Intellectual Curiosity, Critical Thinking and Perspective Taking

Just finished reading by Hank Barnes on Gartner’s blog where he talks about his pet peeves with the B2B world and I quote My biggest pet peeve is that the B2B world has DEVOLVED to  a world where three things don’t seem to be valued anymore – Hank Barnes (On the Gartner blog) The three things that he mentions are “Intellectual Curiosity, Critical Thinking and Perspective taking”. While he talks from the perspective of Businesses dealing with other Businesses, I reckon, these are true for each and everyone of us and in every sphere of life – both personal and professional. While […]

Don’t Just Create Content, Create Curiosity

Nothing has had more impact on the amount of content being created than the advent and growth of social media. There has been a growing consensus that every single brand is now a media by itself. Every brand is continuing to generate content at a speed at which their consumers are not even able to consume the content. The shelf life of any content is reducing drastically and for most of the content it is just a couple of hours from the time it was created or promoted. This has led to a slew of promotion of content, across media, which […]

Your Hidden Super Power

Superheroes emerge from a transformative inciting incident—this post equates such an occurrence with awakening “Curiosity,” a potential superpower. Touted as “Radical Applied Curiosity,” and envisioned for a hero called “The Common Man,” it’s an innate trait propelling humanity’s survival and innovation. The narrative urges rediscovery of curiosity through slowing down, noticing changes, experimenting, acting on insights, and gathering support. Its application to empathy, creativity, and innovation can lead to significant collective achievements, especially under curious leadership.

Addressing the Elephant in the Room

Premise: One of the responsibility of a leader is to be able to tell people what they think about them, their potential, performance and presence. Sometimes it is good news and sometimes not so. It is easy when we it is good news. So, we tend to share this often and easily. However, it is difficult to share the bad news and many leaders tend to post-pone this conversation as it is uncomfortable, both for them and to those they are delivering it. However, the more we delay sharing the bad news, the worse it gets and the more difficult […]