This blog exemplifies the 3rd Prince / Lover-Healer archetype , using Marianne Williamson as a signifier, culminating into a critique of this leadership.
Integrating Andragogy, Gamification and Digital Learning – Trends, Opportunities, and Challenge
This post explores adult learning in today’s age and how it can democratized and made effective through gamification and digital learning
Seeding Diversity in the Desert of Managerial Rationality
This blog questions the chimera of percentile numbers claiming inclusion and diversity and seeks to throw light on real issues that get shrouded by firms today
The Tyranny of Positive Thinking in Indian Corporations … Manipulating Optimism within, but without Faith
This blog explores and critiques the impact of positive thinking and its many derivatives on leaders and managers in India. I believe that the ideological stances and axioms behind positive thinking, positivist psychology, and its cruder interpretations by consultants, management gurus and coaches, create a set of complex defense process that not just isolate and alienate the human being, but obfuscate various ways in which corporate capitalism manipulates, and oppresses all its stakeholders.
The Grand Experiment at Antelope
INTRODUCTION Wild Wild Country is a remarkable and beautifully narrated documentary on Netflix, covering six episodes, each episode covering a milestone of a surreal tale across four years in Antelope, Oregon, USA. The narrative begins in a small nondescript town of 75 odd denizens, living in Orlando USA, who one day discover that a large […]
Inter-generational Conflict in the Modern Corporation: The Unconscious Politics of Yayati & Puru
Introduction There are so many occasions when one comes across a powerful creative leader or a band of leaders straddling organizations, and who relentlessly lament that the next generation of managers has not lived up to expectations, and let the system down. The next generation of managers are accused of being cowardly, over-compliant, cynical, and […]
The Terrifying Potential of Social Innovation & Yet the Heart Aches …
Last week, I was privileged to be invited as a part of the staff for the Group Relations India’s 10th annual conference in Mumbai on a theme – “Meeting the Other, Meeting Ourselves: Fear and Longing in working with difference.” If I were to look at the theme itself – the recruiting of members […]
