by Sam Basu | Jul 14, 2020 | Thought Leadership, Coaching in the Workplace
The key to organizational effectiveness is alignment: across people, across data, across tools, and across KPIs. And organizational alignment depends on timely, clear, and relevant communication. Problems show up when we rely on the human alone to enable this...
by Sam Basu | Jul 9, 2020 | Diversity and Inclusion
Until this year, I didn’t fully grasp how much racism is enmeshed in our country’s DNA, not somewhere far away in Middle America, but often right under my nose. How practically every public school I have heard of has been named after a slaveowner. And the...
by Sam Basu | Jun 18, 2020 | Coaching in the Workplace
When was the last time you were taught something to – or worse – preached something to? How did it feel? Here is a story about something that happened a few years back at one of my clients. “The New Rules” A couple years back, I was leading...
by Sam Basu | Jun 12, 2020 | Thought Leadership, Diversity and Inclusion
There can be no doubt about one thing: we are on the brink of transformation, as a society. After the horrifying events in the last few months, there is no “going back” to the way things used to be. What does this all mean for our organizations? I believe it all ties...
by Sam Basu | Jun 9, 2020 | Diversity and Inclusion, Coaching
The comedian Keegan Michael Key spoke recently regarding his personal experience with police discrimination. He claimed that despite being pulled over by the police often due to being Black, the officer typically recognizes him from his work and lets him go. He...