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Developing Effective and Safe AI With a Growth Mindset

Artificial Intelligence(AI) has been slowly taking hold in a host of industries. However, it has not lived up to its full potential. Type your email… Subscribe Very few companies have benefited financially from implementing AI-based systems. this is hardly due to a lack of expertise and most companies have AI experts on their payroll directing the AI initiative.  One of the main reasons is…

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Frustrated with Your Team’s Ability to Solve Problems?

As a team leader, you may feel, at times, that the team isn’t working together to solve the problem at hand. This could be due to the varying problem-solving styles of the team members. As individuals, we tend to work with people who think similarly reinforcing cognitive biases and blind spots and discouraging true problem-solving. The team may need clarity before they take up the work in…

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Why It’s So Hard to Ask for Help

Although we are all social people, ready to help others as well as receive help from others, we hesitate or even struggle to ask others for help. This over time can make us bitter and frustrated. Today with remote and hybrid work becoming common, many of us are isolated from our friends and colleagues and so the challenge of seeking help from others gets further intensified. Type your…

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Why do large projects go over budget? 

Big projects like nuclear power construction or IT projects tend to go off the rails and horribly wrong. Some major projects go way beyond their budget and beyond schedule and such major deviations should make every leader pause and reflect on the reasons why they go so far off the planned budget or schedule. Type your email… Subscribe In the book How Big Things Get Done the authors Bent…

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What’s the Right Way to Find a Mentor?

Mentorship can transform your life. Staying proactive about your relationship with a mentor is important to remain in the driver’s seat of your career development. Type your email… Subscribe A good mentor can make a huge impact on the way your career shapes up. No matter what stage in life you are at it is more than worthwhile to nurture and maintain relationships with your mentors. They can…

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Leading Through a Sustained Crisis Requires a Different Approach

WHO officially announced the end of the pandemic in May 2023. But for many companies, it is just shifting from the sudden crisis of the pandemic to the sustained crisis of intense uncertainty. Companies have to face uncertainty amidst ambiguity since there is nothing certain and it creeps on you unnoticed.  Type your email… Subscribe Hence, leaders who are very good at managing sudden crises…

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To Build a Top Performing Team, Ask for 85% Effort

The traditional way of thinking about peak performance is – maximum effort = maximum results. However, research shows that it does not work this way.  Type your email… Subscribe Managers may expect 80+ hours of work from employees while expecting employees to attend a yoga class every Friday to manage stress. Employees cannot talk about the inconsistency nor can they even talk about not being…

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5 Ways Companies Are Addressing Skills Gaps in Their Workforce

Companies have been using MOOCs to upskill their employees and while these have served the purpose of improving the knowledge and awareness of employees, these alone have not been found sufficient for employees who need them the most. Type your email… Subscribe today companies have more options as we have better technology and innovative funding resources. Let us examine a few such avenues…

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When Your Boss Gives You Bad Feedback, badly

It is very difficult to manage oneself when your manager gives a bad feedback on your performance. That should not make you defensive or shut to feedback. Type your email… Subscribe Even when you receive kind, clear feedback from your manager, it can be difficult to understand what you can do better. Feedback, good or bad should be viewed as a perception from your manager about how you have…

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Discovering Where ChatGPT Can Create Value for Your Company

When ChatGPT became public in Nov 2022, it was used by over 100 million users within 2 months of its launch, making it the fastest app to reach the 100 million user mark. Today it has over 180 million users with 100 million active weekly users.  Type your email… Subscribe ChatGPT has evolved quickly, starting as a chatbot and now it includes features for analysing data and interpreting data…

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What Will Working with AI Really Require?

Despite all the fears about how AI would replace human beings, it is very clear that in many knowledge-intense tasks, AI would augment human work. Humans and AI would complement as well as compete with each other. Type your email… Subscribe In such a situation, both humans and AI require both cooperative and competitive skills. They need to know the advantages of the other in specific tasks…

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3 Types of Difficult Coworkers and How to Work with Them

In every workplace, some people are senior, in positions of power or earned respect who behave sometimes very irrationally or ambiguously and occasionally quite vindictively.  ✓ Subscribed It may become quite difficult to work with people like this. However, we need to move on and get our work done. At the same time, if we do not address these small conflicts and allow them to accumulate it…

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The Best Leaders Do These 3 Things to Avoid Burnout

As per Adam Grant, the Wharton psychologist, every leader should take the following simple steps to prevent burnout among employees as well as themselves. Lighten the demand Provide more control Create a supportive environment. Type your email… Subscribe Burnouts can be defined as emotional exhaustion. It is not necessarily due to long working hours, as many tend to assume. We have seen…

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These 4 Things Make Employees Feel Their Job Is the Best Job They've Ever Had.

Everyone who leads a team of people wants to be rated a great boss. However, the qualities that you feel are needed to be a great boss may be different from what your employees need. Type your email… Subscribe In his new book, A New Manifesto for Teams by Seth Godin surveyed about 10000 people in 90 countries to describe the conditions at the best jobs they had ever held. People who felt good…

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Your Love for Work May Alienate Your Colleagues

Many companies prefer employees who are passionate about their work and are the driving force behind their performance. Companies make strategies to nurture and encourage this attitude.  It is well-known that passionate employees are more innovative, productive and committed to the organisation’s goals.  Type your email… Subscribe However, in pursuing a strategy to nurture passion among…

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How to Proactively Defuse Tension on Your Team

Interpersonal relations that are toxic, if unaddressed and unresolved, can lead to tensions and a collapse of team collaboration as well as organisational failure. A subtle slight, an argument on an individual’s performance or project deliverables or even gossip can lead to a negative impact on team performance and productivity leading to operational friction among team members. These issues…

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Every Company Should Have These Leaders

Companies need T-shaped leaders who can share knowledge across the organisation while they manage their business units.  Type your email… Subscribe T-shaped leaders are individuals who are like the letter “T.” They have a deep understanding of their specific area (the vertical bar of the T) but can also collaborate and share knowledge across different departments (the horizontal…