24 Jun 2019

Cross Culture, India, Social Media, Impact
We often get asked in our cultural workshops about how social media has affected the culture DNA, especially for the Gen Z.My view? Not much.Since the 2007 technology boom, the rate of change in technology has doubled every two years (Moore’s law) and this is changing the way we are interacting with each other as well as with businesses.In her 2017 doctoral study, Is our so...

10 Jun 2019

The LSP Method helps teams create a landscape and play our scenarios for the future
The LEGO(R) SERIOUS PLAY(R) methodology (LSP) is a facilitated thinking, communication and problem-solving technique for organisations, teams and individuals. And this was wonderfully played out in the team-building workshop we recently did.When a team comes together, the nuances, the connections, the ripple effects are too many to fathom. How does one garner the collective potentia...

23 Oct 2018

The LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® MethodologyThe LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® (LSP) Methodology is a facilitated thinking, communication and problem-solving technique for organisations, teams and individuals. It draws on extensive research from the fields of business, organisational development, psychology and learning, and is based on the concept of ‘hand knowledge’. As one of the Master Trainers of the...

18 Oct 2018

Pink. The Colour of Health and HealingPink. In view of the #MeToo, Pink is ruling right now... though not for very happy reasons. Pink has always been associated with the feminine, but pink is also the colour of health and healing.Pink. Rani Pink. It rules.It’s the colour of hope and healing, a colour that tones down the fire of red but still imbues you with the assertive...

17 Oct 2018

Sky BlueSky Blue is the colour of the day. In India, in Hindi, the word would be Aasmani – literally translated – that of the sky.I know sky blue is a particular light blue but empowered with Shakti (Power), and the wealth of wisdom, sky blue empowers you with not only calming effect of blue, but also the metaphor of the sky. Look at the sky, sometimes it’s clear, sometimes cloud...

16 Oct 2018

Discover the Passion in the RedSTOP! It's time for Red now!It's time to draw all your attention to the high energy, high activity, high energy colour.Think of all the brands that use red and you'll sit up and take notice."Gimme Red" proclaimed a popular brand of battery cells, some years ago - bringing in the energy, the light and the passion of the colour into the brand....

15 Oct 2018

The Purity of WhiteWhite is no colour. It's the absence of colour. Or if you spin a colour wheel all colours unite to form a lovely white light. White is all colours and yet none! Pristine. Pure. And very importantly, 'uncomplicated'. And no brand has done it better than Apple. Remember the first iPhone? And how everyone clambered for white, having had enough of their 'black'berries ...

14 Oct 2018

Welcome the flames of orangeThe colour of fire. Fire the purifier! Wherein only the good remains and the evil gets destroyed. Here's what I wrote in an earlier post:While orange is everything bright and beautiful that India and Indians stand for what’s really worth talking about is the symbolism of orange. Most people know that orange has immense religious significance because mo...

13 Oct 2018

Sometimes you need a bit of greyIt's all there in black and white - the significance of grey and it's importance as a very corporate colour. Grey or Gray... the colour remains the same - and could have 50 shades! But hush.. we don't talk about them here!Grey is the color of intellect, knowledge, and wisdom. It is perceived as long-lasting, classic, and often as sleek or refined. ...