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The Sock that Showed Up in Between a Deck Review: Balancing the Two Addresses of a Leader

This is back in the day when we only had landlines. My father was a General Manager of this large pharmaceutical company. He used to keep so busy that I rarely saw him much on weekdays. However, almost every day after school, Iโ€™d dial the landline number of his office (I didnโ€™t know the extension). …

Dear CXO, Your New Financial Year Budget Needs to Go Beyond the Annual Office Offsite

The financial year reset is upon us, and with it comes the sacred ritual of budget planning. Across boardrooms, spreadsheets glow with freshly projected figures, and leaders make the annual pilgrimage to debate costs, investments, andโ€”somewhere in the mixโ€”employee wellbeing. Traditionally, this conversation culminates in a well-intentioned yet predictable line item: the grand annual offsite. …

The Happiness Factor โ€“ Why Joyful Leaders Build Stronger Teams

โ€œ…Because I’m happy Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof Because I’m happy Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth..โ€ Iโ€™ve been humming Happy by Pharrell Williams for the last couple of days. You know how a song gets stuck in your head, and suddenly, everything seems to …

How I became an entrepreneur

Dancing on the Shaky Bridge: Leading in a World That Wonโ€™t Stand Still

A few years ago, I had a moment of realization that changed the way I think about leadership. I was working on a particularly thorny challenge one of those problems that doesnโ€™t have a clear solution, just layers upon layers of shifting variables. At some point, I found myself longing for a simpler time, a …

Run like a girl. Lead like a woman. The not-so-new superpower in leadership.

Yes, we knowโ€”itโ€™s a bit of a clichรฉ to start a Womenโ€™s Day post with Maya Angelou. But honestly, nobody puts it better than she does. So sometimes, cliches are good. “Iโ€™ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them …

From Captain America to the Boardroom: How Love Fuels Great Leadership

Love in leadership? I know, it sounds like something youโ€™d hear at a retreat or from a guru whoโ€™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? …

Taming the Complexity Trap

The Leadership Catch-22: Why Complexity Trips Us Up (and How to Beat It) A funny thing happens when we face complexity: instead of leaning into it with curiosity, our nervous system often sounds the alarm. Fight, flee, freeze anything but engage. Itโ€™s as if our brain mistakes a messy spreadsheet or an uncertain future for …

Beyond Busyness: Leading with Awareness in a Complex World

๐ˆ๐Ÿ ๐˜๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐€๐ง๐ฌ๐ฐ๐ž๐ซ ๐ญ๐จ “๐‡๐จ๐ฐ ๐€๐ซ๐ž ๐˜๐จ๐ฎ?” ๐ˆ๐ฌ ๐€๐ฅ๐ฐ๐š๐ฒ๐ฌ “๐ˆโ€™๐ฆ ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฒ,” ๐ˆ๐ญโ€™๐ฌ ๐“๐ข๐ฆ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐š๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž. How often do we respond to โ€œHow are you?โ€ with โ€œIโ€™m busyโ€ as if that somehow validates our worth? Jennifer Garvey Bergerโ€™s conversation on The Conscious Hospitality Podcast with David Arraya made me realise that busyness is often a mask. …

Breaking Mental Barriers: Unlocking Authentic Leadership from Within

More often than not, the greatest obstacles we face arenโ€™t external challenges theyโ€™re the mental traps weโ€™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 …

Bringing Love Back to Work

I remember a moment from my early years as a professional that changed the way I think about work. I walked into a meeting completely drained, deadlines looming, stress mounting, and everything around me felt heavy. Before we started, a colleague paused, looked at me, and said, โ€œAre you okay?โ€ It wasnโ€™t the usual โ€œHow …