Management Archives - Jayakumar Balasubramanian

Participative Leadership For Millennials

By Jayakumar Balasubramanian November 28, 2021Leadership, Listening, Management, Musings, Personal, Teamwork

I had the opportunity to learn about Millennials while caught between a parent-teacher meeting along with several newcomers at work. When it comes to leadership, this digital first generation requires a participatory approach.

I Met with an Accident

By Jayakumar Balasubramanian September 19, 2021Leadership, Management, Personal, Society, Teamwork2 Comments

Integrity entails doing the right thing while no one is looking over your shoulder, or doing the right thing above what is convenient at the time. Here is a post sharing some of my personal experiences and learnings.

Book Review : Measure What Matters

By Jayakumar Balasubramanian September 12, 2021Book Review, Business, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management, Teamwork, Venture Capital1 Comment

Book review of Measure What Matters by John Doerr. Talks about Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and how to implement them in organizations.

Book Review – Coaching : The Secret Code to Uncommon Leadership

By Jayakumar Balasubramanian August 22, 2021Book Review, Books, Business, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Listening, Management, Teamwork4 Comments

Book review of Coaching - The Secret Code to Uncommon Leadership. Gives valuable insights into coaching, leadership and organizational building.

I Disagree but I am Committed

By Jayakumar Balasubramanian August 1, 2021Leadership, Listening, Management, Teamwork

Trust is the fastest way to achieve synergy in teams. A personal anecdote where I learned about trust building.

What a bunch of noisy kids taught me about perception handling?

By Jayakumar Balasubramanian June 28, 2021Leadership, Management, Society

Pandemic taught us many lessons so far. For me, one of them is about handling perceptions. Check out what a bunch of noisy kids taught me recently.

Book review : A New Earth

By Jayakumar Balasubramanian April 21, 2021Book Review, Books, Education, Leadership, Listening, Management, Spirituality

Few books which will challenge the way you think by going beyond your traditional thinking. Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth comes in that category. Here is a review about this amazing book.

Building a self-organizing team: Five key learnings

By Jayakumar Balasubramanian July 15, 2016Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management, Startups, Technology

Self Organizing team is the 11th principle of Agile framework. What is a self-organizing team and how to build one? Here are my top-5 learnings.

Book review – The Elephant Catchers

By Jayakumar Balasubramanian May 12, 2015Book Review, Business, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management, Startups, Technology

Scaling an entrepreneurial venture takes altogether a different kind of thinking. Here is a book titled 'The Elephant Catchers' by Subroto Bagchi, which deep dives into this important topic for Entrepreneurs. Read on.

Right thing in a right way

By Jayakumar Balasubramanian April 21, 2013Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Listening, Management

Recently, I was given an opportunity to discuss ‘business alignment’ with a set of people in my group. To make the session interactive, I asked each one of them what…