The book by Adam Grant, "Originals: How non conformists move the world" was immensely insightful to me. The examples shared and specifically resisting the status quo or the default is the hallmark of the originals. For me parts of this book that resonated [...]
Last week, I delivered a project on DISC communication styles for my Toastmaster' club members. What I wanted to do was to educate my members on how you to use DISC to understand communication styles of the people they interact with. I decided to [...]
I had this book in my library and I very much wanted to read it. The book on Malcom X was the read I just had to finish, before flipping the pages written by David Goggins. Sadly both books shared the [...]
We started with pomp and pageantry. We had in place a formidable team of pilots that I got to know. I was hired in as the Manager for Crisis Planning and training in flight ops, was [...]
ABD is the futuristic reading method, developed by Sotaro Takenuouchi, that revolutionized the habit of reading and getting people to love books. This is done through the process of reading and sharing and repeating that process as you present. This includes, getting a [...]
Harvard Business Review shared that 80% of organizations fail in executing their planned strategies. Organizations start and fizzle their strategy planning sessions with charts, ppts on KPIs and excel spreadsheets on what they have done in the past. More importantly 95% of employees [...]
We have conducted this many times with senior managers in the strategy planning retreats. This task is complex requires fixing movable parts, and coding commands to get a robotic vehicle to move. Very rarely, teams are able to perfect the execution of this task. [...]
Trust is the measure of your willingness to work together with your colleagues. Its often aimed at achieving a common goal. In Patrick Lenccioni's classic book on team development, the 5 dysfunctions in a Team, he cited absence of trust as the core foundational [...]
Seth Godin in his book, "Purple cow" shared how the brain consumes and aggregates information. When the same solutions are shared, it usually dismisses it. For instance imagine, driving down a road, seeing endless slates of flats of the same colour and style. After [...]
This month was phenomenal to say the least. Had the opportunity to work with scholars, genetics gurus and high flying executives. We facilitated the strategy planning session for Cordlife group. Over 2 days, we engaged the regional countries CEOs and the corporate HQ, towards [...]