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Awkward TalksFrom Smoke to Strength with Col Arun IyerAwkward Talks launches its powerful new segment, "Veteran’s Talk", where veterans break the silence on topics that matter.In this opening episode, Col Arun Iyer—a decorated Special Forces officer, Author, NLP , TA Practitioner and Life Coach—shares how he turned his inner battle against smoking into a mission. From personal struggle to helping others quit in just 14 days, this story is about more than quitting—it's about reclaiming strength, purpose, and pride.Know more at https://transforminds.in
2025-06-2639 min
Career Shifts PodcastDear Leaders, Your Talent Playbook Is OutdatedWhat the Future of Work Really DemandsMost companies are racing to reskill, reorg, and reinvent.But here’s the question no one’s asking:Are we still building teams for tomorrow—or trying to fix yesterday?In this roundtable episode of Career Shifts – Journey to the Future, we pause the noise.We hold up a mirror to what’s breaking beneath the surface of today’s leadership and talent playbooks.Join host Gopal A Iyer and a sharp panel of practitioners:Neeraja Ganesh | Leadership CoachGautam Shett...
2025-06-071h 38
Federal Fridays with ServiceNow (Government)Succeeding in Health IT During Uncertain TimesHealth IT – is it about healthcare or security or is it IT? Is it about Clinicians, Nurses or Patients? What about the technologies and the core systems? Who’s minding the store on PII and PHI? AI and GenAI are here, can we start on that journey? YES! None of these are less important than the other and compete for an organization’s attention. But how many, how much, how complex are further questions that arise. How many different systems? How much time is an individual spending when health is at stake? How complex is the na...
2024-09-2020 min
Decoding Impact with Rathish BalakrishnanPowering Prosperity: Emerging Promise of DPIs in India's Energy Sector ft. Dr Nikit AbhyankarThe Indian energy sector is at a critical juncture. Electricity consumption, a key indicator of economic growth, has grown significantly over the past 50-60 years, and India is primed to leapfrog into a sustainably powered future.
This transition calls for a robust policy foundation, technological advancements in demand-supply and storage mechanisms, and a keen study of economic incentives for users of green energy. In this episode of Decoding Impact, Rathish Balakrishnan is in conversation with scientist Dr. Nikit Abhyankar to unpack the unique opportunity India has, to transition to renewable energy, with economic viability...
2024-09-1959 min
Play to Potential Podcast103.00 Ricardo Sunderland on The Energy AdvantageGUEST:
Ricardo Sunderland is an author and a CEO Transformational Coach with Egon Zehnder, a global leadership advisory firm. In this podcast, we discuss his latest book, "The Energy Advantage, How to go from managing your time to mastering your energy,"
Ricardo's life’s purpose is to help leaders connect to and manage their energy to become humane leaders. He coaches senior leaders to help them bring coherence to the way they lead, and to help them reach their full societal impact. In addition to his coaching work, Ricardo collaborates with Board’s Chairs and Nominating Comm...
2024-09-121h 23
Decoding Impact with Rathish BalakrishnanGreen Roads Ahead: Decoding India’s EV and Digital Infrastructure ft. Akhil Jayaprakash & Arun VinayakWorldwide, roads are increasingly seeing the presence of electric vehicles (EV) and India is expected to take 30% of the EV market worldwide. However, these tailwinds are attracting many players to the EV ecosystem, from suppliers to customers, to make EVs a reality on the road.
In order to ease the challenges that these stakeholders could face in coming together, Digitial Public Infrastructure could have a key role to play and could help:
• Reduce frictions
• Enable greater customer experience
• Drive better adoption for electrical vehicles in India...
2024-06-291h 23
Federal Fridays with ServiceNow (Government)ServiceNow Federal Forum 2024: Building a Resilient Government with Secure AutomationAutomation plays a key role in supporting the cyber workforce and building operational resiliency. During this session, we emphasized the pivotal role automation, artificial intelligence (AI), and Zero Trust Architectures (ZTA) play in staying a step ahead of sophisticated, evolving cyber threats to deliver resilient government services. Featured Speakers: • Arunkumar (Arun) Iyer, Principal Executive Architect/Field CTO, ServiceNow• Bob Cunningham, Executive Director for Enterprise Command Operations, D• Richard Driggers, Cyber Practice Lead, Accenture Federal Services• Savanrith "Savan" Kong, Customer Experience Officer (CXO), Department of Defense• Dr. Tiina Rodrigue, Chief Information Security Officer, Bureau of C...
2024-05-2433 min
InsurTech Business SeriesTransforming the Insurance Landscape in Southern AfricaEver wonder what it takes to change the course of a whole industry? We're honored to host Arun P. Iyer, the Founder and CEO of Alpha Direct InsurTech, who is doing just that in the African insurance landscape. Brace yourself for an inspiring journey from a small-town upbringing, to a young boy investing in stocks, to a CEO transforming the insurance industry in Botswana.Revolutionizing the highly regulated insurance industry, Alpha Direct is challenging the status quo with their disruptive approaches. Arun shares the story of Alpha Direct's genesis, discussing their innovative solutions that address the root...
2023-11-2748 min
Play to Potential Podcast102.00 David Noble & Carol Kauffman on Real-time LeadershipGUESTBetween stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. This quote is attributed to Viktor Emil Frankl, an Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor, devoted his life to studying, understanding and promoting “meaning.” Carol Kaufman and David Noble give us practical tools that we can use to make the ‘space’ count. Carol and David have authored Real-Time Leadership - Find Your Winning Moves When the Stakes Are High. In the podcast conversation they expand on the 4 step MOVE framework which lays out the various ways in which lead...
2023-05-201h 17
Play to Potential Podcast102.01 David and Carol - The MOVE frameworkNUGGET CONTEXT
Carol and David speak about their M.O.V.E framework; M – Mindful, O – Options Generating, V – Validating the Vantage Point, E – Engage and effect change. The key, they say, borrowing from Viktor Frankl, is to create the space between stimulus and response.
This is a “sampler” of what a nugget looks like in our podcast. While we have a few nuggets on popular podcast platforms, entire library of Nuggets (Categorised by themes) is available at www.playtopotential.com in the Members section. To understand more about membership benefits such as Curated Nuggets, Hand edited Trans...
2023-05-2006 min
Let's Talk Surgery: The RCSEd PodcastENT Coffee Room Chat Series 2 Ep 6: Use of lasers and angled endoscopes in managing difficult to access middle ear cholesteatomaENTUK and RCSEd partner to bring you a second series of coffee room chats. In this episode, Mr Arun Iyer and Prof Owen Judd discuss the nitty gritty of lasers and angled endoscopes in difficult middle ear cholesteatomas. In conjunction with BSO.
2023-05-1919 min
Play to Potential Podcast101.00 - Stephen M.R. Covey on Trust and InspireGUESTStephen M. R. Covey is an American writer and public speaker and the author of the books: The SPEED of Trust, Smart Trust, and Trust & Inspire: How Truly Great Leaders Unleash the Greatness in Others. He is the co-founder and CEO of a company called CoveyLink Worldwide and former President and CEO of Covey Leadership Center. He happens to be the son of Stephen Covey, the author of the pathbreaking book - 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. In our conversation, we spoke about how Stephen broke away from his father’s shadows and created an ide...
