The Analogue Dialogues

Work is getting unbearably painful. If someone asked, "Which of these are worrying you: - Rate of career growth has slowed - Redundancy fears - Earnings aren't growing as fast as expenses are - Opportunities are fewer - Leaders aren't capable - Goals aren't clear - Success at work/ in my project doesn't seem feasible You would insisting on adding "all of the above" I...

Conflicts are never fun but most of us are also not taught how to deal with it, how to safely engage with it, how to identify an ego butting in and derailing relationships. So, we talk about the Indian socio-cultural context in which our misguided understanding of conflicts often lives, and ways in which we can humanly respond. We then look at ways to build range in responding to conflict, what re...

Why, in these ultrabusy times, with our always on lives and large chunks of life spent in traffic, should we consider having interests? We unpack this and questions that follow: What do interests add to our lives? Do we really need to make any trade-offs? We hear from three people with diverse interests. All three of them have that unusual combination of gravitas and lightness of being. Vivek Radh...

We do a surface skim (It's the opposite of a deep dive) into - The leadership crisis brewing in companies - What's causing it - How to think about leadership in simple terms - First principles of adopting a leadership approach - What responsible delegation of work looks like - How do conflicts get dealt with - What price goodwill - How to make feedback exciting - Consistency is glamorous - Presenc...

We explore the evolving landscape of fitness while navigating our middle years. Episode Summary Realistic Fitness Goals : Yes, motivation comes in varying degrees. We all have those marathoner and racing cyclist and hyrox friends and really, more power to them! How do the "rest of us" stay fit while managing work travel and commutes, caregiving, parenting, and all the stresses of everyday living....

The contemporary Indian workplace is juggling the needs, opinions, beliefs and values of four generations, all speaking different socio-cultural languages, often at loggerheads with each other. Now that we've exhausted making attack-y — albeit funny — reels about the other generation on social media, could we also look at building bridges towards each other? Chapter Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:...

Hi and welcome to our podcast. We are friends and ex-colleagues, sharing with you our perspectives on the good life from our lofty perch of being a 100 years old (collectively). We are Pavan Muthanna and Monica Pillai. We hope to be a warm, friendly place on the internet, because we feel it sure could do with more of those. Some reasons to exhort you to listen to us: We aren't prescriptive We are...