Strategy, Operations
Kunal Chopra
The 3 Pieces to Successfully Execute on Your ...

Where we're going to go in this post is to discuss each of the 3 elements of successful strategy execution in detail individually, but also recognize that they're mutually reinforcing. They are not necessarily done sequentially but in fact, support one another and are done iteratively and support each other over time. So when one thinks of strategic analysis, one wants to think about analyzing a strategy, doing the work to try to figure out and conceive of a strategy. Formulation refers to the process by which strategy is set in the organization. Maybe it's a strategic planning process done on an annual or biannual level, but it also refers to the organizational elements that bring together to devise the strategy. Finally, implementation refers to once we have envisioned our strategy, how do we actually bring it to bear. Again, strategy execution requires proper analysis, proper formulation, and ultimately, proper implementation.

The 3 Pieces to Successfully Execute on Your Strategy - Analysis, Formulation and Implementation
Entrepreneurial Mindset, Everyday Leadership
Kunal Chopra
Managing Your Employees' Motivations

Being an effective leader is about two core tasks: making decisions to address threats and opportunities, and implementing those decisions. Implementing decisions is about the willingness of the targets of implementation to exert effort. It is not enough for the targets of implementation to know what to do (information) – they also have to want to do it (motivation). 

Managing Your Employees' Motivations
Entrepreneurial Mindset, Everyday Leadership
Kunal Chopra
Decision Making - How to Make Decisions as a ...

Decision analysis provides individuals a systematic approach to making decisions. Unfortunately, no one knows everything and individual decisions are often biased by a decision-maker’s unique perspective. Inclusiveness – inviting others to help make a decision – should result in better decisions than any individual alone could make. Using a group of decision makers to make a decision should improve decision making quality because (1) more decision makers means more information, so decisions made by groups rather than individuals should be more informed decisions, and (2) more decision makers means more perspectives, so decisions made by groups rather than individuals should be less biased by any one individual’s unique perspective.

Decision Making - How to Make Decisions as a Group?
Entrepreneurial Mindset, Everyday Leadership
Kunal Chopra
Decision Making - How to Make Decisions as an ...

In this blog post, we're going to be talking about decision making. The central challenge in making good decisions is that we have to make decisions under uncertainty. The way we manage uncertainty leads us to make decisions in ways that are biased and not necessarily fully rational. So here we're going to talk about the biases that are triggered by making decisions under uncertainty and how to overcome those biases to make sound decisions. 

Decision Making - How to Make Decisions as an Individual?
Entrepreneurial Mindset, Everyday Leadership
Kunal Chopra
The Challenges of Everyday Leadership

The challenge of leadership is that we live in a “fast” business world. That means things happen quickly in an organization’s environment, and in order to survive, leaders have to get their organizations to react equally quickly – and effectively – when those things happen. That ability to react quickly is called agility, and the best leaders use their leadership skills to make their organizations agile. 

The Challenges of Everyday Leadership

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9 Steps to Your Dream Career

9 Steps to Your Dream Career

In this chapter, I’m going to put together a complete framework for you to start thinking about your career aka your career plan.

But I’d like to take you through a slight detour first.

Imagine for a moment that you an organization. The main goal of an organization is to make a profit. To make a profit and grow your business, you would probably want to put together a strategy in place. This strategy would include defining your vision as a company, defining your mission as a company, your values, understanding the market and customers that you want to go after, understanding the environment that you operate it, understanding your competition and much more.

You, like other companies would do something known as the “Strategic Planning” process, where they answer 3 high level questions:

  1. Where are you now as a company?
  2. Where do you want to be?
  3. How will you get there?