Published inGreat New Reads·PinnedMember-onlyDear Medium, Please Add These Features!7 recommendations for improved user experience! Dear Medium, I love you and your continuous efforts to create a wow experience for your customers (readers and writers)! For the past 3 years, I have been a loyal paid subscriber and last year even gifted subscriptions to 2 family members. Hence, as a frequent and highly engaged user…Medium6 min readMedium6 min read
Published inGreat New Reads·PinnedMember-onlyLessons from my Leadership LabWeekly journal Ideas Worth Sharing: The content for this section comes from the book ‘How Women Rise’ by Sally Hegelson and Marshall Goldsmith. There are dozens of practical strategies in the book that benefit leaders of all stages and industries. However, I am going to focus on the 4 types of power highlighted in the…Leadership Experiments4 min readLeadership Experiments4 min read
Published inSelf Publish Magic·PinnedMember-onlyApril 2023 Writing Challenge30 days, 30 posts — April is Camp NanoWriMo — a month-long opportunity to write that bestseller you’ve been thinking about for ages. In honor of this writing adventure, here is another writing challenge to help you get started. My challenge is not affiliated with the original CampNanoWrimo at all. Instead, I hope to help…Writing Challenge 20232 min readWriting Challenge 20232 min read
Published inGreat New Reads·Updated 6 hours agoMember-onlyPredicting & Mastering the UnknownLessons from Leadership Lab — This post lists some insightful leadership lessons from the book ‘The Edge’ by Michael Useem. This book has 10 chapters about leaders who reinvented, turned around, or catapulted their firms to resounding success. Each CEO has a different background story and path to success. Yet we see many commonalities within…Leadership Skills3 min readLeadership Skills3 min read
Published inGreat New Reads·1 day agoMember-onlyJune 2023 Writing ChallengeLeadership Lab — Lessons from Books June is here and with it comes another writing challenge. Participating in the challenge issued by Niru on Leadership Lessons. (Link with rules at the end) I have been posting my Leadership Lab weekly reflection posts. Taking it a notch higher by committing to write one post per day. To…Writing Challenge2 min readWriting Challenge2 min read
Published inGreat New Reads·4 days agoMember-onlyLeadership Lab Lessons — Week of May 26Career insights journal #1. Insights from Bunch.ai podcast. Listened to an episode on building high-performance teams and the vital difference between manager and leader. The guest speaker Meri Williams, CTO of multiple companies, presented the concept of a good manager. She expressed deep regret that the word 'manager' has somehow been vilified and codified to be an opposite…Personal Branding2 min readPersonal Branding2 min read
Published inGreat New Reads·May 6Member-onlyKaleidoscope PerspectiveLeadership Experiments & Journaling — May 2023 — Have you heard of a kaleidoscope? As the patterns and colors change, the images evolve and morph from one spectrum of colors to another. An Agatha Christie mystery (involving the characters Satherwaite and Harley Quin) first introduced me to the word and what I call the concept of ‘kaleidoscope perspective’…Leadership Experiments2 min readLeadership Experiments2 min read
Published inSelf Publish Magic·May 1Member-only30-day Writing ChallengeApril 2023 Writing Prompts — This is a post with all the 30 prompts used in the Apr 2023 writing challenge. Please use this to spark your own writing spree, or mix up with the other writing topics in my 1001 ideas list. In sequence, here are the prompts: Whom do you write for? Not…Campnanowrimochallenge2 min readCampnanowrimochallenge2 min read
Published inSelf Publish Magic·Apr 30Member-onlyWriting Habits & InsightsWriting Challenge — Day 30 Welcome to the final day of my writing challenge. (All links at the end) There are many writing contests and I am thankful to everyone who read, responded, engaged and participated in this journey and decided to stop by my tiny little corner of Medium. …Writing Challenge 20233 min readWriting Challenge 20233 min read
Published inSelf Publish Magic·Apr 30Member-onlyWhat Superpower Would you Like?Writing Challenge — Day 22 — Today’s prompt is wishful thinking — and a pending post from last week. Topic — What superpower do you wish for? If you could have any one superpower, what would it be? What skill or attribute do you often find yourself wishing for? To make it easier for you, here is a list of fictional superhero characters and…3 min read3 min read