As remote and hybrid work environments become the norm, finding different ways to check in on the well-being of your teams will be crucial, for their mental health as well as for the well-being of the team.
This article explores how we can navigate liminal spaces and transitions in times of chaos, crisis and uncertainty.
Happy New Year dear friends, A little late, but I am happy to be finally writing to you, with my New Year wishes, for you and me. I am happiest wishing you by sharing the lessons I am taking forward, and here is what I learnt (again!) last year. Everything was all right in the end (as predicted in my…
Dear Friends, I just made my deadline to pen my reflections down of the old year and get ready to welcome the New Year! First things first … No apocalypse … the world didn’t end. Its still here. But I think the world as we know it, has been changing (for a while now). Maybe that’s what the Mayan’s were…
“… leadership has nothing to do with position, salary, or number of direct reports. I believe a leader is anyone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes.”
In more and more companies today, leaders manage their communication efforts in a way that calls to mind ordinary, person-to-person conversation. Where this kind of organizational conversation has taken hold, leaders build engagement and drive strategic alignment by enabling ideas and information to move efficiently across their company.
I am on a new adventure and I would like to share this journey with you too! As I enjoy a beautiful spring afternoon in London, I am only a few days away from attending the first workshop in a doctoral program in Organizational Change offered by Ashridge School of Business. Its been almost two years since I finished the…
Its cricket fever, and normally I am not an ardent cricket fan, but if that were true today, I would be the only person in Sri Lanka who would have been immune to it. Its no secret that I do not go out of my way to watch cricket. When I have occasioned to watch it, I have enjoyed the…
“You cannot cross the same river twice”
We think we are full stops. unchanging. but at best we are commas, in a sentence, a pause if at all, before the sentence takes shape and continue giving meaning. Most times, if there is congruency the sentence makes sense, and has a flow, so we don’t always get disjointed nonsensical sentences, and in someway a flowing meaningful sorry is weaved.
Barry Schwartz talks about how we are constantly torn between doing what we think is right vs. doing what is expected of us. If people are not doing the right thing, we implement rules and incentives – like what we did with the financial industry. But we know through experience that people will find ways to circumvent rules. If we…