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Is moving away from large cities a revolutionary move?

A lot of people in villages have very basic education, if at all. The premise of modern systems, to a large extent, is that people are educated enough to avail them. In the lack of this education, entirely new systems will have to be created.

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Helix Model: Useful Or a Double Whammy?

The helix model proposes that instead of having a top-down, or even a matrix model of organization, they can have a two-way helix model, in which there are two managers who play an equally important role in making an organization blossom.

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A Move for the Ages

I’ve always felt that India is the land of opportunities. In a lot of “developed” countries the structures have been laid down and the foundations have been set. I feel that India has a long way to go as a country: there are avenues of growth everywhere and the structures for it are still being formed.

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How do we nurture ‘Sustainable Leadership’?

The sustainable mindset needs to come from the top. As I keep iterating in most of my posts that leadership is not a designation but an attitude, sustainable leadership is an evolved attitude, it’s a mindset. That said, people with considerable clout need to be frontrunning this mindset.

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In search of a new breed of men...

Feminism as an ideology, and social and political movement, is something that is rooted deeply in my psyche and that of millions of women worldwide. And that’s no surprise as the narratives around the political, economic, and cultural equality of women took root way back in the 19th century.

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How my Purpose revealed itself

In 2019, during the first lock-down, when I was reading the bestseller by Giulia Enders on the human gut, I had an “Aha!” moment as I realized the startling similarities between nurturing soil and nurturing people.

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Can you feel group energy in virtual meetings?

The challenge is to keep the participants engaged – something that can be done with exercises, interactive breakout room sessions, and opinion polls. Participants’ focus is normally higher, as there are fewer distractions in a virtual format and people can’t simply wander off.

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The workshop feedback that concerns me the most

As I tell them the science of discovering their top strengths, I feel many fears fading away in silence. As I go about asking questions that let them introspect and realize what they are great at, that let them learn about their strengths on their own, I hear a lot of ‘wow’s’ and ‘whoa’s’ and ‘that’s interesting'.

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The season for kindness

Kindness exudes warmth, makes one approachable and creates an openness that draws people. No wonder it is the ultimate soft skill. As I have come to realize, a quality like kindness can be inherent or learned.

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Are you really working in a team?

Teams are all around us. Many of you are part of teams, some of you lead teams and some of you are looking to build teams. Question is, how much do we understand about these fundamental units that are building blocks of an organization?

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Trust – what teams are built on

Trust is quoted to be one of the core elements of healthy company cultures and tops the list whenever I ask people what they consider important for their company ethos. So, what makes some companies more trustworthy than the others?

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Antje Bauer Antje Bauer

The season for kindness

Kindness exudes warmth, makes one approachable and creates an openness that draws people. No wonder it is the ultimate soft skill. As I have come to realize, a quality like kindness can be inherent or learned.

Read More
Antje Bauer Antje Bauer

Are you really working in a team?

Teams are all around us. Many of you are part of teams, some of you lead teams and some of you are looking to build teams. Question is, how much do we understand about these fundamental units that are building blocks of an organization?

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