Management Lessons from Poet Uncles
I keep saying in my talks, in jest, that I was hardly an accomplished speaker and therefore keep borrowing from superior intelligence, usually my uncles: my great grand uncle, Kabeer , who lived some 700 years back, my grand uncle, an Englishman, Shakespeare , born more than 500 years ago and my young uncle Ghalib who started speaking to me more than 200 years back. And indeed a battery of similar kinspersons who have spoken so abundantly, meaningfully and elegantly that I can simply forage and scrounge and perorate for hours on life, while keeping it topical for this blog, most specifically on management and leadership. Borrow and speak I will, but without disclaimers. Because what I speak, and now write, about is gold standard on the ‘ proof is in the pudding’ benchmark. They say that the stereotype leader-manager is a specialist of spiel whereas a more seasoned and successful one goes one better and writes. Now that I do both, and also that I hardly have a leadership role a...