Imagine that you along with few members have worked on a solution for days or maybe weeks. You are excited and want to take inputs from larger team. What will be the natural tendency?
To discuss it with folks who are likely to be aligned.
Or take it to naysayers and discuss threadbare?
Agreed, naysayers seem to bring out the worst in us. Yet, they are the ones who will nudge us from falling into Group Think – a phenomenon when a group of well-intentioned people makes non-optimal decisions spurred by the urge to conform or the belief that dissent is impossible.
Naysayers will mostly disagree with us, challenge us, find faults with our solution, and point out what will not work. They may tell us something that we never considered or never knew existed.
Think of a time when you had an honest conversation like this? How did it help?
Look at other possibilities?
Refine the solutions?
Make them robust?
More importantly, how did you get over the initial frustration….
Instead of running away from naysayers, the challenge for us is to cultivate enough naysayers in our network?
At the outset, I would like to thank you for stopping by my Blog.
I believe that there is nothing right or wrong in this world. What’s right in this moment and context may be wrong in another moment and context. This belief has inspired me to name my blog ‘Perspectives’.
Perspectives is a platform for me to share my experiences, thoughts and perspectives on various subjects. You may have a different point of view. I look forward to hearing them, these are the triggers for rich and deep conversations.
On personal front, I live in Mumbai, India. I love to read; Somerset Maugham and Nevil Shute are my favorite authors. My favorite books are The Razor’s Edge, Mrs. Craddock, Chequer Board and Gone with the Wind. I am thankful to my father who inculcated the habit of reading in me early on.
I am also passionate about traveling, I have been to most parts of India and to several countries across the globe.
On professional front, I work in Human Resources function. Over two and half decades, I have worked across multiple industries and cultures. I focus on Leadership Development, Talent Management, Visioning and Culture, Large-scale change, Employee Listening & Engagement, Employee Well-being, Inclusive work culture, HR effectiveness, Behavior and Mind-set shifts through sustained interventions
I currently lead Organization Effectiveness Function for Aditya Birla Group, a $44.3 billion conglomerate with 120000 employees across 35 countries.
I sincerely hope that you will enjoy reading my blog. I look forward to your thoughts and suggestions.
Thank you!
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