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Conversations That Build Psychological Safety
Growth in today’s world is driven by how talented people bring their best ideas on the table, work with each other in a conducive environment and choose to deliver their best effort in order to achieve the desired outcome. Companies often do great at recruiting the most talented people but fail at providing them a […]
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Daniel Goleman on Three Kinds of Focus Leaders Need
I have worked with leaders who are too paranoid about the results that they don’t care about relationships and the ones who are so internally focused that they miss the beat of the market. Leadership in a complex world (made all the more complex by the pandemic) requires leaders to have a more holistic focus […]
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What Makes a Team Great
Last week, during an internal team event, we organized an interesting activity. Team members were asked to form a human chain by holding hands. A round hoop was then passed through one end of the chain and participants had to pass the hoop through themselves to other end without breaking the chain. The team that […]
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Leadership: Look For Intention First
Assessing intention is a powerful way for leaders to understand how people and teams operate. Intentions are hidden, not always clarified directly through words, and hence easy to overlook. We therefore end up focusing on behaviors and actions. A team member who always asks difficult questions (act) is looked upon as a ‘trouble maker’ when […]
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Measuring Right Things: Utilization Versus Efficiency
In manufacturing world, there is a direct correlation between how much machines are utilized and how much they produce. This works because machines do the work that is non-linear and there is very little variation in producing exactly same unit of work. Utilization is the extent to which installed capacity performs actual work. Less idle […]
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Great Story: A Manager’s Function
I recently re-read a fantastic book “Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams” by Tom Demarco and Timothy Lister. The book is filled with hard-won wisdom about executing projects and managing people for highest productivity. Here is a real-life story from the book that underlines importance of the “human aspect” of our work; especially creative work that […]