Am sure we have all come across small trivial activities that we do on a daily basis which radically changes our energy level and improves our productivity levels for the day. We would have woken up with a lower back pain, but a few front stretches and bends makes the pain vanish and you are back at your productive best. Or you leave your home with a small headache in the morning, but by the time you reach your office after your morning drive and your normal office calls in between, the pain has suddenly vanished.

In the last series of articles on converting New Year resolutions into habits we had seen how habits get formed in individuals. As companies and institutions are also made up of groups of people … are they also susceptible to develop habits there as well? I have taken a series of events that have happened

During the last two articles of this series of converting New Year resolutions into Habits I had discussed System 1 and System 2 parts of the brain and what functions each of these influence. Particularly, how little improvements daily leads to compounded benefits in the long run and some of the problems and bottlenecks that

In my last weeks article had covered about System 1 and System 2 of the brain how each influences the way we function and how we form habits. Had stopped with the example of the British cycling team and how very small measures to correct the various process gaps had changed this average team into

Before we get into that let’s understand a bit about the human brain… Like I had written some time ago in my article on Artificial Intelligence the human brain is believed to have evolved once humans learned how to walk upright on their two legs …Walking upright helped humans to do several tasks in a

Am sure all of us remember some incidents in our life as though they have been video recorded in our minds ..Most of these are sometimes not even great incidents in your life but you still remember them.. A few weeks back I was trying to make a personal video for a friend of mine on

Am sure in our everyday lives we come across situations were we feel let down because someone we knew and expected to perform to a particular level didn’t really come upto that level..Is there a way we could really influence the way that they performed..Lets consider the particular case which was done way back in

While I had also watched that fateful night that happened in Mumbai in November 2008 on TV in Chennai where I was posted then… the inspiration to understand to write about it came this year 26/11 when a promotion took place at our offices for the movie “Hotel Mumbai”. We all know what happened at

During the course of my career I have had the good opportunity to work with some excellent bosses who were brilliant in the way they were able to get the best out of their teams by aligning them towards a clear goal or strategy…I was also fortunate to pick up lot of key skills during the