2023-04-131h 32
Play to Potential Podcast101.1 Stephen M.R. Covey - Growing out of father's shadowsNUGGET CONTEXT
Stephen speaks about how he initially focused on the business side of things while his father was the ‘larger than life’ thought leader. He speaks about how, over time, his insights around the high cost of low trust have emerged and how he has found his voice a thought leader over time.
This is a “sampler” of what a nugget looks like in our podcast. While we have a few nuggets on popular podcast platforms, entire library of Nuggets (Categorised by themes) is available at www.playtopotential.com in the Members section. To understand more abo...
2023-04-1310 min
Play to Potential Podcast100.00 Christopher Clarey on Roger Federer's journeyGUEST
Roger Federer is somebody who needs no introduction. While, Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal have overtaken him in terms of the overall Grand Slams won, when there is a discussion about the Greatest of All Time (GOAT), all fingers very often still point to Roger. One could attribute that to his fluidity, his charm on and off court, his longevity, his stable family life, and much more.
I had a unique opportunity to engage with Christopher Clarey, a veteran New York Times Correspondent who has been covering Sports at an Elite level for more than 30 y...
2023-03-231h 26
Play to Potential Podcast100.01 Christopher Clarey - Signs of early potentialNUGGET CONTEXT
Chris speaks about how people were talking about Roger’s potential when he was just 13 or 14. He speaks about how Regis Brunet saw Roger in action in Florida and then immediately ran to the payphone to get hold of Roger’s parents back in Switzerland.
This is a “sampler” of what a nugget looks like in our podcast. While we have a few nuggets on popular podcast platforms, entire library of Nuggets (Categorised by themes) is available at www.playtopotential.com in the Members section. To understand more about membership benefits such as Curated Nuggets...
2023-03-2305 min
The Dyslexia Life Hacks ShowOccupational Health Assessments: How They Can Help People with Dyslexia with Arun IyerIn this episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show, Matt is talking too Arun Iyer, a specialist occupational health advisor. Arun works for Health Partners Group and has extensive experience working with people with dyslexia. He's here to discuss how occupational health assessments can help people with dyslexia in the workplace.Background:Arun shares his background and how he became an occupational health advisor. He also talks about his experience working with people with dyslexia and the challenges they may face in the workplace.Occupational Health Assessments:Arun explains what occupational health assessments...
2023-03-1539 min
SynTalk#TCATC (The Creator And The Created) --- SynTalkAre you a romantic genius? Are artists incapable of understanding their own creations? Where does inspiration come from? Is Nature divine? Can art divide? When/why does a creation become property? Are you the owner of your own Self? When does one have the right to copy? Do you copy yourself? Did print technology create the individuated author? Do you know what an author is? Which language do you create in? Is listening/reading re-creating? Does repetition create difference? What is the difference between art and commodity? Is the process of creation a dance between the Apollonian and the Dionysian...
2023-03-111h 29
Play to Potential Podcast99.00 Michiel Kruyt on Deliberate Calm - How to Learn and Lead in a Volatile WorldGUESTMichiel Kruyt is CEO of IMAGINE, an advisory boutique helping executive teams develop future fit leadership and company vision. He had a fifteen-year career at McKinsey and Co, where he was a partner focusing on top team effectiveness, large-scale transformations and culture change. He helped many top teams around the world increase their ability to lead with impact. Michiel has co-founded and led Aberkyn, a change-facilitation firm, now owned by McKinsey. Before joining McKinsey & Co, he had a 15-year career at Unilever. Michiel, along with Aaron De Smet and Jacqueline Brassey of McKinsey has Co-Authored t...
2023-02-251h 10
Play to Potential Podcast98.00 Jeffrey Pfeffer on 7 Rules on of PowerGUESTJeffrey Pfeffer has been teaching at Stanford since 1979. He has Co-Authored or Authored 16 books, the last one being, 7 Rules of Power. He is in the Thinkers 50 Hall of Fame, a list that celebrate the all-time greats in the world of Business that are moving the world forward with their original ideas. We spoke at length about his recent book on Power. More specifically, we spoke about the tension between Power and various other concepts that are doing the rounds in “pop wisdom” - Power vs Autonomy, Power vs Humility, Power vs Vulnerability, Power vs Authenticity and m...
2023-01-201h 08
Play to Potential Podcast98.01 Jeffrey Pfeffer - Autonomy vs PowerNUGGET CONTEXT
Jeffrey speaks about how he came around to studying Power. He also goes on to speak about the kinds of career choices he has made and what he has said No to over time as his Power increased over time.
This is a “sampler” of what a nugget looks like in our podcast. While we have a few nuggets on popular podcast platforms, entire library of Nuggets (Categorised by themes) is available at www.playtopotential.com in the Members section. To understand more about membership benefits such as Curated Nuggets, Hand edited Transcripts, Customizable play...
2023-01-2006 min
Play to Potential Podcast97.00 David Bradford on Connect - Building Exceptional Relationships with Family, Friends and ColleaguesGUEST
David has been teaching the landmark Interpersonal Dynamics course (informally called as Touchy Feely by many) at Stanford for over 50 years. He has distilled some of his learnings and insight from these five decades in a recently published book titled – Connect: Building Exceptional Relationships with Family, Friends and Colleagues. It is always a pleasure to speak to somebody who has spent decades honing a certain craft.
We start with discussing the six markers of an exceptional relationship, then move on to talking about the criticality of the right language, then we talk about the notion of...
2022-12-031h 19
Play to Potential Podcast96.00 Ethan Kross on Chatter – The voice in our headGUEST
Ethan is one of the world’s leading experts on controlling the conscious mind. He is an award-winning professor in the University of Michigan’s Psychology Department. His research has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, The New England Journal of Medicine, and Science. He has recently published the book – Chatter. The book goes deep into talking about the voice in our heads and how we can harness it. Through the book he shows that instead of trying to silence your monkey mind, you can learn to educate it, motiva...
2022-11-171h 02
Play to Potential Podcast95.00 Manjari Jaruhar - The story of Bihar’s first Woman IPS officerGUESTManjari Jauhar is Bihar’s first IPS officer and one of the first five IPS officer in India (Kiran Bedi being the first). After an unexpected turn of events upended the homemaker role her parents had planned for her, Manjari Jaruhar overcame extraordinary odds to become the first woman from Bihar to join the country’s elite police cadre. Her journey is a masterclass in courage, resilience and leadership by a woman who broke new ground and thrived despite being viewed with disbelief and derision by her colleagues. She has recently authored the book - Madam Sir...
2022-11-031h 57
Play to Potential Podcast93.00 Raghu Ananthanarayanan on Leadership lessons from The MahabharataGUEST
Raghu is formally trained as an engineer with an MS in Bio-Medical Engineering from IIT, Madras, He has been in immersive involvement in questions of human life.
He says that three extraordinary teachers mentored him when he was going through a very difficult phase of life, namely, J Krishnamurti, Yogacharya Krishnamacharya and Pulin K Garg. He was intimately involved with them for more than a decade from his late twenties. This engagement not only transformed him, it gifted him with the path that he has walked, his sAdhana.
He has been Cofounder of th...
