Habits Matter

Welcome to another episode of Habits Matter, the podcast that’s nearly as old as Harappa!

We’re delighted to host Sumedha Bakhshi, one of the country’s leading practitioners and diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) experts who’s currently leading talent management and organizational development at @Amazon. 

Welcome to a brand-new season of Habits Matter. We’re back with our hugely popular podcast that explores the human side of how things really work at work — stories, goof-ups and triumphs. And we’ve lined up a roster of entertaining guests, people who’ve sifted the good habits from the bad, and are now telling it like it is.  

And we’re thrilled to kick off the season we have corporate stalwart, bestselling author, mental wellbeing expert and chief learning officer at Grant Thornton Bharat, Ankit Jhamb!  
 
A highly effective L&D business partner with the ability to deliver business impact, his approach to solution design, building agile and effective L&D engines by leveraging fields like social sciences, analytics and branding is the stuff of corporate India legend.

Work often demands that we focus on the details. But when we focus too well, we risk losing sight of the big picture. In this episode, we explain big-picture thinking in less abstract terms, explore a nifty tool to practice it, and find out how a campaign from your favorite fast-food chain knocked it out of the park—all because the folks behind it dared to think big.

Meet Papiya Banerjee, Co-founder, Unqbe, and a leader with years of experience in culture building, talent management and leadership development; and Mark Pollard, strategy consultant for The Economist, Twitter, Euronews, Facebook, and host of the Sweathead podcast.

This is Season 5 of Habits Matter. We’re going behind the scenes of common work problems and asking questions like: how do you present effectively? Get that job? Or decode feedback?

Shapeshifters don’t just exist in folklore and fiction. They’re all around us in the world of work.

Meet Paroma Roy Chowdhury, Chief Communications and Public Affairs Officer at Dream11—an e-sports start-up currently valued at $5 billion. Paroma has previously held leadership positions at Google, Airtel, SoftBank, Hewlett Packard and GE. Also meet Mac Prichard, Founder, Mac’s List. Mac is a career coach and a full-time podcaster who has previously worked with governors and state departments in Oregon (US). He holds a degree in public administration from the Harvard Kennedy School.

This is Season 5 of Habits Matter. We’re going behind the scenes of common work problems and asking questions like: how do you present effectively? Get that job? Or decode feedback?

Receiving feedback sucks...until it doesn’t. Inside, we uncover the power of positive feedback, break down fair feedback into its primary principles, and find out if your boss has been dropping truth bombs—or just bombs.

Meet Ruchira Chaudhary, Leadership Coach and Author, “Coaching: The Secret Code to Uncommon Leadership”; Neeraj Sharma, Director, Product, Harappa; and Dhruv Mehra, Associate Director, Consumer, Harappa.

This is Season 5 of Habits Matter. We’re going behind the scenes of common work problems and asking questions like: how do you present effectively? Get that job? Or decode feedback?

Comms leaders deconstruct the art of presenting and share trade secrets on building influence with the people who really matter. And a strategy friend shares lessons from the ad world on making a good pitch.

Meet Papri Dev, Senior Director, APAC Communications at Tinder; Mark Pollard, host of the Sweathead podcast, and strategy consultant for The Economist, Twitter, Euronews, Facebook; and Aniha Brar, Dean, Young India Fellowship, Ashoka University.

This is Season 5 of Habits Matter. We’re going behind the scenes of common work problems and asking questions like: how do you present effectively? Get that job? Or decode feedback?

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Talent experts tell us what it takes to ace the interview. Inside: resume hacks, behavioral and case interviews, and words not to use in an interview.

Meet Eklavya Sinha, a Talent Strategist at Accenture who has custodianship of more than 70,000 professionals, and Mac Prichard, Career Expert and President, Prichard Communications. Mac also hosts a popular podcast, “Find Your Dream Job”.

This is Season 5 of Habits Matter. We’re going behind the scenes of common work problems and asking questions like: how do you present effectively? Get that job? Or decode feedback?

This episode was hosted remotely by Harappa Founder & CEO, Shreyasi Singh.

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In Season 5 of Habits Matter, we’re going behind the scenes of common work problems and asking questions like: how do you make a pitch to remember? Find your dream job? Or decode feedback?

Habits Matter is a podcast about how things work at work. We’re bringing you stories, goof-ups and triumphs from a roster of entertaining guests—smart professionals and inspiring leaders who’ve been there, done that. 

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A rebel in her own right, Francesca Gino has spent years studying fellow rule-breakers in multiple organizations, from a high-end boutique in Milan and a Michelin-star restaurant to a famous animation studio. In this episode, we find out more about rebels, their tendency to ask difficult questions and how that can be a force for good, at work and in life.

Francesca Gino is a professor at Harvard Business School. She’s also involved with the Negotiation Program at Harvard Law School; the Mind, Brain, Behavior Initiative at Harvard University; and the Behavioral Insight Group at Harvard Kennedy School. Gino recently wrote a bestseller, “Rebel Talent”, which we explore in this episode. 

Through Season 4, meet five trailblazing women thinkers shaping our world of work with path-breaking ideas. In conversation with Harappa Founder & CEO Shreyasi Singh, they talk about everything from the nuances of negotiation to the necessity of creative rebellion.  #WomenLead

#ManagingTeamwork

This episode was hosted remotely by Harappa Founder & CEO, Shreyasi Singh.

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This International Women’s Day, we speak to Vasanthi Srinivasan, a professor at IIM Bangalore known for her pioneering research on women in the workplace. 

Tune in for a sociohistorical deep dive into women’s integration in the Indian workforce. We explore its accidental origins, women’s glaring absence from the boardroom, and the unfair price of ambition.

Through Season 4, meet five trailblazing women thinkers shaping our world of work with path-breaking ideas. In conversation with Harappa Founder & CEO Shreyasi Singh, they talk about everything from the nuances of negotiation to the necessity of creative rebellion.  #WomenLead

#LeadingOthers

This episode was hosted remotely by Harappa Founder & CEO, Shreyasi Singh.

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