The System × People Interaction
A fortnightly letter from Manoj Mandelia on the systems that bend good decisions and the leaders who live inside them.
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The day I realised I was coaching people to be more like me.
Read the full article →What I learnt from my father in a Marwari home about organisational performance.
In a shop on Brabourne Road, Kolkata, thirty years ago, I watched my father turn down a sale that would have paid two months of rent…
Previously
Three countries. Same problem. Three different explanations.
Last year, I sat in three rooms in three countries, two weeks apart, listening to three leadership teams describe the same problem…
The cost of being right in the wrong room.
In Munich, four years ago, I watched a friend end his career by saying something everyone in the room already knew…
The promotion that broke me.
Two years ago, on a walk along the harbor in Copenhagen, a leader I had known for a decade told me something I didn’t expect…
The illusion of the execution problem.
Three years ago, in a hotel conference room in São Paulo, I watched a quarterly country review stall for four hours over a single slide…
The meeting after the meeting.
Some years ago, in a hotel in Madrid, I watched a three-hour executive committee argue its way to a decision that was quietly overturned in the eleven minutes between the session and dinner…
The calibration gap.
A few months ago, in a small café in Zurich, a friend told me she had started rehearsing every sentence before she spoke it in a meeting…
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