Do you solve problems or deal with dilemmas?
How much should we 'centralize' or 'decentralize'? Should we focus on maximizing our profits or do what is consistent with our stated...
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Dr Kiran Chitta
Aug 54 min
Turn 'strategy' into story to make things happen
As a young manager in multinational businesses in the first decade of my own career, I witnessed many senior leadership presentations...
Dr Kiran Chitta
Jul 84 min
Culture does not 'eat strategy for breakfast'
For some decades there has been a common idea that 'culture eats strategy for breakfast', a quote often attributed to Peter Drucker. The...
Dr Kiran Chitta
Jun 34 min
Corporate purpose: act yourself into new ways of thinking
In the last twenty five years, I have seen businesses invest huge amounts of time on the development and articulation of corporate...
Dr Kiran Chitta
May 145 min
Do you really want to 'bring' your 'whole' self to work?
‘To thine own self be true’, from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, was advice given by a character (Polonius) who was himself a hypocrite. By...
Dr Kiran Chitta
Apr 45 min
High performance teams are not like families
It is common for us to hear from clients that the people in their organization are 'family' or their business is like family - 'our XYZ...
Dr Kiran Chitta
Mar 115 min
Self-efficacy is the foundation for success
‘Psychological procedures, whatever their form, alter the level and strength of self-efficacy…. expectations of personal efficacy...
Dr Kiran Chitta
Dec 1, 20235 min
Unlocking the power of goal setting
There is a strong link between how well people set their own performance goals at work and how well the organisation manages goal setting...
Dr Kiran Chitta
Oct 9, 20238 min
Reducing procrastination at work
Psychotherapist, and coaching psychologist, Michael Neenan[1] defines procrastination as ‘putting off until tomorrow what our better...
Dr Kiran Chitta
Aug 1, 20236 min
Be ADAPTIVE in how you think about and pursue your dreams
Perfectionism can be a double-edged sword in relation to defining and pursuing our aspirations and goals for the future. Psychological...
Dr Kiran Chitta
Jun 5, 20237 min
Don't let perfectionism become an obstacle to change
Perfectionists have been described in psychological literature as people ‘whose standards are high beyond reach or reason’[1]. Extreme...
Dr Kiran Chitta
Apr 17, 202311 min
Agility accelerates performance AND supports wellbeing
Data on mental health amongst US doctors, even pre-COVID was very concerning. Research suggests that in 2020 there were rising levels of...
Dr Kiran Chitta
Jan 6, 20239 min
Agility starts with aspiration: here's how coaching can help
The start of a New Year is often a time to reflect on and recalibrate our goals in life and work. I will explore how psychologically...
Dr Kiran Chitta
Sep 2, 20226 min
Performance coaching supports agility
Many or most people in my network are aware that I have pursued ‘organizational’ or ‘occupational’ psychology as a professional...
Dr Kiran Chitta
Mar 11, 20223 min
A TALE OF TWO CITIES
In reaction to the human devastation in Ukraine, global companies are shutting down large operations in Russia with increasing speed....
Dr Kiran Chitta
Dec 16, 20215 min
A manifesto for whole intelligence
“A little while and I will be gone from among you, whither I cannot tell. From nowhere we come, into nowhere we go. What is life? It is a...
Dr Kiran Chitta
Nov 8, 20215 min
What does 'career' mean to you?
‘From my point of view, which is that of a storyteller, I see your life as something artful, waiting, just waiting and ready for you to...
Dr Kiran Chitta
Oct 11, 20215 min
We can bust bureaucracy but not hierarchy
‘Hierarchy is not to blame for our problems…Hierarchy has not had its day. Hierarchy never did have its day.’ Elliot Jaques, from ‘In...
Dr Kiran Chitta
Sep 13, 20214 min
Make workplaces worth the commute
'The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be...
Dr Kiran Chitta
Jul 31, 20217 min
Education has the power to be a 'universal cure'
‘The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience.’ Leo Tolstoy 'Castles made of sand melt into the sea...
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