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 | 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 | 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...
by Manoj Chawla | Mar 2, 2016 | Blog, Management, People, Recruit
When Yahoo chief Marissa Mayer made all her leadership team promise to stay for 3 years, it generated a lot of chatter, Lucy Kellaway even wrote an article in the FT and did a podcast on this topic on the BBC. Now one of the big issues in any leadership team is...
by Manoj Chawla | Nov 25, 2015 | Adversity, Mentors, Recruit
I’m Possible Spock says “May you live in interesting times” which really sums up what the Star Trek films are all about. The thing about the Star Trek films and the ship Enterprise, is that it is really about discovering yourself and inventing...
