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Tuesday, August 21, 2012

“My Personal Meet with Marshall Goldsmith - Coaching Legend” - Professor M.S.Rao

When I opened my mail inbox at 1300 hours Indian Standard Time (IST) on August 20, 2012, I saw an e-mail from Dr. Marshall Goldsmith who is a Million-selling author of the New York Times bestsellers, MOJO and What Got You Here Won't Get You There. He is an executive coach for top CEOs in the world and has been ranked as the World’s 7^th Management Thinker according to Thinkers50. Marshall conveyed a personal message to me as we are known to each other since long and he gave me a number of endorsements for my books, and wrote foreword for one of my books, and also for one of my books of my son. I thanked Marshall for the mail as the mail came when the latter was in Dubai on August 19, 2012. I received another e-mail immediately to my response, and recognized from his email signature that Marshall was in Hyderabad on August 20, 2012. I was excited as I never met him personally except communicating through e-mails regularly. I enquired Marshall about the Hotel and other details. I immediately informed my two sons – M. Ganesh Sai and M. Ramakrishna Sayee over phone about Marshall’s visit to Hyderabad and asked them to get ready at home as I was outside to interview Marshall.

I along with my two sons went to Westin Mindspace and met Marshall at 1500 hours (IST) on August 20, 2012 in room number 1702. We received warm welcome from Marshall who appeared very simple. He introduced himself with his brief profile and asked all of us to introduce with our profiles. He had a great sense of humor and never felt like a great person although he is a renowned coach globally and the #1 ranked coaching guru in the world.

We discussed various global leadership issues and challenges and got photographed with him along with my two sons. My two sons interviewed him for 45 minutes. Marshall was pleased with my two sons and gifted them a comic book titled, ‘What Got You Here Won’t Get You There’ with his autograph. We were excited meeting such a great global management thinker who is very simple, humble and above all, a fine human being. It is a memorable day in our lives as Marshall spent his personal time with us for 90 minutes approximately. It shows how he cares his friends and others.

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Friday, August 17, 2012

“Professor M.S.Rao’s Webinar on ‘Soft Leadership’ Organized by International Leadership Association (ILA)

Dear friends,

Greetings!

I have researched and coined a new leadership concept - Soft Leadership. It is a new direction to leadership. Leader to Leader Journal published it in its Spring 2012 issue, and is available URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ltl.20019/abstract. I published a book on it titled, “Soft Leadership Make Others Feel More Important” (foreword by Dave Ulrich) URL: http://www.amazon.com/Soft-Leadership-Make-others-important/dp/8175156538.

The prestigious International Leadership Association (ILA) invited me to lead a webinar on this new concept. Here is the link with details: http://www.ila-net.org/Webinars/Archive/Rao082012.html for your participation.

I would appreciate if you could participate in my webinar.

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Tuesday, August 14, 2012

“Soft Leadership” - Professor M.S.Rao

“To give you an ounce of idea I dig tons of information.” – Professor M.S.Rao, Founder, MSR Leadership Consultants, India

I have coined a new concept – soft leadership which is drawing international attention with more curiosity about it, and the readers are sending me e-mails to contribute more articles on it. I thought to blog a small post about it.

In fact, we have so many styles in leadership, and I felt that there is a need for a new leadership style as per the changing times and technologies, and due to the rising expectations and aspirations of people. Hence, I have done research for few years on soft leadership style, and authored a book titled, ‘Soft Leadership: Make Others Feel More Important’ (ISBN 978-81-7515-653-1). World’s 23^rd ranked Management Guru, Dave Ulrich wrote foreword for this book. The book can be purchased URL: http://www.amazon.com/Soft-Leadership-Make-others-important/dp/8175156538 I also wrote an article on it, and published in prestigious Leader to Leader Journal in Spring 2012 issue, and you can purchase it URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ltl.20019/abstract

This soft leadership style blends leadership with soft skills as I have done my PhD in soft skills. Both soft skills and leadership are close to my heart, and I created soft leadership where leaders lead from the front with soft skills. This style has proximity with democratic, charismatic, principle-centered, servant, transformational leadership but a unique one as soft leaders of this style are distinguished by 11 Cs – character, charisma, conscience, conviction, courage, communication, compassion, commitment, consistency, consideration, and contribution to make a difference in the lives of others.

You will find more articles on soft leadership in my blog as and when I get new triggers on it. Hence, watch my blog for this new leadership style.

“Life is great when you add value to society and make a difference in the lives of people.” - Professor M.S.Rao

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