‘Overloaded, stressed employees hurt your bottom line’ calls out Harvard Business Review special issue on The Ideal Workplace. The pursuit of happiness may seem like a lofty goal at a time when merely surviving feels like a triumph. But that’s exactly when we should strive to make our workplaces healthier, happier, and more productive. More… [Read more…]
January 17, 2012
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…]
December 1, 2011
‘There’s a mismatch between what science know and what business does’ … If you want people to work better, i.e. follow directions, reward them monetarily…. old fashionably exercising left-brain … If you want people to work better, i.e. be innovative; offer them autonomy, mastery and a sense of purpose…. new ways of exercising right-brain We are constantly changing… [Read more…]
February 5, 2011
Manifesting A Great Idea into Corporeality Picked up this line while listening to NPR where a symphony orchestra composer shared his plans being mindful of the challenges working with a new team within a new environment. Forming vision, developing strategies, implementing projects and delivering tangible results, using multiple human aptitudes, is truly an art… [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…]
January 16, 2011
If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself – your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers. The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get… [Read more…]
December 30, 2010
While in India last month, I visited my yoga teacher’s home where I saw the symbol of Swastika on the entrance wall. I asked her to explain its significance. She explained that this sacred symbol signifies the cycle of universal change. Through civilizations, the interpretation of this symbol has changed. In essence the symbol signifies… [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…]
October 25, 2010
Last weekend I joined an informational webcast with the intention glancing through the content and I ended up spending almost two hours listening to a dialogue between John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods and Rob Smith, CEO of Integral Life on an unusual topic of Business and Love. The interesting dialogue among these visionaries, leaders & trend makers… [Read more…]
April 23, 2012
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