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Be Defiant!
Here is yet another proof of how powerful social media can be. I am very glad to announce the official launch of my friend and guide Rajesh Setty’s new free eBook – defiant! Practical Tips for Thriving...
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99Tribes by ActiveGarage – Building Valuable Relationships
Today, I would like to congratulate my friends at ActiveGarage for launching their flagship project – 99Tribes which is a people discovery engine for Twitter.(See the announcement) In real life, we...
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SHRM India Top-20 Indian HR Influencers on Social Media
This week, SHRM India released a list of “Top 20 Indian HR Influencers on Social Media” where I am featured at #4. It came to me as an unexpected yet a very pleasant surprise. Readers of this blog know...
View ArticleSocial Media and Leadership Success: A Few Parallels
When I first learned playing Guitar, I focused too much on notes, specifics and techniques. The more I practiced, the more I realized that notes, specifics and techniques are important for producing...
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BLOGTASTIC by Rajesh Setty: A Blogging Guide
Why do I blog? Why do people blog? I blog because it helps me see my thoughts. Get clarity. Make a small difference to my community. Build meaningful connections. Establish credibility. One such...
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How to Establish Thought Leadership? Interview With Dr. Liz Alexander
Thought leadership is important for building careers and for building organizations. It is the most important tool we have as professionals to build our personal brand and establish credibility. What...
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SHRM Top 20 Indian HR Influencers Active on Social Media 2013
Social media has become mainstream and an integral part of business strategy. Social media is at the center of how people connect, consume information, drive conversations, initiate movements and...
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6 Lessons On Creating a Lasting Influence
Mahatma Gandhi, as we know, was a simple man who had no position, no wealth, no power and no authority. Yet, he altered the course of history by leading India to Independence through power of people....
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Learning in a Connected Age: Leveraging Social Media
Before language evolved, we used symbols and expressions. They evolved to form words and hence sentences. Language allowed us to create stories and human beings learned through stories shared in a...
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3 C’s for Learning and Leading on Social Media
With advent of social media tools, our ways of learning, sharing and leading have undergone a sea change. Blogs, Twitter, Massively Open Online Courses (MooC’s) and a variety of other tools are nicely...
View ArticlePodcast: Leveraging Social Media for Learning and Leading
I am thankful to Mike Wong of Business Insights Podcast for interviewing me on the topic “Leveraging Social Media for Learning”. Talk about ‘social media’ and people quickly talk about tools like...
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Lessons from 9 Years of Blogging
QAspire blog completes 9 years this month and here is how I feel at the moment.They say and I agree that time flies when you are having fun. 2006 was a year when I had just transitioned into my first...
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SHRM Top 25 Indian HR Influencers on Social Media 2014
Last week, SHRM India published a list of “Top 25 Indian HR Influencers on Social Media” for the year 2014-15. I am glad to be ranked amongst top 5 influencers for the third consecutive year. Each...
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Sketch Note: 6 Lessons On Creating Lasting Influence
I am fascinated by the idea of sketch notes after having read this post from Abhijit Bhaduri. Here is my second sketch note with ideas from my 2013 post titled “6 Lessons On Creating Lasting Influence”.
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Sketch Note: 3 C’s for Learning and Leading on Social Media
Here is my newest sketch note based on a previous post with the same title.
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How to Build Real Thought Leadership: Insights by Dr. Liz Alexander
In early 2013, I interviewed Dr. Liz Alexander on the all important topic of thought leadership (based on her book). In a world where every other person with a blog or a book under the belt claiming to...
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Real Influence is a By-Product
The world today reveres influence and this leads people to chase influence. When influence becomes a goal, you can easily lose focus on what truly builds influence. Influence – real influence that...
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Journey That Inspires Others
My journey in life and career is largely inspired by what other generous folks have shared – both online and offline. A boss who believed in me when I didn’t, a book that altered my perspective for...
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Friday Five: A Metaphor is Worth a Thousand Pictures!
Introducing a new series on this blog – Friday Five – where I will curate five articles (with excerpts)/quotes/tweets shared on my personal learning network each week that I found particularly useful,...
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Leading and Learning: How to Feed a Community
When I started this blog in April 2006, little did I understand about how a community works. I would write posts each week only to be read by my immediate colleagues and friends. Till a point when I...
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