CTQ Smartcast

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

This month: great picks that cover company culture, living better, decision-making, the power of stories, and more. For links to the picks, or to watch a video version of these recommendations, head to https://choosetothinq.com/blog.

Arun Iyer is Executive Vice President, Hexanika and a published author. He is a Business and IT leader  with 22+ years of experience in the Banking and Financial Services industry.

In this Smartcast with CTQ co-founder BV Harish Kumar,  we talk to him about how consultants and business analysts can think about future relevance, changing the mindset while working in startups vs big companies, and the role of being well-read, curious in such industries.

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Ravi Handa is the founder of HandaKaFunda.com and created a buzz in online coaching when it wasn't very trendy. In this CTQ Smartcast with CTQ co-founder BV Harish Kumar, Ravi shares his insight into the ed-tech business and lessons learnt from making it as a single-person entrepreneur.

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Aseem Datar is General Manager, Microsoft Cloud, leading one of the fastest-growing businesses at Microsoft. He also serves as an advisor to several early-stage startups, VC funds, and other types of organizations dedicated to accelerating global innovation and technology.

In this conversation with CTQ co-founder Ramanand, Aseem talks about the lessons learnt while working on three distinct kinds of businesses within Microsoft, his decision-making principles, mental models for career growth, and the role of collaboration.

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Curiosity Calendar is a calendar of activities aimed at getting the employees of a team more curious and discover knowledge blindspots. These events also help in orchestrated serendipity to trigger conversations and ideas. This has become even more important in these days of distributed work as the so-called watercooler conversations and chance encounters are rare.

In this Smartcast, Sanasi Kelkar speaks with CTQ co-founder BV Harish Kumar about how you can use Curiosity Calendar as a form of carefully-designed smart edutainment that can help an organisation grow inside-out.

In this conversation with CTQ's Omkar Yarguddi, we talk to engineer and entrepreneur Ashwin Megha on his journey as a Daily Reader and his personal takeaways from a lifetime of building and breaking habits.

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CTQ Compounds is a great way to join a community that is invested in building habits. For more, go to: http://ctqcompounds.com.

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Vineet Deshpande is a computer engineer by profession and has been a daily reader for two years as part of the CTQ Reading Compound. In this candid conversation with CTQ's Omkar Yarguddi, he shares his insight into the practise of habit-building and the rewards that come with it.

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CTQ Compounds is a great way to join a community that is invested in building habits. For more, go to: http://ctqcompounds.com.

Follow CTQ on Telegram with tips to stay systematically curious, building social capital, have smart conversations and stay future relevant.

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Srikant Chakravarti is the co-founder of Curio, an audio platform that aims to use the best journalism as opportunities for real-time learning and self-improvement. In this conversation with CTQ's J Ramanand, we explore the story behind Curio and the world of curation and audio content in an age of information overload.

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Ankita Verma is an avid reader and great at picking up tips and tricks from what she observes. In this conversation with Omkar Yarguddi, Ankita gives you some her top recommendations for building the habits you want.

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CTQ Compounds is a great way to join a community that is invested in building habits. For more, go to: http://ctqcompounds.com.

Follow CTQ on Telegram with tips to stay systematically curious, building social capital, have smart conversations and stay future relevant.

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CTQ has been helping co-located as well as remote teams engage meaningfully in smart ways for over half a decade. 

CTQ's forte is to understand the needs of the teams and the organisation while choosing the right kind of activity or game and carrying it out in a way that helps achieve the desired objective.

Sanasi Kelkar talks to Omkar Yarguddi, one of the chief architects of Choose To Thinq’s Smart Engagement offering for companies and organisations to understand how being smart about your engagement plan can ensure a highly motivated, interested and cohesive workforce.

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