“Beauty magazines promote low self-esteem” - Lyrics from Savage Garden song Affirmation So do many* autobiographies. Recently a friend told me that she stopped reading autobiographies because she felt worse off while reading them. She felt as if they constantly reminded her that she was an underachiever. Made me think — Is…

What explains different leadership styles of leaders, in the sense of what drives them? Some are ambitious, more risk taking, workaholic, some are closed, protective and controlling, whereas some seem to find the right balance. I think the answer to this can be found in Daniel Pink’s ‘Drive’, which states…

“But how do I become a top performer?” asked Ulla, a project coordinator with 20 years of work experience, during our lunch appointment. …

#1 Apologizing doesn’t necessarily mean we are wrong, it simply means that we value our relationship much more than our wanting to be right. So next time an apology can help you move on, just leave your ego behind and say I’m sorry.. #2 Wisdom from Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly…

A collection of my posts from 2020 — Preparation is key for Remote Communication There are 5 behaviors that help us with effective oral communication: Choice of words, delivery of words, facial expressions, Eye contact and body language. The last 3 play a significant role in delivering the emotion content behind our message and connecting to our listeners. They helped us bail out of…

— Daniel Humberg & Sooraj Kamath continued from part — I.. Having understood the desired change in organizational mindset, let us see how to set the teams and the Agile Software Development up for user experience (UX). Setting up Teams for UX The team set up and assignments play a big role. Set up autonomous…

— Daniel Humberg & Sooraj Kamath 20 years ago, some IT Manager might have said “We need to replace Microsoft Excel by an in-house tool that caters specifically to our use case”. Today, 20 years later, some IT Manager is still saying “We need to replace MS Excel..” IT Managers…

Here I am for my 6th and last blog on my Social Sabbatical experience in Tunis. Can’t believe it myself — So rich was my learning experience, that I was there for only 20 working days and could produce 6 blogs. And this one is on a truly unique experience…

How much attention do you pay to the choices that are presented to you while answering questions in a survey? Do you wonder what impact your survey answers could have on you? …