2022-08-252h 10
Play to Potential Podcast92.00 Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg on The Art of framing the problems to solveGUEST
Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg is the author of What’s Your Problem? (Harvard Business Press, 2020), a book on how to solve the right problems. His research has been featured in Harvard Business Review, The Economist, The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, BBC Radio, Bloomberg Businessweek and the Financial Times. His work on innovation led HR Magazine to recognize him as a “Top 20 International Thinker”.
I believe that we are taught how to solve problems in our growing up years but one of the distinctive elements of leadership is about knowing which problems to solve and which ones not to sol...
2022-07-071h 16
Play to Potential Podcast91.00 Ayelet Fishbach on her book - "Get It Done": Surprising Lessons from the Science of MotivationGUEST
Ayelet Fishbach, Ph.D., is the Jeffrey Breakenridge Keller Professor of Behavioral Science and Marketing at the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business and the author of Get It Done: Surprising Lessons from the Science of Motivation. She is the past president of the Society for the Study of Motivation and the International Social Cognition Network. She is an expert on motivation and decision making.
In the podcast conversation, we start with her journey from the sharing economy of the Israeli Kibbutz which is based on the principles of equality, public ownership and voluntariness. F...
2022-06-081h 18
Play to Potential Podcast90.00 Alisa Cohn on her book - From Start-Up to Grown-UpGUESTAlisa has been coaching startup Founders to grow into world-class CEOs for nearly 20 years. She has recently authored the book - From Start-Up to Grown-Up. Alisa is a guest lecturer at Harvard and Cornell Universities, Henley Business School and the Naval War College. She serves on the board of the Cornell Advisory Council. Her articles have appeared in HBR, Forbes, and Inc and she has been featured as an expert on Bloomberg TV, the BBC World News and in the New York Times.In our conversation, we spoke about how Start-up founders should p...
2022-05-181h 03
Jagged with Jasravee : Cutting-Edge Marketing Conversations with Thought LeadersEp 74 : Arun Iyer on Building Indian Unicorn Startups Brands of Tomorrow- Byju's, Wakefit, Tata 1mgHow Wakefit ,a D2C Brand, was built from scratch primarily using content marketing ?
How are unicorns like Byju's & Tata 1mg being built as long-lasting brands of tomorrow ?
What is business model of Spring Capital to position itself as a skin-in-the-game marketing consulting firm ?
Arun answers the above questions and more as he talks about case studies of building unicorn startup brands, and making the brand a 'moat'. Arun Iyer is a Founder and Creative Partner at Spring Marketing Capital. In his previous avatar he was the Chairman & Chief Creative Officer...
2022-05-0445 min
Play to Potential Podcast89.00 Dan Pink on The Power of RegretGUEST
Daniel H. Pink is the author of five New York Times bestsellers, including his latest, The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward, published in February. His other books include the New York Times bestsellers When and A Whole New Mind — as well as the #1 New York Times bestsellers Drive and To Sell is Human. Dan’s books have won multiple awards, have been translated into 42 languages, and have sold millions of copies around the world. He lives in Washington, DC, with his family.
He has been a contributing editor at Fast Company and W...
2022-04-181h 17
Play to Potential Podcast88.00 Pradeep Chakravarthy on Lessons from Indian HistoryGUEST
Pradeep Chakravarthy is a behaviourist who uses Indian models of L&D to alter behaviour. He has recently published the book - Leadership Shastra which looks at some of the rulers of the past and culls out lessons in leadership and culture. He has written a book - Thanjavur - a Cultural History (2010) and A Road Less Travelled - A Historian’s Guide to lesser known temples in Tamil Nadu (2012).
In our conversation, we speak about how Kings and Queens were groomed for their roles, how they thought about expansion and consolidation at various times, Jah...
2022-04-0658 min
Play to Potential Podcast87.00 Ravi Venkatesan on his book - What the heck do I do with my lifeGUEST
Ravi Venkatesan has been on the podcast about 5 years back. In that conversation we spoke about his journey and his transition from Cummins to Microsoft to Board Roles. In this conversation, we dive into his recently published book - What the Heck Do I Do with My Life.
Some of the topics we cover include the notion of a punctuated equilibrium and the implication on how we adapt, being intentional about life, cultivating an abundance mindset (irrespective of how much we have), different forms of capital that we can work with, specialisation versus generalisation (do y...
2022-03-161h 31
Play to Potential Podcast86.00 Ayse Birsel on Bringing Design Thinking principles in creating a life we loveGUESTAyse is an accomplished Industrial Designer and has worked with Brands like Herman Miller, IKEA, Amazon and Toyota. She is the author of Design the Life You Love and gives lectures on Design the Work You Love to corporations. She was on the Fast Company’s list of Most Creative People in 2017 and on the Thinkers50 Radar list of the 30 people that are likely to shape the future of organizations. Her work can also be found in the Permanent Collection at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.Today, she gives talks, lead wo...
2022-02-251h 15
Play to Potential Podcast85.00 Dorie Clark on Playing the Long GameGUEST
Dorie Clark is an American author and executive education professor at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. She has recently published her 4th book - The Long Game - How to be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World. Her previous books include Reinventing You (2013), Stand Out (2015), Entrepreneurial You (2017).
She completed her Master in Theological Studies at Harvard Divinity School, and has had a career in Journalism and as a Political Speech Writer before creating a niche around helping people reinvent themselves and create compelling personal brands. She has been on the Thinkers 50 list in...
2022-01-121h 07
Play to Potential Podcast84.00 Rajiv Vij on his book - Inside Out LeadershipGUEST
Rajiv Vij is a life and executive coach, author and speaker. He works with senior leaders of several Fortune 500 companies and other large organisations across Asia and India and has been a coach to industry leaders. He also voluntarily coaches a number of founders and leaders of social-sector organisations.
He is the author of Discovering Your Sweet Spot: A Soul-searching Guide for Creating the Life You Really Want. Prior to finding his calling and starting his coaching practice in 2006, he served as Managing Director, Asia for Franklin Templeton.
Published in December 2021.
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2021-12-141h 41
Play to Potential Podcast83.00 Harsh Mariwala on his book - Harsh RealitiesGUEST
Harsh Mariwala is Founder and Chairman of Marico, an FMCG giant well known for brands like Parachute and Saffola. He has recently Co-Authored the book - Harsh Realities (Published by Penguin Random House) along with Management Guru, Ram Charan. The book is a story of how Harsh broke away from the shackles of family-run Bombay Oil Industries Ltd, which was a commodities business to set up a professionally run Marico including all the trials and tribulations along the way.
Some of the themes we covered included how he tactfully separated from his family business, how h...
2021-11-281h 11
Play to Potential Podcast82.00 Sukhinder Sing Cassidy on her book - Choosing Possibility - How to master risk and thriveGUESTSukhinder Singh Cassidy is one of Google’s and Silicon Valley’s most respected leaders. She has worked at various tech and media companies including Google, Amazon, NewsCorp, Yodle and Polyvore. At one stage she was heading Latin America and Asia Pacific in Google in 2008. She is credited with building Google’s presence across 103 countries in LATAM and APAC.She has recently authored the book – Choosing Possibility where she speaks about embracing micro-risks as a process to unlock growth and professional fulfilment. Some of the themes we spoke about included the notion of the myth of a sin...
