Gender balance has become a priority. Many organisations want to increase the number of women at the mid and senior leadership levels. Finding women from outside the organization is not an option, as the pool is small, hence an urgent need to grow the pipeline of women leaders from within the organisation. Leadership development with […]
Have you seen a school of sardines swimming in the big ocean? I remember seeing them on television while growing up. It was only in late 2000 on my first trip to the US, I saw them live at the walk-in aquarium at Pier39 in San Francisco. I remember being mesmerized by the silvery fish
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I have a recent ritual of gathering flowers in the morning for my mother. She uses them for her prayers, where she recites verses asking the universe to care for everyone’s well being. The flowers that I gather are the “Paarijata” flowers (Botanical name: Nyctanthes arbor-tiristis) also called as the coral jasmine. They bloom in
Organisations are launching many initiatives to create a balanced ratio of men and women at the workplace and to increase the number of women managers at the mid and senior levels. While structured initiatives are necessary, it is the interactions at the team level, that affect an individual the most at workplace. These experiences have
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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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In my last blog, I talked about how my mother taught us to share the mental workload. Here are a few things we have done in our family of four, to share the workload and enlist everyone. Family meetings We hold a family meeting once a week or once a fortnight. During the meeting, the
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Few days ago, I read an article about mental workload women carry which was part of a discussion initiated for the women participants of a programme we conduct at nu-i. The article talked about the immense burden women carry of household tasks along with everything else they do. Both the written word and the graphics
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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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