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To make a positive impact on the world, learning to lead and influence better will take you a long way. According to author John C. Maxwell, good leadership goes beyond advancing yourself, to helping others advance. In this series, David McNeill, a principal at thoughtLEADERS LLC explains how leadership is not about position but about building and influencing a team to produce their best.

The Five Levels Of Leadership By John C. Maxwell

Underlining the key message that leadership is influence, The 5 Levels of Leadership explains that leadership is a process and not a position. This series takes you on a journey to understand the five levels of leadership and helps internalize the process that can make you an outstanding leader.

Position marks the lowest level of leadership and seldom requires any exceptional ability or effort. Position itself does not make you a leader. Learn why it is important to stay humble, even if you're in a position of authority.

At the first level of leadership development, you begin assuming power. Here, start engaging with your team and connecting with them individually.

Moving up leadership levels requires you to build relationships. Learn how you can master the second level of leadership by building trust, in this video.

Level 2 in your leadership development involves shifting mindsets from being served to serving others. Be intentional about extending trust and getting to know people personally.

The difference between good and great leaders is that the latter make things happen. They get results. They are not just productive individually, but empower and enable their team to produce. Learn how to become a productive, result-oriented leader, in this episode.

To continue your leadership journey, you must show that you can get results. Coordinate your team and focus their efforts on the areas that will be most productive.

Level four of leadership requires you to invest your time, energy, money, and thinking into growing others as leaders. Learn how people development is about creating other leaders, in this episode.

Developing as a leader means developing your people to become leaders themselves. Position your team members to learn new skills, management competencies and leadership principles.

Individuals who reach Level 5 or the pinnacle – are natural leaders, who lead so well that they create a legacy of leadership in their organization. Aspire to reach the peak of leadership through this video.

Becoming a leader of leaders requires long-term commitment. Reach beyond your own drive for success to focus on the ideals and legacy that others will aspire to.

Moving up the leadership ladder requires consistent effort and the right balance. This episode explains how to balance principles of each level of leadership to keep forging ahead.

There are times as a leader when you feel yourself moving down the ladder. To continue growing, be intentional in your leadership and stay focused on your people and on navigating obstacles.

If you were to change your position, organization or even sector, it is unlikely that you will maintain your leadership level from the previous position. Find out why leadership levels vary for the same individual and learn to accept that and act accordingly, in this episode.

Leadership levels can vary significantly depending on the sector and the people being led. It is important to be aware of different scenarios so you can connect with people based on where they are with you at the time.

A lot of us crave success, yet come up short on striving to achieve it. In The 10X Rule, Grant Cardone explains why it is important to set unrealistic goals and work ten times more than what you think it takes to accomplish those targets. Understand the 10x Rule to brush off mediocrity and achieve remarkable success.

Grant Cardone says to achieve extraordinary success, you need to set your goals 10 times higher than usual and work ten times harder than most people to achieve them. Learn how to build the right mindset to guarantee success.

Massive Goals + Massive Action = Massive Success

What sets successful people apart from average achievers? Setting your goal is the first step but having the right mindset to achieve it is what makes the difference. Find out more in this video.

Once you have set goals that you did not think possible for yourself, estimate the effort you need to achieve them and then plan to work 10 times harder.

Cardone argues that the large decline in US housing prices following the collapse of a housing bubble in 2007 was caused by people not setting the right goals for themselves. This episode explains how.

Assess your situation and set goals that are tailor-made for you rather than competing with others and thereby letting external factors dictating your goals.

Success means different things for different people. This video explains how understanding what success means to you is the first step towards achieving it.

Do not feel ashamed of wanting success. Treat it as a duty to develop not only your own well-being but also that of your family and community.

What is common between KFC founder Colonel Sanders, actor Sylvester Stallone and Walt Disney? They didn't stop after achieving success. Find out more in this video.

There are no limits to success. Truly successful people are driven by their own success to set even loftier goals for themselves that they strive to achieve.

One quality that sets winners apart is that instead of playing the blame game, they make themselves accountable for their own success or failure. This video explains how taking responsibility improves your chances of success.

It is important to understand that success is not something that happens to you, it’s something that happens because of you and because of the actions you take.

Cardone categorizes action into four degrees and explains why failure comes from operating at the wrong degree of action in this video.

