How to Build Trust in a Virtual Workplace
A HBR blog post (read ) gives some tips like -introduce members to each others’ strengths, rotate power, consistent communications etc. What HBR mentions, is basic. We should go further: -clear goals...
View ArticleTake charge of your career! Oct 26, Pune
You know that days of life long careers have long gone. Experts say that people now need to equip themselves for ability to develop new careers and have to launch multiple careers within their working...
View ArticleYour career and you…
A job for life is no more. Some of you may even be horrified if you are told that you will stay in your current jobs till you retire. You expect your employer to train you and give you opportunities …...
View ArticleHappy Deepavali, the Festival of Lights
Let this festival of lights bring light to us through our learning and sharing our learning. Wishing you all a Happy Deepavali – from Learning Leadership
View ArticleLeading through the power of persuasion
Leading through power of persuasion says that these ‘tools’ can be used: threats or consequences, passion, pathos, humor, wit, imperfection, surprise, wonder Nice. But how do you get to using them?...
View ArticleAn idiot’s guide to employee engagement
Read this , if you wish to know what kind of guide it is. You know all those things already -“money is just a hygiene factor”, “a happy worker is a productive worker”..et al So, you are not an idiot. …...
View ArticleWhat is the game?
A new game changer is onto us. Let us see what is this new game, the Congress’ Cash Transfer, all about. When India’s PM announced its roll out he said “The funds that are provisioned for direct...
View ArticleService businesses & internal branding
Businesses like IT, Banking, Mutual Funds, and Insurance deliver pure services to their customers. Industries like hotels or airlines also have services as important part of their outputs. Despite...
View ArticleWhy leadership development fails?
Leadership development fails because it is done through a training route and not a development effort. Training route is one of ‘broadcasting type’, ‘one size fits all type’, ‘prescriptive’, ‘throwing...
View ArticleA Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year!
Wishing you all A Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year!
View ArticleLearn to communicate through wild gestures..
A long long ago, you used to write down your thoughts in long hand and in sketches. You then learned to think through typing. Moving on, you learned to do texting using shortforms, numerals, and...
View ArticleHow to diagnose a business?
Solving business problems is tricky. One gets befuddled by a mix of immediate and long term, by urgent and important, by fires and smoke, and by causes and effects. This gets only worse as one lurches...
View ArticleCorporate culture, what it is, what it is not..
What ‘Corporate Culture’ Really Means, And Why So Many Companies Don’t Get It Everything he says is right, but sorry, culture is not an HR thing though it is a people thing. Culture just gets formed...
View ArticleTeamwork? Don’t lecture.
All of us have been lectured on importance of being a team player and on team work. So it goes like this -I leave a job unfinished or badly done and decide to go fishing and if I find my … Continue...
View ArticleGadgets and devices -biofeedback
New gadgets and devices are going to be available. I am talking about devices that give a biofeedback using sensors and of course computations that compare your style or posture or your form with good...
View ArticleA New & Improved Regenerate!
The Regenerate! blog has some new conveniences. You will notice a search box on the right to help you find specific posts. This blog has a large collection of discussions on leadership and strategy....
View ArticleHacking away to get to something?
Every now and then people come up with new packaging for the old but not obsolete. For the tried and tested. New packaging because we love new things Here is one:...
View ArticleIdeas or Execution? (Be Wary)
There are many who argue that it is the (quality) execution that differentiates successes from failures. There is even a popular book that has the word “execution” on its cover. Here comes an article...
View ArticleDeepak Chopra: a-leader-bonds-emotionally
Deepak Chopra writes about leadership and emotions in his blog post He makes some very pertinent points. For example, he says that acting on impulse is not the same as incorporating emotions into...
View ArticleLeadership, loyalty, and talent
Leadership begets loyalty. That’s conventional wisdom. How valid it today amidst high attrition rates in even the best of the companies? After all no one can fault leaders, e.g.. Infosys for deficiency...
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