The EnterpriseJoy Podcast

Most leaders delegate, but few do it strategically. In this episode, Vishal breaks down why delegation often fails and how to fix it using a simple RERA framework: Responsibility, Explanation, Resources, and Appraisal. Learn how to stop taking tasks back and start building autonomous, capable teams that free up your time for what only you can do.

References:

1) Why Aren’t You Delegating? https://hbr.org/2012/07/why-arent-you-delegating

2) How Leaders Can Let Go Without Losing Control: https://hbr.org/2016/06/how-leaders-can-let-go-without-losing-control

Music Credit: Switch It Up, performed by Silent Partner, from the YouTube Studio Audio Library

Today we’re zooming into Micro-strategies. These are tiny, almost invisible actions you can embed into your day in forms of check-in questions, brief pauses, and self-signups, that nudge and stack-up to shape clarity, trust, focus, and innovation. Vishal also suggests practical ways you can try these today and it hardly takes a minute.

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Music Credit: Switch It Up, performed by Silent Partner, from the YouTube Studio Audio Library

In today’s episode, Vishal helps you break free from the constant motion of doing without moving forward. If your calendar is packed but your progress feels slow, this one’s for you. Discover how strategic leverage works, why we fall into action loops, and what you can do today to rewire your leadership mindset.

References:

1) Unlocking value and productivity through social technologies: https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/technology-media-and-telecommunications/our-insights/the-social-economy

2) Dopamine and Habit Formation: https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/food-and-mood-is-there-a-connection

3) Strategic Choice and High-Leverage Leadership: https://www.ccl.org/articles/leading-effectively-articles/strategic-leadership-making-the-right-choices

Music Credit: Switch It Up, performed by Silent Partner, from the YouTube Studio Audio Library

This week’s theme, Strategy in a Time‑Starved World, continues as Vishal guides you through a simple yet powerful three-minute reset. Learn how to pause your mind, refocus on your true objective, anchor it with a quick plan, and return with clarity. Backed by neuroscience, goal-setting research, and creativity studies, this reset helps you shift from autopilot to strategic thinking in no extra time.

References:

1) 3‑Minute Mindfulness and Decision-Making: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.674694/full

2) Meta-analysis of Implementation Intentions: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10463283.2024.2334563

3) Stanford Study on Walking and Creativity: https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2014/04/walking-vs-sitting-042414

Music Credit: Switch It Up, performed by Silent Partner, from the YouTube Studio Audio Library

In this episode, Vishal explores the gap between intent and action using insights from Harvard Business Review, Columbia Business School, and cognitive science. He breaks down the big blockers and shares two practical tools to del with this dilemma.

References:

1) If Strategy Is So Important, Why Don’t We Make Time for It? ⁠https://hbr.org/2018/06/if-strategy-is-so-important-why-dont-we-make-time-for-it⁠

2) How CEOs Manage Time: https://hbr.org/2018/07/how-ceos-manage-time⁠

3) The Leadership Gap: Understanding Strategy Execution Failure: ⁠https://balancedscorecard.org/blog/the-leadership-gap-understanding-strategy-execution-failure

4) Conspicuous Consumption of Time: When Busyness and Lack of Leisure Time Become a Status Symbol: ⁠https://business.columbia.edu/sites/default/files-efs/pubfiles/19293/Conspicuous%20Consumption%20of%20Time%20JCR.pdf⁠

5) Why Strategic Idleness Can Drive Breakthrough Thinking: ⁠https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/why-strategic-idleness-can-drive-breakthrough-thinking⁠

6) The Business Case for Reflection: Brief Pauses Boost Performance by 23%: ⁠https://hbr.org/2014/10/reflecting-on-work-improves-job-performance⁠

Music Credit: Switch It Up, performed by Silent Partner, from the YouTube Studio Audio Library

In this premiere episode of Season 2, we reintroduce The EnterpriseJoy Podcast with a fresh format tailored for today’s time-starved leaders. After a five-year pause, the podcast returns not with nostalgia, but with urgency, shaped by the shifting landscape of leadership, the impact of AI, and the growing demand for clarity over complexity. This new season is designed as a daily companion for enterprise leaders, CXOs, founders, and decision-makers looking for sharp, practical thinking on the move.

