As I saw it

I am sure that hardcore Bollywood movie fans would remember this line from the title song of the movie Koi Mil Gaya. Well, I usually don't share what I am about to share and have mostly never shared in public the appreciation mails and messages I have received after my training and coaching sessions but there was something different about this line from one of current my coaching clients that, my intuition told me to share it. Maybe it's the profoundness behind the simple words that make me want to share it here. But it resonates with my purpose, identity, values and intent behind what I have been doing for a large part of my 22 years of working life even as success in the traditional sense of the term is maybe still some distance away. Here is what my client wrote as the concluding line of the email he sent me yesterday after our session early this week - "Thanks a lot again, Sree. I am in a better place today because of you. Thank you." It was a song that I heard in...

Over the last many years I have been examining a couple of models that have essentially the same foundation - disruptive innovation. But I found something even more profound as I dug deeper. Two core needs human beings have at work are Stability and Compassion and not to be left behind are the remaining two which also Gallup found in a survey conducted years ago about what makes people follow leaders: Trust and Hope. So in total the four core needs of follower-employees that Gallup found are Trust, Hope, Stability and Compassion. Stability is a core human need that comes from the brain's need for familiarity and predictability. And that is what makes many people resist change even when it has become inevitable. A stable platform enables people to build structures above it that have a utility. However, as we examine the rapidly changing work scenario, there is anything but stable. In such a scenario, it would be understandable if people are scared with the pace at which work and org...