WOMEN AND PATRIARCHY- DO WOMEN REALLY WANT EMPOWERMENT?
What are Patriarchal Societies? Interestingly I asked this question to a roomful of Women at a Women Leadership Summit in a 5 Star Hotel in Mumbai recently- and not one could articulate clearly, what belonging to a Patriarchy really means. Especially for the urban English speaking woman, privileged with an education, a job, an identity,…
THE POWER OF APPRECIATIVE COACHING
Appreciative Coaching is based on the principles of Appreciative Inquiry – a revolutionary process of Managing Change by focusing and leveraging on the organization’s’ core strengths rather than seeking to overcome or minimize weaknesses. Rooted in Positive Psychology, this approach focusses Coaches on a positive present and possible future rather than on problems of the past…
CHANGE BY ‘DESIGN’ NOT ‘DECISION’- LEADER AS DESIGN THINKER!
Companies like Apple, Netflix, Facebook are disrupting Industries and Business models making it amply apparent that traditional Problem-Solving models are no longer adequate. Therefore, unleashing creativity, new ways of thinking and innovation are all at a great premium across industries. Needless to say, without a strategy for this to happen, it is likely to remain…
THE LEADERSHIP EXPONENTIAL
In the future of work, you’re either the one causing Change or you’re the one being changed. The most successful companies of our times are at the forefront of Innovation and disruption and are experiencing wild growth. What does it mean to be an Exponential Organization Exponential organisations use a small footprint to leverage accelerating…
LEADERSHIP IS ONE CONVERSATION AT A TIME….
As the command-and-control style of management from the industrial era becomes less and less viable, and new technologies and changes impact how companies create value, the top-down model of Leadership has clearly become out dated. The context for Leadership communication has clearly undergone a shift from Corporate Communication to Leadership Conversations. Macro-economic shift – the past…
ADAPT LIKE JAZZ MUSICIANS FOR VUCA TIMES
Much like the leader of a jazz band, adaptive leadership requires leaders to pass the baton of leadership to whoever picks the rhythm best joins in the music with humility and appreciates the fact that performances in the current environment will be live with no pre-set time for extensive rehearsals! Tremendous forces are influencing the…
LEADERSHIP POLARITIES AND THE POWER OF AND/ALSO
Traditional Problem Solving especially problems we solved as part of our education system have a single right answer- so at work, there is a tendency to have an Either/OR orientation and the search for the quintessential one right answer -that has been a great resource for us both at Work and in Life. This traditional…
