous.

If you introspect objectively - you may find that there has been significant revolutionary alterations [in last say 10-12 months] - in the way you look at others - how you relate with yourself - your current priorities - your quality and types of relationships in your professional-social- personal arenas and your perceptions.

In many cases Almost everything might have undergone drastic and unimaginable changes - at least for few people.

The same would be the case with your family-member, your employers, your social, your community, your customers etc.

Many of your professional competencies might have become redundant because of few changes - and to survive and succeed you may need to acquire different skill-sets on urgent basis.

Many of the massive business-challenges you are facing - might not have any reference-code or rule-book available - to take cues from.

As a leader - you need to make decisions and take actions and constantly reinvent to deal with the unknown, the uncertain the muddy - on your feet- in this likely-to-stay for long new-normal.

You may even have to pivot to unthought-of-before business-ideas and shift from the existing one.

While you are experimenting with newer-ways, different-processes and unconventional-methods - you also have to lead your team at the front and grow.

This is a mammoth task - and no-one is expected to do all these experimentations and finding solutions and answers to all these challenges - all by themselves.

The best leaders will have to recruit, enroll and seek the support of flexible-innovative-disruptive thinkers - as employees and as mentors and as coaches.

20 Things you need to be absolutely crystal-clear about and steps on how to become a great trail-blazing & game-changing leader

• 1.Identify what you need to do and what all possible ways you can generate revenue

• 2.Learn and plan - on how would you create a balance and manage the operational expenses, lenders, vendors, debtors and also invest in what would create the future

• 3.How would you create a robust cash-flow management plan and control it directly

• 4.Identify what are going to be the skill-set that you and your employees would need now and in future and how can you acquire these

• 5.From where you would attract, recruit and retain the best talent

• 6.Making sense from the ambiguity - making complex simple to be understood even by those who do not have any idea about your field or line of work

• 7.To be innovative enough to find the most effective marketing channels, marketing tools and newer markets

• 8.Finding newer products, services and offerings - through tweaking and combining couple of already in-demand things - or going for completely crazy[many may find - but you feel convinced of the viability of this venture after testing]

• 9.Understanding and incorporating - the newer buying habits, buying-needs, buying-patterns and buying-trends of your customers

• 10. Exploring - how you can leverage the technology in such ways that you can operate with the minimum manpower and maximum efficiency

• 11. Optimizing the cost [without going for quick-fixes or cutting-corners]

• 12. Maximize the essential-investments that will keep your organization ready and fit for - when the markets and economies boom

• 13. Minimizing or eliminating wastages as per the lean-manufacturing and 6-sigma concepts - they are more relevant today than before

• 14. Learning how to redesign, rewrite reinvent your products, services and offerings to suit the new business and economic culture and environment

• 15. Exploring and keep refining - what value proposition that you can create for your clients

• 16. And most important how can you remain sane, cool and with minimum viable stress

• 17. You also need to create succession planning at all the major decision-making levels on war-footing - if you don't take this as a priority – you will find yourself overwhelmed and bogged-down with such operational day-today issues - that you will cease to be a leader

• 18. And should you operate this business-line or close-down

• 19. Identify how the current crises-changes-challenges have impacted

• I.Your business

• II.Your consumers

• III.Your employees

• IV.Your own priorities

• V.Your own handicaps and challenges

• VI.The market you operate in

• 20. Ask yourself these 20 Future-change-focused question

• I.Which of your strengths have become weaknesses

• II.Which of your earlier-weaknesses can become your pillars of success

• III.How is your personal relationships have changed

• IV.How it has impacted your spouse and children

• V.What are the priorities that you feel are immutably important

• VI.What changes you need to make in your thinking-process, habits of mind as well as routine

• VII.What skills you need to acquire on - should-have-got yesterday basis

• VIII.What is the most updated-vision that you must work on - in different areas you are responsible for

• IX.Do you have the team - who are go-getter and learners - people who feel good challenging the issues rather than waiting for being spoon-fed

• X.What type of people you need - how to get them and from where - whom to let-go

• XI.What type of coaching, mentoring and handholding you need for yourself - who are the people whom you can enroll and how

• XII.What type of interventions you need to initiate to make your existing people acquire the cutting edge and in-need competencies

• XIII.What are the types of obstacles you are facing right now - also what types of difficulties you foresee

• XIV.What types of strategies you need to invent to overcome these challenges - would the older one still-work or are working

• XV.How can you get your core-team - who have the confidence of challenging you and your decisions and choices - and creating possibilities

• XVI.How will you ensure rapid-implementation as well as pivoting if the actions don't work

• XVII.How can you identify, explore and foresee emerging and hidden trends of the future

