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Dr Kiran Chitta
Dec 16, 20244 min read
Agile leaders build agile organizations together
The need to transform businesses to be able to keep pace with market and technology trends, and opportunities, has never been more...


Dr Kiran Chitta
Nov 1, 20244 min read
Coaching apps do not replace coaching culture
Organizational research suggests that coaching culture supports both wellbeing and performance in organizations. External coaching and...


Dr Kiran Chitta
Oct 21, 20245 min read
Can you sell?
"Can you sell"? This was a question that a senior partner in a global consulting firm once told me was the most important question to ask...


Dr Kiran Chitta
Sep 27, 20244 min read
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...


Dr Kiran Chitta
Aug 5, 20244 min read
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 8, 20244 min read
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 3, 20244 min read
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 14, 20245 min read
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 4, 20245 min read
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 11, 20245 min read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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...
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