Category: Critical Thinking

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Invisible Costs to Consider in Decision Making

In a world that reveres speed, it is easy to fall into trap of quick decision making on things that matter, without considering the invisible costs of a decision. The post offers a useful checklist of things to consider.

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Measuring Right: Understanding Goodhart’s Law

If you are on the path to improvement, beware of what you measure. Goodhart’s Law may be at work and it can distort behaviors and outcomes.

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How to be an Essentialist?

Essentialism is about identifying where you can create most VALUE , make greatest contribution or create greatest impact. It is then about finding ways, building systems and having tools that help you execute on it effortlessly. It is about doing less but doing BETTER. This also means having courage to say NO to less important things.

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Attributes of a Powerful Question

Answers are all around us, thanks to proliferation of content and AI tools. It is our ability to ask right questions that will truly propel us forward, as individuals and as organizations. Here are a few attributes of a powerful question.

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5 Pointers on How to Think Clearly

Developing clarity in thinking is becoming even more important in a world that is constantly trying to distract you. Overload of information being pushed at us, contrasting theories about almost everything, our own unconscious biases, ego and fear hamper our ability to look clearly through the fog. If we improve how we think, we also […]

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Being Conscious About Our Unconscious Biases

I attended a very interesting workshop a few weeks ago on the topic of “Unconscious Bias” facilitated by Smita Tharoor. I was interested in this topic because I explored the intersection of critical thinking and leadership a few years ago. This was a good opportunity to get back to the topic and add to my […]

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5 C’s for Great Talent

What do you look for when you look for talent? Competence is the key to solving problems but competence alone is not sufficient for success. In current context, I would define talent as a combination of competence, commitment, learning agility, attitude/character, communication skills, ability to collaborate across different cultures, critical thinking and creative problem solving. […]

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12 Critical Competencies For Leadership in the Future

The rate of change in the business world today is greater than our ability to respond. In a world that is often described as VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and ambiguous), there are major tectonic shifts that demand a new mindset of leadership. First, let us look at these shifts. In recent years, we have seen […]

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Interdisciplinary Thinking

Technology and sociology are two different disciplines. But when technology transcended the boundary and met sociology (or the other way around) – social media was born. It completely transformed how we communicate, consume information and sell. If you are playing a guitar, you are dealing with two disciplines. The art of dynamically arranging musical notes […]

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