• XVIII.How can you restructure, redesign and remodel your organization to use the fullest potential of all these trends - without having a wild-goose chase as well as costly mistakes

• XIX.How do you manage to retain your sanity as well as create balance between your business/professional-family-personal-social life - among these

• XX.How can you learn, grow and create benchmarks and standards which would trend-setters for your industry as well as globally

100+ ideas to be a trend-setting, path-breaking, disruptive leader

• 1.Learn and understand the difference between - being a change-dreamer, a change-thinker and being a change-creator

• 2.Train yourself to look beyond your current business needs - by asking continuously - what are you doing to create value for the future - how could your-brand, your products-services, your-organization - help build a better world

• 3.Develop a mindset of being perpetually curious

• 4.Create a learning-high nature - which thrill you to learn new things and experiment with new ideas

• 5.Create and raise your standards and bars constantly - and then go and excel in these for creating benchmarks that others will emulate

• 6.Finding innovating and creative solutions to your problems and the challenges faced by large masses

• 7.Become a leadership creator - helping your connections and network - grow bigger and larger than they were and to unleash the best in people

• 8.Being flexible and open to new ideas - exploring all which is unconventional and not-yet-a-trend

• 9.Being an action-person - translating the ideas and plans into concrete actions

• 10. Being a misfit - rather than conforming to what is traditional - chartering a new different path and course of action that leads you towards your goals

• 11. Proactively seek, create and embrace change - not fighting or resisting it

• 12. Being at the forefront to try newer ideas - irrespective of how ridiculous it may sound - because if you don't try to change things - things will never change

• 13. Expecting setbacks-failures-mistakes but always taking corrective and preventive action

• 14. Using patience, persistence and perseverance - to make large meaningful changes

• 15. Implementing big-changes - in small-small units

• 16. Knowing yourself and what you want to accomplish in your life is essential - but you need also to have the courage, confidence and competence to take actions - on whatever it takes

• 17. Doing the right thing - focusing on being respectable rather than being popular

• 18. Knowing and living your values - demonstrating integrity in your words and in your actions

• 19. Developing relationships based on mutual trust and respect - treating everyone as equal and with complete impartially

• 20. Being vulnerable and asking for help when you don't have expertise for something

• 21. Taking responsibility for your own action as well as those of your team

• 22. Surrounding yourself - with people who are smarter, more intelligent, better skilled

• 23. Maintaining your individuality - connecting with different professional and social networks but

• 24. Maintaining your own identity by being yourself

• 25. Being open to suggestions and feedback on their own ideas and be ready to accept when someone's idea is better than yours

• 26. Sharing your ideas without the fear that others will steal them - they may copy your idea - but only you can deliver unparalleled value

• 27. Being transparent and honest in communicating - policies, changes and what is expected of others plus how well others are performing and what they need to do to be their best

• 28. Building-up - from your own qualities, your strengths and your strong-suits

• 29. Doing what is good for yourself and others - never focusing on pleasing clients for short-term but going for their long-term benefits

• 30. Involving all the people in decision-making, problem-solving and executing ideas and strategies

• 31. Handling the tough-distasteful tasks - first when your energy-levels are at their peak

• 32. Exploring problems as possibilities and opportunities

• 33. Being disciplined -to avoid pain of regret of missing opportunities

• 34. Starting small - taking baby-steps but always towards the big-picture

• 35. Taking time to think thoroughly before acting in cases of huge changes

• 36. Consolidating what you have created and building-up on them in consistent forward-moving approach - nothing worthy happens over- night

• 37. Standing-up for something-meaningful, something-great and something which impacts larger mass of people powerfully and positively

• 38. Committing to the long haul attitude - for those goals which are long-term

• 39. Promising less and delivering exceptionally high - instead of making great speeches - delivering what you promised

• 40. In case you find an injustice you see around - start a community towards collective action.

• 41. Finding innovative ways-methods-ideas to engage your employees-your clients-your community

• 42. Delegating-empowering and giving authority to your people - trusting more - controlling less - empowering most

• 43. Trying-out completely fresh - new approach in thinking as well as in taking-actions

• 44. Starting and supporting meaningful causes for the betterment of your community

• 45. Becoming a mentor for your people

• 46. Starting your own social enterprise to create meaningful positive difference

• 47. Changing your perception of a dealing with crisis and setbacks - from something to be feared-of - to something to lean from and grow

• 48. Creating an environment in which it is safe to try new things - failing and learning from mistakes - for yourself as well as your employees

• 49. Finding ways to use your voice and your power to support those who need it

• 50. Playing big - Recognizing your unique qualities and how they can create powerful positive difference and lasting impact

