I traveled to Chennai, India, for the Golden Jubilee reunion of the class of 1971 at my undergraduate alma mater, the College of Engineering, Guindy (CEG), and then to Coimbatore to visit my mother at Serene Shenbagam, a senior community.
Some visuals from the visit.
Continue readingIn our quest for lifelong learning, there are times when we are learning something new. Sometimes we may have to unlearn what we learned and relearn it to become innovative.
Learning, unlearning, and relearning all require us to be curious.
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You may wonder what George Martin, the English record producer, has to do with L&D leaders. Well, the Beatles wouldn’t be here if not for Martin, who took them under his wings at EMI Records, nurtured them, coached them, and helped them blossom into musical leaders.
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The Power of Coaching in a Leader’s Journey: Why You Need a George Martin
In The Beatles’ Song, “The Inner Light,” George Harrison Writes:
“The farther one travels
The less one knows
The less one really knows”
This holds so true today, as technology has made the world more complex while trying to make us more productive. How do you keep your inner light of knowledge burning?
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When I was in high school, the schools in the city had a puzzle master come to each school to entertain the students. The event at my school happened to be the day after the event at my nephew’s school. On the day he came to my nephew’s school, my nephew came home all excited to show off what he learned at the event. He said the man called the students up to the podium to solve riddles on a board. My nephew posed a puzzle. It was not a complex puzzle to solve, but it took some thinking, but we cracked it. The next day when the man came to our school, he posed the same to us. Of course, I recognized it, immediately ran up to the podium before anyone else could, and solved it – thus getting a prize! Would you say that I had an unfair advantage? What if I was a voracious reader of puzzles and had trained myself in solving riddles?
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I delivered a keynote at the Society of Women Engineers, Pittsburgh Chapter, on May 14, 2022, as part of the professional development day.
Continue readingI was interviewed by The Guindy Times, the official campus magazine of my alma mater, College of Engineering, Guindy (CEG), AC Tech, and SAP.
Thank you, Guindy Times, and thank you Shalini Devanand!
It is special to be speaking to my alma maters’ paper, and to a current student-interviewer.
Thank you, Aadhya Sujani
Sabreen Sadhak, and Vasanth Natarajan for all the great work you do at The Guindy Times!
Shantha Mohan 