Play to Potential Podcast

This episode of Connecting the Dots is on Parenting - something we are all winging. We go to colleges, trainings and leadership development programmes for all sorts of capabilities, but there is none for parenting. In this episode, we learn from Roger Federer’s parents, Nandan, Nilekani‘s parents and many other successful leaders who reflect on their childhood. We also learn from some of the researchers on how we can be mindful as parents. If you have a child 10 years or above, the chances are, you will find this of value. We also realise you are short on time. So I have handpicked 10 nuggets from across the various episodes on parenting that I have found of value. Members can access it at https://www.playtopotential.com/playlist/DeepakJ/djs-picks-parenting. You can stay connected with the podcast by subscribing to the Email newsletter or to the Whatsapp distribution group. Details below. Email Newsletter (~1 or 2 a month): Join ~8500 + growth-minded individuals who take a baby step towards playing to their potential with the emails from the podcast.  https://lnkd.in/d6TfFch4 Whatsapp (~1 or 2 a week): We share snippets from the podcast. With the Connecting the dots series, we will share nuggets around related topics as we move forward. Just add +91 85914 52129 (https://wa.me/8591452129) to your Phone Address book and send a message stating “Interested”. Other Info on the podcast: Podcast Archives (102 guests, 1000+ nuggets)  - www.playtopotential.com Key guests and Stats ( as of July 2023) - https://bit.ly/3NCDIlM About the Host Deepak Jayaraman - https://www.playtopotential.com/aboutdeepak

This episode of Connecting the Dots deals with Judgment - Making sound decisions amidst complexity. VUCA - (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) is a term that is used to describe the state of the world. Some people use BANI - (Brittle, Anxious, Non-Linear, Incomprehensible). Whatever the terminology, it is fair to say that the world has gotten more grey, nebulous and harder to predict. Sound judgment, today, is arguably more relevant than ever. Tune in as we peel the layers on this nuanced topic.  You can stay connected with the podcast by subscribing to the Email newsletter or to the Whatsapp distribution group. Details below.  Email Newsletter (~1 or 2 a month): Join ~8500 + growth-minded individuals who take a baby step towards playing to their potential with the emails from the podcast.  https://lnkd.in/d6TfFch4  Whatsapp (~1 or 2 a week): We share snippets from the podcast. With the Connecting the dots series, we will share nuggets around related topics as we move forward. Just add +91 85914 52129 (https://wa.me/8591452129) to your Phone Address book and send a message stating “Interested”.  Other Info on the podcast: Podcast Archives (102 guests, 1000+ nuggets)  - www.playtopotential.com Key guests and Stats ( as of July 2023) - https://bit.ly/3NCDIlM About the Host Deepak Jayaraman - https://www.playtopotential.com/aboutdeepak

This episode of Connecting the Dots deals with STAYING RESILIENT THROUGH QUAKES. We explore what it takes to be resilient as an individual and go on to examine what it takes to create a resilient culture in an organization. Very often, even the notion of resilience is misunderstood. We examine the nuances in what the term means. Is it “bouncing back” to something or using the quake as an opportunity to shape-shift to something else. In the fragile and brittle worlds we live in, being resilient is turning out to be a super-power. Tune into this episode to learn and grow!  You can find nuggets on resilience from various speakers here - https://www.playtopotential.com/tags/resilience  00:00:25 - Intro 00:03:04 - Roopa Kudva - Clearing IIMA twice 00:05:58 - Dheeraj Pandey - Early formative years, including retaking JEE 00:08:08 - Atul Kasbekar - Being Tenacious through the Transition 00:22:21 - Deepa Malik - Dealing with the two possible fatalities 00:29:34 - Ramesh Srinivasan - Dealing with Lifequakes 00:34:42 - Bruce Feiler - Make sense of Scars and not Wounds 00:37:57 - Matt Dixon - Need for a grieving period 00:39:55 - Dan Pink - Counter Factual Thinking 00:48:09 - Rich Fernandez - 3 Levels of Resilience 00:56:06 - Carol and David - Waypower over Willpower 01:03:38 - Bruce Feiler - Shape shifting instead of Resilience 01:08:12 - Amy Edmondson - Rituals that drive Psychological Safety 01:12:28 - Suresh Narayanan - Maggi Crisis and Decoding Resilience 01:19:01 - Dheeraj Pandey - Building an Anti-fragile culture 01:25:41 - Wrapup You can stay connected with the podcast by subscribing to the Email newsletter or to the Whatsapp distribution group. Details below.  Email Newsletter (~1 or 2 a month): Join ~8500 + growth-minded individuals who take a baby step towards playing to their potential with the emails from the podcast.  https://lnkd.in/d6TfFch4  Whatsapp (~1 or 2 a week): We share snippets from the podcast. With the Connecting the dots series, we will share nuggets around related topics as we move forward. Just add +91 85914 52129 (https://wa.me/8591452129) to your Phone Address book and send a message stating “Interested”.  Other Info on the podcast: Podcast Archives (102 guests, 1000+ nuggets)  - www.playtopotential.com Key guests and Stats ( as of July 2023) - https://bit.ly/3NCDIlM About the Host Deepak Jayaraman - https://www.playtopotential.com/aboutdeepak

