It’s been three years since I was given this opportunity to wear the Intuit badge. What an amazing learning journey it has been! My connection and bond towards Intuit’s mission have only become stronger in these three years. I am writing this with the same excitement that I had when I wrote Part II and Part I of ‘I am…
Category: employee empowerment
I am in LOVE with Intuit – Part II
Time flies! It’s been 9 months since I wrote Part I of “I am in Love with Intuit“. This week I celebrate my first year anniversary at Intuit. I couldn’t have asked for a better way to wrap up the first year than spending a week for self-development with my colleagues at Leading@Intuit workshop. I have to say that in the…
What makes Google, GOOGLE?
My last day at Google! Tomorrow, I head out to explore the next adventure of my career and wanted to get this post out before I return my Google badge. My love & curiosity for Google started at Dubai airport! In the winter of 2009, I was heading back from Houston, Texas to Bangalore, India. I met this proud father…
Manage passion, NOT people!
Last week, I was at a conference in Dublin and one of the participants was articulating how she drives best-in-class performance with her team. The “AHA” moment for me was her quote on her leadership style. “I manage passion, not people”. One of the most powerful and thought provoking leadership quotes I have heard in…
The MOST powerful performance coaching tool, EVER!
In one of the recent networking sessions, someone brought up the topic of effective performance coaching tools. Participants were talking about different interpretations of what they thought were some of the most effective performance coaching tools. It included: Coaching softwares, coaching exercises, frameworks, coaching conversation starters, coaching models etc. On my drive back, I was reflecting on the topic and was thinking about…
Is your team playing kiddie soccer?
What a beautiful Saturday afternoon in San Francisco! Amazing weather, bright sun, beautiful trees…..Love this place! My first weekend after moving to California from Michigan. Love this view from my balcony, I didn’t realize there was a park so close to our place. My wife and I decided to go check out the park with our…
Are you a “WHAT” leader or a “HOW” leader?
How many times, have you sat in a business review where someone was presenting how well a metric performed and asked, “Great job, you folks. By the way HOW did you guys do it?” Vs. moved on saying “Great work & well done!”. Maybe a few leaders want to know the HOW piece and a great majority is pleased with the…
Love hormones for employee well being!! What the heck??
I was introduced to Oxytocin in 2011 during a seminar on ‘organizational strategy & the next generation of leadership’ in New Delhi and since then it has been a topic of great interest and learning for me. But wait! Are you wondering“What the heck hormones have to do with organizational strategy & employee engagement??” I thought the same…
Cooking your success!! Do you want to bake it, grill it or fry it?
A few months back when I was changing roles internally, I was asked to share my thoughts on the topic of ‘career success & development’ in the all employee meeting of the departing business unit. In preparation, I started to research online and some popular books on the topic of ‘career success & development’. One…
They don’t let you touch the bananas? Wonder why?
“I don’t know why, but this is how we have always done it!”. Does this statement sound familiar? It has to be!! A statement that makes me want to giggle every time I hear it. Below is my favorite ‘5 monkeys’ video that helps articulate the severity and the impact of the “I don’t know” statement in any organization. “Why…
Driving your employee engagement. What do you think?
A decade after the dot com bubble burst and just a little while after the announcement of Lehman Brother’s collapse, the employee behavior research groups started getting traction and recognition from corporate America on the impact the dis-engaged workforce had on the overall organization and the industry as a whole. The mood was to move away from the…
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