Great leaders and great leaders:

I have been in IT ecosystem for descent amount of time.I think I can now highlight what actually makes companies or teams successful.

1. First and foremost thing in any success is the Integrity. I can quote number of examples of people who have always retained integrity it’s none other than “Ratan Tata”. Tatas have never run away from retaining the integrity, business ethics, there are number of instances that they never bribe no matter what. Tatas is one of the mostly ethically run companies and like they say Rome wasn’t built in a day, Tatas weren’t built in a day! So yatha Raja tatha praja. Same with Mahindra they never compromise on national interest. Anand Mahindra’s leadership is another classic example.

2. There are many short term visionary leaders in order to save their own roles, they will blame or throw someone else under the bus. The smartness is not standing by them, because there is no guarantee when it comes to safeguarding the team they will surely throw the team under the bus. I have seen this happen multiple times. Such kind of leaders are always going to be toxic and will always create toxic environment always and in the long term it’s only going to be more damaging.

3. Decolonisation mindset is the need of an hour: Many leaders unfortunately are still in the mindset of always trying to please their bosses, super bosses even when the top leadership is completely wrong but then in order to retain their position they will stand by knowing they are wrong. I have seen cases, where the leaders are technologically zero, not even great visionary leaders by simply forcing employees to pick up their top leadership from airports and treating them like hotel management staff and forcefully asking employees to organise potlucks( literally shoving up the throat) . But now I can confidently say I never stood by all that, torturing my teams to the core.But today I can confidently say that I am happy I wasn’t standing that side of the party. I don’t enjoy in the psychopathic behaviour of torturing people 😀.

I strongly think that if you cannot have a healthy disagreement with your top leadership you are definitely in the wrong eco system(unfortunately it’s true in most cases) not only you are feeding a snake, sooner or later that snake will bite you.There is a difference between nurturing a cattle and nurturing a poisonous snake. We should know the difference as to which will yield better results. So, ALWAYS do the right thing. If you don’t get accepted move on, WORLD is your oyester.

Trust me after all these years of being in corporate, everytime something terrible has happened to me, I have always got better roles, better salary. So, the pain of making a right decision is temporary but FAR more beneficial in the long term. 

PS: hey why worry when you have done the right thing, worry should be for those who climbed ladder on the dead bodies of others hardwork and such careers which anyways is short lived 😊