Tag: leadership

• Planting the Seed of a Growth Mindset

  

  The core of our beliefs rest in two types of mindsets: the fixed mindset and the growth mindset. In this post I will be putting forth some of my learnings on how to nurture the growth mindset. When I say “growth mindset” I mean the conviction that my passions, skills, talents, can be developed further.…

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  20 Feb 2019

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• Building Inclusive Safe Spaces: my brown dream

  

  Two institutions have come under the radar recently for allowing their platform to spout bigotry; both apologized, and in their inner circles professed that the core consensus was to give everyone a forum to vent out their inner feelings. However offensive they might have been they had the “right” to express. Here is my (to…

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  23 Jan 2019

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• My Teaching / Training Philosophy

  

  I wrote this article for Linkedin. Please do share your views on the link provided. —– I believe in building a community of learners in which we value each other’s independent thoughts. The classroom is a safe place where we come to learn from the tutor or trainer, from our textbooks and research papers, from…

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  26 Aug 2018

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• Learning how to THINK: review of Bitasta Roy Mehta’s book Have a THINK

  

  I applaud Bitasta Roy Mehta for hitting the nail directly on the head when it comes to people management, be it in organizational practices or as individual parts of the fabric of society. What am I talking about? A book called Have a THINK. I needed this book at this juncture of my career and…

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  1 Aug 2017

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