“Loneliness does not come from having no people around one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.” — Carl Jung One of my clients I was coaching recently is a senior leader (COO) at one…

Seeing the growing readership of my last article on LinkedIn last week, I kept thinking — I don’t write often and don’t even have a huge number of followers, so how did this happen? Must be that I just got lucky!!! And my efforts to understand what was happening more…

Can a product company run a quality transformation program, one customer, at a time? This is a question I was presented with by a friend recently. Sharing some reflections… Quality transformation programs, or for that matter, any serious transformation programs, are complex change management exercises that involve changing beliefs, behaviors, habits, tools, and almost everything else every employee does on a day to day…

I was out traveling the North East states of India for about 2 weeks with my son and was a little out of touch with news since a lot of hotels in the small places up the mountains don’t provide newspapers and the majority have power supply problems. Luckily phones…

As a lot of my clients are from the technology industry, one of the common situations I come across is when a technically strong person is at the inflection point to move into a broader business leadership role — by choice or by lack of a choice to grow within…

For better or worse, intelligence can come to nothing when emotions hold sway. Daniel Goleman More and more research has shown that a high IQ or Intelligence Quotient is not a sole predictor of success in life or business and does not define leadership skills or abilities fully. As businesses…

Wikipedia says: Politics (from Greek: Πολιτικά, politiká, ‘affairs of the cities’) are the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relationships between individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. Organizational politics include all the keywords from this statement: power…

We don’t see things as they are — we see things as we are…Anais Nin This article lets us look at what are the common biases in the workplace and how they could derail your leadership journey. What is Bias? Wikipedia defines it as Bias is disproportionate weight in favor of or against…

As one grows to take on higher responsibilities at workplaces, the ability to work with people and get results through them and along with them becomes critical, not just for management but even for technical roles. In the last 9–12 months, since Covid-19 has become the biggest global phenomenon, its…