Dr. Parveen Prasad - Stop Dont Go There: Mistakes Made by Top Leaders

STOP! Dont Go There!

Mistakes Made by Top Leaders

STOP! Dont Go There!

Mistakes Made by Top Leaders

By Parveen Prasad

First published in India 2018

2018 by Parveen Prasad
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Dr. Parveen has shared her expertise on Leaders and Leadership through several interviews.Stop! Dont Go There!! is a compelling compilation of diverse lessons learnt by leaders. It offers a refreshing approach to mistakes in organizations.

Vikas Chadha

President, Honeywell India

In some ways, this book is a game changer. The structure of values, mistakes and learning shapes a high order leadership model.

D.D.Mishra,
Research Director, Gartner

The CEOs profiled in this book offer leadership lessons to leaders at all levels. These ideas will certainly help the Generation Y to become better CEOs.
This well researched book describes how 30 CEOs lead and learn lessons for success in tomorrows corporate world.

Kishor Karnataki, ex MD,
Minda VAST, ex MD,
Minda Valeo, Director, MACJ

Stop! Dont Go There!, written by Dr. Parveen Prasad, elaborates beautifully the perspectives, the insights, the mistakes and the lessons learnt from the errors of these very situations and experiences. It is a wonderful eye-opener for all future entrepreneurs and budding managers, for leaders in all spheres and areas of functions and life. I wish the author success and hope that she comes with many more publications for the youth to show them theright path.

Dr Geetha Mohan,
Member, Board of Studies,
NMIMS School of Liberal Arts,
Ex Principal, UPG College of Management, Mumbai,

Stop! Dont Go There! expertly details the stories of leaders who connect the dots between values, mistakes and learning. This book offers pragmatic lessons for success.

Rajesh Kocchar,
Business Coach, Ex CEO,
Wipro Lighting, Ex MD, Harmonic Limited

Stop!!Dont Go There is simply, a great conceptI am a vociferous reader but have not come across a subject like this. Very novel, leaders making mistakes, learning, adjusting, and then winning. It is a great learning to be kept as a part of study material in a school curriculum. Hats off to Dr Parveen for having taken the pain, time and effort to reach out to these successful persons and collating a chronicle like this. After starting the book, you cant wait to complete before doing anything else. A sure shot winner

Mahendra Surekha,
Director and CEO, MACJ

Dr Parveen has shared her expertise on Leaders and Leadership through several interviews. A compelling compilation of diverse lessons learnt by leaders. It offers a refreshing approach to mistakes in organizations

SudhirNerurkar,
President and CEO, Quanzen Consultants

Leaders do make mistakes, and smart ones learn from them. Even smarter ones learn from the mistakes of others. STOP! Dont Go There!! by Parveen Prasad is a must read for MBA students and professionals aspiring for leadership roles.

Debapratim Purkayastha,
Associate Dean, ICFAI Business School, Hyderabad

A bible for the corporate world, Stop-Dont Go There-Mistakes made by top leaders, authored by Dr Parveen Prasad is a priceless tool for all those who mean business in the corporate world. Well researched and easy to read, the book opens a doorway that leads us to the inner world of CEOs who openly admit on hindsight to the mistakes they made scaling the ladder. A treasure trove that is unputdowable, the book illustrates valuable lessons to learn from mistakes of top leaders, instead of making your own.

Farida Master,
journalist and author of An Uncensored
Life-Biography of Zerbanoo Gifford

Table of Contents

Missteps make business leaders successful, provided you turn those mistakes into genuine learning opportunities.

Successful organizations create a learning culture. An environment that is overly supportive of mistakes sends wrong signals, while that which encourages a punitive environment discourages employees from owning up, when they make mistakes. Clearly, a balance has to be struck.

From an early part of my career, I would openly talk with my colleagues up and down the hierarchy about the mis-judgments, I or we as team had made. This was a culture fostered originally by my Managing Director in my first job at a British MNC, where I joined as a management trainee. I felt comfortable critiquing myself honestly, as he had created this open culture.

Of course, life is too short to always learn from your own mistakes so the best way is to learn from others genuine mistakes. But of course, when the mistake happens, one must immediately take the lead to learn and rectify. Clearly, the approach is not to repeat the same mistake over and over again.

One of the most important elements here is transparency. Things will go wrong but when they do, then we must speedily communicate to the team/organization that something is amiss what it could be that it is being corrected and what steps we are taking to correct it.

By owning it, letting go of the pride we can only become stronger and better.

Failure hurts. But each failure provides a learning opportunity. Success is a poor teacher! Crushing defeats should not be viewed as game over sign but as a tool on the journey to even greater heights.

So how do we all learn? Some of us pretty early in our careers but many later when sometimes it is too late. I was fortuitous at the formative stages of my career to have superiors and CEOs who were fairly well evolved. One of the early lessons I was taught is whether one realizes or not, we all have a personal brand which ramifications for the corporate culture and can have reaching implications.