This podcast explores building habits that stick and emphasizes the importance of systems over goals. They discuss how babies learn to walk and apply the concept of repetition without repetition. The power of fresh starts and moments of renewal is highlighted, along with Google's use of fresh start moments in behavior change. The challenges and opportunities of transitioning into a new role are discussed, as well as the process of untangling unwanted habits and raising awareness through 'pointing and calling'.

This episode of Connecting the Dots deals with BREATHING LIFE INTO WORK. A lot of us, consciously or sub-consciously end up putting work on our pedestal and relegate the other elements of life to a distant second. In this episode, I share some of my learnings (from the 102+ episodes and from my lived experiences) around how focusing on Health, Personal Relationships, Social Impact work and Guitaring have helped me get better at my work!  While this episode is a compilation across many speakers, if you want to tune into the various nuggets around this theme of harmonizing across work and other elements of life, you could visit - https://www.playtopotential.com/tags/work-and-life  You can stay connected with the podcast by subscribing to the Email newsletter or to the WhatsApp distribution group. Details below.  Email Newsletter (~1 or 2 a month): Join ~8500 + growth-minded individuals who take a baby step towards playing to their potential with the emails from the podcast.  https://lnkd.in/d6TfFch4  Whatsapp (~1 or 2 a week): We share snippets from the podcast. With the Connecting the dots series, we will share nuggets around related topics as we move forward. Just add +91 85914 52129 (https://wa.me/8591452129) to your Phone Address book and send a message stating “Interested”.  Other Info on the podcast: Podcast Archives (102 guests, 1000+ nuggets)  - www.playtopotential.com Key guests and Stats ( as of July 2023) - https://bit.ly/3NCDIlM About the Host Deepak Jayaraman - https://www.playtopotential.com/aboutdeepak

This episode of Connecting the Dots deals with IDENTITY. When we look at issues around transitions, reinventing ourselves and navigating the pulls and pressures of mid-life, the key often is in reflecting on our identity. This episode, we go deep into how we think about Identity and how sometimes, we end up caging ourselves and end up being a prisoner of our own lack of imagination around our identity.  While this episode is a compilation across many speakers, if you want to tune into the various nuggets around this theme of Identity, you could visit - https://www.playtopotential.com/tags/identity You can stay connected with the podcast by subscribing to the Email newsletter or to the Whatsapp distribution group. Details below.  Email Newsletter (~1 or 2 a month): Join ~8500 + growth-minded individuals who take a baby step towards playing to their potential with the emails from the podcast.  https://lnkd.in/d6TfFch4  Whatsapp (~1 or 2 a week): We share snippets from the podcast. With the Connecting the dots series, we will share nuggets around related topics as we move forward. Just add +91 85914 52129 (https://wa.me/8591452129) to your Phone Address book and send a message stating “Interested”.  Other Info on the podcast: Podcast Archives (102 guests, 1000+ nuggets)  - www.playtopotential.com Key guests and Stats ( as of July 2023) - https://bit.ly/3NCDIlM About the Host Deepak Jayaraman - https://www.playtopotential.com/aboutdeepak 

