CEOWorld Article – Trust: The Magic That Transforms Vision into Reality 

Trust is essential in any relationship and vitally critical in business leadership.

A trustworthy leader fosters a positive and productive work environment, promotes transparency, and makes informed decisions. When trust is present in business leaders, it inspires confidence, respect, and loyalty in their team members.

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Trust: The Magic That Transforms Vision into Reality 

Shantha Mohan is a Realistic Optimist

I was featured on the Center For Optimism site with my take on what makes me an optimist.

Here is what it says:

“I was lucky to be born an #optimist, and I sustain that #optimism with three practices. One, by being #grateful for all I have. Two, by #imagining the possibilities of all good things that can happen. And three, by listening to #music that inspires me (Beatles, anyone?). I would say that I am a #realistic optimist and acknowledge that life is not without challenges.”

That’s what Shantha Mohan Ph.D. told me when I asked her what makes her optimistic.

Shantha is an #entrepreneur and author with over 30 years of experience running distributed #engineering teams worldwide. Shantha is a mentor and project guide at the Integrated Innovation Institute at Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley.  She is “passionate about humanistic #leadership, using artificial intelligence in innovative solutions, gender equality, and sustainability.”

In an essay, “Optimism: What Every Leader Needs Today,” Shantha wrote, “Optimism is contagious. When a team hears a leader say something can be done, and we can do it together, the positivity energizes the team members to pull together and deliver the best for the organization’s success. Balancing optimism by acknowledging the challenges creates a realistic environment that promotes actions and results.”

Shantha writes, “Leaders also need a healthy dose of realistic optimism, which requires acknowledging the challenges while feeling positive about making an impact.”

Shantha refers to the Beatle’s Song “Getting Better,” which is on our Music for Optimism playlist.

“In my book, Leadership Lessons with The Beatles, I devoted a chapter to optimism and titled it “Getting Better,” one of The Beatles’ songs. A friend asked me why I didn’t choose “Here Comes the Sun,” a song that conveys the essence of hope, as the title. You need hope, but we cannot expect things to be taken care of automatically. We need the drive, commitment to improving, and conviction to succeed. We need action, and we need innovations.”

Thank you, Victor Perton!

CEOWorld Article – Riding The Wave of Generative AI: Tips for Enterprise Leaders

If you are asking yourself, “How can I leverage the Generative AI technology in my business?” there are three things you can do to get started. 

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Riding The Wave of Generative AI: Tips for Enterprise Leaders

A Q&A on Leadership and my book

In this 15-minute interview with Angela Kochuba, who is the Managing Director of Federal Training Academy, I answer the following questions about leadership and “Leadership Lessons with The Beatles”

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CEOWorld Article – Optimism: What Every Leader Needs Today

Leaders need a healthy dose of realistic optimism, which requires acknowledging the challenges while feeling positive about making an impact.

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Optimism: What Every Leader Needs Today

My trip to India in December 2022

I traveled to Chennai, India, for the Golden Jubilee reunion of the class of 1971 at my undergraduate alma mater, the College of Engineering, Guindy (CEG), and then to Coimbatore to visit my mother at Serene Shenbagam, a senior community.

Some visuals from the visit.

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CEOWorld Article: Flex Your Curiosity to Learn, Unlearn, and Relearn

In our quest for lifelong learning, there are times when we are learning something new. Sometimes we may have to unlearn what we learned and relearn it to become innovative.  

Learning, unlearning, and relearning all require us to be curious.

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Flex Your Curiosity to Learn, Unlearn, and Relearn

Resources From Leadership Lessons with The Beatles

image courtesy: Pixabay/Geralt

Here is a handy list of the resources included in the book.

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CEOWorld Article: The Power of Independent Thinking in Leading

A best practice is a process or method generally accepted as the best among the alternatives known. Do the assumptions that went into creating the best practice hold in your situation? Should you adopt a best practice without probing to see if it will work for your organization? Some best practices created decades ago may not hold up any more in our current environment. 

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The Power of Independent Thinking in Leading

CEOWorld Article: Leading Knowledge Workers: Do You Want To Know A Secret?

In 2019, the count of worldwide knowledge workers exceeded one billion. According to statistics, the US has a high percentage of knowledge workers—60%. As the digital age advances, we are going to be seeing more proliferation of knowledge work. Knowledge workers require careful consideration in how they are rewarded.

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Leading Knowledge Workers: Do You Want To Know A Secret?