Author: Tanmay Vora

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Sketch Note: 3 C’s for Learning and Leading on Social Media

Here is my newest sketch note based on a previous post with the same title.

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Sketch Note: 6 Leadership Lessons from Dr. A. P. J Abdul Kalam

As Indians mourn the passing away of “People’s President”, Space Scientist, Teacher and Visionary Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, I am reminded of having read an interview he gave to India Knowledge@Wharton in 2008 where he shared some very important leadership lessons. I decided to pay a small tribute in my own little way […]

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Sketch Note: How to Influence Without Authority

My work in corporate quality functions in the past involved influencing cross-functional teams (as an internal consultant) on processes and methods when I had no direct reporting relationships with them. I knew that only technical expertise was not enough and I wished I had some guidance on how to influencing without authority. Jesse Lyn Stoner […]

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Sketch Note: The Art of Effective Mentoring

When Chip R. Bell and Marshall Goldsmith released the revised edition of their classic book “Managers as Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning” in 2013, I interviewed them on this blog. Now that I am learning how to create sketch note, I used this interview on mentoring as a base to create the following. I hope […]

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Sketch Note: 9 Roles of a Great Leader

In 2010, I wrote a post titled “Nine Roles of Great Leadership”. Here is a sketch note version with visual representation of the ideas. Thanks to Abhijit Bhaduri for inspiring me to use sketch notes as a way to learn, understand and share!

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Sketch Note: 6 Lessons On Creating Lasting Influence

I am fascinated by the idea of sketch notes after having read this post from Abhijit Bhaduri. Here is my second sketch note with ideas from my 2013 post titled “6 Lessons On Creating Lasting Influence”.

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Leading Well: Listening is Meditation

This post is inspired by a tweet from the legendary Tom Peters which deeply resonated with me. I once had such a major disconnect with the Head of HR that I had to walk out of his room. And the disconnect was not that of ideas because I could not even start the discussion for […]

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Hidden Strengths – Unleashing The Leadership Skills You Already Have

Most people ascend to leadership positions based on their areas of natural strengths. Tools like SWOT analysis also focus excessively on two things: strengths and weaknesses. So, our natural response as leaders is to leverage our strengths and improve on areas of our weakness. Yes? But there is a large space between our strengths and […]

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7 Pointers to Build a Strong Company Culture

Much like electricity which cannot be seen but empowers the devices, culture is an invisible force that drives beliefs, habits, rituals and outcomes of an organization. In fact, culture is a sum total of an organization’s shared values, behaviors, rituals, beliefs, attitudes, goals and practices. It exerts a powerful influence on day to day behaviors […]