In Praise of Comprehension and Meaning
February 12th, 2012 // 7:27 pm @ Tanmay // 4 Comments
We live in an “instant” world. People want to do everything instantly, including understanding, comprehension and making sense of something. I remember having attended a strategy meeting where head of the department (call him boss) was explaining a new strategy that none of us had heard about before. He completed explaining and requested the audience [...]
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The Secret Sauce of Process Improvement
February 9th, 2012 // 7:04 am @ Tanmay // 4 Comments
A colleague from a different department recently asked me, “When does this process improvement stop?”. In my response, I explained that improvement is not a destination, but a journey. It is a way for business to tune and align the operations to ongoing changes in the business. “If that is the case, how do you [...]
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Quality: Setting Right Goals
January 22nd, 2012 // 8:02 pm @ Tanmay // 2 Comments
Most improvement initiatives are heavily focused on internal goals – increasing productivity/efficiency, eliminating waste, reducing defects/costs and so on. Processes around these goals are written and implemented. People are trained, tools are implemented, energies are directed and everyone starts working hard to meet these goals. Some improvement is seen, some re-alignment is done and it [...]
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Fostering Autonomy in a Team: 7 Lessons
January 22nd, 2012 // 8:00 pm @ Tanmay // 7 Comments
“…leadership may be defined as: the ability to enhance the environment so that everyone is empowered to contribute creatively to solving the problem(s).” – Gerald M. Weinberg People do their best work when they are “intrinsically motivated” and one of the most important intrinsic motivator for people is autonomy in work. People need a space [...]
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Purpose Precedes Process
January 15th, 2012 // 5:57 pm @ Tanmay // 3 Comments
If process is a vehicle, purpose is the compass. Purpose gives a definite direction to processes. People (and their expertise) are the drivers. Technology acts as an accelerator. Most system implementation or change initiatives focus enough on the P-P-T – People, process and technology and somewhere along the lines, the focus on purpose blurs. I [...]
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5 Insights on Creativity from Osho
January 8th, 2012 // 7:17 pm @ Tanmay // 9 Comments
Creativity is at the core of building quality in design. People rarely innovate when they simply follow instructions. This led me to think more about creativity – the act of doing something in an unconventional way, the act of creating something meaningful that changes you and hence the world. Traditionally (in an industrial world), only [...]
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What We Need The Most in 2012?
January 1st, 2012 // 6:52 pm @ Tanmay // 5 Comments
Business ecosystem is rapidly changing – and as a student of personal and organizational change, I recently re-read Dr. John Kotter’s book (published in 2008) titled “A Sense of Urgency”. I have read it before and somehow felt the need to read it again. In the book, Dr. Kotter argues that single biggest reason most [...]
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Gratitude 2011
December 25th, 2011 // 7:25 pm @ Tanmay // 5 Comments
Gratefulness fills me whenever a year ends. Each year brings along new hopes, some challenges, many opportunities. When the year ends, we look back and ruminate on how we did to seize those opportunities, to face those challenges and what we learned out of it all. One of the things I am so grateful about [...]
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