To set the context, I am a coach and work more specifically in the leadership coaching space in India and outside, working with senior leaders on behaviours, competencies, and social skills, besides business challenges. While life, executive and business coaching is now a multi-Billion dollar industry, it hardly existed until…

Dr Maxwell Maltz, a plastic surgeon in the 1950s, discovered that his patients needed 21 days to get used to the changes he would make to their bodies, such as getting used to a nose-job or facelift. He concluded that “these, and many other commonly observed phenomena tend to show…

While Covid seems to be coming under control even if it is still far from over, the more significant challenge the organisations are now facing is the mass exodus of talent, which has come to be known as ‘Great Resignation’ or ‘Big Quit’. …

Almost everyone will agree that if there is one thing that we don’t have enough of, it is time. The realisation that every moment lost will never come back makes it even more precious. Each moment holds the opportunity for us to get the most out of that moment and…

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function — Professor Albert Allen Bartlett I recently came across the story of Sessa once again. Sessa was an ancient Indian Minister who is believed to have invented the chessboard and an earlier version of chess…

Emotions not only determine how we behave and how we deal with situations that confront us, but they are an integral part of who we are. Emotions rule our mind, we allow them to overpower our intelligence, how much ever we wish this is not true. …

Staying positive, relevant, and connected! Nothing teaches you more about life and yourself than tough times. The time of Covid has been by far one of the most challenging, for most of us, something that we had not faced yet. No one saw the second wave coming in India, and…

In one of my coaching sessions, a leader brought up the issue of conflict management. He struggled to understand if he was being too compromising by agreeing to the people’s views just because he didn’t want to challenge them. Digging deeper, we realised that, like many of us, he did…

Six things you need to do to be a great business partner Let’s start by asking ourselves, who are we — a supplier or a business partner? A supplier (or a service provider) is often someone who provides goods or services in standardized transaction patterns over a period of time…