Announcing: The ASTD Management Development Handbook
May 22nd, 2012 // 6:16 am @ Tanmay // No Comments
American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) recently released a fantastic collection titled “The ASTD Management Development Handbook”. This book provides current thinking on various management aspects by practicing management professionals. Lisa Haneberg, the editor of this book invited about 37 bloggers/authors to contribute their thinking – people who are active NOW, who are exploring [...]
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9 (More) Ideas for Effective Trainings
May 20th, 2012 // 7:49 pm @ Tanmay // One Comment
Trainings are at the core of most knowledge-oriented organizations and often considered to be key driver of employee behaviors, and hence culture. It is a lot of hard work, a lot of time, effort and energy spent. It better be effective. Here are 9 (more) ideas to ensure that trainings are effective (related ideas in [...]
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Effective Meetings: A Round Up
May 15th, 2012 // 7:13 am @ Tanmay // One Comment
I love SCRUM methodology because it focuses on making meetings effective. Focus is on decisions and actions. A quick stand-up meeting everyday to track progress. One of the biggest wastes in any organization are ineffective meetings. I have always believed that meetings (specially with the team) are a great forum to inspire action, instill a [...]
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Improvement: Show Them The Results
May 9th, 2012 // 6:26 am @ Tanmay // 5 Comments
A child develops confidence as she experiences things around her. We buy into products for which we perceive experience to be positive. We support causes that deliver positive results. In an organizational context, how can we then expect people to be totally committed to the improvement initiative at the start? People will never commit to [...]
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Team Performance: Keeping Ego at Bay
May 3rd, 2012 // 7:32 am @ Tanmay // 5 Comments
Ego is a strong emotion and often, success feeds it. As we evolve as professionals and accomplish more, we tend to accumulate beliefs about ourselves (and the world around us). Soon, we start looking at world from the lens of these beliefs and decide what is right or wrong. Unfortunately, our world view is often [...]
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Food For Thought – April 2012
May 2nd, 2012 // 7:10 pm @ Tanmay // 2 Comments
From a number of GREAT bloggers and authors I read, here are a few snippets of thought provoking insights – straight from my feed reader. Note: Important take-aways marked in bold+italics. Michael Wade on “What Managers Can Learn from Novelists” “Recognize that life is not a novel. At least, not in most cases. The most [...]
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On Creativity: SRK and Seth Godin!
April 27th, 2012 // 6:02 am @ Tanmay // One Comment
Two personalities from two diverse nations; One is an Indian mega-star Shahrukh Khan (SRK) and the other is a relentless instigator (and my hero) Seth Godin. Both live a creative life and express themselves fully through their work. Both have a significant impact on large number of people. Recently, both expressed their views on creativity. [...]
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Leadership, Self-Awareness and A Story
April 16th, 2012 // 6:51 am @ Tanmay // 2 Comments
Last week, I delivered a talk at a leading b-school and interacted with final year MBA students who are now ready for their first jobs. Their faces radiated hope and aspiration. To me, they seemed like caterpillars who are changing into butterflies, ready to break the cocoon of academics and enter into the world of [...]
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Lifelong Learning: Lesson From A Cab Driver
April 3rd, 2012 // 5:53 am @ Tanmay // 10 Comments
There was a sparkle in that cab driver’s eyes. A slim, young and enthusiastic fellow who drove me from airport to home while returning from a business travel. His greeting was cheerful and conduct, professional. As the wheels started moving, he initiated a conversation with me about economy, the state of jobs and why he [...]
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April 2012 Carnival of Leadership Development: Earth Day Edition
April 1st, 2012 // 10:50 am @ Tanmay // 13 Comments
Namaste! Welcome to the April 1st 2012 Carnival of Leadership Development. I’d like to dedicate this edition of Carnival to Earth Day 2012, celebrated every year on 22nd April as a movement to protect the beautiful planet we all have inherited. This month, we again have a great line up of posts on leadership, management [...]
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