Ideas, Leadership

When your coworker does great work, tell their manager

I read this post on my feed and thought this was a very interesting post about recognising one of your co-workers.   You can read the entire post here.   However, to summarise the post:   1.  Ask before you write a glowing email to someone’s manager, if it is ok. There could be many different and valid reasons why someone might not want the praise. 2.  And when you do write, be specific about how they helped and the kind of impact it created. 3.  Send it to them and their managers. Each of them can use this differently. […]

Ideas, Recommendation, Strategy

Book Review – Humanocracy by Gary Hamel & Michele Zanini

Overview: Gary Hamel has been one of my favorite authors and management guru’s. In his most recent book Humanocracy, he lays out the case against bureaucracy and instead argues that we need to embrace what he calls “Humanocracy” as in build human centric organisations. He chronicles some interesting experiments being done worldwide with different management philosophies and based on them, posits some principles which when put in use can lead organisations to become a lot more human centric and can address the shackles that bureaucracy has on most organisations. What is the book about: The first third of the book […]

Ideas, Leadership, Personal Growth

Living with Uncertainty

I read this post “Living with Scientific Uncertainty” by Avi Loeb earlier today and was immediately able to relate to the argument that is put forward by him.   In the post, he argues that there is uncertainty all around us, and that doesn’t and shouldn’t stop us from living our lives. While at the same time, we cannot allow this uncertainty to control every aspect of our lives.   The impact that the uncertainty around corona virus on our lives is unprecedented in a way. All because we are not certain of when we are exposed to the virus […]

Ideas, Quotes

When Things Catch On

The truth about ideas that fly is that they gain traction in increments. One story, one believer, one advocate at a time. We earn the right to speak to more people by delighting the first one! via Bernadette Jiwa (https://t.co/upTiEaDELG?amp=1)

Innovation, Leadership, transformation

Lessons in Leading Transformation

Premise:   We are living in a world where a lot of organisations are being forced to transform the way they operate. As we all know, being forced to change is not a good place to be in. The ability of leaders to lead their organisation through this transformation process will be paramount in enabling their organisations to continue to remain relevant.   I came across an old video (from 1993), where Dr. Barbara Lawton shares her perspective and the perspectives from Dr. Deming and his principles on how to lead a transformation process. I could not believe what I […]