PBTO S2E5: Personal Knowledge Mastery with Harold Jarche

http://traffic.libsyn.com/pushingbeyondtheobvious/2-05_PBTO_S2E5__Personal_Knowledge_Mastery_with_Harold_Jarche.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Email | RSSOpening music credits goes to Riju Mukhopadhyay & Pavan Cherukumilli Who is on the show: In this episode, we host Harold Jarche. He is focused on providing actionable insights for workplace transformation. He works with individuals, organizations, and public policy influencers to develop practical ways to adapt to the technological, demographic, and societal changes facing us today. Why is he on the show: I have been reading his blog for almost a couple of years and have learned a lot. He helped me change my approach to internalising important information that I come across through a […]

PBTO57: Liminal Thinking – Creating change by understanding, shaping, and reframing beliefs with Dave Gray

http://traffic.libsyn.com/pushingbeyondtheobvious/57_PBTO57__Liminal_Thinking_-_Creating_change_by_understanding_shaping_and_reframing_beliefs_with_Dave_Gray.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Email | RSS Credits: Opening music credit goes to Riju Mukhopadhyay & Pavan Cherukumilli Who is on the show: In this episode, we host Dave Gray. He is the founder of XPLANE and author of multiple books including Liminal Thinking. Why is he on the show: He is a visual artist and uses agile, iterative techniques like Visual Thinking, Culture Mapping, and Gamestorming to get people engaged and involved in co-creating clear, unique and executable business strategies. His latest book – Liminal Thinking, talks about a core practice for connected leaders in a complex world. What do we talk […]

The Importance of Leisure in Improving our Productivity

The Relationship between Leisure & Productivity by Mukesh Gupta  Premise: We live in a world where there is a relentless focus on improving productivity and efficiency. We want to do more of everything and do it quick. There is a spurt of books on how to improve our productivity. There are numerous blog posts about hacks to improve productivity. Despite all of this, we are living in a world where there is a minuscule percent of people who are able to accomplish much more than the rest of the population. There is a dearth of good leaders – both in […]

Why We Behave Badly and What Can we Learn from that Behaviour

Why We Behave Badly & What Can we learn from it by Mukesh Gupta Today, I did something bad. Something that I had decided to never do. Ever. Yet, I ended up doing exactly that same thing. What I did seriously undermines one of my most important tenant in my personal manifesto – to stay healthy – emotionally. What I did took a toll on me and even more so on the person on the other side. I immediately felt sorry after whatever I did. But, does that help? No. The damage was already done. I did apologise, because it’s […]