January 14, 2005
The Art of Accomplishment
Six Principles for 21st Century Leaders: In my 15+ years of work with organizations and senior executives, I found the following six principles, derived from spiritual literature to be quite helpful in coaching executives to become successful in these times of great change. I discussed these principles about six years ago in a talk and this article came out of it. A brief commentary about each principle is described in this article, although the best way to learn more about them is to practice them regularly. The six principles are: 1) Clarity of intention 2) Awareness of self and what...Posted by pkaipa at 05:29 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
January 18, 2005
New Science of Happiness
Time magazine put out a special mind-body issue on the new science of happiness. It is dated January 17, 2005. You might want to get a copy of it and see the set of articles that they have put together. They are thought provoking. How you may ask and here are my reflections. Some of you might be familiar with the positive psychology movement that Dr. Martin Seligman has been driving forward for the past few years. He wrote a book on learned optimism a while ago and was quoted extensively by Daniel Goleman in his emotional intelligence books. In...Posted by pkaipa at 04:57 PM | Comments (176) | TrackBack
Efforts Vs Results
Today I had a conversation with my friend Sudhakar Ram about effort vs. result. He told me how some people focus on putting in great effort and how they attribute what they got to fate. Some others on the other hand, focus on result. In some sense, he said, maybe effort and result are not quite connected. He quoted our mutual friend Dr. Mohan Rao and said ‘only barbers can measure results based on their efforts with certainty.’ Is that really true? Does effort have no connection with result? My mind immediately went to Bhagavad Gita statement about not focusing...Posted by pkaipa at 05:17 PM | Comments (166) | TrackBack
January 21, 2005
Mindfulness, Identity, Conflict
The general theme of this week's dialogue was how to get into and stay mindful in spite of conflicts, indifference or boredom. Stories, Quotes etc: - To realize how mechanical you are, become aware of your feet. - There is no such thing as time-management. Time does not exist as an entity for us to manage. There is only self-management. - In the context of attending a job interview, once my friend told me what to do if I get tensed: He said, "Watch yourself getting tensed, watch your heart rate increasing... and tease and laugh at yourself as you...Posted by pkaipa at 10:23 AM | Comments (509) | TrackBack
January 26, 2005
Mapping the Organizational DNA
A Living System Approach to MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS Prasad Kaipa , and Thomas Milus, KaipaGroup, formerly SelfCorp, and Kathie Dannemiller, Dannemiller Tyson Associates. Download this article ( PDF file, 164 KB ) Overview This chapter focuses on a systems view of leadership, strategy, structure and culture and the dynamic nature of the relationships between them and how these relationships could impact the outcomes in mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures. More specifically, the human aspect of the system (in this case an organization) is at the heart of this chapter. As such, market and technical analysts, financial strategists, the local...Posted by pkaipa at 06:03 PM | Comments (2839) | TrackBack
January 27, 2005
Acres of Diamonds: by Russell Conwell:
All Good Things Are Possible, Right Where You Are, and Now. (Conwell's famous lecture, "Acres of Diamonds," made him America's foremost platform orator. By the end of his life, in 1925, he had delivered the lecture more than 6,000 times in town after town throughout this vast land. It was heard by millions from pulpits and public platforms, and by radio, and today others are still reading his practical, optimistic essay and hearing it on cassettes. He founded Temple University, a worthy cause, from over $8 million dollars that he earned from telling Acres of Diamonds Stories) In 1870 when...Posted by pkaipa at 08:47 AM | Comments (959) | TrackBack