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Nand Kishore Chaudhary from Jaipur Rugs on love, collective consciousness and self-management

...ces of information for people to know what makes Jaipur Rugs special? NK Chaudhary: Jaipur Rugs is connected with 40,000 artesans in 600 villages in India, and all these women are working from their own home. We work with them to change their mindset and bring heart to heart connection with each other. ...more
...: One of the things that I read about Jaipur Rugs that was interesting to me, on the topic of being quite a special organisation, I think not just in India, but anywhere in the world... I really liked this idea I read about which is called the Higher School of Unlearning. Can you tell us about what that ...more
...the company Yash Pakka and I've spoken to Ved Krishna there and a lot of people have said to me that self-management isn't possible in countries like India, where there's a strong hierarchical culture. I'm curious, what do you think about that? What is your take? Is that true? Is that a myth? NK Chaudhar...more
...ace from the very beginning. I never understood, how can a person be different at home, different at work, when they are the same in this world? For India, I see this is an opportunity. In ancient times, we had many highly conscious people and sages in our land. The religiousness of the East and the sci...more
... sages in our land. The religiousness of the East and the scientific approach of the West, if this comes together, will give birth to a new humanity. India as a country is a huge talent goldmine, and to harness this enormous potential, self-management would be the key. The youth of new India is highly pa...more
...ew humanity. India as a country is a huge talent goldmine, and to harness this enormous potential, self-management would be the key. The youth of new India is highly passionate and all they need is love, direction, and freedom....more
...Lisa Gill: So it sounds like what you're saying is that there's great potential in India and a uniting of some of the ideas, some of the spirituality, perhaps of the East with the more scientific approaches of the West, could really make ...more
...scientific approaches of the West, could really make a powerful combination. And if you can tap into this younger generation that's coming through in India... In general, it sounds like what you're saying is: human beings in general have this potential to be more conscious, to be more human, that we don'...more
...ressed with what Jaipur Rugs has done with these viewers. So I want to meet you." And then she came to my office and she told me "I've been coming to India for the last ten years to bring empathy into to all the big and great hospitals in India and we are doing research on how to bring empathy and compas...more
...n she came to my office and she told me "I've been coming to India for the last ten years to bring empathy into to all the big and great hospitals in India and we are doing research on how to bring empathy and compassion [to interactions] with the patients. But what I have seen in your village, this is t...more
...ganisations will be driven by the heart. I would like to tell some of the stories, which I'm realising. I do so many webinars in the best colleges of India. Last week, I had two webinars with IIT, IAM, they are the best colleges in India. And when I was talking about my life journey, and when I was talki...more
... which I'm realising. I do so many webinars in the best colleges of India. Last week, I had two webinars with IIT, IAM, they are the best colleges in India. And when I was talking about my life journey, and when I was talking about this love and consciousness, I found that most of the students, they chas...more
... magic of Jaipur Rugs is to go and visit one of the villages and to see the weavers and the artisans in action. NK Chaudhary: Our weavers need you in India. Spend a week with all our weavers, so they can hear from you about the importance of what they are doing, and how these things are going global, and...more

Edwin Jansen on how people adopt self-management at Fitzii
...Lisa Gill: That's interesting. You mentioned to me before that part of the parent organisation is based in India. Is that a different landscape culturally in terms of helping people transition to self-management? Edwin Jansen: Yes, it absolutely is. I mean, Indi...more
...ndia. Is that a different landscape culturally in terms of helping people transition to self-management? Edwin Jansen: Yes, it absolutely is. I mean, India has been working in a hierarchical, caste type system for many generations. So the deference that generally the people in India have for their paren...more
...solutely is. I mean, India has been working in a hierarchical, caste type system for many generations. So the deference that generally the people in India have for their parents and for controlling power structures is very different than we have here in North America. So yeah, it's very different and I ...more
...for their parents and for controlling power structures is very different than we have here in North America. So yeah, it's very different and I think India's version of Teal will be a different shade than where we are in Canada and in the United States and we're taking a different trajectory working thro...more
...uestions is: "Why is this a great place to work?" And you could tell by the English writing style, which of these comments were coming from people in India, and the comments were just so inspiring, and so heartwarming, because we realise that maybe in Canada, here, we can have a 97% employee engagement, ...more
...that maybe in Canada, here, we can have a 97% employee engagement, this is a great place to work. And maybe another good company might be 87%. But in India, we're a 97% and maybe the average is a 47%. So the difference that we're making there, the impact that we're making, is literally many people in the...more
...le say, "Well, self-managing - can that really work in Asia or in Africa or places where the culture is very hierarchical?" And and I've just been in India myself doing a workshop with a self-managing company there. And my sense is that, yeah, it's a funny paradox, because on the one hand yeah, this ther...more

Lisa Gill and Mark Eddleston celebrate 50 episodes of Leadermorphosis

...he frontline, people who are doing it - to have a real mix. And so it's been really wonderful to do some more digging and find examples, like Yash in India, or Nearsoft in Mexico or examples over in Australia or in Southeast Asia, and I'm on the hunt for more of those examples because another thread I'm ...more
...t'd be really interesting to talk to him, and actually Matt Perez from Nearsoft in Mexico. A lot of companies who have parts of their organisation in India, have reached out and said: "Ah, I'd really like to talk to Ved to understand how he's navigated those challenges culturally, and what self-managemen...more

Pasteur Byabeza on transitioning to self-management at Davis College

...Lisa Gill: A quick reflection on that theme - because I've heard almost exactly the same thing from people in India, for example, when they have explored self management - and I'm wondering if that dynamic you're describing is a product of colonisation? Or if that'...more