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The Benefits of Silence for a productive and meaningful life

Oct 30, 2021 | Communication Skills, Deploy Yourself, Emotional Intelligence | 3 comments

Let me start with a story to illustrate the benefits of silence There was an old man whose most beloved possession was a watch left to him by his late wife. He treasured the timepiece and had it on his person wherever he went.  One day, in anticipation of his...

The Choice of Responsibility, And How Is It Different From Accountability?

Sep 27, 2021 | Deploy Yourself, Leadership and Management | 0 comments

“Politicians are of no use.”  “Bureaucrats just slow everyone down.” “The new CEO is no good. Look at what he did in his previous company.” While the above sentences don’t directly mention “responsibility”, all of them are blaming people for not taking responsibility...

5 Steps To Deploy Yourself And Live An Authentic Life

Jan 14, 2021 | Deploy Yourself, Life | 0 comments

A lot of us, especially in our youthful days, struggle with how to deploy ourselves in the world. Instead of being true to ourselves and charting our own unique course, we tend to follow paths that others have decided on our behalf. However, if we take the long-term...

How To Use Both Conscious and Subconscious Mind to Maximise Creativity And Solve Our Biggest Problems?

Nov 10, 2020 | Deploy Yourself | 0 comments

We would all agree that our mind is our most important asset. The human brain is often called the most sophisticated machine in the universe. Everything we do is only possible because of our brains. Be it writing a letter, loving our family members, playing...

How to Powerfully Step into the New Year 2023

Nov 2, 2020 | Deploy Yourself, Life | 0 comments

I think it was 1989 when I, for the first time, realized that the 1st of January was a special day. The biggest change for me, one that always took a few weeks to get used to, was to write 1990 instead of 1989 in our school notebooks daily. While the whole world...

5 Valuable Life Lessons Struggle and Hardship Teaches You

Oct 30, 2020 | Deploy Yourself, Life | 0 comments

When faced with difficulties as human beings, our natural reaction is to avoid the situation rather than power through it. Years of evolution have wired our brains to seek the comfort of the familiar and avoid the discomfort that comes with new and challenging...

8 Things Leaders Can Do To Create a High Trust, High Engagement, and High-Performance Team

Oct 15, 2020 | Deploy Yourself, Leadership and Management | 0 comments

Many people have a rather simplistic view of how people and teams perform. People don’t perform based on their abilities alone. Any person’s performance is the sum total of their own abilities and effort plus the prevalent culture in the company (and team). A...

Want To Improve Performance? Before Giving Feedback, Give People These Four Things

Oct 10, 2020 | Deploy Yourself, Leadership and Management | 0 comments

Do you use feedback as a tool to improve performance? If your answer is yes, you are not alone. Most managers see (and use) feedback, most of which is negative or critical, as a tool to improve performance. If you give positive feedback too along with the negative...

6 Reasons People Are So Unhappy At Work

Oct 5, 2020 | Deploy Yourself, Leadership and Management | 0 comments

According to this study cited in Forbes, more than half of the US workforce is unhappy. Gallup surveys show that nearly two-thirds of employees are disengaged at work. In my own experience of the last 15 years and the numerous stories I have heard from people in...

5 Simple (But Not Easy) Steps Every Manager Can Take To Improve Work Culture

Sep 10, 2020 | Coaching, Deploy Yourself, Leadership and Management | 0 comments

If you are lucky enough to be someone’s employer, then you have a moral obligation to make sure people do look forward to coming to work in the morning. – John Mackey I have been leading teams for 12 years in companies such as Yahoo, Booking.com, etc in India...

How To Respond To Anger Like The Adults We Are Supposed To Be?

Aug 25, 2020 | Deploy Yourself, Emotional Intelligence | 0 comments

In my previous article on anger, we saw that anger hides what we care about. If we look deeper and take the time to introspect, anger can tell us what we really value, and which value has been violated that resulted in the anger. Anger can communicate a lot of...

Why True Joy and Real Happiness Doesn’t Come from Winning But From A Dignified Struggle?

Aug 20, 2020 | Coaching, Deploy Yourself | 1 comment

Winning and Losing Is Everywhere Most of us grow up in this world in a culture where the idea of winning and losing is omnipresent. Movies often celebrate the victory of the good over the evil. We cheer for our teams in sports when they win. We strive to get better...

3 Ways Strong Leaders Manage Intimidating Employees With Poise and Confidence

Aug 15, 2020 | Deploy Yourself, Leadership and Management | 0 comments

If you are a leader or manage a team, it is not uncommon to come across someone in your team who intimidates you. This might be because they are better than you in a particular skill and that brings your insecurities to the fore. Or it might be because the person...

5 Unconscious Ways We Limit Our Own Freedom

Aug 10, 2020 | Coaching, Deploy Yourself, Life | 1 comment

I still remember that morning of excitement. It was supposed to an relaxing long drive in my new car, but I had no idea how the day would turn up. As I started the engine and pushed down on the accelerator, I got busy admiring the posh interiors and the sophisticated...

