Buddha In The Boardroom

Updated : Oct 1, 2014

Mindset Change and Pavlov's Dogs

The Indian pharmaceutical industry came under criticism several times due to the behaviour of their sales people towards doctors.

Listen deeply and compassionately with a quite mind and open heart

Updated : Sep 24, 2014

The art of deep listening steps to personal mastery

The listener in you creates the speaker in the other person. So listen deeply and compassionately with a quite mind and open heart.

Updated : Sep 10, 2014

Personal mastery- Examining your mental models

Mental models are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world. And we all know that the lens we use shapes how we interpret the world.

When OP Bhatt was driving transformation initiative in SBI, he used to hold large group interventions where around 200 people came together in batches for three days to discuss what was important and what actions could lead the bank towards transformation

Updated : Jul 31, 2014

Transforming your organisation with a story in your heart

Most studies suggest that only 30 per cent of organisational transformation initiatives succeed fully. What are some of the elements that could drive a successful transformation Initiative?

Updated : Jul 28, 2014

Leader on the Couch

Narcissus was a young man who saw his image for the first time in a pool of water and fell in love with that image.

Updated : Jul 28, 2014

Developing talent and succession planning

A multinational pharmaceutical company identified ten people as top talent and sent them for a leadership development programme at Harvard three years ago and now six of them have left to take up new roles in other organisations.

Updated : Jul 21, 2014

Winning through diversity and inclusion

Imagine walking into a party and acting like someone who you are not! Once in a while this can be fun but if you do this every day, you will get tired.  But sadly, a large number of people in organisations 'cover' their true identities and demonstrate a different behaviour while at work.

Updated : Jul 21, 2014

Nurturing and developing political leaders

So what specific actions can our government take to make sure our ministers and MPs are equipped to deliver excellence in their roles? The first step is to create a scorecard for the government and ministries against which one could measure their success.

Research over the past 50 years has shown that there is no single 'leader personality' but leaders generally show certain common characteristics.

Updated : Jun 13, 2014

Nurturing and developing political leaders

So what specific actions can our government take to make sure our ministers and MPs are equipped to deliver excellence in their roles?

Updated : Jun 5, 2014

Hire a Coach and create your future

Coaching helps us grow into who we want to become by using our aspirations and key strengths, encouraging habit changes in our daily lives, committing us to action and focusing on the future.

Updated : May 6, 2014

Athena values and the age of consciousness

Leaders usually find themselves in the middle of challenges that pull them in completely opposite directions and get confused about which path to take.

Updated : Apr 29, 2014

The 2020 Leader - Learning from the Future (Part 2)

The pace of change that all of us experience nowadays demands a new mindset and new competencies from the 2020 leader, writes celebrity coach Santhosh Babu.

Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll. Photo: Reuters

Updated : Apr 22, 2014

The Inner Game of Success: An Inside-out approach

Pete Carroll (Head coach of the Seattle Seahawks,earning over Rs. 42 crores annually, and considered one of the top football coaches in America) draws his inspiration from the book "The Inner Game of Tennis" written by Timothy Gallwey.

Updated : Apr 11, 2014

Your Shadow and Your Persona

A major task in acquiring self-knowledge is to understand the relationship between who one is and how one presents oneself to the world.

Updated : Apr 2, 2014

Dance floor to the balcony

Do you focus too much on the task at hand and miss the helicopter view of what you do and what you want to be? Take a step back.

Updated : Apr 1, 2014

'Indian organisations yet to embrace concept of mindfulness in mainstream business'

Santhosh Babu, celebrity coach and speaker on leadership, who facilitates organisational transformations, says Indian organisations have yet to embrace the concept of mindfulness. Some do, however, provide stress management and emotional intelligence workshops for employees.