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In Review: The Art of Non-Conformity by Chris Guillebeau
I have been following Chris Guillebeau’s remarkable work via his blog since last couple of years. So when I heard about his new book “The Art of Non-Conformity”, I could not wait to order it. I am glad...
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Author Interview: ‘Awesomely Simple’ by John Spence
John Spence has done a brilliant job of writing a very useful handbook titled “Awesomely Simple – Essential Business Strategies For Turning Ideas Into Action”. It is a privilege to interview John on...
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Poke The Box: A Review and One Question to Seth Godin
Last year, Seth Godin showed us a way to become a Linchpin. This year, he urges us to “Poke the Box” – to act, to start, to initiate, to experiment, to try (and fail and learn from it) and most...
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Review: “Love Presenting…” by Nicholas Bate
In an ever-expanding new world of work, leaders have to reach out to more people and spread their ideas. A lot of leaders do presentations of all kinds (sales/training/conferences) but are not sure...
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Getting Ahead: Interview with Joel Garfinkle
I had a pleasure of reading a new book titled Getting Ahead: Three Steps to Take Your Career to the Next Level by Joel Garfinkle (@workcoach4you). Joel is the founder of Garfinkle Executive Coaching,...
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Never-Ending New Beginnings: Interview with Lisa Haneberg
Lisa Haneberg is a great friend who is an expert (and a lifelong student) on the craft of management. I have been following her blog and her work since last six years and she has greatly influenced my...
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The Booker Award: Books I Love
Michael Wade is one of my favorite bloggers who is just amazing. Daily and consistently, he ships goodness on his blog Execupundit where topics range from self-development, great quotes and book...
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Building a Business Culture That Works for Everyone: An Interview with Diane...
Diane K. Adams is Chief People Officer at Qlik (NASDAQ: QLIK), one of the fastest-growing high-tech companies worldwide with nearly 2,300 employees in 30 countries. She has spent her career leading...
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Ideation and Entrepreneurship: Interview with Liz Alexander and Naveen Lakkur
Dr. Liz Alexander (who I interviewed in 2013 on the topic of thought leadership) and Naveen Lakkur (Director, Founder Institute, India) wrote a new book titled “FOUND – Transforming Your Unlimited...
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Micromastery: A Hidden Path to Learning and Happiness
Learning anything new is not a daunting challenge, but a journey where each step counts. Fundamentally, we learn so that we can be happy and joyful. Micromastery is a great way to eliminate anxiety in...
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Enabling Growth: Promotions Are So Yesterday
As attrition soared amidst pandemic, companies had to initiate short term measures to retain their best talent which included tactics like special salary hikes, off-cycle pay outs, work-from-anywhere...
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Expanding the REACH of your Ideas
Putting your ideas out there requires courage. When you do that, you want your ideas to reach as many people as possible. In a connected world, expanding the reach of our ideas brings along diverse...
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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, these emotions can grow toxic to harm relationships or...
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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 other things that contribute to a superior customer...
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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 creativity, learning and well being back in time. The...
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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 Workday”. Two big reasons for my excitement are: The book...
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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 2023, India reattempted to land on Moon’s South Pole with...
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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 reasons unknown, I could never read. Finally last week, I noticed it...
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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 of their investors like Microsoft. Within 24 hours,...
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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 our competitors but our own complexity as an organization in...
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