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Build a wise reading system with the CTQ Reading Compound

Compound your wisdom by reading for 15 mins per day, each day or on weekends. Join the CTQ Reading Compounds.

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[CTQ Smartcast] How Should Consultants and Business Analysts Think About Future Relevance, with Arun Iyer

Arun Iyer is Executive Vice-President of Hexanika with a 22+ year experience in the Banking and Financial Services industry. In this Smartcast with CTQ co-founder BV Harish Kumar, we talk to him about how consultants and business analysts can think about future relevance, changing the mindset while working in startups vs big companies, and the role of being well-read, curious in such industries.

[CTQ Smartcast] Upleveling for Single-Person Entrepreneurs, with Ravi Handa

Ravi Handa is the founder of HandaKaFunda.com, an MBA entrance tutoring portal and has navigated the waters of online coaching when it wasn't very trendy. In this CTQ Smartcast with CTQ co-founder BV Harish Kumar, Ravi shares his insight into the Edtech business and lessons learnt from making it as a single-person entrepreneur.

[CTQ Smartcast] Models for career growth and better decisions, with Aseem Datar

Aseem Datar is General Manager, Microsoft Cloud, leading one of the fastest-growing businesses at Microsoft. In this conversation with CTQ co-founder Ramanand, Aseem talks about his decision-making principles, mental models for career growth, and the role of collaboration.

Building Influence using 6 universal principles of persuasion

Tips based on 6 universal principles of persuasion that can help you exercise influence and guard against manipulation.

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‘Power Map’ to influence decision-makers

When you need to mould a decision without direct sway, this simple visual tool can prove useful for strategizing influence.

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Incite Your Month: May 2021

At CTQ, we kick each month off with a 5 min collection of ideas & recos from the team’s recent curiosity diet. It helps us ‘incite’ the rest of the month. Here’s this month’s edition.

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[CTQ Smartcast] How To Build A Curiosity Calendar for Your Company

Curiosity Calendar is a calendar of activities aimed at getting the employees of a team more curious and discover knowledge blindspots. In this Smartcast, Sanasi Kelkar speaks with CTQ co-founder BV Harish Kumar about how you can use Curiosity Calendar as a form of carefully-designed smart edutainment that can help an organisation grow inside-out.

[CTQ Smartcast] An Entrepreneur's Guide To Learning & Unlearning Habits

Engineer and entrepreneur Ashwin Megha shares his journey with the Daily Reader and his personal takeaways from a lifetime of building and breaking habits.

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How Stories Can Help Drive Cultural Values Inside a Rapidly Changing Organization - A Case Study

Read our Case Study of how we helped this CTQ client ensure its core values remain relevant and top-of-mind to a remote, growing staff across the world.

[CTQ Smartcast] How To Make Space For Important Habits, with Vineet Deshpande

Vineet Deshpande is a computer engineer by profession and has been a daily reader for two years as part of the CTQ Reading Compound. In this candid conversation with CTQ's Omkar Yarguddi, he shares his insight into the practise of habit-building and the rewards that come with it.

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Incite Your Month: April 2021

At CTQ, we kick each month off with a 5 min collection of ideas & recos from the team’s recent curiosity diet. It helps us ‘incite’ the rest of the month. Here’s this month’s edition.

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[CTQ Smartcast LIVE] How to get better at video meetings & recordings

Sanasi Kelkar is self-taught in the art of video-making and now handles CTQ's media, smartcasts, and YT channel. Get her tips, tricks, and tools to get better at using video for meetings and smart conversations.

[CTQ Smartcast] How Great Audio Brings Wonder To Our Lives

Srikant Chakravarti is the co-founder of Curio, an audio platform that aims to use the best journalism as opportunities for real-time learning and self-improvement. In this conversation with CTQ's J Ramanand, we explore the story behind Curio and the world of curation and audio content in an age of information overload.

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[CTQ Smartcast] The Magical Tricks Behind Great Habits

Ankita Verma is an avid reader and great at picking up tips and tricks from what she observes. In this conversation with Omkar Yarguddi, Ankita gives you some her top recommendations for building the habits you want.

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[CTQ Smartcast] How To Engage Teams The Smart Way

CTQ has been helping companies engage their employees in meaningful ways for over half a decade. In this conversation we explore how being smart about your employee engagement can ensure a highly motivated, interested and cohesive workforce.

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[CTQ Smartcast] How Mid-Career Professionals Can Keep Themselves Relevant, with Navin Kabra

Computer scientist and startup advisor Navin Kabra guides mid-career professionals on how to avoid getting irrelevant, how to network for future relevance and the importance of diversity of thought.

[CTQ Smartcast] How To Grow by Making Yourself Replaceable, with Anaggh Desai

Business executive coach and professional mentor Anaggh Desai tells us how to have the mindset that will keep you future relevant, and how to turn your skills into capability. In conversation with CTQ's BV Harish Kumar.

CTQ Smartcast LIVE

Choose To Thinq hosts one call every month on a topic of future relevance as part of its free compound ‘Future Fitness Gym’ - a place for regular actions that help you uplevel and stay relevant. Here’s the Archive and Registration Form for the upcoming session.

Incite Your Month: March 2021

At CTQ, we kick each month off with a 5 min collection of ideas & recos from the team’s recent curiosity diet. It helps us ‘incite’ the rest of the month. Here’s this month’s edition.

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