C Mahalingam

Senior HR leader with over three decades of experience in leadership roles in the industry. As a Marshall Goldsmith-certified Executive Coach, Mali enjoys coaching and mentoring business and HR leaders and sharing his experiences in industry forums. He is also a visiting professor with many leading B-schools including at a few IIMs.

Do you suffer from career acrophobia?

A few professionals are too tough on themselves and feel guilty for not achieving enough

Do you disrupt yourself to meet challenges?

We need to constantly reinvent ourselves to stay relevant in today’s fast-changing world

Use the META framework to accelerate performance

Leaders can speed up organisational performance by mobilising, executing and transforming with agility

14 words all leaders should use

Here’s a simplified view on what leadership should be like

Power of the quiet hour

Set aside an hour in your work day just to clear all pending mails and calls

Here’s how to be a competent leader

Leadership failures can be attributed to the lack of attention, trust, meaning and self

What we know and don’t know about motivation

Employee motivation isn’t rocket science. All it takes is a change of perception to know what makes people tick

The perks of 360-degree accountability

Measuring and monitoring managers is essential to employee engagement

Leadership is a team sport

To know your blind spots and improve yourself, partner with colleagues and juniors

Fair and balanced

Being a people manager isn’t easy. Here's how you can exceed expectations from the role

How to handle the 'monkey business' and 'got a minute?' time traps

Procrastination is self-inflicted, but evading shifting monkeys and idle chatter needs effort

Stop blaming the environment

Overcoming self-imposed limitations and unexamined assumptions is critical to succeeding as a leader