The August 2021 edition of CTQ's top picks of the month for podcasts, books, articles and interesting tidbits. 

This month: great picks that cover learnings from pandemics, the future of work, tips to better your reading, and the neuroscience behind improving your productivity. 

For links to the picks, see the shownotes for this episode on https://choosetothinq.com/blog

Founder and Chairman of Persistent Systems, Dr. Anand Deshpande shares how he learned new skills, and his model for career growth and future relevance. In conversation with CTQ co-founder J Ramanand.

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Smart Levers are short conversations around themes, topics, ideas, terms, models that everyone should know about. In this episode, learn the breakthrough model of BJ Fogg that will help you form habits easily and quickly.

Discover wisdom with CTQ Smart Levers, alongside CTQ founders BV Harish Kumar & J Ramanand.

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Dr. Ranjan Banerjee is the Dean and Professor-Marketing at BITS School of Management who has been an entrepreneur-consultant, helping top firms with innovation change management before becoming the Dean at SPJIMR, one of India's top business schools. He is the co-author of "The Made In India Manager", which explores the rise of Indian-origin leaders on the global landscape.

In this Smartcast conversation with CTQ co-founder J Ramanand, we explore what it takes to be a good learner at any age, management mantras learnt from leading a management school, the way a would-be manager needs to prepare for the future, and the lessons gained from from watching great teachers teach.

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Smart Levers are short conversations around themes, topics, ideas, terms, models that everyone should know about. In this episode, learn Chip and Dan Heath's exposition of how some moments leave a stronger impact than others, and how you can use that to your advantage. 

Discover wisdom with CTQ Smart Levers, alongside CTQ founders BV Harish Kumar & J Ramanand.

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Roshan Cariappa is a founder, a marketer and a podcaster and is passionate about all things India and all things start-ups. In this Smartcast conversation with CTQ’s J Ramanand, we will speak about his podcasting journey, how to build a new skill and his curiosity diet.

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Smart Levers are short conversations around themes, topics, ideas, terms, models that everyone should know about. In this episode, a lowdown of the book 'Switch' by the Heath brothers, and how to bring about change when change is hard. 

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Mukul Kumar is the co-founder of PubMatic, the unicorn with an amazing success story, scaling from a Pune based startup to an IPO, with 14 offices and eight data centers worldwide. In this Smartcast conversation with CTQ’s BV Harish Kumar, we discover the secrets behind their scaling journey, the cultural values that power their company and how engineering leaders like Mukul think about their own future relevance.

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Smart Levers are short conversations around themes, topics, ideas, terms, models that everyone should know about. In this episode, a quick introduction to takeaways from James Clear's book Atomic Habits, which exposits easy and proven way to build good habits.

Discover wisdom with CTQ Smart Levers, alongside CTQ founders BV Harish Kumar & J Ramanand.

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Shridhar Shukla is a co-founder and Managing Director of kPoint, a business-focused video sharing platform with easy creation, engagement, and analysis.

In this Smartcast with CTQ co-founder J Ramanand, we explore  the role  of video in learning, engagement, and cultural transformation; the major shifts in the adoption of videos inside organisations and lessons from creating the culture of a product company.

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