Anchored In Love
Of the hundreds of times that I have discussed values in a class, a workshop or a smaller interaction every single of those discussions, and declarations of values boil down […]
Humata, Hukata, and Hvrashta!
My school, the Sardar Dastur Hoshang Boys High School left major impressions in me about kindness, respect for others and personal presence. The immortal words “Humata, Hukata” were encrypted on […]
Stop at Why: How Great Coaches Inspire Self Transformation
I have participated in hundreds of conversations on why not ask the “why” question in coaching and the itch to answer calls for this write-up. Though I have covered what […]
Storytelling Legacies of Leaders
In the mid-1930s India, a spritely old man wrapped up in loincloth spoke of freedom, compassion, and peace. Mahatma Gandhi carried a big stick, marched across the nation to pick up […]
Octogenarian Thrives on Measurable Action
In a world where talk is cheap an 84-year old takes inspired action and impacts the lives of scores of school going kids in Albay, Philippines. Sunder Mukhi, a former […]
Appreciative Feedback, How to Give It
The toughest task of any manager-leader is providing critical feedback and doing it in a benign and productive way. The day you master how to provide constructive and corrective feedback […]
The Future, Here and Now
In the summer of ’97, while I was enrolled in an advanced strategy and business economics program (SBEP) at the wonderful University of Asia Pacific, we were busy forecasting the […]
Continual Christmas Leadership
Any business organization, like a tree, when it begins to die it begins to die from the top. It doesn’t matter whether they are giant multinationals or small startups but […]
Communicating and Leading Across Cultures
A few years ago on ExPat InSights, I was sitting across the CEO of the NCO Group in the Philippines, Keith Jones, and to one of my questions “What are […]
A Story: A Country in Jail
Though it is now history but it still doesn’t cease to amaze and awe me how some solo human beings were able grab oceans of injustice and flip them over […]