2021-11-101h 04
Play to Potential Podcast81.00 Lloyd Reeb on Half-Time: Transitioning from a life of Success to SignificanceGUESTLloyd Reeb is a successful real estate developer and owner of retirement housing who made a mid-life transition, looking for greater meaning, joy and impact in his second half. He has had the privilege of investing 20 years helping leaders plan their second half. He helped launch the Halftime Institute, a global team that teach, coach and connect successful men and women in pursuit of significance. Lloyd has taken the Halftime message around the world: speaking, teaching and coaching individuals through the journey.In our conversation we spoke about a range of themes including being a...
2021-10-251h 24
Play to Potential Podcast80.00 Harish Bhat on his journey, the Tata Group, Leadership, Social Impact and moreGUEST
Harish Bhat is the Brand Custodian of Tata Sons. He has had a ~35 year career at the Tata Group and has held several leadership roles including COO - Watches and Accessories Business at Titan, MD & CEO of Tata Consumer Products, Chairman of the Board at Tata Coffee Limited and more.
He is the Author of four books. "#Tata Stories", 40 timeless tales to inspire you. "An extreme love of coffee", an exciting novel about coffee and magic. "Tata Log", inspiring stories from the contemporary history of the Tata Group. "The Curious Marketer", a free-flowing exploration of c...
2021-10-151h 25
Play to Potential Podcast79.00 Katy Milkman on her book - How to Change - science of getting from where you are to where you want to beGUESTKaty Milkman is the James G. Dinan Professor at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and holds a secondary appointment at Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine. Her research explores ways that insights from economics and psychology can be harnessed to change consequential behaviors for good, such as savings, exercise, vaccination take-up and discrimination. She has also recently authored the Book - How to Change - The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be. In 2018, she began hosting Charles Schwab’s popular podcast “Choiceology with Katy Milkman”, which exp...
2021-09-231h 15
Play to Potential Podcast78.00 Amy Edmondson on Psychological Safety and LeadershipGUEST
Amy C. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School.
Amy has been recognized by the biannual Thinkers50 global ranking of management thinkers since 2011, and most recently was ranked #3 in 2019. She studies teaming, psychological safety, and organizational learning, and her articles have been published numerous academic and management outlets Her most recent book, The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation and Growth (Wiley, 2019), offers a practical guide for organizations serious about success in the modern economy.
She has been studying Psychological Safety fo...
2021-09-021h 14
Techonomics#16 Software & Silicon ValleyRahul Iyer leads engineering for Stripe's Terminal product. He also previously led production platform engineering at Airbnb, managed multiple engineering teams at Facebook, and has had stints at other startups in between.
In our 16th episode, Rahul sat down with Arun and me to talk about his journey in engineering, a recent history of building software at companies like Facebook, and his thoughts on the intersection of tech and economics in Silicon Valley. We also touch on topics in previous episodes as he both challenges and builds on some of the ideas from Arun and me.
2021-08-251h 01
Play to Potential Podcast77.00 Darleen DeRosa on her book - Leading at a distance - Lessons on Virtual LeadershipGUESTOver the last year and a quarter, since March 2020, a lot of us have been thrown into this work from anywhere world without any prior preparation. It is like being thrown into the deep end of a swimming pool without any prior training. We have had to figure out our own response to the evolving situation. While there has been no shortage of wisdom and webinars, I have been looking for a research backed view to learn from. In that context, I am excited to bring the next conversation with Darleen DeRosa (Consultant at SpencerStuart's Stamford office...
2021-08-121h 26
Best in Class with Harish NarayananArun Iyer on creativity, brand building, starting up, storytelling [#8]Please meet Arun Iyer (Linkedin). Arun was the National Creative Director of Lowe Lintas (best known for his "Daag ache hain" campaign for Surf Excel) and is now a founding partner at Spring Marketing Capital, where he helps build startup brands and also invests in them. He is one of India's top creative and visual storytelling minds, and in this episode we dive deep into his career journey, his thought process, the experience of starting up et al.
If you like this conversation, don't forget to subscribe, and please rate the podcast on Google podcasts, Apple, Spotify o...
2021-07-2548 min
Play to Potential Podcast76.00 Tom Vanderbilt on his book - Beginners: Embracing challenges and the joy of learning at any ageGUEST
For many of us, the last time we learned a new skill was during childhood. We live in an age which reveres expertise but looks down on the beginner. Upon entering adulthood and middle age, we begin to shy away from trying new things, instead preferring to stay nestled firmly in our comfort zones.
Beginners asks the question: why are children the only ones allowed to experience the inherent fun of facing daily challenges? And could we benefit from embracing new skills, even if we're initially hopeless? Bestselling author Tom Vanderbilt sets out to find...
2021-07-081h 33
Play to Potential Podcast75.00 Dan Cable on Unlocking Our Best Self: Reflections through Life's HighlightsGUEST
Dan Cable is Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School. Dan’s research and teaching focus on employee engagement, change, organizational culture, leadership mindset, and the linkage between brands and employee behaviors. Dan was selected for the 2018 Thinkers50 Radar List, The Academy of Management has twice honored Dan with “Best article” awards, and The Academy of Management Perspectives ranked Dan in the “Top 25 most influential management scholars.”
In our conversation, we spoke about his journey including a cancer diagnosis which led him to examine his life and make pivotal choices. We go deep into his book “...
2021-06-251h 22
Play to Potential Podcast74.00 Sally Helgesen on her book - How Women RiseGUESTSally Helgesen, cited in Forbes as the world’s premier expert on women’s leadership, is an internationally best-selling author, speaker and leadership coach.Sally’s most recent book, How Women Rise, co-authored with Marshall Goldsmith, examines the behaviors most likely to get in the way of successful women. It became the top-seller in its field within a week of publication and rights have been sold in 15 languages.Previous books include The Female Advantage: Women’s Ways of Leadership, hailed as the classic in its field and continuously in print since 1990, and The Female V...
2021-05-261h 34
CTQ SmartcastHow Should Business Analysts and Consultants Think About Future Relevance, with Arun IyerArun Iyer is Executive Vice President, Hexanika and a published author. He is a Business and IT leader with 22+ years of experience in the Banking and Financial Services industry.
In this Smartcast with CTQ co-founder BV Harish Kumar, we talk to him about how consultants and business analysts can think about future relevance, changing the mindset while working in startups vs big companies, and the role of being well-read, curious in such industries.
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2021-05-241h 41
Raag GiriDhrupad Vocalist Pandit Uday Bhawalkar Interview Indian Classical Music#dhrupad #udaybhawalkar #indianclassicalmusic Watch an Indian classical vocalist Pandit Uday Bhawalkar interview. He is an exponent of dhrupad gayaki. Visit our webssite - www.raaggiri.com 👉 What is Dhrupad Gayaki - Its name is derived from dhruva-pada, simply meaning "refrain". The oldest form of Indian classical music that exists today is Dhrupad. Dhrupad music traditionally has three major parts - alap, jor-jhala, and composition. Dhrupad composition, usually is set in chau taal, sul taal, triva taal or dhamar. 👌 Profile of Uday Bhawalkar ------- Uday Bhawalkar was born in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh. He started learning clas...
