Bridgewater associates was the company Adam Grant cited in his book "Originals" who very much cut across the grind to avoid groupthink. Here is a company founded in 1975, with their HQ based in Connecticut, handles 170 billion dollars in investment funds. 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 [...]
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 [...]
Struggling teams - assessing communication styles Ever had the moment where, the team is struggling to understand what their Team leaders is trying to say? For instance you have a team of senior managers and the CEO is struggling to set his messages across and [...]
Carrots and sticks dun work Carrots and sticks do not work. The old adage of motivational theories encourage them, the use of rewards to get more of the behaviour you want. Pavlov shared how he got more of the behaviour he wanted using rewards. You [...]
Over the years I have worked for 3 international companies that will prize themselves as best in class in their respective industries. I served 4 years in flight operation in the 90's working for the best airline in the world then, Singapore International Airlines. [...]
Toxic managers at work This usually happens quite rarely. However, we all may have had the unfortunate experience in our careers, when we had to work with an over bearing manager, who spews hate, bullying and wielding unflinching power against a defenceless executive wanting to do [...]
