Habits Matter

Welcome to another episode of Habits Matter, the podcast that's nearly as old as Harappa! We're delighted to host Sumedha Bakhshi, one of the country's leading practitioners and diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) experts who's currently leading talent management and organizational development at @Amazon.  In this candid chat, she's talks about the cautious optimism she feels over DE&I awareness at workplaces and an interesting ‘3Is' approach to bring about meaningful change — from Individual to Interpersonal to institutional. 

Welcome to a brand-new season of Habits Matter. We're back with our hugely popular podcast that explores the human side of how things really work at work — stories, goof-ups and triumphs. And we've lined up a roster of entertaining guests, people who've sifted the good habits from the bad, and are now telling it like it is.   This season we're all about learning and development — ready to dive into the challenges and triumphs of those at the forefront of high-performing enterprise learning in India.  And we're thrilled to kick off the season we have corporate stalwart, bestselling author, mental wellbeing expert and chief learning officer at Grant Thornton Bharat, Ankit Jhamb!   A highly effective L&D business partner with the ability to deliver business impact, his approach to solution design, building agile and effective L&D engines by leveraging fields like social sciences, analytics and branding is the stuff of corporate India legend.

Work often demands that we focus on the details. But when we focus too well, we risk losing sight of the big picture. In this episode, we explain big-picture thinking in less abstract terms, explore a nifty tool to practice it, and find out how a campaign from your favorite fast-food chain knocked it out of the park—all because the folks behind it dared to think big. Meet Papiya Banerjee, Co-founder, Unqbe, and a leader with years of experience in culture building, talent management and leadership development; and Mark Pollard, strategy consultant for The Economist, Twitter, Euronews, Facebook, and host of the Sweathead podcast. This is Season 5 of Habits Matter. We're going behind the scenes of common work problems and asking questions like: how do you present effectively? Get that job? Or decode feedback? This episode was hosted remotely by Harappa Founder & CEO, Shreyasi Singh. Follow @habits.matter on Instagram.

Shapeshifters don't just exist in folklore and fiction. They're all around us in the world of work. These are people who adapt with exceptional agility, excelling at multiple careers, or breaking new ground with their entrepreneurial intelligence. We find out how they do it, and why their habits are relevant for a future of work that will see big disruptions from climate change, AI, and uncertain markets. Meet Paroma Roy Chowdhury, Chief Communications and Public Affairs Officer at Dream11—an e-sports start-up currently valued at $5 billion. Paroma has previously held leadership positions at Google, Airtel, SoftBank, Hewlett Packard and GE. Also meet Mac Prichard, Founder, Mac's List. Mac is a career coach and a full-time podcaster who has previously worked with governors and state departments in Oregon (US). He holds a degree in public administration from the Harvard Kennedy School. This is Season 5 of Habits Matter. We're going behind the scenes of common work problems and asking questions like: how do you present effectively? Get that job? Or decode feedback? This episode was hosted remotely by Harappa Founder & CEO, Shreyasi Singh. Follow @habits.matter on Instagram.

Receiving feedback sucks...until it doesn't. Inside, we uncover the power of positive feedback, break down fair feedback into its primary principles, and find out if your boss has been dropping truth bombs—or just bombs. Meet Ruchira Chaudhary, Leadership Coach and Author, “Coaching: The Secret Code to Uncommon Leadership”; Neeraj Sharma, Director, Product, Harappa; and Dhruv Mehra, Associate Director, Consumer, Harappa. This is Season 5 of Habits Matter. We're going behind the scenes of common work problems and asking questions like: how do you present effectively? Get that job? Or decode feedback? This episode was hosted remotely by Harappa Founder & CEO, Shreyasi Singh. Follow @habits.matter on Instagram.

Comms leaders deconstruct the art of presenting and share trade secrets on building influence with the people who really matter. And a strategy friend shares lessons from the ad world on making a good pitch. Meet Papri Dev, Senior Director, APAC Communications at Tinder; Mark Pollard, host of the Sweathead podcast, and strategy consultant for The Economist, Twitter, Euronews, Facebook; and Aniha Brar, Dean, Young India Fellowship, Ashoka University. This is Season 5 of Habits Matter. We're going behind the scenes of common work problems and asking questions like: how do you present effectively? Get that job? Or decode feedback? This episode was hosted remotely by Harappa Founder & CEO, Shreyasi Singh. Follow Habits Matter on Instagram.

