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Building Critical Thinking Muscle: An L&D Mandate
Last week, I was invited as a guest on PeopleMatters #TChat (Twitter chat) on the topic of developing critical thinking muscle within the organization and the role of learning and development. I was joined by Mahalaxmi R who is the CLO & Global Head Talent at Airtel and Rajesh Lele. It was fun contributing and […]
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Lessons from 9 Years of Blogging
QAspire blog completes 9 years this month and here is how I feel at the moment.They say and I agree that time flies when you are having fun. 2006 was a year when I had just transitioned into my first leadership role. Every single day and interaction with others was turning out to be a […]
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Fluid Learning
“The tools of the mind become burdens when the environment which made them necessary no longer exists.” – Henry Bergson When solving problems, we love standard solutions and tools. What worked for us in the past becomes our tool to solve problems in the future. A psychologist named Raymond Cattell termed this as “crystallized intelligence” […]
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Specialization is a Journey, Not a Destination
I recently read this amazing quote from Robert A Heinlein which nicely captures the essence of my own belief about learning and specialization. “A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a […]
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Commitment and Power of Daily Practice
In 2010, one of my goals was to publish on this blog thrice a week – on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. By committing completely to this schedule, I eliminated the self-discretion associated with it. I did not have to think if I should write on a particular day, because I had to show up and […]
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Podcast: Leveraging Social Media for Learning and Leading
I am thankful to Mike Wong of Business Insights Podcast for interviewing me on the topic “Leveraging Social Media for Learning”. Talk about ‘social media’ and people quickly talk about tools like Twitter and Facebook. But like all other ‘tools’, social media tools don’t help much unless they are used for a purpose. In this […]
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3 C’s for Learning and Leading on Social Media
With advent of social media tools, our ways of learning, sharing and leading have undergone a sea change. Blogs, Twitter, Massively Open Online Courses (MooC’s) and a variety of other tools are nicely complementing books and classroom based learning. Social Media is a great platform to learn, share, be a part of learning communities and […]
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#2014in5Words: Opportunities. Change. Learning. Serendipity. Love.
I came across the hash tag #2014in5Words on Twitter and that prompted me to write more about it. It is interesting how 5 discrete words can describe the core themes of a year gone by. On Twitter, I wrote: #2014in5Words Opportunities. Change. Learning. Serendipity. Love. Opportunities. In 2014, I got plenty of opportunities to make […]