Leader's Block

by Ritu Gupta Mehrish

Have you ever felt bored and uninterested at work?
Do you feel that you are working hard and not seeing results?
Does your day end with frustration and disillusionment?
But what happened? After all, you loved this job.
It could be 'leader's block', a phase where leaders feel demotivated and unengaged. These are the same leaders who at one point found their work stimulating and exciting. Over several candid interviews, senior professionals reveal why they felt this way and the circumstances that caused it. Ritu G. Mehrish uncovers the reasons behind this feeling and the antidote to this malady.
Identify when you are getting into the 'leader's block' and learn how to break out of it!

272 pages, Hardcover

Published March 18, 2019

About the author

Ritu Gupta Mehrish is a woman on a mission to humanize leadership. Dedicated to helping leaders openly talk about the challenges, dilemmas and blocks they go through in their leadership journey, Ritu's passion is to highlight the 'human side' in leadership. She believes leaders don’t have to be Superman or Wonder Woman, they don’t have to try to be perfect all the time. Ritu shines the spotlight on the journey of the leaders who are behind building successful CEOs and the organizations.

Ritu is an international speaker and an executive coach with 20 years of corporate experience working at P&G, GE Capital and GE spin-off Genpact. During her corporate journey, she has held several leadership positions in running global operations and managing client relationships. In her most recent role, Ritu ran a multi-million-dollar business vertical with a global and diverse team with 1000 people across eight countries and five continents.

Throughout her extensive career, Ritu has had the opportunity to work, coach and converse with leaders across the globe from diverse industries. Her business and leadership experience has enabled her to bring in a pragmatic approach to leadership development. Her client list- Google, PayPal, Swiss Re, JP Morgan, Applied Materials, Intel, Knight Frank, Johnson & Johnson, AIA, Medtronic, Wharton Executive Education - highlights the level of expertise she brings to the leadership topic.

Ritu completed her bachelor’s degree in commerce from India and is a chartered certified accountant from UK. She has lived in multiple countries and is currently based in Singapore. She is a mother of two young kids.

Her book “Leader’s Block” is published by Penguin Random House globally.

Reviews

[Anu · Rating 3 out of 5]

I suppose I’m not the right target audience for this book but I picked it up thinking that maybe it would be applicable to leaders in all fields and at all levels.

But I was so wrong.

This is an extremely corporate book for extremely corporate people. It’s an easy read but not an enjoyable one. In essence, it’s about what people with big salaries might do when they get bored or annoyed with their job. I suppose the suggestions make sense for such “leaders” but they’re applicable to few other people if any at all.

The book is also long and stretched, riddled with unnecessary repetition of the same few points. Some of the highlighted issues don’t seem to be issues at all but just well-crafted life events to seem like problems.

TLDR; read this book if you want a close look at the corporate world and especially at the lives of senior management. If you identify as a leader in any other field or position, then it’s not for you.

[Himanshu Agrawal · Rating 3 out of 5]

Writing this as a note for me to refer later rather than a review.
Ritu highlights that leaders do get blocked and also provides a framework for options to come out of it: (Block)
1. Big picture
2. Let is pass
3. Opinion
4. Change of lane
5. Kinship

[Arumugam · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very good book and talks about leader's block, ways to detect it, and how to come across it. Few examples in the last chapter helps with good and relatable situations.

Quick read to get to know about "block"..