E107 – A Keystone Habit – Paul O’Niell at Alcoa
In the quest for organizational transformation, leaders often try to change everything at once—culture, processes, metrics, and systems. But what if the key to massive..
E92 – Diffusion of Innovation
It was the second half of 1992. I was a student of the finishing school of sales and marketing funded by soaps and detergents – otherwise called Unilever…
E91 – Do it for the Sake of it
A few days after losing, Novak Djokovic told his coach, Marián Vajda, that he decided to quit playing tennis. To know what happened next, listen…
E87 – Mitigated Speech, Power Distance Index (PDI) and an Air Crash
Imagine you are the first officer in the cockpit of a flight. The ATC has been highlighting some storm clouds…
E46 – Jaws: The Unseen Fear
It is July 1974, and Steven Spielberg is not yet part of Hollywood royalty. He’s just a small director with a huge shark problem. Spielberg was shooting on location…
E45 – Discipline: Sachin Tendulkar – 241*
When Sachin Tendulkar walked out to the crease at the Sydney Cricket Ground on 2nd Jan 2004, one of the best batsmen in the world found himself in a rather…
E40 – The postcard
I teach a course on storytelling at SP Jain Institute of Management and Research in Mumbai and had asked my students to find stories. Amruta found this beautiful story that I want to share with you today…..
E39 – Prime Minister Narendra Modi & Story Triggering
This chapter is a little different. I am going to tell you stories but we’ll talk about something that I call story triggering. Those of you who read my book would have…
E35 – Friction Is Good
When Steve Jobs was a young boy in school, he had a neighbour up the street who most of the young boys and girls in the neighbourhood were afraid of. He was a widower, 80 years old and rather grumpy…
E25 – Miasma ?
In 1846 Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis was an assistant doctor at Vienna General Hospital which had two maternity wards 1 with interns being trained, & the other midwives are trained. Many pregnant women were dying at child birth due to ‘puerperal fever’ or childbed fever…