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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
Sep 2, 20226 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
Mar 11, 20223 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
Dec 16, 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...
Dr Kiran Chitta
Nov 8, 20215 min read


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
Oct 11, 20215 min read


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
Sep 13, 20214 min read


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 31, 20217 min read


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
Jul 1, 20215 min read


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
May 27, 20218 min read


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 30, 20215 min read


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
Apr 6, 20216 min read


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
Mar 19, 20214 min read


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
Feb 2, 20214 min read


‘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
Jan 4, 20214 min read


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
Dec 14, 20204 min read


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 23, 20205 min read


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 16, 20204 min read


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 9, 20204 min read


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
Nov 2, 20204 min read


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 26, 20204 min read
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