2021-05-2438 min
Play to Potential Podcast73.00 Dr. Jennifer Goldman Wetzler on embracing Healthy Conflict and finding our styleGUESTDr. Jennifer (Jen) Goldman Wetzler is a leading expert on Conflict and Organizational psychology. For two decades, she has advised senior leaders at global corporations in a wide range of industries as well as at large non-profit and governmental institutions. She is the author of Optimal Outcomes - Free yourself from conflict at Work, at Home and in life. Earlier in her career, she was Director of Negotiation Programs at Mediation Works Incorporated, and a facilitator at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. A former counterterrorism research fellow with the U.S. Department of Homeland S...
2021-05-071h 17
Grit & GrowthEarly-Stage FinancingMeet Arun Iyer, CEO of Alpha Direct Insurance Company, and Zach George, general partner at Launch Africa Ventures, and learn what it takes to transition your funding from friends and family to angel investors and venture capital.Like most entrepreneurs, Arun relied on friends and family to get his Botswana-based insurtech company off the ground. But bringing insurance to the masses — both within Botswana and across the region — required more substantial sums. And thinking small was preventing him from making it big.“I believed that only these three people would finance my business. Today, I'm raisin...
2021-04-2037 min
Play to Potential Podcast72.00 Bill Carr on the Amazonian WayGUEST
Bill Carr is the Co-Author (along with Colin Bryar) of the recently published book Working Backwards - Insights, Stories and Secrets from Inside Amazon.
In Working Backwards, these two long-serving Amazon executives reveal and codify the principles and practices that drive the success of one of the most extraordinary companies the world has ever known. With twenty-seven years of Amazon experience between them, much of it in the early 2000s―a period of unmatched innovation that brought products and services including Kindle, Amazon Prime, Amazon Studios, and Amazon Web Services to life. The book offers unp...
2021-04-021h 29
MOGOBE NUGGETS OF WISDOMNuggets on Building Scaleable Businesses with Arun Iyer (EP-77)Speaking, Serial Entrepreneurship centered around Real Estate. That is what we are all about!
2021-03-1456 min
Play to Potential Podcast71.00 Sanjeev and Hari on their book: From Pony to UnicornGUEST
Sanjeev Aggarwal and Hari TN have seen the "scale-up movie” in different contexts. Sanjeev was the Founder CEO of Daksh that he eventually sold to IBM. He is now an investor at Helion Ventures and Fundamentum Partnership. The have recently co-authored the book - From Pony to Unicorn - Scaling a Start-up sustainably. From Pony to Unicorn lucidly describes the X-to-10X journey that every start-up aspiring to become a unicorn has to go through. The book effortlessly narrates the fundamental principles behind scaling. Peppered with anecdotes, insights and practical wisdom, the book is a treasure trove of...
2021-03-111h 15
Play to Potential Podcast70.00 Bruce Feiler on his book - Life is in the TransitionsGUEST
Bruce Feiler is an American writer and television personality. He is the author of 15 books, including Council of Dads, a book that describes how he responded to a diagnosis of a rare cancer by asking a group of men to be present in the lives of his young daughters. His latest work explores the power of life stories. Drawing on interviews with Americans in all 50 states, he offers strategies for coping with life's unsettling times in his new book, Life Is In The Transitions, published in May 2020. Informed by the sifting and coding of life story interviews...
2021-02-181h 22
Play to Potential Podcast69.00 Ramesh Srinivasan on dealing with Lifequakes and LeadershipGUESTRamesh is a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company, and a leader in the Pharmaceutical and Organization practices. He is the Global Dean of the Bower Forum, McKinsey's program for CEO learning. He is a member of McKinsey's Global Social Responsibility Council, and sits on a few non-profit Boards in the Education sector in India. He also has been through the unimaginable trauma of losing two young children to cancer. I was keen to speak to him to get his perspectives on leadership given his experiences at McKinsey and how we can all deal with lifequakes when they...
2021-02-031h 15
The VCpreneur: Startups | Venture Capital | Entrepreneurship | FundraisingEP#28 Raja Ganapathy – The ‘skin-in-the-game’ marketing model, partnering with founder-led companies & building a strong VC brandIn this episode, Raja Ganapathy, Founding Partner @Spring Marketing Capital, joins our host Digjay, to talk about his background and path to venture capital, the gap in the marketing ecosystem and how Spring Marketing Capital aims to plug that using their skin-in-the-game model, importance of articulating the founder’s vision & how it impacts product roadmap, the brand as well as the culture of a startup, his experience working as a CMO at Sequoia India & how new age VC firms can build a strong brand to attract founders.
Raja has worked with founders for most of his working li...
2021-01-3146 min
Play to Potential Podcast68.00 Tenzin Priyadarshi on his book - Running toward mystery - a life of leaning into the unknownGUEST
Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi is the president and CEO of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 2020, Priyadarshi released his book "Running Toward Mystery: The Adventure of an Unconventional Life”. In the book, he speaks about his walking away from his school at the age of 10 based on some dreams he had been having from the age of 6. He speaks about the various twists and turns in his journey that has now brought him to MIT.
In 2009, Priyadarshi founded the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Tra...
2021-01-161h 24
Play to Potential Podcast67.00 Ashley Whillans on her book - Time Smart - How to reclaim your time and live a happier lifeGUEST
Dr. Ashley Whillans is the Volpert Family Associate Professor at the Harvard Business School. Professor Whillans earned her PhD in Social Psychology from the University of British Columbia. Her research seeks to understand the associations between time, money, and subjective wellbeing. She is particularly interested in understanding how individual, organizational and societal factors like gender, workplace policies, and income inequality predict how people value and spend time and money, with possible implications for well-being.
Published in December 2020
HOST
Deepak Jayaraman, the host of this podcast series, works with Leaders and Organizations...
2020-12-211h 31
Play to Potential PodcastEP2.00 Vinay Sitapati on the Jugalbandi between LK Advani and AB Vajpayee and lessons in LeadershipGUESTVinay Sitapati returns to the Play to Potential Podcast on the back of his recently published book - Jugalbandi - The BJP before Modi. The book begins with the creation of Hindu nationalism as a response to British-induced elections in the 1920s and moves on to the formation of the BJP in 1980 and ends with its first national government, from 1998 to 2004. The book also traces the entangled lives of its founding leaders Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Lal Krishna Advani. Vinay digs into various moments to really understand what made their six decade relationship tick. He t...
2020-12-081h 21
Play to Potential Podcast65.00 Ashish Dhawan on transitioning from Private Equity to Social Impact and Leadership in the Social SectorGUESTAshish Dhawan is the Founder and Chairman of Central Square Foundation (CSF) and Ashoka University. He worked for twenty years in the investment management business and ran one of India’s leading private equity funds, ChrysCapital. In June 2012, he left his full time role at ChrysCapital to focus on philanthropic work in education. Ashish is an MBA with distinction from Harvard University and a dual bachelor’s (BS/BA) holder with Magna Cum Laude honors from Yale University. Central Square Foundation works on system reform in school education in India. The foundation has 60 team members who work on g...
