Ferdinand: A Manna of Hope and Love today … The Context Last night, I saw the 4-D version of Ferdinand – an animated film adaption of a classic story that refuses to die down in a world that is besotted with achievement, success, greed and masculinity. On one hand, there have been a series […]
Tag: leadership
The Simulacrum of Meritocracy
The Trigger… A few weeks ago, I was teaching ‘Managing Change’ at a premier business school in India – a batch of fifty odd young consultants from one of the big 5 global consulting firms, to my shock and dismay indulged in rampant cheating, colluding, and copying from each other in every assessment process – be […]
Anticipating TransformAction 2017
Historically, in the month of March each year, in the Riviera, just a few miles away from Nice, International Forum for Social Innovation (IFSI) – a not for profit body founded in 1976 in France, holds its annual group relations conference titled TransformAction – a seminar on Authority, Leadership, and Transformation. Over the […]
Wasting away in the VUCA World
Preamble If there is one acronym that has proliferated at a nauseating pace and at an evergrand scale, revitalizing management and strategy text, as well as nonsensical jargon across the last decade, and catching the attention of analysts, academicians, consultants, and senior managers globally – it is VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity). The […]
Coaching: Beware the Hype & Hyperbole 6 processes that threaten its very raison d’être …
This blog is about 6 unconscious processes that threaten coaching highlighting critical consequences that otherwise do not get acknowledged or worked with in a coaching assignment.
The losing cause of Masculinity vis-a-vis rampant Authoritarianism
This blog speaks of erosion in masculinity and a rise in authoritarianism in organizations and systems.
The Bricoleur versus BIG Data, AI, and other looming Giants …
Background & Context Almost a decade ago, a friend of mine, Atul Sapre, invited me to read Karl Weick’s brilliant work on ‘Sense Making in Organizations’, as we sat down to design elements of a course on Organization Development. One of the pivotal themes that Weick directed my attention to was of – “Bricolage” […]
