“The place to building any relationship is inside ourselves, inside our circle of influence, and our character.”. Stephen R. Covey Relationship building has been a word for thought and emphasis. But building relationships that matter is an art. Most of us believe that setting objectives and achieving them through the opportunities we have must be our mission. This is often…

“Power and speed be hands and feet”. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Business transformation is driving the pace of innovation to ensure the continuous delivery of business value. Traditional IT organizations need to adopt new sets of practices and tools to meet the market and customer demands. With the increasing competition and changing customer satisfaction-metrics, every organization in the IT wants to…

“To win in the marketplace, you must first win in the workplace.” -Douglas Conant A satisfied employee is a great advocate to a company’s brand and a high-performance asset in the organization. Most organizations choose the customer route to win their markets. Today, organizations are finding new ways to satisfy employees, so employee experiences complement customer experiences. In this dynamic…

“Creating a strong business and building a better world are not conflicting goals – they are both essential ingredients for long-term success." – William Clay Ford Jr., Executive Chairman, Ford Motor Company Employees make not just companies, but ecosystems. I cogently believe that an organization’s health is pink when there is a balance of business, people and society. Companies are…

“It’s not about working harder; it’s about working the system.” -Evan Spiegel One action of a visionary changes an entire system. It is thus important that leaders take one transformative decision a day, instead of taking ten trifling decisions. Systems are built, not only by prescience, but also by attention to detail. A million details make an idea. If the…

“Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together” -Jacqueline Woodson Human beings are the most gifted creatures on earth yet suffer from an unconscious bias of preferring sameness. However, today’s world demands inclusive leaders. One of the most significant indicators of an inclusive leader is humility, the ability…

“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works” -Steve Jobs A company’s life begins with an idea that can change the thinking and thrives with a thinking that injects the new normal, design. Design thinking is a business model that embraces the design process and applies design strategies to a business. It is…

“Creating a strong business and building a better world are not conflicting goals. They are both essential ingredients of long-term success”. -Bill Ford Sustainability is measured in three basic dimensions- environmental, social and economic, and all three are inter-related. The most important measure of a sustainable business is its performance relative to societies and social justice. This concept is compressed…

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place” -George Bernard Shaw Businesses are primarily run by 3Cs, Consistency, Compass, and Communication. Companies have growth charts, performance metrics and strategies to track consistency and legal teams to make sure their compliance compass is pointing to the true North. However, they don’t possess the right processes to measure their…

“I came to the conclusion long ago that limits to innovation have less to do with technology or creativity than organizational agility. Inspired individuals can only do so much.” -Ray Stata In the English dictionary, agility is defined as the ability to move quickly and easily. Organizational agility means giving organizations, the ability to move quickly and easily, adapting to…