2020-11-101h 35
Play to Potential Podcast64.00 Marshall Goldsmith - A masterclass on Executive CoachingGUESTMarshall Goldsmith helps successful people achieve positive, lasting change in behavior; for themselves, their people, and their teams. He has four decades of experience of helping top CEOs and executives overcome limiting beliefs and behaviours to achieve greater success. He has received several accolades over the years. Thinkers 50 ranked him as World's most influential leadership thinker (2015 and 2011), top ten business thinker, top rated executive coach (2015, 2013, and 2011).In our conversation, we spoke about staying relevant over the long term, ROI in Coaching, the path to excellence, getting behaviours to stick, the art of asking good questions...
2020-10-301h 01
Play to Potential Podcast63.00 Venkat Krishnan on Philanthropy and GivingGUEST
Venkat is the Founder of GiveIndia, a platform that strives to bridge the gap between two sets of people - People who want to give, who want to try and make a difference along with those that are doing phenomenal work but don’t know how to reach out to the people that want to support them.
GiveIndia was born on April 28, 2000 out of the belief that equal opportunity is the cornerstone of civilization. All human beings must have the same opportunity to succeed in life, irrespective of the circumstances they were born into.However, thi...
2020-10-032h 19
Play to Potential Podcast62.00 Whitney Johnson on Disrupt Yourself: Applying Clay Christiansen's model of Disruptive Innovation to our career paths.GUEST
Whitney Johnson is the CEO of WLJ Advisors and one of the 50 leading business thinkers in the world as named by Thinkers50. She is an expert on helping high-growth organizations develop high-growth individuals. Whitney is an award-winning author, world-class keynote speaker, frequent lecturer for Harvard Business School's Corporate Learning and an executive coach and advisor to CEOs. She is a popular contributor to the Harvard Business Review and her course on Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship has been viewed more than 1 million times. In 2019, she was ranked #3 on the Global Gurus' Top 30 Organizational Culture Professionals. In 2017, she was selected...
2020-09-081h 07
Play to Potential Podcast61.00 Atul Khatri on how he transitioned from an IT Business to becoming a successful Stand-Up comedianGUEST
Atul Khatri is one of the top Stand up comedians in the country. In his previous avatar, he used to run a successful IT Business with his brother for several years. When he got tired of the business routine, he tried his hand at DJing and Bar-tending before trying his hand at comedy in Feb 2012 as part of his new year resolution in 2012. 7 years later, he had a Netflix special featuring 47 comedians from 13 countries around the world.
We speak about his journey, mid-life reflections and how he rode two horses (IT Business and Stand up c...
2020-08-151h 56
Play to Potential Podcast60.00 Andrew Likierman on mastering the elusive art of JudgmentGUESTSir Andrew Likierman is the former Dean of the London Business School. He has been researching the topic of Judgment for several years. He is the senior National Independent Director of Times Newspapers Ltd and an NED of listed insurance company Beazley Group and of Monument Bank. His former Non Executive roles have included Bank of England and Barclays Bank Plc. We initially spoke about his journey through life and his various choices including his arc of curiosity around measuring things that are hard to measure that eventually led him to studying Judgment. His thinking ha...
2020-07-311h 26
Play to Potential Podcast59.00 R Gopalakrishnan - Insights on CEO Transitions from his book CrashGUESTR Gopalakrishnan is a man of many identities. A Board Member, an author, an advisor, speaker and a teacher. Apart from having an illustrious career in Hindustan Lever and Tata Sons, he has been on several Boards over the last few decades. He has authored 12 books since 2007 (that is a run rate of about a book a year if you think about it). He spends his time on Boards, as a Mentor and as a Corporate Advisor, as a speaker and as a Teacher. He is an Executive in Residence at SP Jain and a Distinguished Professor...
2020-06-251h 22
Play to Potential Podcast58.00 BJ Fogg on his book Tiny HabitsGUEST
BJ Fogg is a behaviour scientist with deep experience in innovation and teaching. At Stanford University, he runs the Behaviour Design Lab (earlier called Persuasive Tech lab). He spends about 50% of his time to Stanford and 50% to industry innovation. On the industry side, he trains innovators to use his work so that they can create solutions that influence behaviour (focus areas include health, financial wellbeing, learning, productivity and more).
He is the author of the recently published book - Tiny Habits. In this book, he breaks down his model for human behaviour that he has developed based o...
2020-06-131h 15
Play to Potential Podcast57.00 Jennifer Garvey Berger on Unlocking Leadership MindtrapsGUESTJennifer believes that leadership is one of the most vital renewable resources in the world. This might be more true than ever as organizations across sectors and around the world are facing an unprecedented amount of volatility and change. Jennifer designs and teaches leadership programs, coaches senior teams, and supports new ways of thinking about strategy and people with clients facing these dramatic shifts in complexity, volatility, and change in their workplaces and markets. She blends deep theoretical knowledge with a driving quest for practical ways to make leaders’ lives better. Jennifer also supports leaders one-on-one as...
2020-05-311h 26
Play to Potential Podcast56.00 Raj Raghunathan on The pursuit of happiness: Insights on prioritizing happiness in lifeGUEST
Raj Raghunathan is a professor of Marketing at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin, where he relies on themes from psychology, behaviorial science, decision theory and marketing to explain consumption behaviour. He also studies the impact that people’s judgments and decisions have on their own happiness and fulfilment.
Based on his research, he teaches a very successful online course on Coursera on Happiness (named A Life of Happiness And Fulfillment). His book (titled, If you’re so smart, why aren’t you happy?) was released in the US, UK, an...
2020-05-081h 42
Play to Potential Podcast55.00 Matthew Walker on Sleep - The Swiss Knife of health and wellbeingGUEST
Matthew Paul Walker is a British scientist and Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of the book - Why We Sleep (NY Times Bestseller, #1 Sunday Times Best seller). Previously, he was a professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. His research focuses on the impact of sleep on human health and disease. He has published more than 100 scientific studies and is the founder and Director of the Center for Human Sleep Science.
A lot of us grow up with the narrative of sleep being a residual f...
2020-03-061h 16
Play to Potential Podcast54.00 Jennifer Petriglieri on her book - Couples That Work: Making dual careers workGUEST
Jennifer Petriglieri is an Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD and the author of Couples That Work, a book on how dual-career couples can thrive in love and in work.
Her award-winning research and teaching focus on identity, leadership, and career development. She is particularly interested in how people’s close relationships shape who they become professionally and personally, and how moments of uncertainty and crisis make us who we are.
She was named one of the world’s best 40 business school professors under 40 by Poets & Quants. Her research has appeared in the...
2020-02-141h 28
Play to Potential Podcast53.00 Lynda Gratton on the implications of a 100 year life on Career, Health and ChoicesGUEST
Lynda Gratton is a Professor of Management Practice at London Business School and is one of the World’s foremost thinkers at the intersection of leadership, the world of work and careers.
Over the last 20 years Lynda has written extensively about the interface between people and organisations. Her eight books cover the link between business and HR strategy (Living Strategy), the new ways of working (The Democratic Enterprise), the rise of complex collaboration (Hot Spots and Glow) and the impact of a changing world on employment and work (The Shift). Her last book (100 year life) tha...
