An interesting analogy came about in a dialogue with a friend, who leads global operations for a technology MNC. We were discussing the best practices on managing people, influencing change & self-growth. Considering what it takes to be authentic, inspire workforce, manage silos, innovate & create, we touched upon various aspects of human psychology & biology.… [Read more…]
February 3, 2011
An engaging 9 minutes video from Phillip Zimbaro on Heroism. He starts by covering neuroscience perspective, but no real answers…. Source: The sceince of Meaningful Life, UCLA, Berkeley One line that caught my attention the most, from Leadership Development perspective, was ‘ a hero organizes and forms networks’. Cozolino’s study on social neuroscience, mirror neurons… [Read more…]
January 19, 2011
Exploring frontiers of Mirror Neurons and Mindful Mirroring in relation to human biology and its influence on personal and work life. Mirror Neuron. Continuing from my blog-article from last September, Mirror Neurons influence social behavior. These cells fire both when we act and when we simply observe the same behavior in others. They generate similar… [Read more…]
November 29, 2010
Change Begins with Choice. I recently attended Sheena Iyangar’s talk at NeuroLeadership Summit on Rethinking Leadership in Boston. Sheena is a professor at Columbia Business School and a research director at the Jerome A. Chazen Institute of Business. Next day, I couldn’t resist buying her book The Art of Choosing as I was curious to… [Read more…]
September 20, 2010
Using brain science rules for human change making
September 18, 2010
I just finished watching Crowd Accelerated Innovation, a video by TED founder Chris Anderson, who gave an inspiring talk on how videos power global innovation. As an organizational change and transformation enthusiast, I picked a few inspiring concepts from his talk and now my brain is spinning with thoughts, ideas, questions—and some answers. The first… [Read more…]
January 17, 2012
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