What is Semco Style
Semco Style is a management approach that prepares organizations to build and sustain a Start-up culture at scale. Startup culture stands out for agility, innovation, client focus of the organization, high degree of ownership, accountability, high learnability along with high productivity as a team. Startup growth is fuelled by a singular focus on achieving the…
Nurturing Decision Making
A very senior leader @ a large MNC I worked with a few years back was obsessed with being involved in all decisions that had to be taken. I recall how he would go through in minute detail the approach each leader ( managing multi-million dollar business) was taking to address every delivery challenge and…
Decentralization – future of the workplace
The Covid 19 experience has once again brought to the front the importance of being agile – for organizations and individuals. Agile organizations and people are almost nomadic in their mindset – they hold onto exactly what they need and treat everything else as burdens that will hold them back when it’s time to move…
Uttam Kshama – Supreme Forgiveness
If knowingly or unknowingly, I have caused hurt or offense in any manner, through my words or actions, I seek forgiveness from my acquaintances, colleagues, friends, and family members from people of all religion, color, and orientation from all living beings – animals and plants from the planet on which we live and the universe…
How BITS Shaped me.
This week marks the 40th year of the day I stepped into BITS, Pilani as a giggly teenager. The next four years were transforming. A lot of what I could do in my life, who I am is courtesy of this great institution. The thought of writing this post was triggered when a batchmate pointed…
SemcoStyle Institute India Fundamentals Program goes online for Mumbai
From 5th-8th May 2020, SSI India conducted the Fundamentals program for the folks in Mumbai and Pune. We believe that the participants had as good a time as we did as facilitators. The participation was excellent and we could not have asked for a better audience to conduct our maiden online program. Thank you, Archanaa,…
Making an impression on a video conference call
We spend more time on video conferences than ever before. Here are some simple tricks to improve your video image and up your presence Identify your workspace – usually a room where when required, you can isolate and cut off noise and movement of other people. If you have a study or home office that…
Jaisalmer, the Golden City
Over multiple trips, I have managed to see a lot of Rajasthan. But had somehow missed visiting Jaisalmer. We decided to combine it with our visit to Jaipur for a dear friend’s daughter’s wedding. Hubby was running temperature before we arrived and through the visit so we did everything really slow-paced resulting in us being…
Semco Style Experience Game @ Swasti
I was all excited. I was conducting the Semco Style Experience Game at Swasti Health Catalyst for their managers. This is an organization I hold in great esteem for the kind of work they are doing in the social space. So, I was excited to meet the folks who actually execute on the ground. We…
A 10 day road trip in Tamil Nadu
Kannan and Vandana by Honda City – auto transmission 29 Sep – 8 Oct 2017 Tamil Nadu Road trip Route: Bangalore – Thiruvannamalai – Kanchipuram – Chennai- Pichhavaram – Chidambaram- Kumbakonam – Tanjavur – Madurai- Rameswaram – Srirangam – Bangalore ( Driving distance: 1800+ km) Overview – We decided to go on this trip with minimal planning. We had a…