Celebrating Books on the World Book and Copyright Day 2024
This post shares a list of the books that had the most influence on the authors thinking about business and leadership.
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Insanely Interesting People who Influenced me – #7 Dan Ariely
For the rest of the year, I would like to take a moment and thank the people who have had a significant impact on me as an individual. The way they have lived their lives and their body of work has had an outsized impact on how I think about life in general and and work, in particular. Some of these are contemporary thinkers and some of them are just a memory. Some of them are famous in their own rights and some of them are yet to be found by others. Some of them are young and some of […]
Designing for Wellbeing in the Workplace
We spend more and more time in our offices than in any other single space. So, it makes perfect sense to build our workspaces with little nudges all along the design of the physical space so that they help us go back home a little more happier and healthier than we came in the morning. That I believe would be key in creating an organisation which has healthy, creative, engaged and highly productive employees. Of course, just getting the physical space right doesn’t mean that all other aspects of the culture will be taken care of. But that is a […]
PBTO50: Understanding Why We do, What We do with Dilip Soman
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Who is on the show: In this episode we host, Dr. Dilip Soman. He is a behaviour scientist and the author of the book The Last Mile, and is a Professor of Marketing and holds the Corus Chair in Communications Strategy. His researches behavioural economics and its applications to consumer wellbeing, marketing and policy. He is also the director of the India Innovation Institute at the University of Toronto. He works with ideas42 and serves as advisor to a number of welfare organizations. Why is she on the show: In his book The Last Mile, he tackles a very important topic. He […]
PBTO43: How to Lead without Authority
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In the future of work that we envisage, one of the key skill that would be needed for anyone to do well is their ability to influence people (upwards/side wards/downwards) with or without formal authority. This is an ability that anyone can build provided one is deliberate about building the skill. Here are four things that you need to work on in order to build up your ability to lead with or without formal authority. Building trust – Your Track Record One of the most important component of influence or lack thereof is the amount of trust that people have […]