Shreyas Bakshi

  Most leaders that I have engaged with have expressed the desire to become this. The questions that remain largely unanswered for them are related to the ‘how-tos’. Here is my attempt to answer these. In the interest of mutual learning, I welcome your thoughts on this topic. The increasing pace of change and uncertainty over the past few decades has alerted business leaders, across the world, towards an urgent need to build an agile and adaptable organisation. This sentiment has only grown with the onset and spread of the global pandemic, one that has served as a major inflection point for organisations, who have either had to embrace change or risk becoming obsolete. The story of Choluteca Bridge, in Honduras, recently went viral on social media. It has personified this uncertainty rather well, shedding light on a very important management lesson i.e., build a ‘self-adaptable’ organisation.     While dynamic leaders aspire to make their organisations gro...

Last week, when some of my clients wished me on #gurupurnima, I started reflecting on whether I have taught them or learnt from them. Sharing my thoughts as they emerged based on my tenets of learning.  Do share some of your own learnings from learning as well. Together, let us build a library of learnings. I look forward to an enriching discussion. We  all learn many things in our lives. We also share some these for the benefit of others. So, this is me, sharing my learnings on learning itself... [L]earning is a provisional licence to earn. Learning enables us to earn. Both, learning and earning, can take on many different shapes and forms. For instance, learning can be academic or experiential in nature. Earning, on the other hand, can be financial, social or emotional. Similarly, both can be planned and/or unplanned. Planned refers to the learnings that we go after in a systematic way, whereas unplanned implies the ones that we gain ‘accidentally’. Although, the...

How often do we hear this at the beginning of our professional career: This is the right time to be an entrepreneur. It will get more difficult as you grow older because: your responsibilities will be higher & hence your risk taking ability will be lower you would be used to a steady income & hence find it difficult to adjust with varying income your income levels will be higher and so your expectations from the venture will be higher this is your age to learn and entrepreneurship will teach you a lot if you fail now, you have enough time on hand to get back to the job market you will be your own boss and will be able to do what you like you will easily earn more than what your current salary is etc. etc. etc. Having got 'sold' to this school of thought about 25 years ago, experienced the journey myself and then seen many different entrepreneurship journeys as a Consultant/Advisor to them, I began to wonder whether all of this is true and whether these are the ke...