Decision Making Frameworks – The Cynefin Framework

As decisions, we are all expected to make decisions all the time. As I have mentioned in my earlier blogs, it always helps to have a model or a framework to help us make sense of all the information that we come across and then decide the course of action. One such decision making framework is “The Cynefin Framework”. You can listen to Dave Snowden, who created the framework, explain the framework here. This model is a big help in both sense making and decision making. It is a very short video (about 8 mins) and so I recommend that […]

What Leaders need to know about giving Advice

As leaders, we are on a regular basis called upon to give advice to young professionals about life and career, to the people whom we lead about what they should be doing in a given situation, etc. So, an important aspect of being a good leader is to know when and how to give advice to the people who seek it from us. This post is inspired by a post I read by David Cain on his blog Raptitude titled, “Advice Gets Good When It Gets Specific“, which I thought had great advice on how to give advice. You can […]