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Dealing With Complexity: Six Ways to Make Sense
Increased complexity is a result of invisible dynamic forces, unanticipated events like pandemic and rapid adoption of disruptive technologies. Making sense of all this to align yourself for a better contribution requires much more than just consuming what you come across. Sensemaking in a complex world requires us to adopt an attitude of active exploration, […]
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5 Disciplines of a Learning Organization: Peter Senge
In the face of rapid disruptions happening due to COVID19, organizations are required to rapidly respond to a constantly evolving context and realign themselves to the new realities. This demands organizations, leaders and individuals to rapidly make sense of changing realities, understand patterns, clarify their purpose, align strategy to the purpose and mobilize people to […]
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Why Organizations Don’t Learn?
Organizations that don’t learn constantly, adapt continuously and execute relentlessly are more likely to be disrupted by constant change and competition. In times like these when COVID19 pandemic has fundamentally altered the ways of working, consumption and business models, organizations that have invested in building culture of continuous learning are more likely to survive and […]
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How to Learn More Effectively
If I recollect the experience of learning bicycle as a child, the first thing that comes to mind are those nasty falls and bruised knees. Soon thereafter, the exhilaration of riding freely took over. Like all significant learning, it was difficult in the beginning before practice turned it easy. Effective learners know that ambiguity and […]
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Self-Directed Learning: A Necessity of Our Times
When I delivered a TEDx talk in early 2019 about “Self-Directed Learning”, little did I know what was in store for us in coming year and two. In times like these, it is not easy to focus on learning. We are anxious about our physical, social and economic well-being. And yet, people who will thrive […]
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14 Years of Blogging
This blog recently completed 14 years. Something that started as a small step in documenting my lessons back then feels like a giant leap now. Most giant leaps are a sum total of small steps taken consistently. I still find that joy in hitting publish button and see my half-cooked thoughts and tentative scribbles go […]
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Lockdown Learning or Lifelong Learning?
Social media is abuzz with stories of people learning new things to make the most of their time in isolation and distancing, which is great. But I feel that learning cannot be an event confined to a few weeks of lockdown, especially when we are stressed about so many other things. Pandemic impacts everyone differently […]
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Mental Habits that Support Lifelong Learning
No significant learning happens only through consumption of insights. It happens when we act on what we learn, go through the experience, take risks and then develop insights through the lens of that experience. Just like organizations need to build right mental models for creating a learning organization, individuals need to build mental habits that […]