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What do you do when people you manage fail? 1) You forgive and forget 2) You remember, pass blame, stigmatise and humiliate them 3) You forgive and remember The right approach that Bob Sutton, Professor of Management at Stanford University advocates is to *forgive* so that people have psychological safety and *remember*, so that you can learn, …
“In June 1944, Germany flew several raids on London. War experts plotted the position of each bomb as it fell and noticed one cluster near Regent’s Park, and another along the banks of the Thames. This clustering concerned them because it implied that the German military had designed a new bomb that was more accurate …
“I want to be doing something different. I want to get promoted to the next role?” Yesterday, I was chatting with this young woman who asked, what is a very common question. Our career conversations usually tend to start with what “WE want” Ironically though, you tend to progress faster when you start with “What …
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“Jan is managing a new team, and she notices that one of her team members, Carl, is using a new piece of software incorrectly. She offers him some advice and returns to her work. But later, she notices that he’s still misusing it. So, she decides to sit with him until he gets it right. …
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Play it safe or take a Career Risk? Growing up in an incentivized-for-performance environment that most Asian parents tend to fall into, I dreaded failure. It meant I followed a straitjacketed path and avoided risks. Like picking STEM or management courses I felt had better ROI over Culture and Communication or Semiotics. Or picking an …
Contextual intelligence for career growth – 12 behaviors to know where you stand ‘The most successful people are usually characterized as being able to see things clearly in a way that few others do This ability has little to do with being brilliant academically Rather being able to understand change, adapt to …
“When the Black Death plague entered England in 1348, the Scots up north laughed at their good fortune. With the English crippled by disease, now was a perfect time for Scotland to stage an attack on its neighbor. The Scots huddled together thousands of troops in preparation for battle. Which, of course, is the worst …
Today my team has a No-meeting-DayAnd this is why that is important Deep-work and intensive problem solving needs time to thinkAnd DO. Having people collaborating across geographies in a remote first set up can get hard Productivity suffers if people are constantly interrupted. Create time to get stuff done.If you cannot do a no-meeting day, …
There are 5 fundamental conversations with your boss that is central to your ramp up plan. Most people take a reactive approach to this and thus fail. I personally would recommend #4 for everyone #1 The Situational Diagnosis conversation :* Seek to understand how you new boss looks at the portfolio that you have inherited …
#ReviewswithRanjani #PODSHORTS Genre – NonFiction – Management, Communication Book 49/52 Rating – 4/5 Book – No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the people to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and …
Episode 29 – 5 key takeaways from Netflix No Rules Rules Read More »