Role Models matter. Ask Google!
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree – a phrase commonly used to describe how a child is very similar to its parent. It refers to similarities that are beyond physical appearance and is often used for...
Leadership development is being disrupted, quietly and surely
Leading in the Flow of Work (abbreviated as LeadFloW) is the bold new approach to an age-old practice in leadership development. LeadFloW is the practice of using direct experience as the medium of development. Effective leadership development is...
The greek fix – why not to be a hero at the workplace
To borrow from a legend made popular when Alexander the Great reached the river Indus, he saw what he described as a ‘gymnosophist’ or a naked wise man, who was sitting and staring at the sky. Alexander asked him...
Is culture a Leadership tool?
Amongst the many tumultuous events happening around the world, the year 1943 saw a small, yet remarkable event in the corporate world. Robert Wood Johnson, Chairman of Johnson and Johnson from 1932 to 1963 and a member of the...
A culture so rich, that you can have it for tea!
The first time one of us heard ‘if you can tell it, you can sell it’ at IKEA, was during a food tasting session before it opened its first Order and Collection Point (OCP) in Scotland. What is...
Learning without loss of confidence
Growing up, if we were asked to imagine what careers looked like, we would often imagine or see an image of a sturdy looking staircase. Each evenly placed step would take a person higher, with more benefits, monetary...
Being Strategic – A creative pursuit or a form-filling exercise?
In 1998, Loizos Heracleous clarified the relationship between strategic thinking and strategic planning. He called them as distinct but interrelated and complementary thought processes where thinking required a divergent thought process and planning a convergent one. I believe...
Heroism & Leadership- Is ‘skilling’ the missing piece of the puzzle?
Few weeks back, a former colleague from one of my previous companies pinged me on Facebook messenger requesting an urgent call. We had worked in the same company for few years & he later had multiple short stints...
Resilience Mastery: Leading with Empathy & Vulnerability
Times have changed! Well, that sentence is now clichéd. While, yes, remote work is often a very nice perk and can even improve productivity, it has a dark side. The landscape scale & overwhelming speed of this crisis has...