All action levels need time and energy. Normal levels of action are dangerous as they lead you towards mediocrity. Instead, push yourself to take massive levels of action to attain consistent success.

Why you should set loftier goals rather than average goals? This video offers insights on this apart from tips to help you set your 10X goals.

Set unrealistic goals right from the start. With average goals, you risk losing interest and thereby failing to accomplish them.

Cardone argues that fear is a sign that you are taking the right actions to move in the right direction. Learn how to use fear to guide you towards your next step in this video.

Don’t allow fear to build up and crowd your judgment. Instead, let it act as a guide for your next actions.

The Process Improvement Handbook By Tristan Boutros And Tim Purdie

Value-Driven Business Process Management: The Value Switch For Lasting Competitive Advantage, By Peter Franz and Mathias Kirchmer 

The Introvert's Edge to Networking by Matthew Pollard

Experiencing Design By Jeanne Liedtka, Karen Hold, And Jessica Eldridge

Hacking Growth By Sean Ellis And Morgan Brown

Moneyball -- The Art Of Winning An Unfair Game: Michael Lewis

Business Model Generation By Alexander Osterwalder And Yves Pigneur

Brick By Brick By Bill Breen And David Robertson

Reinvent Your Business Model By Mark W. Johnson

The Power Of Business Process Improvement By Susan Page

Innovative Leaders Guide To Transforming Organizations: Maureen Metcalf

Moving To Higher Ground: Wynton Marsalis And Geoffrey C. Ward

It’s important to understand how to leverage data to inform your business decisions. In this course, data analytics consultant John David Ariansen shares the benefits of effective data analysis for business. Starting with the best data-tracking tools that even beginners can use, you'll learn about data source maps, database management, and different types of data sources such as cost data and external data.

Introduction To Business Analytics By John David Ariansen

In this course, data analytics consultant John David Ariansen shares the benefits of effective data analysis for business. Starting with the best data-tracking tools that even beginners can use, you'll learn about data source maps, database management, and different types of data sources such as cost data and external data.

Module 2 - How Can Data Improve Your Business?

Data is an extremely valuable resource for your organization. After watching this video, you will be able to identify the three steps that your organization can follow that will make the most of collecting, analyzing, and using data to improve your decision-making process.

Organizations are increasingly leaning on data to drive their decision-making process. After watching this video, you will be able to identify some of the common tactics that enable organizations to make better, data-informed decisions.

Using data to drive your decisions can be a powerful tactic. After watching this video, you will be able to successfully navigate adding data analysis to your decision-making process.

There are three main types of analysis. After watching this video, you will be able to identify the differences and applications of each of the three types of analytics.

Collecting data successfully can be tough. After watching this video, you will be able to identify the basic tenets of governing your data collection process.

Data governance is getting easier as more and more tools are being developed to help you track data successfully. After watching this video, you will be able to find the right tools to help you nail data governance.

Effective data analysis can slice through massive swaths of data to find insights that drive strategy. After watching this video, you will be able to identify effective data analysis.

A pivot chart is an excellent way to slice through your data and find insights. After watching this video, you will be able to use a pivot chart to study data.

Statistics may seem intimidating to a lot of people but most data analysis is relatively simple math. After watching this video, you will be able to use very simple statistics to find insights in a data set.

Finding insights in your data that are good enough to drive a decision is tough. After watching this video, you will identify the challenges and opportunities in using data to inform your decision-making process.

There are many moving parts in a well-functioning data infrastructure. After watching this video, you will be able to identify all the different data sources your organization has access to and an overview of each individual data source.

There are two major types of data sources - internal and external. After watching this video, you will be able to identify the difference between these two types of data sources and how you can use each to drive your decision-making process.

Studying one data source can be valuable but combining data sources provides you with a more in-depth view of your organization. After you watch this video, you will be able to combine data sources.

Managing your data can be a tough challenge. After watching this video, you will be able to manage the biggest challenges when it comes to database management.

Analysis that spans multiple data sources can have a huge impact on your organization. Unfortunately, this kind of analysis is impossible if your data exist in separate silos. After watching this video, you will be able to identify the true benefit of breaking out of data silos.

Collecting data is the first step towards analysis. This creates a unique challenge - once the data is collected, now you have to manage that data. After watching this video, you will be able to find the right tools that can help you accomplish effective data management.

