Tag: Presence

Inspiration, Leadership

From Commander to Conductor: Leading Teams of Human Experts and AI Agents

Premise We are living in a world that is constantly changing and we are leading teams that are engaged in knowledge work. This means that the team members are already experts at what they do. This also means that we are not always the smartest person in the rooms we are in. In addition, we will soon have AI agents joining the teams, if they are not there already. We need to rethink our role as a leader and find ways to evolve to continue to stay relevant and continue to create value. One way we can continue to stay […]

Ancient Wisdom, Leadership

The Happy Leader: Boost Your Happiness and Leadership Effectiveness

Our emotional states as leaders have a direct impact on the productivity of our teams. Emotions are contagious.

Creativity, Ideas

Where do Ideas Come from?

I was recently speaking to a group of students about how can we learn to be creative on-demand and was asked this question. The student asked is there a way we can categorise all the different ways we can come up with a creative idea. This is another way of asking – Where do Ideas come from? I have written about this in the past here, here, here and here. There are multiple different ways to look at this question from. One way is to look at this from the lens that Steven Johnson wrote about in his best selling […]

Personal Growth

The Difficulty of Being in the Present Moment and Strategies to Overcome it

Premise: Earlier today, I came across a blog post on The School of Life blog about the difficulty of being in the present. You can read the entire post here. It so happens that I’ve been having a conversation with my wife and son recently about the same topic (which is a slightly better way of saying that both of them don’t think I am being present in the moment when I am with them). I do accept this as a fact as I am mostly in the midst of either looking at my past or looking forward to my […]

1000Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Ideas

10 Things to Practice Everyday

Move: If there is one set of actions that can have disproportionate benefit for us, then it has to be movement. Our body is not designed to remain seated for long hours. It has been known for ages it is better to keep moving through out the day rather than exercising for an hour and not doing any physical movement for rest of the day. Our body craves movement. It is well-known that women around the world outlive men and are also less likely to suffer from fatal chronic diseases. There are many theories for the reasons this happens, but in […]