Ravi Bhuthapuri

The last two years have thrown up in sharp relief for managers everywhere the need to understand mental health, how it affects our employees and what we can do to help. We have learned how fragile mental health is. We have also learned that we did not perhaps have the most effective ways of talking […]

Dear reader, I am starting this post with a simple question to you. What are your blind spots? As leaders, we are constantly told to enhance our self-awareness, to know ourselves. Surely, nothing can be more central to our self-awareness than knowing our own blind spots. Correct? The metaphor, ‘blind spots’, comes to us from

About 18 years ago, when I joined EDS India as a Team Leader, I was asked if I would facilitate the ‘Team Leader Forum’. At that time, there were more than 25 Team Leaders across India who worked for clients in different industries. The TLF’s purpose was to connect all the TLs and provide them

When a friend moved from Chennai to Bangalore last year, his family had to figure out and adjust to a new place – a new apartment society, a new school, new neighbours and new friends. When his teenage son and a few children of his age from the same apartment society decided to go out

(This post by Sridhar Krishnan was originally published in 2013 on the Transcend Talent Transformation Blog.) Nearly 19 billion kilometres and counting. That’s how far NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has travelled from Earth. Launched within a few weeks of each other in 1977, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 have long since travelled past the planets in

Passionate entrepreneurs and business leaders are usually very good at talking about their product, its features, technical specifications and how its performance is better than of others in the market. They become much more effective when they grab and hold their audience’s attention and let them feel an emotional connection with what they are saying.

We know from recent books and articles that surgeries started becoming more and more effective when surgeons discovered the power of simple management and process techniques such as checklists. Peter Pronovost, an anesthesiologist at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, found in a 2006 study that an alarming number of surgical teams were skipping one of

There will inevitably be moments when work will seem like drudgery. There will always be things that we must do in the course of our work-week that do not seem to make sense or add value to our job or even career. Such tasks can include making endless tweaks to a presentation, reviewing a sub-standard

In a Microsoft survey that was rolled out exactly 11 months ago, 40 percent of respondents across the globe said that they may leave their employer at some point during the year. And many did just that. If you are a manager, especially in Technology, this mass exodus has surely affected you. Reasons abound for

In my last post, I wrote about the two types of performance indicators we can define and track. These indicators or KPIs, when defined well, have several benefits. When we write down measurable goals, we are 33% more likely to achieve them; KPIs help us stay accountable to these goals. They are also an effective