Mukesh Gupta
Mukesh Gupta
I currently work for SAP as Vice President of Customer advocacy. In this capacity, I am responsible to ensure that the voice of the customer is being heard within SAP and play the bridge between customers and SAP. Prior to joining SAP, I have worked with different organisations serving in different functions like customer service, logistics, production planning, sales, marketing and business development functions.
What Swarm Intelligence Teaches About Leading Complex Adaptive Systems
Premise: The traditional organizational paradigm, defined by rigid hierarchies and linear command-and-control loops is at a breaking point and no longer an effective form of...
The Hidden Leadership Skill: Leading for Evolution
Premise: Almost all leaders today lead in an environment that is ripe with disruptions and ever changing competitive landscape. The challenges of leading in this…
Why Logic Is Overrated: How Leaders Worth Following Can Learn to Hack the Irrational Mind
Premise: In the last post, we saw how leaders can benefit a lot by learning from the field of Anthropology. In this post, I am going...
How to Get Ready for the Higher Order Tasks when AI is Ready for the routine One’s
Premise: There is a lot being said about the capabilities of AI tools and how they can bring in so much efficiencies and free up...
Surfing the Edge of Chaos
If there is one word that we can use to describe what we have been experiencing, right from the time of the spread of...
Leadership Can’t be Taught, it needs to be Learnt
In this short video about learning, I reference a blog post by John Hunter from 2014, which I still find incredibly relevant today. My key point centered...
Leaders Worth Following Understand the Difference between Change and Progress
The most common cliche today is “The only constant is Change”. As with everything else, not all change is created equal. In my experience, not all...
First Principles Based Leadership: The Hidden Risks of Data-Driven Decisions
In the past few years, we have seen a huge proliferation of data. With this amount of data being available, the expectation of data...
Mistakes to AVOID in Large Scale Transformation
In today’s rapidly changing world, organisations are constantly looking for ways to transform themselves to remain competitive. Large-scale transformation can be a daunting task,...
First Principles Based Leadership: Six Perspectives That can Help us Transform from Good leaders to Great Leaders
Premise The most important act we do as a leader is our interactions with those we lead. The quality of these interactions lead to the...
First Principles Based Leadership – Introducing Systems Thinking for Leaders
Premise This post is relevant for you irrespective of where you are currently situated in leadership ladder (Individual contributor, team lead, leading teams, leading managers, leading lines...
First Principles Based Leadership – Building our Systemic Awareness
Premise In this series of posts about First Principles Based Leadership, we have already covered the importance of and how to improve our self awareness,...
First Principles Based Leadership – Improving our Contextual Awareness
Premise In this series of posts about First Principles Based Leadership, we have already covered the importance of and how to improve our self awareness, social awareness and cultural awareness.…
First Principles Based Leadership – Raising Cultural Awareness
Premise In this series of posts about First Principles Based Leadership, we have already covered the importance of and how to improve our self awareness and social awareness. In…
First Principles Based Leadership: Improving our Social Awareness
In my first post (which you can read here), in a series of posts about “First Principles Based Leadership”, I shared the importance of developing...
First Principles Based Leadership – Cultivating Self Awareness
In my last post, I shared the importance for leaders to work on five different kinds of awareness (self, social, cultural, contextual and systemic). Today and...
Foundation For First Principles Based Leadership
Premise: One of the foundations for First Principles Based Leadership is for leaders to be aware. Leaders need to work on their awareness on five...
5 Types of Stories Leaders Need to Tell
Premise As I had mentioned in my blog post yesterday, stories are a medium to transmit ideas. As leaders, it is one of our most...
Being a Good Leader is Hard Because
Being a good leader is hard because it is not being good at one or two things but being good at a multitude of...
Emergent Leadership
Premise: We are leading in a world that is constantly changing and at a pace which is sometimes mind-boggling. New generations coming into the workforce…