Leadership is a personal choice by Mirza Yawar Baig

1. Leadership is a Personal
Choice

2. Mirza Yawar Baig
Changing the world, one mind at a time
Work Experience:
 International Speaker, Trainer, Author, Coach, Leadership Consultant
with 16 years in Corporate General Management, 30 years in Training
& Organizational Development. Author of 24 books
Director / Professional Member:
 Centre for Conflict Resolution & Human Security
 Indian Society for Applied Behavioural Science
Entrepreneur:
 1994: Founded
Education:
 IIM-A , P-CMM®, MBTI©, WSA©, ISABS
Books include:
 The Holy Cat
 Hiring Winners
 Present Your Way to the Top
 Leadership is a Personal Choice
 The Business of Family Business
 An Entrepreneur’s Diary
Member Consultant Panel:
USA
 GE Corporate University, Crotonville
 AMA International, New York
 Andersen Corporate University, MN
India
 Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh
 LBS Academy of Administration, Mussoorie
 SVP National Police Academy, Hyderabad
 SSB Academy, Gwaldam
Clients Include:
GE, Oracle, Motorola, Microsoft, IBM, National Semiconductor, Unilever,
BSNL, Tata, Colgate, Asian Paints, Siemens, Wartsila, MphasiS, Bangalore
Labs, EXL Service, World Bank-CGIAR, Tata, Corporate, J & J, Accenture,
Zeneca Seeds, Shanta Biotech, Advanta, Reuters, Air India, Rahim Afrooz,
Yusuf Bin Ahmed Kanoo, Olam, Regal Beloit, Reliance World, NIS Sparta,
AMKA, Emami Group, Suzlon, JP Morgan, SEW Infrastructure, LANCO,
SEAPOL, KAR Group, Expolanka
yawarbaig@gmail.com
www.yawarbaig.com

3. “The two most important days in your
life are the day you are born and the
day you find out why.”
~Mark Twain

5. Perspective
 “The ability to simultaneously hold in your mind, a
picture of where you want to go while being aware
of where you are today.”
Without perspective you can never find direction

6. “We all must suffer from one of
two things:
The pain of discipline or the
pain of regret.”

7. “The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in
not reaching your goal. The tragedy
lies in having no goal to reach.”
Benjamin Mays

8. IBM Millennium Survey:
Winners = Olympic Gold = 2%
 Do you want to be with the 2%?
 Or with the 98%?
Excuses don’t change reality

9. Remember
 Winning is not a size or number or beauty or strength
thing
 Winning is a quality thing
Winners are not those who have the most
But those who contribute the most

10. 7 – Requirements for Change
1. Introspection with brutal frankness
2. Owning mistakes
3. Accepting responsibility for correction
4. Clear strategy going forward
5. Clarity about benefits from the change
6. Commitment to applying the new method
7. Going through the pain

11. Live to Win
Put your life in GEAR
Generate, Energize, Achieve, Return

12. Generate
Energize
Achieve
Return

13. Generate Energy
Connect to the Source

14. Generate
 Energy
 Vision
 Strategy
 Road Map
Focus on yourself

15. Generate Energy
 Be clear and rooted in your values
 Live the values with confidence
 Feel the passion about your belief
 Energize others to share your belief
Values drive passion and passion rarely fails

16. What are ‘Right’ Values?
 Those that you believe in passionately
 Those which you will do anything for
 Those you will not compromise at any cost
 Those which add value to you and others
Shortcuts lead only to one place – destruction

17. Your Values
 Please list your top 3 values; those that you will do
anything for and not compromise at any cost
 For each one, reflect on why it is important to you
 How will you get subscribers?
How do others benefit from your values?
20 minutes

18. It is not how much you have, but how
much you want, which determines
satisfaction and peace of mind.

19. Vision
 What is the purpose of your life?
 What will be lost if you are no longer there? Who
will feel this loss?
 How do you want to be remembered?
It is not about being remembered
But about being remembered with honor

20. The Essential Truth
 Living life is about making choices:
 Choosing to be a “Victim”
 Or choosing to be a “Master”
 Both stances are subject to the givens of society, environment,
organization
 Both stances have implications in terms of your development and
happiness
It’s not what happens to you but what you do
with what happens to you that matters

21. Exercise
 Imagine that you are listening to your own farewell
speech being delivered by someone who has worked
with you, for many years and knows you very well.
 What would you like to hear?
This is what you need to focus on from today
10 minutes

22. Start Stop Continue
What is the price of your success?
In order to succeed, what do you need to

23. Energize Others
Because you can’t
win alone

24. Energize
 Build the team
 Leverage conflict
 Gain commitment
 Develop leadership
Focus on your people

25. Build the team
 Who must be on the team?
 Why?
 Who must not be on the team?
 Why?
 Why must they be on your team?
 Do they share your belief? How much?
Because only right people can go to the right place

26. Exercise
 Keeping your vision and roadmap in mind, who must be
on your team?
 What is you plan to recruit them?
 What is the incentive for them to work with you?
 How will they benefit and how much do they really need
you?
This is what you need to focus on from today
10 minutes

27. Develop leadership
 Groom successors
 Select right
 Train right
 Monitor right
 Mentor right
 Hand over charge: Trust your training
Successors must want to succeed

28. For Successors
 Demonstrate
 Respect for the teacher & training
 Anxiety & Industry to learn
 Speed of understanding
 Willingness to practice
 Openness to feedback
Confidence is inspired – not demanded

29. Achieve Results
Because only results count

30. Exercise
 In your groups, please tell the story of the greatest
achievement of your life
 As a group please list three things that inspired
you from the stories
 Each group please share your three points of
inspiration
20 minutes

31. Achieve
 Set metrics
 Review performance
 Reward achievement
 Assess the future
Focus on your investment

32. Exercise
 Please list 3 – main goals that you would like to work on
 What are your metrics for each goal?
 What is your contingency plan?
 What are the possible enablers/inhibitors?
20 minutes

33. Set Metrics
 Specific
 Measurable
 Actionable
 Realistic
 Time bound

34. I will not allow, what is not in my
control, to prevent me from doing what
is in my control.

35. Return to the World
Because you took from it

36. Return
 Share the wealth (all kinds)
 Consolidate gains
 Return to society
 Create a legacy
Focus on your environment

37. Give to get
Because only empty hands can hold
Share the wealth

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39. Life is an equation
2 x 2 = 4
 You own the multiplier and are given the constant
 The result is a product of both
 If we want a different result, we can still get it even
though we own only one side of the equation
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What can you do to change your multiplier?

40. Give to get
 What you have in your hand is the harvest.
What you plant is the seed.
 Hang on to what you have and that’s all you'll
ever have.
 You want more? Then plant what you have.
Give what you have to get what you need

41. The only way to get, is to give
 Want trust?
 Want caring?
 Want fun?
 Want respect?
 Want harmony?
 Want appreciation?
 Want happiness?
 Hide their faults
 Show concern
 Laugh often
 Be thankful
 Accept differences
 Don’t be critical
 Forgive mistakes

42. Return to society
 Strong societies are built on giving
 What we give returns to us in multiples
 Social disparities create fatal flaws
 We owe it to those who gave for us
Honor is never old fashioned

43. Create a legacy
 How do you want to be remembered?
 What do you want to leave behind?
 How is the world a better place because you live here?
 What loss will people feel when you are gone?
Because it is the return on our investment

44. Success is where
opportunity
meets preparation

45. Success is a process of
connecting aspirations to reality
Investment
Commitment
Adaptability
Persistence
Ambivalence Passion

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