Dear Leaders – Are You Ok?

Yesterday, I was talking with a senior executive at a large multinational corporation. I have realized that every conversation I am having in the recent past invariably becomes about AI – the rollouts, the pressure, the pace of change and the impact it is having on all of us. I’ve been writing about it for some time now. At some point, the mood of the conversation shifted and in a rare, candid moment, he said something that stopped me. “I worry about the impact AI is having on me, as a leader just as much as I worry about what […]

Leadership and Happiness

One significant impact that Covid-19 had is that it has caused a sudden explosion of the importance of wellness all around us. The contrast between working from home and working from our offices has been stark. This has also initiated a lot of great conversations about mental health and the importance of the role of emotions within the business context. While this focus in the cultural zeitgeist is new, the research and our knowledge about the role that emotions play in our work place is not new at all. There is a lot of good research that have found that […]