Busting The Myth of Individual Performance. A Radical New Equation For Improving Performance At Work

Jul 30, 2020 | Deploy Yourself, Leadership and Management | 1 comment

What causes employees to put themselves between a customer and bullets from a terrorist attack? It is very difficult to imagine anybody valuing their work so much that they put their lives at stake to protect customers. Yet, that is what many employees of the Taj...

How I Made My Laziness and Procrastination Productive, and Used It To Read Over 250 Books In the Last 5 Years?

Jul 20, 2020 | Deploy Yourself | 1 comment

The dictionary defines procrastination as “the action of delaying or postponing something”. There was a time when I used to believe that procrastination is a bad habit and that only bad or weak people procrastinate. However, after reading a lot of psychology and...

5 Research Backed Reasons Taking Regular Breaks Can Help You Get More Done

Jul 5, 2020 | Coaching, Deploy Yourself | 1 comment

If you have a lot to do, take regular breaks. Find out about the counterintuitive advice of taking breaks to get more done. Are you surging ahead in life? Is your life becoming too fast for comfort? Why not take a break? What did I just say? Do you think you have a...

The 7 Most Powerful Investments You Can Make. They Are Not What You Think

Jun 30, 2020 | Coaching, Deploy Yourself | 1 comment

What comes to your mind when you are asked about the most powerful investments you should make? Is it stocks? Is it bonds? Or a new house? Real estate is the safest investment, you might have heard. If you ask me, I would say, neither! Over the course of my life, with...

Why Unreasonable Goals Are Better For Your Growth And Success?

Jun 25, 2020 | Coaching, Deploy Yourself | 0 comments

Have you ever achieved something you aimed for still felt like “meh”? Do you feel “empty” on the inside despite being successful by usual standards? Here is how to achieve meaningful success by overcoming our deep psychological need to play it...

51 Powerful Questions to Ask in Different Situations, and The Art of Asking Powerful Questions

Jun 19, 2020 | Deploy Yourself, Questioning | 2 comments

After leading teams for the last decade and a half, if there is one skill that has made the biggest difference in my ability to improve individual and team performance, it has been my ability to Ask Powerful Questions. This is not to say that other skills like...
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Recent Articles

  • Leadership Journeys [58] – Dinesh Juneja – “Partnerships are the backbone of running a company.”
  • Issue #71, 31 Jan 2023 – Can we be real and face what we do not want to face?
  • Leadership Journeys [57] – Marc Munier – “If people aren’t willing to accept you for the way that you are, then that’s their problem”
  • Can’t Stay Silent [04] – There Is No Forcing In Nature
  • Leadership Journeys [56] – Ian Fishwick – “Everybody wants the best people, but what I say is, get the best out of people.”
  • Leadership Journeys [55] – Philip Johnston – “Blitzscaling a startup is stressful, but also pretty exhilarating and fun.”
  • Issue #70, 17 Jan 2023 – How to increase your impact & well-being by doing less?
  • Can’t Stay Silent [03] – Can We Face What We Do Not Want To Face?
  • Leadership Journeys [54] – Steve Midgley – “You have to be prepared to stand up for what you believe in”
  • Leadership Journeys [53] – Marius Ciavola – “Trust and inspire instead of command and control.”
  • Leadership Journeys [52] – Bharanidharan – “Whatever you have, make the best out of it.”
  • Leadership Journeys [51] – Thomas Van Eeckhout – “The CEO is not the most important person in the company”
  • Issue #69, 3 Jan 2023 – Start 2023 by learning the most powerful skill – to regulate your nervous system
  • Leadership Journeys [50] – Karl Feilder- “Just because I have a big title doesn’t mean that I’m any better than others”
  • Leadership Journeys [49] – Gernot Schwendtner – ”Fear is natural & makes you aware of risks but is one of the worst counsellor”
  • Issue #68, 20 Dec 2022 – How to face and deal with rising uncertainty?
  • Can’t Stay Silent [02] – Our Pain Unites Us
  • Can’t Stay Silent [01] – Fall or Flight?
  • Leadership Journeys [48] – Simon Godfrey – ”It is important to respect other people’s opinions, even if they are opposing our own”
  • Leadership Journeys [47] – Andrea Fernandez – “When there is no focus and it is hard, It’s actually not a bad idea to slow down and take a break”
  • Leadership Journeys [46] – Paulina Tenner – “I have my own agenda but I’m also surrendered to the wisdom of the process of life”
  • Leadership Journeys [45] – Faisal Hoque – “Life is somewhere in between letting it happen and making it happen.”
  • Issue #67, 6 Dec 2022 – The trap of always chasing “more” & the power of “enough”
  • Leadership Journeys [44] – Colleen Nagle – “Holding yourself accountable is half the battle in success”
  • Leadership Journeys [43] – Radmila Blazheska – “Leadership is the combination of determination and openness to listen to others.”

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