A stream of visual insights in form of #sketchnotes from the pen of Tanmay Vora. More about sketchnote project here.
At #SocialNow conference recently, Luis Suarez shared a slide by Thierry de Baillon on ways to prepare for the dark side of technology. I loved the ideas and decided to sketch the approach. Once again these ideas reinforced my belief that leading organizations and self in the future is all about the stuff like connections, […]
We get too bogged down by our self-imposed boundaries. Boss won’t allow. That is not our process. I’ve never been told! Not my job. They need to do it! And it goes on. But what if we cross that boundary and get into the realm of: What can I do? Who can I influence? How […]
Talking about the impending shifts like automation, robotics, disruptions and uncertainties in our world of work is almost clichéd. What seems like a problem is also an opportunity to do the thing that makes us human – to change our attitudes and fixed beliefs about how we have traditionally experienced work. It is this shift […]
There are people who coast along, go with the flow and do as directed. And then, there are those who strive to add value, raise the bar and make a difference. If you belong to the latter, Seth Godin has some simple (yet profound) guidance for you. He wrote about three ways to add value […]
At the heart of a meaningful change is someone who thought beyond the boundaries. Someone who challenged the status quo. Someone who exerted emotional labor to pursue, fight for their ideas and convince others. And then they bring about change. You can call them rebels or change makers and they are inevitable for growth and […]
It is more than obvious now that the way people feel about their workplace has direct material impact on performance of the business. This simple equation gets even more complex when we think of forces that are fundamentally changing how we work. Our workplace conversations today are dominated by topics like increasing globalization, economic uncertainties, […]
“Everyone can be great because everyone can serve.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. “Service is the highest form of self-expression” read the title of an editorial in Times of India by Janina Gomes and it got me thinking about service. I realized that the only way to grow yourself, your teams, your organization is to […]
“For every disciplined effort, there is a multiple reward.” – Jim Rohn I started creating sketch notes only in mid of 2015 as an experiment to learn better and simplify ideas. Little did I know that this experiment will grow into something amazing. I have been in pursuit of simplifying ideas and extract signals in […]
When everything around is constantly changing, it is easy to: Get carried away by latest fads, best practices etc. Execute changes that may not be significant in shifting results to positive direction Implement solutions to half-baked problem statements Isolate people affected by change in a rush to just change things Get confused between change and […]