Mukesh Gupta
Mukesh Gupta
I currently work for SAP as Customer advocate. In this capacity, I am responsible to ensure that the voice of the customer is being heard and play the bridge between customers and SAP. Prior to joining SAP, I have worked with different organizations serving in different functions like customer service, logistics, production planning & sales, marketing and business development functions. I was also the founder-CEO of a start-up called "Innovative Enterprises". The venture was in the retail & distribution business. I blog at http://rmukeshgupta.com.
Leaders, Futures and Foresight
As leaders, we are expected to have a vision of the future that we are leading our teams towards. To build this vision, we need…
Overcoming Resistance to Change
We live in a world with accelerating pace of change. For all us leaders, this accelerating change comes with the necessity to respond to these…
Learnings from Participating in an Intrapreneurship Program
This blog is co-authored by Makesh Gupta and Rena Yu Ning Wang, and it is about our journey participating in the SAP.iO journey, with the idea…
3 Principles of Leading Under Conditions of Uncertainty
Premise: We are entering a phase where there is a lot of uncertainty. There is a consensus building up about an impending recession. There is…
A Leader’s Super Power: Delivering Unprovoked Positive Antecedents!
I was reading a blog post written recently by Adam Voigt about UPA’s and I wanted to share that with all of my readers. Adam…
A Framework for High Performance Leadership
I read a post by Michael McCune on Gartner’s blog about thought leadership and it resonated really well with me. In the post, he talks…
3 Skills for all Leaders to Cultivate – Naming, Framing and Priming
Premise: One of the key responsibilities that we have as leaders is to make sense of what is happening in and around the teams that…
How to Win in the Age of Unreasonable Consumer
Are we willing to be more unreasonable than our consumers? If yes, then how and where? I recently stumbled onto a video of Adam Morgan…
3 Questions to Ask Before We Start Any Transformation Effort
One of the biggest challenge when it comes to successful transformation efforts, is the stickiness of change in behaviour expected as part of the transformation.…
Seeing the Unseen!
Earlier today, I read a post by Martha Bird (@anthro_tweeter). She is a business anthropologist at ADP focused on understanding the cultural contexts of work…
Three Primary Roles of a Leader
There is a lot of expectations from leaders, specially when we are in an environment that is ambiguous. Matt Church in his “Speakership” programs talks…
Leading for Creativity and Innovation
One of the primary responsibilities of a leader is our ability to enable our teams to fuel their creativity and drive innovation. Kevin Roberts (who…
A System for Becoming Better Leaders
One of the most important thing that we can do as a leader is to find a way to continue to grow as a person…
Lessons in Leadership with Ken Wilcox, Emeritus chairman of Silicon Valley Bank
In an interesting conversation with Todd Jick (Reuben Mark Faculty Director of Organizational Character and Leadership at Columbia Business School), Ken shares lessons in leadership…
How to be an Inspirational Leader?
One of the expectations as leaders that we have of ourselves is to be inspirational. Everyone talks about how it is important for leaders to…
Leading in a VUCA World – One conversation at a Time
I recently read a blog post by Marcella Bremer for the Leadership and change magazine. You can read the entire blog post here. In the…
Driving Significant Results
I was going through my notes from the past few years and I stumbled onto my notes from a book called “Turning Goals into Results”…
The Role of a Leader – Comfort the Disturbed and Disturb the Comfortable
This is a picture that I had clicked some time back. This was a street art and at that time, it rang true for what…
Creating a 5 Star Employee On-boarding Experience is a Leader’s Responsibility
The responsibility of onboarding the employees we hire squarely falls on us as the leaders of the business unit. The number of times this process…
6 Ways to Solve Difficult Problems
Lately, I have been talking a lot about how to be creative on demand. I have shared my learning and insights with my colleagues, students,…