• 51. Inspiring others by doing what you love

• 52. Stepping-up in those situations that requires you to step up

• 53. Being the person - whom people can look-up to come-up with solutions-possibilities-alternatives

• 54. Identify and appreciate - everything - other's contribution, beauty of nature - your blessings

• 55. Taking risks of moving forward - even if people are saying no to your new ways and ideas

• 56. Finding and choosing to be part of entrepreneurs and other leaders - who have change-making at the core of everything they do

• 57. Creating teams which have the grit and creativity to come-up with sharply-focused, strategic moves that catalyzes and creates outcomes that makes you in a niche of your own

• 58. Making yourself ignited by purpose and empowered by your passion to make this world a better place to live

• 59. If you are a working professional - applying and working in the jobs that are the right fit for you and your employer - stay engaged once you start working from the very first day- invest some of yourtime looking into industry trends -stay a step beyond what everyone else is doing and be on top of the industry trends

• 60. Develop the ability to share ideas and clearly communicate them to colleagues and seniors -speak-up and share ideas

• 61. Polish and make your communication skills - be suave, refined, sophisticated and classy - to set you apart from others

• 62. Learn what it takes to get the best out of your team and people

• 63. Execution of an idea is the most important factors - as millions of ideas happen every day but never get implemented

• 64. Become a game changer by developing the game changing mindset - creating a game changing teams -then planning and implementing game changing strategies and game changing customer experiences

• 65. Muster courage to be vulnerable - it takes courage to accept your shortcomings, mistakes and ignorance and that you are not perfect and taking accountability and full ownership about your decisions and actions

• 66. If the same issues keep coming up over and over - ask yourself - why do you respond to situations the way you do - what makes you think, act and feel the way you do - what are your triggers and who manages to press them to make you lose your cool and control

• 67. Learn to lead from the heart -through understanding, leading and engaging your people by respecting, valuing, and developing them to succeed

• 68. Listen to understand - and not to prove who and what is right or wrong

• 69. Stop complaining and start resolving issues

• 70. Shift from whining to solving and doing

• 71. Make yourself think and act differently in a world full of incredible ideas

• 72. Create your niche playing ground - instead of competing and imitating the leaders in the markets

• 73. Create a future mindset - learn to interpret fast - to see new patterns and opportunities - then choose with deliberations what is relevant and not

• 74. Learn to connect unrelated dots - connect new ideas, new people, new partners, new capabilities and new ideas.

• 75. Become emotionally-agile –to cope with change

• 76. Use your intuition to make sense of nonsensical and then to make informed choices.

• 77. Be a hands-on working-person - to be the catalyst and coach

• 78. Learn to persist but also know when to move on

• 79. Be inspired by ideas from other places, other cultures, other countries, other businesses and other people

• 80. Resolve the conflicts and clear misunderstandings and misinterpretations - immediately on ASAP basis

• 81. Stop overthinking - take actions when you have reasonable amount of information

• 82. Avoid information and data overload

• 83. Dream big - have larger than life goals and aspirations - wake up with irrepressible ideas

• 84. Become a voracious reader - be curious and inquisitive

• 85. Walk the extra mile by providing value without expecting anything in return

• 86. Identify, use and leverage all your available assets and resources to move the forward and grow in a meaningful way

• 87. Create measurable upturn in your life

• 88. Put massive amount of hard-and-smart work and efforts

• 89. Understand that - sometimes - the thing that you are most scared-of -is the thing that is the most imperative thing to do

• 90. The illusion of safety in comfort-zone is more dangerous than the risk of taking actions in the face of uncertainty and unknown - be an informed risk-taker

• 91. Always focus on excellence and challenge and reject and refuse mediocrity

• 92. Match your people's curiosity with continuous learning opportunities - enable your people to make a difference & re-imagine the possibilities

• 93. Understand that there is no glamour without the grind, grit and consistency

• 94. Perfect your craft - to make yourself master in what is your very-own unique niche

• 95. Reject average - and embrace your weirdness - don't be afraid of being different

• 96. Choose to define yourself - ask yourself - who is defining you? Is it you or someone else - never let other people do it for you

• 97. Challenge the status quo and do so with courage and conviction

• 98. Ask yourself - if you had more courage and could take bigger risks - what accomplishments you may achieve

• 99. Don't wait for and seek permission where you don't need one -and find a way around obstacles in your path

• 100.Work around barriers - and not stop at big obstacles

• 101.Stop worrying about other people's opinions

• 102.Spend more time outside where the action is - doing things on shop-floor or at brass-tacks

• 103.Empower women and use their massive strength to create gender parity and balance of ideas and implementation

• 104.Implement diversity and inclusivity

• 105.Enroll and get the best from the people who are differently-abled

• 106.Create a meritocratic and value-based organization

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