34.02 Arun Maira - Steering by listening
September 19, 2018 07:53
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NUGGET CONTEXT Arun discusses his definition of a leader – “she or he who
takes the first steps towards something that she or he deeply cares about and
in ways that others wish to follow”. He talks about the criticality of
listening to what other people care about as a key element of building
engagement and followership. GUEST Arun Maira is a former member of the
Planning Commission of India and former Chairman of BCG India. He had a
distinguished career in Tata Motors (then called TELCO) and rose to be on the
Board of the company. He then had to relocate to the US due to a personal
situation and had to reinvent himself at 45\\. He has written several books,
the most recent one being “Listening for well-being: Conversations with people
not like us”. In our conversation, we discuss some of his key transitions post
Tata Motors to the world of Advisory Services. We talk about how he went about
making some of those choices and settled into the new context. We also deep-
dive into his book on Listening and discuss its impact on various domains. We
talk about the art of asking deeper questions, how we could steer through
listening, how we can have tough conversations and give hard feedback by
listening, the trade-off between richness and reach of conversations and more.
Published in September 2018. HOST Deepak is a Leadership Advisor and an
Executive Coach. He works with leaders to improve their effectiveness and in
helping them make better decisions specifically around organizational and
career transitions. He currently runs Transition Insight
(www.transitioninsight.com) and works with leaders to handle phases of
transition thoughtfully. He has worked as an Operations Consultant with KPMG
in UK, Strategy Consultant with McKinsey in the US and as a Leadership
Consultant with EgonZehnder (a Swiss Leadership Advisory firm) where he helped
companies recruit CEOs, CXOs and Board Members and worked on Leadership
Development. Deepak is a certified CEO Coach and is an alumnus of IIT Madras,
IIM Ahmedabad and London Business School. His detailed profile can be found at
https://in.linkedin.com/in/djayaraman OTHER GUESTS 1.Vijay Amritraj 2.Amish
Tripathi 3.Raghu Raman 4.Papa CJ 5.Kartik Hosanagar 6.Ravi Venkatesan
7.Abhijit Bhaduri 8.Viren Rasquinha 9.Prakash Iyer 10.Avnish Bajaj 11.Nandan
Nilekani 12.Atul Kasbekar 13.Karthik Reddy 14.Pramath Sinha 15.Vedika
Bhandarkar 16.Vinita Bali 17.Zia Mody 18.Rama Bijapurkar 19.Dheeraj Pandey
20.Anu Madgavkar 21.Vishy Anand 22\\. Meher Pudumjee 23.KV Shridhar (Pops)
24.Suresh Naraynan 25.Devdutt Pattanaik 26.Jay Panda 27.Amit Chandra
28.Chandramouli Venkatesan 29.Roopa Kudva 30.Vinay Sitapati 31.Neera Nundy.
32.Deepa Malik 33\\. Bombay Jayashri. DISCLAIMER All content and opinions
expressed in the podcast are that of the guests and are not necessarily the
opinions of Deepak Jayaraman and Transition Insight Private Limited. Views
expressed in comments to blog are the personal opinions of the author of the
comment. They do not necessarily reflect the views of The Company or the
author of the blog. Participants are responsible for the content of their
comments and all comments that are posted are in the public domain. The
Company reserves the right to monitor, edit, and/or publish any submitted
comments. Not all comments may be published. Any third-party comments
published are third party information and The Company takes no responsibility
and disclaims all liability. The Company reserves the right, but is not
obligated to monitor and delete any comments or postings at any time without
notice. Read more
takes the first steps towards something that she or he deeply cares about and
in ways that others wish to follow”. He talks about the criticality of
listening to what other people care about as a key element of building
engagement and followership. GUEST Arun Maira is a former member of the
Planning Commission of India and former Chairman of BCG India. He had a
distinguished career in Tata Motors (then called TELCO) and rose to be on the
Board of the company. He then had to relocate to the US due to a personal
situation and had to reinvent himself at 45\\. He has written several books,
the most recent one being “Listening for well-being: Conversations with people
not like us”. In our conversation, we discuss some of his key transitions post
Tata Motors to the world of Advisory Services. We talk about how he went about
making some of those choices and settled into the new context. We also deep-
dive into his book on Listening and discuss its impact on various domains. We
talk about the art of asking deeper questions, how we could steer through
listening, how we can have tough conversations and give hard feedback by
listening, the trade-off between richness and reach of conversations and more.