Your organization is generating so much data that it can be tough to handle. Data visualization is a great tactic that allows you to take huge sets of data and uncover insights. After watching this video, you will be able to execute the fundamentals of effective data visualization.

Creating ad hoc data visualizations is a great way to find insights in your data, but creating a reporting infrastructure takes this process to the next level. After watching this video, you will be able to create a reporting infrastructure outline for your data so that you can not only track your key sales metrics but also quickly drill down into your data when you spot trends.

If you are making sales, you are collecting data. After watching this video, you will be able to identify the value your sales data can bring to your organization.

Marketing data helps you understand where you are resonating in the marketing place. After watching this video, you will be able to identify the key metrics involved in marketing analytics and how they can help grow your organization.

Understanding your cost data will help your organization run more profitably. After watching this video, you will be able to identify various cost data sources.

Psychographic data helps you understand how people feel about your product or service. After watching this video, you will be able to execute the basics of how to track and analyze this type of data.

External data sources help you understand your market. There are various external forces acting on your organization. After watching this video, you will be able to manage external data sources and find the right data sources to grow your organization.

Studying the right sales metrics will help you make the right decision. After watching this video, you will be able to identify the most important metrics related to your sales data.

Collecting data is the first step in analyzing data. After watching this video, you will be able to find the right tools to effectively track your sales data.

There are a few key metrics that will help know if your marketing efforts are hitting the mark. After watching this video, you will be able to identify the key performance metrics related to marketing data.

Sometimes marketing can be hard to track. This video outlines the various tools that will ensure you are getting the most out of your marketing data. After watching this video, you will be able to find the right tools to execute tracking your marketing data.

It is very important to understand your organization's margin. This video will break down the key performance metrics that affect your organization's margin. After watching this video, you will be able to identify key cost metrics.

Studying cost data can help you find opportunities to lower your organization's cost. After watching this video, you will be able to find the right tools that can help you track cost data effectively.

It can be tough to know how people feel about your organization. This is where psychographic data comes into play. After watching this video, you will be able to build the metrics to track how consumers feel about your product or service.

Psychographic data is often tricky to collect. You need to find a way to get your customers talking about your product or service. After watching this video, you will be able to find the right tools to track psychographic data.

In this lesson, John shares additional resources on learning more about business analytics.

In The Undercover Economist, author Tim Harford shows the level of intricacy in the simplest of things. In the process, he simplifies complex economic concepts.

A Book In 12 Minutes - The Undercover Economist By Tom Harford

A seasoned economist delves deep to perceive every situation in greater detail. If you have ever wondered what makes countries rich or poor, or if there are solutions to fundamental problems of air pollution and traffic jams, this is for you.

High prices indicate a cause and effect. Understand this principle with a multitude of examples. What drives up cost and who bears the brunt of it, also, do you have any role to play in it? Find answers to all this and more.

Retailers determine pricing by what consumers are willing to pay. To understand pricing, look beyond the effect to the cause—for example, land scarcity or convenience.

Tim Harford borrows from acclaimed economists to explain difficult theorems such as the Head Start theorem. In search of an equitable society, the author finds the answer is a little more ludicrous as the concept of a free market is put in perspective with a 100-meter dash.

According to Harford, fairness across society can be achieved by giving some people a headstart in the form of opportunities or support. The catch is not to take resources away from people but to level the playing the field with one-time taxes and targeted subsidies.

If you have ever been stuck in a traffic jam, felt the frustration of delay and wastage in the rising fumes from stalled revving vehicles, you can comprehend the free market as Tim Harford describes it. As you meander through the congestion, the solution will become apparent too.

Consumers often do not consider the effects of their consumption on broader society. "Externality charges," in which consumers pay for their specific actions, offer a potential solution.

How can a poor nation rise out of the mire of despondent poverty to thrive? To find the answer to that tricky question you need to dig a little deeper. Check if the needle of suspicion points at some despotic figure. There are some solutions to the predicament to consider.

Corruption is often at the root of poverty in poor countries. A potential solution is political will and accountability, along with minimizing bureaucracy and facilitating the free-flow of money and ideas.

One of the best ways to rise out of the quagmire of poverty is to open up the market if only poor nations could be on the same page as Tim Harford! The author has three compelling reasons why they need to speed up the process.