Talent experts tell us what it takes to ace the interview. Inside: resume hacks, behavioral and case interviews, and words not to use in an interview. Meet Eklavya Sinha, a Talent Strategist at Accenture who has custodianship of more than 70,000 professionals, and Mac Prichard, Career Expert and President, Prichard Communications. Mac also hosts a popular podcast, “Find Your Dream Job”. This is Season 5 of Habits Matter. We're going behind the scenes of common work problems and asking questions like: how do you present effectively? Get that job? Or decode feedback? This episode was hosted remotely by Harappa Founder & CEO, Shreyasi Singh. Follow Habits Matter on Instagram.

In Season 5 of Habits Matter, we’re going behind the scenes of common work problems and asking questions like: how do you make a pitch to remember? Find your dream job? Or decode feedback? Habits Matter is a podcast about how things work at work. We’re bringing you stories, goof-ups and triumphs from a roster of entertaining guests—smart professionals and inspiring leaders who’ve been there, done that. Follow Habits Matter on Instagram.

A rebel in her own right, Francesca Gino has spent years studying fellow rule-breakers in multiple organizations, from a high-end boutique in Milan and a Michelin-star restaurant to a famous animation studio. In this episode, we find out more about rebels, their tendency to ask difficult questions and how that can be a force for good, at work and in life.Francesca Gino is a professor at Harvard Business School. She’s also involved with the Negotiation Program at Harvard Law School; the Mind, Brain, Behavior Initiative at Harvard University; and the Behavioral Insight Group at Harvard Kennedy School. Gino recently wrote a bestseller, “Rebel Talent”, which we explore in this episode. Through Season 4, meet five trailblazing women thinkers shaping our world of work with path-breaking ideas. In conversation with Harappa Founder & CEO Shreyasi Singh, they talk about everything from the nuances of negotiation to the necessity of creative rebellion. #WomenLead#ManagingTeamworkThis episode was hosted remotely by Harappa Founder & CEO, Shreyasi Singh.Follow Habits Matter on Instagram.Take the Rebel Test here.

This International Women’s Day, we speak to Vasanthi Srinivasan, a professor at IIM Bangalore known for her pioneering research on women in the workplace. Tune in for a sociohistorical deep dive into women’s integration in the Indian workforce. We explore its accidental origins, women’s glaring absence from the boardroom, and the unfair price of ambition.Through Season 4, meet five trailblazing women thinkers shaping our world of work with path-breaking ideas. In conversation with Harappa Founder & CEO Shreyasi Singh, they talk about everything from the nuances of negotiation to the necessity of creative rebellion. #WomenLead #LeadingOthersThis episode was hosted remotely by Harappa Founder & CEO, Shreyasi Singh.Follow Habits Matter on Instagram.

Let’s talk about you. Inside, multiple methods of self-reflection, including feedback; if millennials are more prone to the tyranny of the shoulds; and how self-belief impacts our potential. Meet Leena Chatterjee, who’s a much-loved professor at IIM Calcutta. She’s taught courses in organizational behavior, human psychology and interpersonal dynamics. Through Season 4, meet five trailblazing women thinkers shaping our world of work with path-breaking ideas. In conversation with Harappa Founder & CEO Shreyasi Singh, they talk about everything from the nuances of negotiation to the necessity of creative rebellion. #WomenLead#LeadingSelf This episode was hosted remotely by Harappa Founder & CEO, Shreyasi Singh.Follow Habits Matter on Instagram.Learn the art of self-leadership with our online course.

Inside: a look at the science of negotiation, power, and influence with Nazli Bhatia, who's a Senior Research Fellow at the Wharton School. How do we settle differences without going to war? What are the mysterious forces that change the game? And do power dynamics really shift when we’re all just boxes on a Zoom call?Nazli’s main area of expertise is negotiations: the strategies that influence the process and the factors that decide outcomes. She's also taught courses on power and influence, organizational behavior, cross-cultural management, and managing teams.Through Season 4, meet five trailblazing women thinkers shaping our world of work with path-breaking ideas. In conversation with Harappa Founder & CEO Shreyasi Singh, they talk about everything from the nuances of negotiation to the necessity of creative rebellion. #WomenLead#NegotiatingWisely This episode was hosted remotely by Harappa Founder & CEO, Shreyasi Singh.Follow Habits Matter on Instagram.Negotiate Wisely with our online course.

