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What The Good Wife Teaches Us About Relational Intelligence
And what it doesn’t (spoilers ahead) My husband introduced me to The Good Wife a few months ago and we catch an episode every day or two. We are about to finish Season 6 (Alicia just withdrew her nomination from the State’s Attorney’s race), and I’ve grown to love the twists and turns of the…
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Why good Managers stay stuck – and the wrong ones rise
In the past 12 years, I’ve worked across diverse organizations with what many would call “considerable success.” My family would testify that I’ve often sacrificed myself willingly and passionately at the altar of work in pursuit of that success. And for the longest time, I believed that effort and excellence naturally translated into recognition and…
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Cracks in the Ladder: How AI is Disrupting the Traditional Workplace Apprenticeship Model
AI and Future of Work 03 Jan, 2026 AI HI Series – Part 1 5 min read And how L&OD needs to rearchitect a new model for a sustainable future For decades, organizations have operated on a quiet but powerful model of talent development: the apprenticeship ladder. People entered the organizations as juniors, learned through…
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Why some rooms aren’t ours to begin with
“If a room only values me for the badge on my chest, then maybe it was never my room to begin with.” This truth hit me years ago, and it has stayed with me ever since. A client who I had worked with extensively had kindly referred me to an event organizer as a public…
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Decks, Digital Disasters, and (Dis)grace
This week, I’ve been reflecting on some unintentional, embarrassing mistakes. If you’re anything like me – someone who replays every faux pas in their head like an Ekta Kapoor serial – you’ll understand the impulse to pack your bags, change your name, and start over in a new city. I made one such mistake recently.
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Mentorship, Missteps, and the Middle Seat
How to lead with grace when hierarchies, loyalties, and good intentions collide In today’s matrixed organizations, influence travels in unconventional ways – diagonally, informally, and sometimes through invisible corridors of personal loyalty. This creates – or more accurately, complicates an already existing – leadership challenge: How do you exercise influence without authority – on juniors…
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INTJ and Indian – Navigating Leadership and Labelling
All my life, I have felt a quiet discomfort of being different. Of not being able to find joy and enthusiasm in conversations that most people would. Of finding the process of exchanging social pleasantries exhausting. Of feeling sad when my soft reserve is mistaken for cold withdrawal or worse, contempt. Growing up, I often…
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Kind, flawed, human – How I built a voice that’s truly my own.
We’re told to “find” our voice – as if it’s hidden away in some treasure hunt – and once you find it, you’re sorted. For life. That once our current voice – which, others might tell us, needs to be stronger, softer, sharper, clearer or some other adjective – reaches the sweet spot of perfection,…