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How to Deal with The Abilene Paradox

Premise: I stumbled on to The Abilene Paradox earlier today. You can watch a movie where the creator of the paradox – Jerry B Harvey, tells the story of how he realised the presence of this paradox and how prevalent it is in all walks of our lives. I knew that people do go along to get along and sometimes that leads to groupthink, which is not good for any business. However, I did not know that it had a name, was studied deeply by someone and how prevalent this is. Even though there is enough re...

Difference between Human and Artificial Intelligence

Premise: There has been a lot of commentary on the coming of age of Artificial Intelligence in 2023 and how it might even affect the jobs of 300 Million people worldwide. I also read an article on HBR about how good leaders will be hard to replace with AI. There have been discussions around the ethics and intellectual property rights of how these new age algorithms have been trained and the biases inherent in them. Many doomsday predictions have been made. Some thinking has also gone in on how w...

PBTO: The Art of Leading with Pankaj Rusia

Premise: In this first episode of a new series, which will be focused on leadership, we host a practicing leader – Pankaj Rusia. He currently works for SAP as the Head of Customer Success for the SAP HR Cloud business are and is based out of Singapore. As the Head of Customer Success for SAP South East Asia, he is on a mission to make customers look great in front of their leadership, employees, and managers, and to help them get the best out of their SuccessFactors solutions. Insights from the ...

Learn Any Hard Skill by Cal Newport

Premise: We live in a world that is changing much faster than we can keep pace with. The rapid evolution of Artificial Intelligence is a testament to this. As I talk in my book Thrive, we will be called upon to learn something new all the time, just to stay relevant. If we are to thrive, we need to be able to turbo charge our ability to learn. It is in this context that I really liked a video posted by Cal Newport, that he released at the start of the year on his YouTube channel and would like t...

Infectious Generosity

Premise: I watched this TED talk delivered by Chris Anderson and was inspired by this. He tells a lot of stories that have sparked the imagination of people, who went on to spread a lot of joy by being generous and creative. I also like the concept that Ben Zanders talks about in his book, The Art of Possibility, about “Giving an A”. At the beginning of every class that he teaches, he tells his students that he will give them an “A” as their grade, provided they write him a letter, dated the day...

How to Create a Culture of Learning in Your Organization

The Secrets to Living Longer, Happier and Healthier

Premise: In the past couple of days, I have come across two women, two doctors who have in their own ways shared the importance and impact that our thoughts have on our body. First, Meet Dr. Gladys McGarey. She is 103 years old and considered the mother of Holistic Medicine. In this captivating and powerful interview, she shares the secrets to a longer, healthier, happier life. – LOVE & LIFE, together. At 103, she confesses to have a 10 year plan and also that she found her true voice when she w...

How to create a culture that supports creativity and fosters innovation

How To Make this Year Your Best Year Ever

Premise: I was invite to deliver a workshop on how to set up your year to be “Your Best Year Ever” recently and here is what I had shared with them in terms of how to think about or approach this task. I believe in order for any year to be our best year ever, it needs to be balanced and see success and growth in all areas of our lives. And I think the key areas that we need to consider are as below: If we have a year where we are able to balance our health and wealth […]