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How to be a Boldly Inclusive Leader
In today’s world of work, being inclusive as a leader isn’t optional. In many companies I work with and consult, inclusion is used as a mere...
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Supercommunicators: The Art of a “Learning Conversation”
Communication is not an exchange of words but transfer of energy. The prerequisite for this is truly connecting with the other person so that...
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Mindset of Leaders who are Friction Fixers
I recently interacted with a senior business leader of a large organization. During our conversation he mentioned, “Our biggest enemy is not...
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How to Turn Conflict Into a Constructive Negotiation
Having a calm mind that is focused on the outcome is our greatest asset when we are in conflict at workplace. I learned this from an amazing,...
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Measuring Right: Understanding Goodhart’s Law
If you don’t frame your metrics right, they can distort behaviors. A bank executive once insisted that I do him a favor by getting a free...
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Three Buckets of Courage
There is no growth without courage. In my career of 25+ years, I had several moments that required me to exhibit courage. I was a functional...
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How to Build Trust: The Trust Triangle
Maggi is an iconic Indian brand from Nestlé that faced a severe crisis of trust when it was alleged to contain excessive amount of mono-sodium...
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Move Fast and Fix Things
OpenAI’s board took a tough call of firing the founding CEO Sam Altman without having trust from their organization/people or winning confidence...
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Thoughts to Build On
Since many years, I had a 1993 edition of this fantastic self-help book titled “Thoughts to Build On” by M. R. Kopmeyer which, for...
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What Makes a Failure Intelligent
In 2019, India’s ambitious mission to land on Moon failed after India’s space agency ISRO lost contact with the lander which crash landed. In...
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Win the Workday with Brain On!
I am excited about Deb Smolenski’s new book titled “ Brain On! Mental Fitness Strategies for Sharpening Focus, Boosting Energy, and Winning the...
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How to Think Visually: 5 Tips
I was recently invited on my friend Ashish Bedekar’s podcast – The ARB show – to speak on the topic of visual thinking. The...
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How to Have an Effective Dialogue
Relationships are built (or ruined) one conversation at a time. I have always seen effective conversation as a way to transfer energy between...
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How To Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci: 7 Principles
I recently re-read the book “How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci” by Michael Gelb and realized how profoundly the book impacted my thinking about...
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The Experience Mindset: A Wall Street Journal Bestseller
“Customer Focus” is the most common corporate value that companies adopt. This often leads to a myopic focus on customer experience at the cost of...
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How to be an Essentialist?
Essentialism by George McKeown When facilitating strategy discussions with customers, I often came across situations when teams commit to work...
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Change or Transformation?
We often end up using words “change” and “transformation” interchangeably. In many cases that I observe, transformation is...
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How to Create a Culture of Change Acceptance
As an organizational system grows complex, it hardens through processes, beliefs, mindsets, legacy decisions and culture. However, most change...
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Attributes of a Powerful Question
In his book “ Poke The Box ”, Seth Godin asked a powerful question, “When was the last time you did something for the first time?” For me,...
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The Art of Having a Good Conversation
First, a disclaimer – I am no expert in having great conversations. But I do know that quality of our conversations shape the reality and...
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Looking Back, Looking Forward!
My mantra for 2022 was “ Go with the flow ” and the journey in 2022 took me to some very interesting places. By nature, going with the flow means...
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Smart Leadership: Four Simple Choices to Scale Your Impact
Choices we make as leaders are our currency to create an impact, build trust and scale our influence as leaders. Amidst all the complexity,...
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Leadership Skills for Building a Learning Culture
To respond effectively to adaptive challenges like the pandemic, geopolitical conflicts, financial crisis etc., organizations cannot rely on...
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Fostering Team Emotional Intelligence
The emotion of the team is a sum-total of emotions and feelings that members of the team experience. Left unnoticed, unexpressed, and unattended,...
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SHRM India Top HR Influencers 2022 Edition
One of the highlights of my journey of learning and sharing online has been consistent recognition by Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM...