Arun Rao, Author at FocusU - Page 4 of 7

Arun Rao

Arun Rao, Author at FocusU - Page 4 of 7

December 31, 2014

Book Learning : From Ouch to Oops

It was late evening in the last week of June 2010. I had said my formal good byes to all my colleagues in HP – a company that I had passionately worked […]
November 9, 2014

What is NOT Team building?

We lost a deal to a competitor in the previous week. We were disappointed of course – yet we went back to the customer and explored what choice of activities they had […]
September 11, 2014

Why Leaders Need To Stand By Their Words?

“Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson We recently concluded a series of Leadership workshops across the country for a leading MNC organization. […]
August 30, 2014

Why Passion Matters?

The word “Passion” comes from the Latin verb patere, meaning “to suffer”. Hence when you are passionate about something or anything, it drives you in such an intense and compelling way – […]
August 24, 2014

What Constitutes a Successful Workshop?

As an organization that is completely into conducting bespoke workshops for our clients, over a period of time – we have continuously asked ourselves this question. Some time back, we defined it […]
March 20, 2014

Building a Culture of Innovation

How can an organization build a sustainable culture of Innovation? Can creativity really be taught? Is creativity & innovation just about throwing up a lot of ideas? How can a creativity & […]
January 13, 2014

Team entertainment is not the same as team building

Teamwork makes all the difference. Slowly but surely, the wisdom of this statement seems to be seeping in, into corporates. This has reflected in an increasing number of companies now applying thought, […]
October 5, 2013

6 Marketing Insights From Kids

The below article has been contributed by Rajeev Nagi, Vice President- Commercial Excellence at AstraZeneca India As marketing professionals, we take our lives a wee bit seriously and get enamoured with glossy […]
September 10, 2013

A Sense of Urgency

There seems like a singular common trait that distinguishes highly successful and productive people from the rest, one that differentiates between average and superior performers. This common trait is a sense of […]
July 12, 2013

5 Tips for Facilitating Large Group Meetings

First things first. How do we define a “large group”? Any group that has more than around 30 people can be safely categorized under this nomenclature. Managing conversations even in a small […]