2020-01-291h 11
Play to Potential Podcast52.00 James Clear on his book - Atomic HabitsGUESTJames Clear is the Author of the book - Atomic Habits that has sold more than 1 Million Copies globally. He is the creator of The Habits Academy and runs the website jamesclear.com where he writes about habits and human potential. The central question he is trying to answer through his work is “How can we live better”. He has a weekly newsletter where he shares some of his ideas and this goes out to more than Half a Million subscribers who benefit from his thinking. To subscribe to his newsletter, you could just got to Jamesclear.com...
2019-12-3058 min
Horns UpEpisode Forty-One | Breakdown | Devoid's Drop Dead GorgeousHorns Up presents a new format where the music takes center stage. Presenting Breakdown, a deep dive into a piece of music, and an attempt to appreciate and understand the musicians behind it.The first track under the scanner is "Drop Dead Gorgeous" by Mumbai metal act Devoid. The song is a "A skewering look at our social reality, in this case, virtuality." Vocalist/guitarist Arun Iyer joins Animesh and Peter to break down the track and talks about Devoid's comeback. Listen to "Drop Dead Gorgeous" - https://devoidindia.bandcamp.com/track/drop-dead-gorgeous
2019-11-2946 min
Coleção de Autoras em Português by VARIOUS435: 40.00 Stewart Friedman - The full conversationGUEST
Stewart D. Friedman is a professor at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and the founding director of the Wharton Leadership Program and Wharton’s Work/Life Integration Project. He has been on the Wharton faculty since 1984 and became the Management Department's first Practice Professor in recognition of his work within the fields of Leadership Development, Human Resources and Work–Life Integration on the application theory and research on the real challenges facing organizations.
In our conversation, we spoke about how Dr. Friedman thinks about 4 domains - Self, Work, Home and Community and how we can...
2019-02-131h 03Coleção de Autoras em Português by VARIOUS434: 40.01 Stewart Friedman - 4 porous domains – Self, Work, Home & CommunityNUGGET CONTEXT
Stew talks about the building blocks of his Total Leadership Model that he has developed at the Wharton Work Life Integration Project. Of the four domains (Self, Work, Home and Community), he expands on what he means by Self and Community as those two are often the least understood by leaders around the world.
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Stewart D. Friedman is a professor at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and the founding director of the Wharton Leadership Program and Wharton’s Work/Life Integration Project. He has been on the Wharton faculty since 1984 and became th...
2019-02-1306 minColeção de Autoras em Português by VARIOUS433: 40.02 Stewart Friedman - Positive spillovers across domainsNUGGET CONTEXT
Stew talks about notion of positive spill overs across the 4 domains (Self, Work, Home, Community) and describes why finding harmony across domains is a more sustainable than looking at them as trade-offs. He expands on the notion of positive spillovers across domains and specifically talks about some of the elements which are often underappreciated by leaders. He introduces the notion of a four way win where we can look at trying experiments to achieve wins in all 4 domains of life.
GUEST
Stewart D. Friedman is a professor at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania...
2019-02-1311 minColeção de Autoras em Português by VARIOUS432: 40.03 Stewart Friedman - Role of Authenticity, Integrity & CreativityNUGGET CONTEXT
Stew speaks about the role of authenticity (being real by clarifying what is important), integrity (having a clear view of who you are as an entire person and being clear about roles towards and expectations from stakeholders) and creativity (being innovating in crafting experiments to deliver four way wins). He specifically speaks about how some stakeholders expect less and are willing to support more than you think.
GUEST
Stewart D. Friedman is a professor at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and the founding director of the Wharton Leadership Program and Wharton’s Work/Li...
2019-02-1306 minColeção de Autoras em Português by VARIOUS431: 40.04 Stewart Friedman - Tradeoffs by stage - Post B-school, Mid life, End CareerNUGGET CONTEXT
Stew speaks about how the nature of the issues people grapple with varies depending on the stage of their journey. He specifically speaks about 3 points of people. 1) Point of graduation from Business School 2) Mid-life (about 15 odd years after graduation) 3) Retirement. For a longer piece around Navigating Mid-life, please see bit.ly/NavigatingMidLife
GUEST
Stewart D. Friedman is a professor at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and the founding director of the Wharton Leadership Program and Wharton’s Work/Life Integration Project. He has been on the Wharton faculty since 1984 and became the Management De...
2019-02-1307 minColeção de Autoras em Português by VARIOUS430: 40.05 Stewart Friedman - Technology and psychological interferenceNUGGET CONTEXT
Stew speaks about what has stayed the same and what has changed significantly in his thinking around work life integration. He talks about the ubiquity of technological devices that now surround us and speaks about the need for all of us to build psychological tools to benefit from the technological advancements without incurring the cost that often comes hand in hand with such developments.
GUEST
Stewart D. Friedman is a professor at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and the founding director of the Wharton Leadership Program and Wharton’s Work/Life Integration Project. He...
2019-02-1307 minColeção de Autoras em Português by VARIOUS429: 40.06 Stewart Friedman - Managing stakeholder expectationsNUGGET CONTEXT
Stew speaks about the criticality of unearthing what the stakeholders really want and solving for it. He suggests that we should go past what they state as positions and unearth their real expectations while having these conversations. He also speaks about the criticality of caring for self before caring for others. He compares this to a change management initiative and suggests that one needs to be artfully political while driving changes through the system. GUEST
Stewart D. Friedman is a professor at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and the founding director of the...
2019-02-1308 minColeção de Autoras em Português by VARIOUS428: 40.07 Stewart Friedman - Role of a coach in Work-life integrationNUGGET CONTEXT
Stew speaks about the role of two types of coaches in such journeys. Firstly, he speaks about the value of peer to peer coaching networks where you are compassionate, curious, caring and candid with each other and learn/help each of the members of the group move forward. He also speaks about the role of professional coaches in providing another perspective and in holding you accountable
GUEST
Stewart D. Friedman is a professor at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and the founding director of the Wharton Leadership Program and Wharton’s Work/Life In...
2019-02-1305 minColeção de Autoras em Português by VARIOUS427: 40.08 Stewart Friedman - Flex the current context or rebootNUGGET CONTEXT
Stew speaks about how we should try and stretch the boundaries of our current context before we start thinking about drastic solutions including changing jobs. He speaks about the notion of the Theory of small wins that underpins that Total Leadership approach and also refers to the work of Herminia Ibarra – Author of the book Working Identity.
GUEST
Stewart D. Friedman is a professor at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and the founding director of the Wharton Leadership Program and Wharton’s Work/Life Integration Project. He has been on the Wharton faculty sinc...
2019-02-1305 minColeção de Autoras em Português by VARIOUS375: 34.01 Arun Maira - Art of asking good questionsNUGGET CONTEXT
Arun talks about how we could potentially move from understanding the data that somebody presents to us to going deeper in our understanding around why that data is important to the other person and how their experiences have led them to value what they value. He suggests that moving from the What to the Why and the How enables us to get to the next level of insight and intimacy with another person, especially if they are unlike us.
GUEST
Arun Maira is a former member of the Planning Commission of India and former Chairman of BCG India...
