A stream of visual insights in form of #sketchnotes from the pen of Tanmay Vora. More about sketchnote project here.
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 […]
A team’s ability to learn quickly is at the heart of adapting to constant changes. In fact, it seems that constant learning is the only key to agility as a team and organization. Jack Welch famously said, “An organizations ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the greatest competitive advantage.” On […]
Nicholas Bate once sent me a bunch of inspiring cards made with lot of love. One of those cards read, “Every YES contains a NO (YES to staying late is NO to Lego with your daughter)” “Every NO contains a YES (NO to the gym is YES to more stress)” When we say YES to […]
As an organization grows, managing the flow demands work items to move from one team/department to another. In quest to make these teams accountable, very specific KPI’s are established and that breeds non-systemic thinking. People look at meeting their own numbers and push the work to next stage and often, what happens is that while […]
At the heart of living a creative life is ability to do something about things you don’t like. What we do instead is keep complaining. We all have our own circle of influence – things we can change ourselves or exert our influence to create change. Everything else outside this circle are circumstances (or circle […]
When I started this blog in 2006, I only thought of it as a repository of my own lessons as a new manager. Little did I know that this space will become one of the most important learning and sharing tools for me over years. The benefits of putting myself out there in a way […]