Month: November 2018

I feel blessed to have been exposed to Appreciative Inquiry at the turn of the century and over the past 12 years this philosophy has overshadowed my other propensities. This life-glue has provided a number of opportunities to experience the impact in my personal and professional life. I wish to discuss one profound facet of positive psychology and other strength based approaches (like AI) here. The choice of our words – expressed or otherwise often determines our well-being or otherwise. This has been reaffirmed repeatedly for me as a parent, sibling, and a friend or as a Leadership & Business Coach and Organization Development catalyst. Read full article…

This morning a colleague shared the vision and anxiety of a newly appointed ‘professional’ CEO of a thoroughbred pedigreed family business. This CEO working for a century old trusted business house in India, sought my colleague’s consulting support to unlock employee potential towards increasing market-share of their business. Armed with a vision to grow and keenness to transform the organization, the CEO had only one request ‘support us to cascade my vision through our loyal people; they must change and embrace ‘the new now’, shed their inertia, increase commitment… BUT do make sure that there’s no pain’. Read full article…

The last post http://celebratetheright.blogspot.in/2016/08/the-mother-father-midwife-and-half-born.html which was a metaphor for an existential dharma sankata[1], resulted in quite a few reactions. There were some other interesting visualizations such as “…the baby is afraid to be born through mermaid, for it fears of a form that wouldn’t be beautiful or functional” and someone who was aware of my dilemma quipped “…the baby can choose another womb where it feels safe and give the hell to this mother (for not making it feel safe)…” Read full article…