2018-09-1905 minColeção de Autoras em Português by VARIOUS376: 34.00 Arun Maira - The full conversationGUEST
Arun Maira is a former member of the Planning Commission of India and former Chairman of BCG India. He had a distinguished career in Tata Motors (then called TELCO) and rose to be on the Board of the company. He then had to relocate to the US due to a personal situation and had to reinvent himself at 45. He has written several books, the most recent one being “Listening for well-being: Conversations with people not like us”.
In our conversation, we discuss some of his key transitions post Tata Motors to the world of Advisory Services. We talk about how...
2018-09-191h 01
Play to Potential Podcast34.00 Arun Maira - Career Transitions and Insights on ListeningGUEST
Arun Maira is a former member of the Planning Commission of India and former Chairman of BCG India. He had a distinguished career in Tata Motors (then called TELCO) and rose to be on the Board of the company. He then had to relocate to the US due to a personal situation and had to reinvent himself at 45. He has written several books, the most recent one being “Listening for well-being: Conversations with people not like us”.
In our conversation, we discuss some of his key transitions post Tata Motors to the world of Advisory Serv...
2018-09-191h 01Coleção de Autoras em Português by VARIOUS364: 34.12 Arun Maira - In Summary - Playing to PotentialNUGGET CONTEXT
Arun talks about how it is easy to get lost in the here and now and the buzz of the day to day that we sometimes might forget where we are headed. He likens it to Spanish tiki-taka where there is a lot of graceful ball-passing going on but sometimes the ball doesn’t get to the goal enough (something that commentators about the Spanish team in 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia). He urges us to spend time reflecting on what we deeply care about and take our first steps towards that.
GUEST
Arun Maira is a former me...
2018-09-1906 minColeção de Autoras em Português by VARIOUS365: 34.11 Arun Maira - Leadership in an open systemNUGGET CONTEXT
Arun talks about his perspectives on Leading in an Open System where you do not have money, authority or power to wield as a source of influence. As we move towards a world where more and more value is being added by an ecosystem of players around a corporation (rather than value chains residing fully inside the company), how CEOs of today navigate this shift and create the right culture in the organization is critical.
GUEST
Arun Maira is a former member of the Planning Commission of India and former Chairman of BCG India. He had a distinguished...
2018-09-1911 minColeção de Autoras em Português by VARIOUS366: 34.10 Arun Maira - Transitioning across contextsNUGGET CONTEXT
Arun talks about how one can listen to build credibility in a new context, especially if you are in a situation where you feel you do not have the capabilities on Day 0. He talks about how he learnt from Sumant Moolgaokar by watching him interact with people across hierarchies including how he would engage with the gardener. He shares that it is critical that we move from a “I will teach” to a “I will learn” mindset when you move to a new context.
GUEST
Arun Maira is a former member of the Planning Commission of India and former C...
2018-09-1907 minColeção de Autoras em Português by VARIOUS367: 34.09 Arun Maira - Reinventing oneself at 45NUGGET CONTEXT
Arun talks about how he was a cross-roads when he had to move from a successful stint as an executive in Tata Motors to a role as a consultant with Arthur D Little in the United States. He talks about the circumstances in which he took the decision (including a nudge from JRD Tata) and how he had to adjust his style to be effective in a new professional and cultural context. It is not very often that you see a leader transition from being a Business Leader to a Business Consultant.
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Arun Maira is a former...
2018-09-1912 minColeção de Autoras em Português by VARIOUS368: 34.08 Arun Maira - Being heard in a noisier worldNUGGET CONTEXT
Arun talks about the downsides of being a good listener and says that sometimes, it might be harder for people to notice you given the noise around them. He also goes on to talk about how sometimes, we embark on a path of making some noise (through marketing, branding etc.) to be heard but he says that sometimes that path changes who we are in the process and by the time we get to the point where we are being heard, we may not be the same listeners any more that we were when we started out. He...
2018-09-1904 minColeção de Autoras em Português by VARIOUS369: 34.07 Arun Maira - Listening & "Thinking fast and slow"NUGGET CONTEXT
Arun talks how we might not be feeding our “thinking slow” part of the brain enough (using the phrase made popular by Nobel Prize winning Economist - Daniel Kahneman). He talks about how people now have greater reach in connections but with often diminishing levels of richness. He quotes some recent studies where brains of children have shown to be influenced by this and how this is impacting several areas including how we feel about ourselves, our attitudes and empathy. He re-emphasizes the power of having reading as a habit to further build the muscle of “Thinking Slow”.
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Ar...
2018-09-1906 minColeção de Autoras em Português by VARIOUS370: 34.06 Arun Maira - Judgment and valuesNUGGET CONTEXT
Arun talks about how values play an important role in how we build a sense of judgment on situations. He specifically presents the opposing perspectives of two views. 1) Utilitarian view 2) Individual rights view. He goes on to talk about the importance of tailoring our approach to the specific context rather than being binary about it.
GUEST
Arun Maira is a former member of the Planning Commission of India and former Chairman of BCG India. He had a distinguished career in Tata Motors (then called TELCO) and rose to be on the Board of the company. He then had...
2018-09-1905 minColeção de Autoras em Português by VARIOUS371: 34.05 Arun Maira - The art of facilitationNUGGET CONTEXT
Arun talks about how one must be clear about how one should think about structuring a meeting/conversation. He also suggests different formats depending on different depths to which we wish to go in the conversation. He makes the distinction between discussion, debate, deliberation and dialogue and urges us to be clear about what to use when.
GUEST
Arun Maira is a former member of the Planning Commission of India and former Chairman of BCG India. He had a distinguished career in Tata Motors (then called TELCO) and rose to be on the Board of the company. He...
2018-09-1906 minColeção de Autoras em Português by VARIOUS372: 34.04 Arun Maira - Having deep conversations at scaleNUGGET CONTEXT
Arun talks about how the depth of insight and intimacy gets compromised when we start having conversations across a large number of people. However, he shares his insights around how we could still make such conversations enriching by moving from the layer of data to the layer of how people form their opinions on the data.
GUEST
Arun Maira is a former member of the Planning Commission of India and former Chairman of BCG India. He had a distinguished career in Tata Motors (then called TELCO) and rose to be on the Board of the company. He then...
2018-09-1904 minColeção de Autoras em Português by VARIOUS373: 34.03 Arun Maira - Giving feedback by listeningNUGGET CONTEXT
Arun talks about insights from Dalai Lama (who also wrote the foreword for his book) who says that Listening is the first wisdom tool and it is a pre-requisite for reflection, compassion and self-knowledge. Arun discusses why it is important to create a space for the feedback to land on the other side and listening is the path to creating that space.
GUEST
Arun Maira is a former member of the Planning Commission of India and former Chairman of BCG India. He had a distinguished career in Tata Motors (then called TELCO) and rose to be on the...
2018-09-1905 minColeção de Autoras em Português by VARIOUS374: 34.02 Arun Maira - Steering by listeningNUGGET CONTEXT
Arun discusses his definition of a leader – “she or he who takes the first steps towards something that she or he deeply cares about and in ways that others wish to follow”. He talks about the criticality of listening to what other people care about as a key element of building engagement and followership.
GUEST
Arun Maira is a former member of the Planning Commission of India and former Chairman of BCG India. He had a distinguished career in Tata Motors (then called TELCO) and rose to be on the Board of the company. He then had to reloca...
2018-09-1904 min