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Dr Kiran Chitta
- Dec 16, 2021
- 5 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, 2021
- 5 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, 2021
- 5 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, 2021
- 4 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, 2021
- 7 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...
Dr Kiran Chitta
- Jul 1, 2021
- 5 min
Hybrid working: what are the new rules of the game?
‘If we do the right things, this could be the best thing that ever happened to communities. We’re going to have more wealth, better...
Dr Kiran Chitta
- May 27, 2021
- 8 min
The machine stopped - or did it?
"In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines will...
Dr Kiran Chitta
- Apr 30, 2021
- 5 min
Leadership coaching is not a quick fix for toxic leadership
‘A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times, in changing, no longer are in harmony with...
Dr Kiran Chitta
- Apr 6, 2021
- 6 min
Be yourself by letting go of your self: 'coherent heterogeneity' at work
'I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.' ― Ursula K. Le...
Dr Kiran Chitta
- Mar 19, 2021
- 4 min
Let's be flexible about flexible working
‘Open-plan offices have been found to reduce productivity and impair memory. They’re associated with high staff turnover. They make...
Dr Kiran Chitta
- Feb 2, 2021
- 4 min
People make companies agile, not methodologies
‘Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the...
Dr Kiran Chitta
- Jan 4, 2021
- 4 min
‘Whole intelligence’ - the key to a sustainable future?
‘Reality is not something inflexible and unchanging but is ready to be remade.’ Source: Malcolm Parlett quoting from ‘Gestalt Therapy:...
Dr Kiran Chitta
- Dec 14, 2020
- 4 min
It's time to be ‘deliberately developmental’
“….the good life is not, I am convinced, a life for the faint-fainthearted. It involves the stretching and growing of becoming more and...
Dr Kiran Chitta
- Nov 23, 2020
- 5 min
Culture change is getting caught up in culture war
‘Yes, there are two paths you can go by But in the long run, There's still time to change the road you're on…’ Led Zeppelin, Stairway to...
Dr Kiran Chitta
- Nov 16, 2020
- 4 min
Going beyond resilience: agility matters
'The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them.' Unknown. Is resilience enough? Or do we need...
Dr Kiran Chitta
- Nov 9, 2020
- 4 min
Working in a gig economy: precarity and possibility
'The career is dead--long live the career!' - Douglas Hall Whoever is in charge in the White House, the digital revolution will continue...
Dr Kiran Chitta
- Nov 2, 2020
- 4 min
Are you being a ‘person of tomorrow’, today?
‘[The] new world will be more human and humane…Its technology will be aimed at the enhancing, rather than the exploitation, of persons...
Dr Kiran Chitta
- Oct 26, 2020
- 4 min
Freedom-for-all (not a free-for-all): the heart of agility & democracy
“Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up,...
Dr Kiran Chitta
- Oct 19, 2020
- 5 min
Agile organizations don’t need to hold out for a hero
‘Where have all the good men gone And where are all the Gods? Where's the streetwise Hercules to fight the rising odds? Isn't there a...