I came across this wonderful quote and couldn’t help but share it. Between what I think What I want to say, What I believe I’m saying, What I say, What you want to hear, What you hear, What you believe you understand, What you want to understand, And what you understood, There are at least [...]
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Are you sure?
Posted in Communication, tagged Communication, Misunderstanding on October 28, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Why haven’t you asked “why” lately?
Posted in Communication on March 1, 2005 | 1 Comment »
John Baldoni in his article The Power of Why writes: One of the most powerful words in the English language is why. When asked as an interrogatory, why has the power to change assumptions, preconceptions and mindsets. It has the power to initiate change as well as the power to affirm the right course. It [...]
Mastering Your Stories
Posted in Communication on February 24, 2005 | 1 Comment »
Joseph Grenny, co-author of Crucial Conversations in their Crucial Skills Reminder newsletter writes: One of the best predictors of success in a crucial confrontation is not your skills, but your story. Its a difficult thing to stand apart from the story we tell and look at it dispassionately. But those who have the most control [...]
How to get team members to take action
Posted in Communication, Project Management on November 3, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
This month’s management tip in SD Magazine’ newsletter in by Tim Bacon, an XP (Extreme Programming) coach and a software developer at Thoughtworks. I have been following Tim’s blog for a few weeks now. I like the tips that Tim provides in this newsletter. Rather than simply reacting to the problems that team members bring [...]
Learning Leadership
Posted in Communication on September 9, 2004 | 2 Comments »
[Via SdMagazine] A PDF booklet titled “Notes on the Role of Leadership and Language in Regenerating Organizations”, available exclusively to the registered users of SD Magazine. This book emerged from the conversations between members of Paul Pangaro’s Developer Web Services team at Sun Microsystems and Dr. Michael Geoghegan, who devoted more than 25 years to [...]
Chet on What they don’t teach you at B-schools
Posted in Communication on September 7, 2004 | 2 Comments »
Chaitanya (Chet) Kamat, who heads the India Delivery Center Network of Accenture in India, shares his thoughts on what they don’t teach you at the B schools in an article in today’s Business Standard. I was privileged to attend a 2 day workshop that Chet conducted while I was at Accenture for new Managers in [...]
A Personal Story told exceptionally well
Posted in Communication on August 18, 2004 | 2 Comments »
I have been introduced to the concept of Business and Organizational Storytelling by Rajesh, a few months back. Since then I have been following Steve’s writing on and off and very recently had the chance of picking up Squirell Inc. It still lies on my desk under a pile of to-be-read books. Very recently Rajesh [...]
PowerPoint Checklist
Posted in Communication on June 14, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
Rajesh Jain pointed to this wonderful blog by Cliff Atkinson, who is a leading authority on PowerPoint and Organizational communication. Here is a quick checklist on PowerPoint Presentations: 1. Do your slides contain only words? Show some pictures. 2. Do your slides contain words that you also speak? Stop being redundant. 3. Do your slides [...]
