Love in leadership? I know, it sounds like something you’d hear at a retreat or from a guru who’s never had to meet a deadline. But hear me out what if I told you that the same thing that makes a band of superheroes unstoppable might also be the key to leading a high-performing team? …
More often than not, the greatest obstacles we face aren’t external challenges they’re the mental traps we’ve unconsciously created within ourselves. These subtle yet powerful barriers can cloud our judgment, limit our growth, and obscure our path to authentic leadership. And lead us to look for external solutions when the challenges (and hence solutions) potentially …
In his book, The Ride of a Lifetime, Bob Iger, the CEO of Disney, compellingly tells the story of the time he was in Shanghai to open Disney’s first park in China. He was preparing for a grand, star-studded event, when he got the news of a little boy succumbing to an alligator attack in …
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In 2016, English Football Club Leicester City made history by winning the English Premier League. So what exactly made this win historic? That they had only narrowly escaped relegation from the league just the previous season and the odds of them winning the title were 5000-1, even higher than finding the Loch Ness Monster or …
New Year resolutions usually end in failure. And then I discovered I was approaching it wrong! And found inspiration on how I can turn an unproductive goal into a habit.
What is more productive – spending time analysing failure or understanding what makes us successful as well? The answer to that made a big difference to my mindset
An insightful post on leadership by my co-founder Shweta Anand Arora gave me a lot of food for thought this morning. One line that stood out for me – ‘It doesn’t have to be a completely lonely journey’. Especially in the context of business owners and founders. Truth is, a lot of the time, founders …
The conventional understanding of of vulnerability is all about being exposed- to attack, to be hurt physically or emotionally. Its most commonly used synonyms are in the areas of being helpless, defenceless, feeble and passive. No wonder it’s not a very welcome word for most of us.
Unlearning plays a big role in life, especially while learning new skills or changing careers. In this piece, the author talks about three key skills he needed to acquire to become a good coach – the power of listening in, the value of great questions and the importance of focusing only on the positive. That however, involved unlearning what corporate life had instilled over the last decade or so.
