Sailaja Manacha’s Leadership Blog

A leader is expected to have trained, taught and recited the journey of a 1000 miles while concurrently evaluating their team’s growth.

Reema had 14 years of work experience and led a 40-member team. She was soft-spoken, timid, and clever. She offered great clarity on the rare occasions when she spoke.

Knowing our strengths is key to navigating our careers or finding a new direction in life. When we do not know our strengths, we spend years slogging at the wrong role.

Most leaders are doers. Doing is great but it takes away time from thinking and strategy. To move from doing to leading well, leaders need to delegate or ‘give away’.

A leader is one who, out of clutter, brings simplicity…out of discord, harmony…and out of difficulty finds opportunity. -Albert Einstein.

Learning to manage others should be a skill that can be learnt. That being said, it’s no easy feat. In this blog, we dug deep and discovered 10 things all managers should do.