Leadership Skills

Blog Posts by Satish Mehta

COO – the “Secret Weapon,” – 2 or 3 parts

The COO agenda focuses on actions only they can take and ensures optimal resource allocation is optimized.

COO – the “Secret Weapon,” 1 of 3 parts

At a speaking opportunity, I asked several senior executives to name the CEOs of Microsoft, Facebook (Meta), Google, and IBM. They all knew the names – Satya Nadella, Mark Zuckerberg, Sunder Pichai, and Arvind Krishna. Next, I asked, “Who are the COOs of the same companies?”

Crickets! No answer.

The CEOs are mostly public-facing and deal with external constituencies and stakeholders. People can name dozens of famous CEOs. But how about COOs? Not so much.

The COO is the “Secret Weapon” of the C-suite, building organizational strength and exemplary employees. …

Modest Investment, Immeasurable Return

For just a small investment of your time and money, Dhaakar’s Negotiation and Leadership will teach you to deal with difficult people and hard bargainers, more effectively structure deals, and manage conflict more productively.

The only lousy time-off is the one you don’t take.

Woodworking or playing harmonica recharges your mental and physical batteries more effectively than watching geriatrics win elections.

Give Your Biggest Fans A Story To Tell

Find, connect, support, and broadcast those who trust and believe in you.

Apathetic Bystander or An Exemplar

It gets more compelling and challenging as you progress from doing it by the rules to making a change happen.

Decision Making Simply Put

The Starters’ Playbook

Degrees

It’s time to question the relevance of the current education system for the instant skills and talent needs of the evolving times.

Novice or An Expert?

Knowledge is the essence of intelligent action.

Acquiring Skills

It is structured to help people develop the most common trait of world leaders — an ability to communicate and negotiate skillfully. This single skill will give you the capacity to stand up and become the change leader you want to be.

The “Free” Offer.

his book is for those who never thought of starting a business, to those running an enterprise, for the die-hard entrepreneurs born to create and lead, and for stable, less intense business owners.
How about dreamers stuck in a rut of day jobs? They dream about getting paid for pursuing their passion. Yes. This book is for them too.

Why go back to office or workplace?

A technology or an innovation may remove the human element in one area. But, it will also create opportunities in another.