Published in September 2018. HOST Deepak is a Leadership Advisor and an
Executive Coach. He works with leaders to improve their effectiveness and in
helping them make better decisions specifically around organizational and
career transitions. He currently runs Transition Insight
(www.transitioninsight.com) and works with leaders to handle phases of
transition thoughtfully. He has worked as an Operations Consultant with KPMG
in UK, Strategy Consultant with McKinsey in the US and as a Leadership
Consultant with EgonZehnder (a Swiss Leadership Advisory firm) where he helped
companies recruit CEOs, CXOs and Board Members and worked on Leadership
Development. Deepak is a certified CEO Coach and is an alumnus of IIT Madras,
IIM Ahmedabad and London Business School. His detailed profile can be found at
https://in.linkedin.com/in/djayaraman OTHER GUESTS 1.Vijay Amritraj 2.Amish
Tripathi 3.Raghu Raman 4.Papa CJ 5.Kartik Hosanagar 6.Ravi Venkatesan
7.Abhijit Bhaduri 8.Viren Rasquinha 9.Prakash Iyer 10.Avnish Bajaj 11.Nandan
Nilekani 12.Atul Kasbekar 13.Karthik Reddy 14.Pramath Sinha 15.Vedika
Bhandarkar 16.Vinita Bali 17.Zia Mody 18.Rama Bijapurkar 19.Dheeraj Pandey
20.Anu Madgavkar 21.Vishy Anand 22\\. Meher Pudumjee 23.KV Shridhar (Pops)
24.Suresh Naraynan 25.Devdutt Pattanaik 26.Jay Panda 27.Amit Chandra
28.Chandramouli Venkatesan 29.Roopa Kudva 30.Vinay Sitapati 31.Neera Nundy.
32.Deepa Malik 33\\. Bombay Jayashri. DISCLAIMER All content and opinions
expressed in the podcast are that of the guests and are not necessarily the
opinions of Deepak Jayaraman and Transition Insight Private Limited. Views
expressed in comments to blog are the personal opinions of the author of the
comment. They do not necessarily reflect the views of The Company or the
author of the blog. Participants are responsible for the content of their
comments and all comments that are posted are in the public domain. The
Company reserves the right to monitor, edit, and/or publish any submitted
comments. Not all comments may be published. Any third-party comments
published are third party information and The Company takes no responsibility
and disclaims all liability. The Company reserves the right, but is not
obligated to monitor and delete any comments or postings at any time without
notice. Read more
NUGGET CONTEXT Arun discusses his definition of a leader – “she or he who
takes the first steps towards something that she or he deeply cares about and
in ways that others wish to follow”. He talks about the criticality of
listening to what other people care about as a key element of building
engagement and followership. GUEST Arun Maira is a former member of the
Planning Commission of India and former Chairman of BCG India. He had a
distinguished career in Tata Motors (then called TELCO) and rose to be on the
Board of the company. He then had to relocate to the US due to a personal
situation and had to reinvent himself at 45\\. He has written several books,
the most recent one being “Listening for well-being: Conversations with people
not like us”. In our conversation, we discuss some of his key transitions post
Tata Motors to the world of Advisory Services. We talk about how he went about
making some of those choices and settled into the new context. We also deep-
dive into his book on Listening and discuss its impact on various domains. We
talk about the art of asking deeper questions, how we could steer through
listening, how we can have tough conversations and give hard feedback by
listening, the trade-off between richness and reach of conversations and more.
Published in September 2018. HOST Deepak is a Leadership Advisor and an
Executive Coach. He works with leaders to improve their effectiveness and in
helping them make better decisions specifically around organizational and
career transitions. He currently runs Transition Insight
(www.transitioninsight.com) and works with leaders to handle phases of
transition thoughtfully. He has worked as an Operations Consultant with KPMG
in UK, Strategy Consultant with McKinsey in the US and as a Leadership
Consultant with EgonZehnder (a Swiss Leadership Advisory firm) where he helped
companies recruit CEOs, CXOs and Board Members and worked on Leadership
Development. Deepak is a certified CEO Coach and is an alumnus of IIT Madras,
IIM Ahmedabad and London Business School. His detailed profile can be found at
https://in.linkedin.com/in/djayaraman OTHER GUESTS 1.Vijay Amritraj 2.Amish
Tripathi 3.Raghu Raman 4.Papa CJ 5.Kartik Hosanagar 6.Ravi Venkatesan
7.Abhijit Bhaduri 8.Viren Rasquinha 9.Prakash Iyer 10.Avnish Bajaj 11.Nandan
Nilekani 12.Atul Kasbekar 13.Karthik Reddy 14.Pramath Sinha 15.Vedika
Bhandarkar 16.Vinita Bali 17.Zia Mody 18.Rama Bijapurkar 19.Dheeraj Pandey
20.Anu Madgavkar 21.Vishy Anand 22\\. Meher Pudumjee 23.KV Shridhar (Pops)
24.Suresh Naraynan 25.Devdutt Pattanaik 26.Jay Panda 27.Amit Chandra
28.Chandramouli Venkatesan 29.Roopa Kudva 30.Vinay Sitapati 31.Neera Nundy.