A ‘gray rhino’ is a highly probable, high-impact threat that we ignore—even though it’s staring us in the face. How and why does this happen? Find out from Global Strategist, Author and Commentator Michele Wucker. Michele specializes in the world economy, crisis anticipation and immigration. In 2016, she authored the concept of gray rhino events. Since then, the idea has shaped decision-making and policy around the globe. Through Season 4, meet five trailblazing women thinkers shaping our world of work with path-breaking ideas. In conversation with Harappa Founder & CEO Shreyasi Singh, they talk about everything from the nuances of negotiation to the necessity of creative rebellion. #WomenLead#MakingDecisions This episode was hosted remotely by Harappa Founder & CEO, Shreyasi Singh.Follow Habits Matter on Instagram.Solve problems better with our online course Making Decisions.

As 2020 draws to a close, things take an unexpected turn—one final time. Join us for our Christmas Special as we look back on a strange time and prepare to say goodbye to the year. But wait, where's our host?Sign up for our FREE online course, Embracing Change. Offer valid till December 31, 2020. #BEAT2020 www.harappa.education Buy a SOLVE course with code HABITS20: www.harappa.education Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/habits.matter/

The last episode of Season 3 is here. This time, find out everything you need to know about the lies our brains tell us—and how to fight them. Ahead: cognitive biases.Meet Pavan Mamidi, Director of the Centre for Social and Behavior Change at Ashoka and former professor, IIM-Ahmedabad; and Neela Saldanha, Behavior Scientist and Former Senior Director – Insights, PepsiCo. This episode is hosted remotely by Harappa Founder & CEO, Shreyasi Singh.Buy a SOLVE course with code HABITS20: www.harappa.education Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/habits.matter/Sign up for Embracing Change, FREE #BEAT2020: www.harappa.education

Crisis impairs our ability to solve problems. Join us as we talk about decision-making in crisis with leaders who’ve been there, done that. Find out how to think and act when the going gets tough, and stay till the end for lessons in decision-making from 2020.Meet Rahul Chandra, one of India’s earliest tech VCs and author, "The Moonshot Game”, a book that captures the behind-the-scenes of his investment journey; and Matt Granados, CEO, Life Pulse Inc and author, “Motivate the Unmotivated”. This episode is hosted remotely by Harappa Founder & CEO, Shreyasi Singh.Sign up for Embracing Change, FREE #BEAT2020: www.harappa.education Buy a course with code HABITS20: www.harappa.education Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/habits.matter/

There’s no silver bullet for complex problems. Unlike a broken arm or bad wi-fi, big problems are solved with changes in attitudes, behaviors and habits. This is no joke. Inside: technical and adaptive problems, the ugly side of fast fashion, and how we went from four seasons to 52.Meet slow fashion spokespeople Divya Saini, Founder, Bodements and Karishma Sehgel, Founder, The Baksa Project. This episode is hosted remotely by Harappa Founder & CEO, Shreyasi Singh.Gift a course: https://bit.ly/2HtYzda #GiftOfGrowth Buy a course with code HABITS20: www.harappa.education Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/habits.matter

The ultimate test of any solution is if it can get buy-in from the people. Inside: the importance of effective messaging, the power of our will, and an answer to why people still aren't wearing masks.Meet Neela Saldanha, Independent Consultant and Former Senior Director – Insights, PepsiCo; and Samuel Salzer, Behavioral Strategist. This episode is hosted remotely by Harappa Founder & CEO, Shreyasi Singh. Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/habits.matter/www.harappa.education

Season 3 is here. In this conversation, find out what leads groups to dangerous decisions, why echo chambers have taken over social media, and how teams can avert bad decisions before it’s too late.Meet Lubna Khan, a cognitive behavioral psychologist and brand strategy consultant; and Anshuma Kshetrapal, co-founder, The Arts Therapists Co-Lab. This episode is hosted remotely by Harappa Founder & CEO, Shreyasi Singh. The season's theme 'Solve' explores relevant questions. Like fast fashion's cost to the planet, and if it really is possible to bust our own biases. Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/habits.matter/www.harappa.education

