CTQ Smartcast

Karthik Srinivasan is an expert in personal branding, corporate communication and author of the book, 'Be Social, Building Brand You Online'. In this CTQ Smartcast with BV Harish Kumar, Karthik demystifies the idea of building Social Capital - and how it's all about showcasing how you think and not just what you do.

For shownotes, tips, and interesting tidbits from the talk, go to http://choosetothinq.com/blog.

A few months into a setup where remote working has settled in, we take stock of how a taste of Work From Home has changed working as a whole. 

In Part 2 of our conversation with the heads of three prominent tech companies in India - Monish Darda, co-founder of Icertis, KS Prashant, MD of IDeaS and Nitin Deshpande, President of Evolent Health, - we hear their experiences of having seen remote working from close quarters. 

Like flipped classrooms in schools - is it time for flipped workplaces - where serious work happens at home, and then you come into office once in a few weeks to network, catch up and have some fun? Is the hybrid model of a office-home split the way ahead? What are the things they feel are going to last for long, what part of work has changed forever and what are some of the things that look like they will never change - we explore all this and more.

(In Part 1 of this conversation, we had spoken about drawing parallels from the other worlds when it comes to remote work.)

SOME OF THE THINGS WE SPOKE ABOUT -

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02:00 Do organisations need a ‘Director of Remote Work’. 

05:23 Nitin’s ‘Permanent Hybrid Model’

08:55 Equipping managers to handle remote requirements 

10:32 Prashant on how workplace provides the context

12:00 Prashant’s focus for the end, irrespective of means, for the Indian ecosystem of work

14:45 Monish on how Icertis handled remote work

16:17 Scaling up while remote working

19:31 Prashant on new roles, new challenges

22:00 Monish on how people carved out solutions across the organisation

24:50 Nitin on how core work has gone up significantly

26:00 Monish on finding value in not always being efficient 

27:00 Role of physical space - does it change

28:09 Icertis’ workplace evolution

31:21 Nitin on how remote work solved real estate problems

33:44 Prashant on how challenging work and not frills get the best talent.

36:30 Changes in nature of work, output and appraisal metrics

45:26 Lessons on work, management and leadership learnt

53:50 Hot takes on key questions

Retail business have suffered heavily in 2020 while digital businesses have thrived. In Part 2 of our conversation with Avnish Anand, co-founder of CaratLane, CTQ’s BV Harish Kumar discusses the future of physical retail business: how they would have to change in order to co-exist if not exceed the online shopping business, and how solutions to this lie beyond just technology. 

Shownotes, tips and more on http://www.choosetothinq.com/blog

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01:06 – Quiz 

04:27 – Indian retail businesses vis-à-vis the west

11:24 – Categories and challenges unique to Indian retail

15:27 – How physical retailers can adapt to be relevant in the future

20:43 – Working on fundamentals to build enduring organisations

26:34 – Future of books, 

29:10 – Future of Live sports audiences

32:30 – Personal Information Management

35:14 – Future of Business schools

Stefaan van Hooydonk is the founder of the Global Curiosity Institute, which helps organisations foster a mindset of curiosity to keep them discovering and innovating. In this smartcast with Stefaan, CTQ's Harish and Ramanand decode the nature of curiosity and its all encompassing benefits in business and in life.  

For shownotes, visit http://www.choosetothinq.com/blog

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00:00 –  

03:35 – Curiosity: Only Way Forward 

06:36 – How companies who value curiosity have thrived in the pandemic 

09:29 – Barriers to curiosity 

12:38 – The environment for curiosity 

16:16 – How companies can cultivate a curious environment 

20:35 – Types of curiosity for a growth environment 

25:07 – Curiosity case studies 

31:03 – Manifestations of curiosity that show employees their environment supports curiosity 

36:57 – Is there a price you pay for curiosity? 

40:57 – Quiz Question 

42:31 – Mission and objectives of the Global Curiosity Institute 

46:14 – Decoding Stefaan's curiosity scale and habits 

50:31 – The ‘Curiosity’ Rapid Fire Quiz

As companies grow, they seek to build a common philosophy that ties the company, its work, and its employees. Capturing the DNA of an organisation in this way can be very challenging, but done well, it can pay off by providing a reference point, direction, and an answer for "how things are done here". But what do they get wrong about this exercise?  Sirisha Bhamidipati who has spent a lot of time thinking and directing such cultural exercises for diverse teams, breaks this down. In conversation with CTQ's Ramanand.  

To find out more about how Choose To Thinq helps companies solidify culture and values, go to http://www.choosetothinq.com.

Learning does not stop when you become a professional. Rather it needs to become sharper and quicker. What is the best you can do to make sure your learning continues even when you become a professional? In this Smartcast, co-founder and CEO of GlobalGyan Academy of Management Education Srini Addepalli shares how professionals can build the mindset and skills of next-gen leadership.

What should Engineering Managers do to help engineers succeed? CTQ's Ramanand in conversation with Smruti Patel (Engineering Manager at Stripe), on what it takes for ICs to become good managers, working in a writing-first culture, and the view from both sides of the engineer-manager fence.