32.Deepa Malik 33\\. Bombay Jayashri. DISCLAIMER All content and opinions
expressed in the podcast are that of the guests and are not necessarily the
opinions of Deepak Jayaraman and Transition Insight Private Limited. Views
expressed in comments to blog are the personal opinions of the author of the
comment. They do not necessarily reflect the views of The Company or the
author of the blog. Participants are responsible for the content of their
comments and all comments that are posted are in the public domain. The
Company reserves the right to monitor, edit, and/or publish any submitted
comments. Not all comments may be published. Any third-party comments
published are third party information and The Company takes no responsibility
and disclaims all liability. The Company reserves the right, but is not
obligated to monitor and delete any comments or postings at any time without
notice.
takes the first steps towards something that she or he deeply cares about and
in ways that others wish to follow”. He talks about the criticality of
listening to what other people care about as a key element of building
engagement and followership. GUEST Arun Maira is a former member of the
Planning Commission of India and former Chairman of BCG India. He had a
distinguished career in Tata Motors (then called TELCO) and rose to be on the
Board of the company. He then had to relocate to the US due to a personal
situation and had to reinvent himself at 45\\. He has written several books,
the most recent one being “Listening for well-being: Conversations with people
not like us”. In our conversation, we discuss some of his key transitions post
Tata Motors to the world of Advisory Services. We talk about how he went about
making some of those choices and settled into the new context. We also deep-
dive into his book on Listening and discuss its impact on various domains. We
talk about the art of asking deeper questions, how we could steer through
listening, how we can have tough conversations and give hard feedback by
listening, the trade-off between richness and reach of conversations and more.
Published in September 2018. HOST Deepak is a Leadership Advisor and an
Executive Coach. He works with leaders to improve their effectiveness and in
helping them make better decisions specifically around organizational and
career transitions. He currently runs Transition Insight
(www.transitioninsight.com) and works with leaders to handle phases of
transition thoughtfully. He has worked as an Operations Consultant with KPMG
in UK, Strategy Consultant with McKinsey in the US and as a Leadership
Consultant with EgonZehnder (a Swiss Leadership Advisory firm) where he helped
companies recruit CEOs, CXOs and Board Members and worked on Leadership
Development. Deepak is a certified CEO Coach and is an alumnus of IIT Madras,
IIM Ahmedabad and London Business School. His detailed profile can be found at
https://in.linkedin.com/in/djayaraman OTHER GUESTS 1.Vijay Amritraj 2.Amish
Tripathi 3.Raghu Raman 4.Papa CJ 5.Kartik Hosanagar 6.Ravi Venkatesan
7.Abhijit Bhaduri 8.Viren Rasquinha 9.Prakash Iyer 10.Avnish Bajaj 11.Nandan
Nilekani 12.Atul Kasbekar 13.Karthik Reddy 14.Pramath Sinha 15.Vedika
Bhandarkar 16.Vinita Bali 17.Zia Mody 18.Rama Bijapurkar 19.Dheeraj Pandey
20.Anu Madgavkar 21.Vishy Anand 22\\. Meher Pudumjee 23.KV Shridhar (Pops)
24.Suresh Naraynan 25.Devdutt Pattanaik 26.Jay Panda 27.Amit Chandra
28.Chandramouli Venkatesan 29.Roopa Kudva 30.Vinay Sitapati 31.Neera Nundy.
32.Deepa Malik 33\\. Bombay Jayashri. DISCLAIMER All content and opinions
expressed in the podcast are that of the guests and are not necessarily the
opinions of Deepak Jayaraman and Transition Insight Private Limited. Views
expressed in comments to blog are the personal opinions of the author of the
comment. They do not necessarily reflect the views of The Company or the
author of the blog. Participants are responsible for the content of their
comments and all comments that are posted are in the public domain. The
Company reserves the right to monitor, edit, and/or publish any submitted
comments. Not all comments may be published. Any third-party comments
published are third party information and The Company takes no responsibility
and disclaims all liability. The Company reserves the right, but is not
obligated to monitor and delete any comments or postings at any time without
notice.