This week's theme "Strategy in a Time-Starved World", speaks directly to a common leadership dilemma - the feeling of never having enough time to think strategically. If that's you then you're at the right place.

Music Credit: Switch It Up, performed by Silent Partner, from the YouTube Studio Audio Library

Relationships are built on Trust. Possibly every story in history has an element of Trust, be it with fallen monarchs, birth of religions, rise of organisations, or even examples from the animal kingdom. This has been an area of research for many years and as we flourish in the age of information, Trust becomes one of the most essential foundations on which organisations and teams get built. But how do we build trust? Where do we begin? Who takes the first step? And how do we know when it's achieved?

To discuss this in more detail, I invited a good friend of mine Sarika Kharbanda; she's a coach who specialises in Lean Change Management, the first Management 3.0 trainer in India, and the host of the Perspectives of Change podcast. Needless to say, she's probably one of the best I know who has helped teams with their quote / unquote trust issues so it only seemed fair that I pick her brains on this episode for some anecdotes. So welcome everyone, I'm your host Vishal Prasad and this is EnterpriseJoy, educating organisations to be awesome!

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Host: Vishal Prasad (www.enterprisejoy.com)

Guest: Sarika Kharbanda (https://in.linkedin.com/in/sarikakharbanda)

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Optimism, it's one of those unspoken qualities that differentiates a leader from the crowd. Where other's see failure, optimists see opportunity. Where others see chaos, optimists see self organisation. And where others see end, optimists see new beginnings. I came face to face with one such leader in this podcast, Jeff Stuit, the founder of Improvement School. He recently published his book "An Agilist in India", which he wrote while being stuck in a hotel room, 7000 miles away from his home, in-between a nationwide lockdown down & a hurricane; and his stories had me gripped. I consider myself an optimist but Jeff showcases extreme optimism and this talk with him was a profound experience for me. We discussed everything from spirituality to music and I was stunned to how he related every experience as a learning that one could take-away as a human being. This episode is not just an education in being an optimist, it's a showcase of an optimistic leader and the difference it can make in an organisation. I'm your host Vishal Prasad and this is EnterpriseJoy, educating organisations to be awesome!

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I've been a fan of the Twitter handle @MeetingBoy since many years now and one of its tweets that I've remembered forever goes something like this - If someone falls asleep during your PowerPoint presentation, you are at least partially to blame. That is true with many teams where individuals mostly engage using conventional structures like presentations and managed discussions. The problem with most of these is that the decision making is usually owned by one person while utilising a centralised mechanism to control the content. That's where Liberating Structures are different and make it possible to include everybody in the decision making process regardless of the group size and this happens with distributed control of content. To discuss this in more detail, I invited a good friend of mine Rucha Kapare who's been an advocate of Liberating Structures. She's the Head of Business Analysis practice at Springer, she utilises Liberating Structures on her job more than one would expect, and has presented it at numerous conferences. So welcome everyone as we unleash creativity, I'm your host Vishal Prasad and this is EnterpriseJoy, educating organisations to be awesome!

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The Lean Startup, a methodology for developing products and businesses using short cycles of build-measure-learn to continuously improve. That's probably the crispiest definition one can provide but what impact does this have on products, on businesses, and more so on the culture of an organisation? A startup may embrace this methodology on day one of its conception and not even realise how its culture gets moulded by it, however more mature organisations who wish to realise the benefits of this methodology do witness a cultural change, sometimes not very successful ones. So it only seemed fair to speak with someone like Bob van Luijt, the CEO & Co-founder of SeMI Technologies, who's witnessed this multiple times. His current startup provides a solution called Weaviate which is a Semantic Search Engine with built-in Machine Learning to search through Unstructured Data and this is used by huge organisations for building, for example - their Knowledge Graphs. It was fascinating for me to understand from him how one can balance out cultural differences when working in a space like his and hopefully you and find it just as intersting as I did. I'm your host Vishal Prasad and this is EnterpriseJoy, educating organisations to be awesome!

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