Find out what’s in store for the future of the office. How will office design change? Will cubicles make a comeback? What’s the real loss to mourn when you can’t go to work for work?Meet Priyamwada Singh, Architect-Founder, Commonground Practice; Aparna Piramal Raje, Author, Working Out of the Box: 40 Stories of Leading CEOs and Columnist, HT MINT; and Ali Fenwick, Professor of Organizational Behavior, HBR contributor, and Founder at Lead TCM&L, a behavioral consultancy based in the Netherlands // This podcast is hosted remotely by Harappa Founder & CEO, Shreyasi Singh. Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/habits.matter/

Explore the meteoric rise and fall of organizations; the crash of Nokia, the magic of Lego; and the good habits that make great organizations.Meet Anustup Nayak, Director, Classroom Instruction & Practice at Central Square Foundation and Ali Fenwick, Professor of Organizational Behavior, HBR contributor, and Founder at Lead TCM&L, a behavioral insights consultancy based in the Netherlands. // This episode is hosted remotely by Harappa Founder & CEO Shreyasi Singh. Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/habits.matter/

Inside: the good habits that nurture great ideas, Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences, and what can we learn from people who’ve dedicated their lives to creativity? Meet internationally recognized educationist, 2004 Padma Shri recipient and Founder, Sanskriti School, Gowri Ishwaran; author-photographer and anchor of Savoy, winner, Best Documentary at the 2020 Dadasaheb Phalke Awards, Ganesh Saili; and Meeta Sengupta, writer, keynote speaker and Founder, Centre for Education Strategy. // Hosted remotely by Harappa Founder & CEO, Shreyasi Singh. We're on Instagram! Follow us here: https://www.instagram.com/habits.matter/

In Episode 2, Season 2, the psychology of loneliness; is one man’s loneliness another man’s solitude; and what can we learn about isolation from the masters of it? Meet His Eminence the 8th, Palga Rinpoche, Buddhist leader, teacher and philosopher; Aditi Kaul, Arts-Based Therapist and Psychologist at Fortis Healthcare; and Nandani Bhanot, student of Development Studies, SBI Youth for India Fellow and Economics graduate from SRCC // Hosted remotely by Harappa Founder & CEO, Shreyasi Singh // This episode features a special chant: the Bardo Prayer, or The Great Liberation by Rinpoche.Read more on autoimmune diseases here: https://bit.ly/autoimmune-diseases-hm We're on Instagram! Follow us here: https://www.instagram.com/habits.matter/

Inside: the science of trust, how to build trust online, the importance of vulnerability, and what’s the one thing that makes people throw logic out of the window and...just trust? Meet Padma Shri recipient, internationally recognized educationist, and Founder, Sanskriti School, Gowri Ishwaran; Ravishankar Iyer, Founder, Story Rules, formerly TEDx, Larsen & Toubro; Deepak Jayaraman, Executive Coach, formerly McKinsey, Egon Zehnder, KPMG // This podcast is hosted remotely by Harappa Founder & CEO, Shreyasi Singh. Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/habits.matter/

In Episode 5, our guests recount their experiences of the Iranian Revolution, the 2008 global financial crisis, 9/11 and personal tragedies. We find out: how do you define risk? Does surprise overturn our belief system? How can we cope with unexpected events? And is it possible to prepare for the next black swan?Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/habits.matter/

In Episode 4, we explore everything there is to know about mentorship, from its origins in a famous Greek epic to finding the right mentor and, if worse comes to worse, will you make it without one?Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/habits.matter/

In Episode 3 of Habits Matter—The Home Office: is social distancing lifting stigmas about the way we work? How do we bring sense and structure to working from home? And could that meeting have been an email?!Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/habits.matter/

Episode 2 of our podcast features conversations on the central character of our lives at work: bosses! What makes them good? What makes them bad? Inside: the Pygmalion Effect, the downfall of great organizations, and where’s the picture-perfect boss I need and deserve?Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/habits.matter/

Your early work seems mysterious...but is it? The first episode of our podcast is all about the most important part of your career—you. Inside: a discussion on self-awareness; the sunk-cost phenomenon; and other people secrets.We're on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/habits.matter/

Welcome to Habits Matter, your go-to podcast about habits at work. We’re bringing you stories, goof-ups and triumphs from an eclectic roster of entertaining guests—smart professionals and inspiring leaders who’ve been there, done that.