Globalization is imperative for poor nations to grow richer. This means avoiding protectionism, defining areas of expertise, and employing appropriate work force and environmental practices.

Your personal finance skills are not just about your technical knowledge but also about your behavior and soft skills, says Morgan Housel, author of the book ‘The Psychology of Money’. After finishing this course presented by behavioral economist, author and executive coach Tremaine Du Preez, you will determine the role of personal experience and luck in your personal finance, build endurance to survive the volatility of the market, and stay true to your own individual aspirations.

It might be counterintuitive to think behavior plays an important role in your success with regard to personal finance. However, after finishing this course, you will determine the role of soft skills and behavior in your personal finance journey.

Introduction: Financial Success Is A Soft Skill

Financial decisions are made based on our unique experiences with how the world operates. After finishing this video, you will consider adding personal context along with the data-driven spreadsheet in your financial decision-making.

Personal Experiences Shape Financial Decisions

Ignoring the role of luck in your personal financial decisions can be dangerous. After completing this episode, you will respect the role of luck that it deserves and factor that into your personal finance decision-making.

Have you ever asked yourself if you know the point where you can tell yourself that you have enough money? After finishing this video, you will be able to say ‘enough’ to yourself after reaching a point where you have enough money to take care of your reasonable needs.

It is important to understand what your wants really are to help you plan your personal finance. This episode will help you make a list of wants and enjoy them rather than breaking your back with an ever-expanding list of wants.

Reflection Exercise: Focusing On Your Wants

We must have heard the miracle of compounding but do we really understand its importance in our personal finance. After watching this episode, you will determine why starting early and staying invested is so important to reap the benefits of compounding.

Compounding only works if you give your assets time to grow and this requires sticking with it through ups and downs. After watching this episode, you will be able to develop a survivor mindset in your investment approach to take advantage of compounding.

Success in personal finance comes from a small percentage of actions that have a huge impact. In this video, you will explore why you can be wrong most of the time but end up being successful in your personal finance journey.

We learned in the previous video that you will fail more often than not in your financial decisions. After watching this video, you will determine how to react and make decisions when things are haywire around you.

Wealth building is a function of personal savings and frugality. After watching this video, you will be able to list four ways you can develop a savings mindset.

You will be wrong if you think emotions do not play a role in personal finance. After completing this episode, you will factor in the emotions, context, and social components in your decision-making process.

Housel stresses the fact that you should not make personal finance decisions just based on history. After watching this video, you will be able to list reasons why just factoring in history would be a bad personal finance strategy.

The world of finance goes through a lot of uncertainty and thus it is common to make errors in decisions. After watching this episode, you will be able to give yourself some room to make errors to effectively navigate the financial space.

Expecting high payoffs out of your investment means you accept volatility along with it. After watching this video, you will be able to change your outlook on volatility and accept it as part of your investment strategy.

Who is your investment guru? Is it your friend or some successful investor? After watching this episode, you will be able to list the reasons why you should make your investment decisions yourself rather than taking advice from others.

Since we have established you should not rely on advice from others with regard to your investment, it is time to find your investment style. This episode will teach you how to figure out your style through an activity.

Reflection Exercise: Finding Your Investment Style

Should you hold a pessimistic or an optimistic outlook when it comes to your money. This episode will help you explore why having a pessimistic outlook is better but we need to balance it out with a measured approach.

This episode summarizes the learnings and insights from the series. You cannot ignore the role of soft skills and your behavior to be successful in your personal investment journey.

It takes years of practice to be an effective manager. Tanveer Naseer, a principal at thoughtLEADERS, LLC distills lessons from Everyone Deserves a Great Manager by Scott Miller, Todd Davis, and Victoria Roos-Olsson. Whether it is conducting meetings, setting up targets or giving feedback, this can be your handy guide.

Everyone Deserves A Great Manager: Scott Jeffrey Miller, Todd Davis, And Victoria Roos-Olsson

If you are new to the role of a manager, the task can seem challenging. The success of a team depends as much on individual effort as the direction the collective force takes. Here’s your first lesson: Helping others succeed ensures your triumph.

A change in focus is warranted as you don the mantle of a leader. The skills that saw you excel in your last role are not enough to help you sail through a leadership position. Learn how to make this shift as you take on a new profile.

