Buzzing now: Shweta’s Unconventional Journey
Discover the unconventional career of Shweta Anand Arora, Founder and CEO of The Core Questin in conversation with Dr. Ramya Ranganathan.
Leader! Are you willing to shift from Below the Line to Above the Line?
In the previous post, I wrote about Jim Dethmer’s work on Conscious Leadership. The first step – involved getting yourself located around the issue that you are facing. How are you ‘being’ with it in your life – are you responding to it from Above the Line or Below the Line. In case you want to …
Leader! Where are you located? Above the Line or Below the Line.
As a Coach, I listen to clients describe the problem or issue they are trying to tackle. For ‘A’ the pandemic provided a big bang opportunity for her business, yet productivity is slipping because attrition rates are high. As CEO of the company, ‘D’ is struggling to address resistance and fear amongst her colleagues to …
Leadership lessons from ‘Deep Work’
In this article, I reflect on thoughts that were sparked by Cal Newport’s ‘Deep Work’ – about the importance of really knowing what we want from life, the magic of presence and connection, and the value of a deep life.
Does a leader’s journey have to be lonely?
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 role of leadership in building a learning organization
Building a learning organization is key to being ready for and successfully managing change. The role of leaders and leadership teams is pramount in building this culture of learning and innovation.
Sparking change
How do you inspire change in others? While most of us are used to doing this through mentorship, advice and suggestions, perhaps there is a different, more powerful way to do it – through questions.
Managing change: a human centric approach
Success will be defined by our ability to change, evolve, pivot, and even transform in the next decade and beyond. What does this mean for us as leaders and companies? Rameet Arora, reflects his experience with Change Management to offer a paradigm shift and a recipe for success.
Vulnerability – strength or weakness?
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.
Bye-bye Manager. Welcome Leader as Coach!
For more than a decade of my life I worked as a public policy professional at the cross-section of politics and public policy. At my company, I was in-charge of publishing analytical and data-driven research for the consumption of our legislators so that they were better informed on government policies, budgets and laws. The work …