AKD has an eye for detail, an appreciation for clear systems, processes and procedures, a focus on timelines, a dislike for surprises and a desire for order. Discipline and order are not traits which are usually highlighted in discussions on leadership. Self-discipline, routine, structure and an attention to detail are highly beneficial to any leader.

“Optimising the return to shareholders, motivating employees to be high performers while securing their health and well-being and satisfying the needs of a diversity of other stakeholders are the often-conflicting deliverables which require delicate balancing by leaders“. Work-related stress, burn-out and mental health are on the rise in both the private and public sectors in

Anura Kumara Dissanayake (AKD) has been elected as the ninth Executive President of Sri Lanka. The ‘election’ dust has settled, and it is time for all the competing candidates and their supporters to unite wherever, whenever, and however possible in the best interest of our motherland.  In their campaigns, the candidates spoke little on the

The recently concluded Presidential elections in Sri Lanka provided us many lessons in leadership. The key differentiator, in my view, was that Ranil Wickremesinghe (RW) portrayed himself as a ‘master’ of people while Anura Kumara Dissanayake (AKD) projected himself as a ‘servant’ of the people, a servant on the lines of ‘servant leadership’ as propounded