Moving from contributor to leader involves adopting a leadership mindset. Shift your focus from your own skills and talents to the skills, talents and needs of your team.

Target these three steps in your next one-to-one meeting with your team members. Schedule these at regular intervals with a clear agenda in mind. Use the time to coach and seek input. You'll find committing keeps you on track.

1-on-1 meetings provide an opportunity to connect and empower team members. Hold regular 1-on-1s with structured agendas, coaching and follow-on action items.

There is a fine line between guiding and micromanaging; are you sure you haven't crossed over to the dangerous side? Learn to focus on addressing the why and leave the how up to your employees, to delegate effectively and help your employees to get results, in this video.

Practice 3: Set Up Your Team To Get Results

Your job as a manager is to help your employees get results. Focus on setting goals and delegating tasks accordingly.

Voicing your thoughts can be challenging for new managers. Learn to give, or even take, feedback without needless anxiety. Scott Miller helps develop this culture of feedback in this episode.

Make sure your employees understand that your feedback is intended to help them develop and grow. Structure the discussion in a manner that leads to a plan for achieving behavioral change.

Science shows how our animal brain is wired to view change with suspicion. Assess if you are an early adopter or a naysayer or perhaps on the middle ground. Belief in the change helps translate it while allaying the fears.

Practice 5: Lead Your Team Through Change

When communicating a change to your team, provide the emotional context. Explain the reasoning and implications and invite feedback.

How do you manage your energy and prevent getting sapped by non-essential activities? When are you at your highest energy level, and when is it at its lowest ebb? Answering questions like these will help you focus on executing the job better.

Manage your own energy as well as your team's. Boost your energy with simple activities as needed and prioritize tasks according to when your energy is highest.

If you have embraced the six practices described in the earlier episodes, it is time to make a shift for long-term change. Learn to achieve this without derailing from the goal.

Becoming a good manager means being intentional about how you inspire, engage and support your team. Commit long-term to developing the coaching and listening skills that managing requires.

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Rajiv Bajaj shares insights on various leadership strategies that helped him make Bajaj Automobile a market leader in India in the motorcycle segment. He also stresses the importance of changing one's outlook to survive in a globalized world.

Rajiv explains the core and pillars of his business and how they help his business to succeed.

What It Takes To Build An FMCD business | Rajiv Bajaj

In an age when your product might not be much different from your competitor's, you can differentiate yourself with the right branding and marketing strategy.

Rajiv draws parallels between homeopathy and business and concludes with the secret sauce to achieve corporate wellness.

What You Can Learn From Homeopathy About Corporate Wellness | Rajiv Bajaj

CEOs, as a custodian of strategy, should ensure that the business is immune to the external factors that might negatively impact its functioning.

Rajiv, taking Bajaj Auto as an example, stresses the need to specialize in a highly globalized market space.

Globalization Needs Specialization | Rajiv Bajaj

It is advisable to specialize in a few areas to tap into the wider opportunity that our globalized world provides.

To be profitable, Bajaj is repeating the formula that it applied in the 60s, the 70s and the 80s but with a different focus.

Keep your effort focused rather than diversifying too much. Having a focused outlook has a positive impact on your profit margin.

Rajiv shares what he learnt on 'branding' after Bajaj's venture into the motorcycle portfolio.

How To Understand Your Brand | Rajiv Bajaj

It is not enough to have a good product. It is also important to understand if the product is compatible with the perception of the brand.

Rajiv shares how Prof. Yamaguchi, Bajaj's productivity consultant, made him realize his job clearly and why you must also get that clarity.

Understand Your Role Clearly | Rajiv Bajaj

The CEO mustn't worry about the day-to-day functioning but be more involved on the strategic front.

Co-written by Google Executive Chairman and ex-CEO Eric Schmidt and former SVP of Products Jonathan Rosenberg, How Google Works is an insiders' view on what makes the technology giant a leader in innovation and among the most desired places to work. We've distilled the book down to 9 valuable insights on corporate culture and strategy to help make your organization Google-smart.

How Google Works By Eric Schmidt And Jonathan Rosenberg

Only a few brands become verbs, and this book tells you how how Google did it.

The Google experience shows that hiring is the most important part of building a business. That is why they make it a collaborative process,

Hiring: The Manager's Most Important Task

A collaborative hiring process will help ensure that you hire the best people -- those with a visible willingness to learn.

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