by john | Mar 14, 2020 | Adversity, Happiness, Life Hacks, Mentors, Motivation, People, Psychology, Recruit, reinvent, Stress, Uncategorized
One of the things I have tried to teach by staff, teams and people I mentor is to have a go and learn from failure. Life is a journey and the process of improvement is to iterate and improve with each cycle when you come across a problem. As Edison said I learnt 10000...
by Manoj Chawla | Jul 19, 2017 | Blog, Leadershio, Management, Organise, People, Systems
One of my favourite clips from a film is from Rising Sun where Sean Connery talks about fixing the problem not the blame. One of the biggest reasons why problems happen is when “covering your ass” becomes more important than fixing the problem. Even bosses...
by Manoj Chawla | Oct 9, 2016 | Blog, Leadership, Motivate, Organise, People, Recruit, Stress, Systems, work life balance
Have you ever wondered why Switzerland is such a successful country? Or one of the reasons that Switzerland is obsessed with neutrality? This has inspired John Warrillow to come up with a term called the Switzerland Structure. The Swiss obsession with neutrality...
by Manoj Chawla | Aug 27, 2016 | Blog, Leadershio, Leadership, Management, Mentors, Motivate, People, Recruit
Today my GF shared a very funny video, which while amusing also shows the challenge of leadership. What and how do you communicate for people to follow you ? What are the group dynamics, who will follow and who will not ? Is it sufficient to be a leader, or do you...
by Manoj Chawla | Aug 20, 2016 | Behaviour Economics, Blog, Crowds, People, Psychology, thinking slow thinking fast
Have you every gone to a new country and noticed how they use cutlery. Eg chopsticks in the Far East. Did you copy or mimic the behaviour. Initation is an important part of behaviour change. People need to observe and copy the preferred or “normal”...
by Manoj Chawla | Aug 20, 2016 | Adversity, Blog, Dunning-Kruger Effect, Leadershio, Mentors, Motivate, Motivation, Organise, People, Recruit, Self Management, Stress, work life balance
I came across this excellent article on Paid vs Unpaid Internships and how large companies and start ups should and should not use internships. I will leave you to make up your own mind about it. Zak Slayback has written it better than I could, so I’d like to...
