One of the favourite topics for research in the area of women’s leadership is on why women generally do not negotiate for themselves. There is substantial amount of research on why women don’t ask and how this results in us getting much less in life, especially professional lives. It is bad enough that we have […]
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We work with organisations on transformation programs. This entails, among other things, working with leadership teams to build strategies for their desired vision. While working on strategies, one thing we notice consistently across all types of teams, is the tendency to jump to tactics and actions. Only a few teams take the time to sit
I was at a government office yesterday. I had taken the day off my work and traveled to this other city to get some documentation done. If you have been to one of the district level offices in India, you would know the conditions there and the pace at which things move. Such offices are
Over the last some months I had seen Sheryl Sandberg the COO of Facebook featured in articles about her book Lean In. Most of them had dealt with her analysis about what stopped women from reaching their full potential in their careers. So I was curious to read the book. On one of my business
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Ever since people around me got to know about Nucleus Insights, they are curious to know what we do. And when I say we are a consulting company and we “facilitate” a client’s process, there are all sorts of questions about business process consulting, business strategy consulting, what domains we cover etc. But facilitation is
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I was on a holiday recently in Italy with my family. Everyday was a new experience- exploring new places, enjoying the sights and most importantly eating at different places. Some were very small local restaurants, some were more modern bistros, some well established fine dining places and some reasonably touristy restaurants. And one thing that
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One more International Women’s Day (IWD) just got over. Many companies organized events, mostly around health advice for women. More speeches were given by women achievers on breaking the glass ceiling. CEOs and HR heads shared the need for gender diversity. And almost always these events are organized by women at workplace- of women, for
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In the last 15 years I have worked with research and consulting firms, Silicon Valley start-ups, large global multinationals, and small to mid-sized companies run by entrepreneurs. I have experienced some as businesses and some as organizations. And this has nothing to do with the size of the company. Most often businesses begin with a
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Over the years I have been part of a few corporate branding and rebranding exercises. The classic approach is to do a lot of discovery interviews with different stake holders to understand the history, the differentiators, relationship with customers, competition etc. Then come up with what is termed as the ‘brand essence’. This is translated
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My initial years were spent as a market researcher. Most of the time I was an individual contributor, doing my bits in the research chain. As I moved out of research and into corporate communications role, I had to learn to manage a lot of vendors and how to make them work together. I still
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We work with clients on strategic consulting programs and develop leaders that are future ready.