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[CTQ Smart Levers] Ep 28 - Working Backwards

[CTQ Smart Levers] Ep 28 - Working Backwards

In this episode, we understand how taking a mental leap forward can help in creating something new.

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[CTQ Smartcast] How Should Leaders Apply Branding Lessons To Create A Great Organizational Culture? With Ambi Parameswaran

[CTQ Smartcast] How Should Leaders Apply Branding Lessons To Create A Great Organizational Culture? With Ambi Parameswaran

Ambi Parameswaran is a brand coach, brand strategist and the founder of Brand-Building.com, a brand advisory. He has served as the Vice President and then as CEO of FCB Ulka Advertising from 2003 to 2013. In a career spanning 35 plus years, Ambi has helped some of the most memorable brands of all time. In this Smartcast (hosted by BV Harish Kumar), we talked about lessons in brand building and why it is important for organisations to build mythology about themselves to create a great organizational culture.

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[CTQ Smart Levers] Ep 27 - The Golden Circle

[CTQ Smart Levers] Ep 27 - The Golden Circle

In this episode, become aware of Simon Sinek’s framework and understand why is it important for organizations to first understand the ‘Why’ instead of ‘What’?

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Incite Your Month: December 2021

Incite Your Month: December 2021

At CTQ, we kick each month off with a 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] Future Relevance at Choose To Thinq (Part 2)

[CTQ Smartcast] Future Relevance at Choose To Thinq (Part 2)

In part two, Ramanand and Harish invite questions from the friends of CTQ. This conversation is full of some concrete advice about content curation, learning, social media and curiosity diet.

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[CTQ Smartcast] Future Relevance at Choose To Thinq (Part 1)

[CTQ Smartcast] Future Relevance at Choose To Thinq (Part 1)

In Part 1, Ramanand and Harish talk about future relevance, CTQ’s Future Relevance Manifesto and how at CTQ, future relevance is practised. They also discuss some interesting projects from CTQ over the years, how CTQ has evolved and how future-thinking translates into deliberate actions at CTQ.

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New to managing a remote team? Three lessons from Radar, Space, and a Blind Professor to navigate these times.

New to managing a remote team? Three lessons from Radar, Space, and a Blind Professor to navigate these times.

We take lessons from the British air force, NASA’s astronauts and a blind professor on how to make the best of remote working scenarios.

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[CTQ Smartcast] How should Senior Leaders think about their own Future Relevance? With Nitin Deshpande

[CTQ Smartcast] How should Senior Leaders think about their own Future Relevance? With Nitin Deshpande

Nitin Deshpande is the President of Evolent Health International. He has established and grown Indian sites of companies like Allscripts, BMC Software and Geometric Software Solutions. In this CTQ Smartcast, Nitin talks about what it takes to create great teams, leaders and culture and how senior leaders should think about their future relevance.

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[CTQ Smart Levers] Ep 26 - IDEO Brainstorming Method

[CTQ Smart Levers] Ep 26 - IDEO Brainstorming Method

In this episode, we learn about IDEO’s approach to brainstorming and how this methodical technique reins in the chaos that a usual brainstorming session brings with it.

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"Loha garam hai" - how we used Sholay to help Icertis talk about its values in an engaging and memorable way

"Loha garam hai" - how we used Sholay to help Icertis talk about its values in an engaging and memorable way

In 2019, Icertis CTO Monish Darda asked CTQ: can you use the film Sholay to talk about our FORTE cultural values? Find out what happened next.

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How Workplaces Kill Curiosity (And What You Can Do About It)

How Workplaces Kill Curiosity (And What You Can Do About It)

Find out 5 steps you can take today to have a curiosity-driven workforce

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Slot-Jot-Carrot: A Three Part Framework To Help You Become a Life-long Learner

Slot-Jot-Carrot: A Three Part Framework To Help You Become a Life-long Learner

This 3-step framework will help you become a pro at learning anything

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[CTQ Smartcast] Lessons in Future Relevance from a CEO's Career, With Akash Sureka

[CTQ Smartcast] Lessons in Future Relevance from a CEO's Career, With Akash Sureka

Akash Sureka is the CEO and MD of Tavisca, a customer loyalty technology platform, which is a division of JPMorgan Chase and Company. In this Smartcast, Akash talks about the importance of wearing multiple hats in one organization and how working backwards can help in pushing oneself out of their comfort zones and constantly making progress.

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[CTQ Smart Levers] Ep 25 - Culture Diet

[CTQ Smart Levers] Ep 25 - Culture Diet

In this episode, we understand why leaders mustn’t force employees to follow the organization’s culture, but demonstrate it through conversations, actions and decisions.

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[CTQ Smartcast] How to Look at History to Think about your Future Relevance? With Chinmay Tumbe

[CTQ Smartcast] How to Look at History to Think about your Future Relevance? With Chinmay Tumbe

Chinmay Tumbe is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. He is the author of India Moving and Age of Pandemics. In this CTQ Smartcast, he talks about the role of history in staying future relevant and why leaders must invest in reading business history.

CTQ Smartcast, Future Relevance, Smart Conversations, Systematic CuriosityChoose To ThinqNovember 10, 2021History, Pandemic, Migration, Business HistoryComment

[CTQ Smart Levers] Ep 24 - Precrastination

[CTQ Smart Levers] Ep 24 - Precrastination

In this episode, understand how haste can also turn your enemy.

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[CTQ Smartcast] What is Intellectual Investment Planning? With Sudhir Sarnobat

[CTQ Smartcast] What is Intellectual Investment Planning? With Sudhir Sarnobat

Sudhir Sarnobat is a first-generation entrepreneur and has been one of the most active subscribers of CTQ Compounds. He is a proponent of a notion called Intellectual Investment Plan which helps him to collect the dots and builds his crystalized knowledge. In this CTQ Smartcast, Sudhir shares an actionable plan on how to start with this journey.

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[CTQ Smart Levers] Ep 23 - Eisenhower Matrix

[CTQ Smart Levers] Ep 23 - Eisenhower Matrix

In this episode, learn how Eisenhower Matrix can help one solving the puzzle of time management.

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Incite Your Month: November 2021

Incite Your Month: November 2021

At CTQ, we kick each month off with a 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 be Future-Relevant in a Shape-Shifting World? With Abhijit Bhaduri

[CTQ Smartcast] How to be Future-Relevant in a Shape-Shifting World? With Abhijit Bhaduri

Abhijit Bhaduri is the author of books like ‘Don't Hire the Best’, ‘The Digital Tsunami’ and ‘Dreamers and Unicorns’. Forbes has called him ‘India’s most interesting globalist’ and he is also LinkedIn’s Top Voices for 2020.
In this Smartcast, Abhijit talked about the five shifts in the world of work that are changing and shaping businesses and what will be its impact on businesses in the future.

CTQ Smartcast, Future Relevance, SmartConversations, Systematic CuriosityChoose To ThinqOctober 27, 2021change, shaping businessComment