Innovation? Learning? Executing more? Trying to find time to uplevel all these can have you on the ropes. Try timeboxing. No, it doesn’t call for perfecting a mean left hook or owning a membership to a secret fight-club…
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Each December, we reflect upon what we learned that year (if you've been to our annual anti-offsite, Incite, you'll have heard these insights).In 2019, we thought we'd start in June. (It's an easy way to double your learning for the year!) So here's what the CTQ team learned in 2019.
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In this post, we explore the concept of pre-mortem and the 5 ways in which our smartletter can bomb.
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You'll hear leaders, investors, students of decision-making use the phrase "mental models". But what does it mean?
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In the era of T20, Trump, and TikTok, we need things NOW and need them to END SOON. How does that change the way you communicate, learn, influence?
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“Sometimes your performance will improve if I make the task of learning more difficult for you, instead of easier…”
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Get to know your brain a little better!
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It's been an exceedingly wet monsoon for all of us at CTQ Central. Pune rains have traditionally been of the drip-drip-drip kind, but this year (2019), it reminded us of the approach that conventional, 'unthinking' organisations take about "learning".
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What do Indian ashrams have to do with Apple, the world's most valuable company?
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How do you teach your grandmother to book an Uber?
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What is stupidity and what causes it?
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Richard Branson was such a born maverick that his headmaster predicted he would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. What can leaders learn from Branson? Here are five ideas worth thinking about, curated from Branson's own writings and from stories about him.
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Some of CTQ's work falls into the “can you bring us ideas to solve a knotty problem?” category. So we are in danger of making the same mistakes. So we’ve tried hard to overcome these gaps. We try and put a lot of ideas into action in our own working and personal lives.
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Pause at Yellow makes you a better reflective thinker. Download 25 of our best questions so far and try your hand at answering them!
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Insights on dealing with distractions, teachability v learnability, being there for people, and Swedish Death Cleaning, among others.
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One way to think of a year is to split it into an "explore" phase and an "exploit" phase. You spend part of the year casting the net wide for insights, and then you spend another part of it trying to optimize an outcome based on these insights.
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One of the biggest lessons we learned in 2018 was to appreciate the small wins.
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The slow food movement stands for everything that is the opposite of 'fast food' - slower pace, consumption of local items, preserving local customs and traditions together, and eating healthier foods that have a history of suiting people from your region… So what could a Slow Brainfood Movement look like?
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We routinely try to use pre-mortems in our internal decision-making. Sometime ago, we asked the ultimate question: "Choose To Thinq is dead. What happened?".
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A Renaissance Man, a Nobel Winner, an Olympian, a Classical Singer, and two Brothers walk into a...