Here are some tools we use to create our podcasts.
Read MoreIs remote working really destined to be an unhappy arrangement? An NYT article says so. Find out our experience with remote working and what we think works.
Read MoreConstantly learning from your team members will help you build and grow. It’s the only way to stay “future fit”. How do we do it at CTQ? We’ve created a “FitnessRing”. Learn more.
Read More#2 The name 'Compound' is a nod to Warren Buffet's famous quote of how reading daily compounds your knowledge
Read MoreWhy do we call ourselves 'Choose to Thinq'? The story goes back a few years ago.
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Read MoreEach December, we reflect upon what we learned that year (if you've been to our annual anti-offsite, Incite, you'll have heard these insights).In 2019, we thought we'd start in June. (It's an easy way to double your learning for the year!) So here's what the CTQ team learned in 2019.
Read MoreIn this post, we explore the concept of pre-mortem and the 5 ways in which our smartletter can bomb.
Read MoreIn the era of T20, Trump, and TikTok, we need things NOW and need them to END SOON. How does that change the way you communicate, learn, influence?
Read MoreAt CTQ, we are big on reflection. We do it daily and at the end of milestones, successes, and failures. From our experience of deliberately cultivating reflection in personal acts and professional deeds, here are six simple tips on how you can reflect better.
Read MoreIt's been an exceedingly wet monsoon for all of us at CTQ Central. Pune rains have traditionally been of the drip-drip-drip kind, but this year (2019), it reminded us of the approach that conventional, 'unthinking' organisations take about "learning".
Read MoreDo you lead a team that should be reading regularly? Because doing so would directly improve their output, perspective, and future fitness? Consider doing what we do and foster a group reading habit. Here's what you should keep in mind when you do so.
Read MoreA lot has been said and written about networking. But in the context of innovation, networking is about ‘ideas’ more than about “people”.
Read MoreFinding time for innovation reminds us of the friend who never found time for daily exercise. Then he suffered a health scare. It's remarkable how that instantly changed his priorities. Do you need the equivalent of a heart attack to help your team find time for innovation? Instead, think about these.
Read MoreSome of CTQ's work falls into the “can you bring us ideas to solve a knotty problem?” category. So we are in danger of making the same mistakes. So we’ve tried hard to overcome these gaps. We try and put a lot of ideas into action in our own working and personal lives.
Read MoreOne way to think of a year is to split it into an "explore" phase and an "exploit" phase. You spend part of the year casting the net wide for insights, and then you spend another part of it trying to optimize an outcome based on these insights.
Read MoreOne of the biggest lessons we learned in 2018 was to appreciate the small wins.
Read MoreWe routinely try to use pre-mortems in our internal decision-making. Sometime ago, we asked the ultimate question: "Choose To Thinq is dead. What happened?".
Read MoreHere are 6 interesting takeaways from our reading compound's 300 days!
Read MoreStories are powerful: they help us reflect, spread ideas, and they are capsules of wisdom. And not just the stories in films and books, but those that happen to you and within your families and teams. A mental model like 'The Hero's Journey' helps us make sense of our own journeys, especially when one is a participant.
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