The dictionary says to nudge is to prod someone gently with one’s elbow to attract attention. However, Richard Thaler winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics this year, took this verb to a whole different level. He saw it as influencing people to make choices that are better for them in the long term. His […]
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Every morning when I head out of home, I spot this broken and abandoned vehicle. It is parked in front of the local police station, where vehicles that have troubled history are parked. They mostly have a bleak future too, being abandoned, unused and slowly rotting. Amidst this gloom, in one of the broken vehicles,
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I have a self-imposed goal of writing at least one blog post a month. I want to create a habit of writing on some topic every month, so that I reflect on an insight that I had gathered or an experience that has impacted me. While one can argue that once a month is too
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My 11year old asked me “why do they say creativity is contagious?”. He was reading an assignment given by his teacher mentioning this phrase. He was only used to the word “contagious” in the context of disease and catching an illness at the school from someone else. Associating “creativity” with “contagious” was new to him.
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“WeLead” is our women’s leadership program that is quickly turning out to be our flagship development program because of the impact it is creating with women and their managers. While working with young women leaders we often encounter the perception among women that, to be seen as effective leaders they need to be professional. Being
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I am a bicycle living in Mumbai. I believe my ancestors once ruled the roads in this city and everywhere else in the world. But today we are an endangered species and I am lucky to be alive and get around in this busy city. I am a bicycle that goes on recreational sporting trips
As part of the consulting work I do, I sit through leadership meetings in many organisations. Sometimes these meetings can run for a few days. In most meetings, there is always a section on “Best Practices”. Someone from the organisation makes a presentation on practices they have been following and how it has created a
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I often encounter this statement these days “aapne accha menten kiya hai”, which loosely translates into “you have maintained yourself well” or how the English speaking world would say “she has preserved herself well”. These statements are supposed to be compliments to a woman, but to me they are loaded with sexism, ageism etc. But
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I teach posture. Posture to help people move with no pain. Posture to help people get rid of that dull ache in the back, a niggle in the neck or stiffness in the shoulders. I was getting ready to teach the 3-day course to 8 students. They had all signed up after listening to my
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The week of 9th January 2017 holds certain significance in my life. This was the week when I was part of a series of workshops in Mumbai, on Primal Posture™ with the founder of the Gokhale Method™ Esther Gokhale. This was the first time, the method was being promoted actively in India. Hundreds of people
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