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 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 | Aug 4, 2016 | Blog, Happiness, Life Hacks, Mentors, Motivation, Stress, work life balance
Last week I was talking to my son and he was sharing the feeling among his peers about their goals in life now that they have finished college. Often when one finishes a goal one has strive for instead of feeling accomplishment we feel empty and incomplete. Now Life...
by Manoj Chawla | May 6, 2016 | Behaviour Economics, Cognitive bias, cognitive load, Flow, habits, Happiness, Life Hacks, Management, Mentors, Motivation, Organise, People, Psychology, reinvent, Self Management, Stress, thinking slow thinking fast, work life balance
Goal setting is not a trivial matter. We have to understanding ourselves, We have to make decisions about our priorities, we have to understand the way our minds work. Can we design a better life for ourselves ? Last month I gave a talk on the brain, organising...
by Manoj Chawla | Feb 25, 2016 | Adversity, Behaviour Economics, Blog, Happiness, Psychology, thinking slow thinking fast
We often sabotage ourselves. We don’t do this consciously… after all that would not be rational. Too often we chase the wrong things.. and we don’t always know what we want, at least not initially. The business we start is not the business that we...