Welcome to CONNECTING THE DOTS - Episode 3. The first two were on Internal and External Self-Awareness. This one is on Listening! How do we listen to others, ourselves, our heart, our body, our inner voice and much much more. The quality of our listening can have a significant impact on the lives we lead!  While this episode is a compilation across many speakers, if you want to tune into the various nuggets around this theme of Listening, you could visit - https://www.playtopotential.com/tags/listening  You can stay connected with the podcast by subscribing to the Email newsletter or to the WhatsApp distribution group. Details below.  Email Newsletter (~1 or 2 a month): Join ~8500 + growth-minded individuals who take a baby step towards playing to their potential with the emails from the podcast.  https://lnkd.in/d6TfFch4  WhatsApp (~1 or 2 a week): We share snippets from the podcast. With the Connecting the dots series, we will share nuggets around related topics as we move forward. Just add +91 85914 52129 to your Phone Address book and send a message stating “Interested”.  Other Guests Podcast Archives (102 guests, 1000+ nuggets)  - www.playtopotential.com Key guests and Stats ( as of July 2023) - https://bit.ly/3NCDIlM

Welcome to the second episode of CONNECTING THE DOTS. We pick a theme for every episode and try and look at that topic from multiple lenses. Where appropriate, I also try and bring in my experiences as a Coach and a Sounding Board and from my journey as well. In this second episode, we discuss External Self-Awareness. How do we tune into the feedback that we get from the outside world and become a better version of ourselves? The question worth asking in this context is - How 360 is our 360?  While this episode is a compilation across many speakers, if you want to tune into the various nuggets around this theme of self-awareness, you could visit - https://www.playtopotential.com/tags/self-awareness  You can stay connected with the podcast by subscribing to the Email newsletter or to the Whatsapp distribution group. Details below.  Email Newsletter (~1 or 2 a month): Join ~8500 + growth-minded individuals who take a baby step towards playing to their potential with the emails from the podcast.  https://lnkd.in/d6TfFch4  Whatsapp (~1 or 2 a week): We share snippets from the podcast. With the Connecting the dots series, we will share nuggets around related topics as we move forward. Just add +91 85914 52129 to your Phone Address book and send a message stating “Interested”.  Other Guests Podcast Archives (102 guests, 1000+ nuggets)  - www.playtopotential.com Key guests and Stats ( as of July 2023) - https://bit.ly/3NCDIlM 

Welcome to the first episode of CONNECTING THE DOTS. We pick a theme for every episode and try and look at that topic from multiple lenses. Where appropriate, I also try and bring in my experiences as a Coach and a Sounding Board and from my journey as well.  In this first episode, we discuss INTERNAL SELF-AWARENESS. Barry Schwartz (Author of Paradox of Choice) states that in a world of abundance, two things happen - 1) Decision-making becomes complex 2) You experience FOMO. Self-Awareness, I believe, is the steering wheel that can help us navigate through life where we experience close to infinite supply, whether it is career choice possibilities, educational combinations, entertainment, credit cards or even Podcasts!  While this episode is a compilation across many speakers, if you want to tune into the various nuggets around this theme, you could visit - https://www.playtopotential.com/tags/self-awareness  You can stay connected with the podcast by subscribing to the Email newsletter or to the Whatsapp distribution group. Details below.  Email Newsletter (~1 or 2 a month): Join ~8500 + growth-minded individuals who take a baby step towards playing to their potential with the emails from the podcast. bit.ly/P2Pnewsletter  Whatsapp (~1 or 2 a week): We share snippets from the podcast. With the Connecting the dots series, we will share nuggets around related topics as we move forward. Just add +91 85914 52129 to your Phone Address book and send a message stating “Interested”. Host Deepak works as a Trusted Sounding Board with select growth minded leaders and helps them play to their full potential. You can see Deepak’s Why here - https://youtu.be/J-6F2XP8hxQ  He has worked as a Business Consultant with KPMG in UK, Strategy Consultant with McKinsey in the US and as a Leadership Advisor with EgonZehnder (a Swiss Leadership Advisory firm) where he helped companies recruit CEOs, CXOs and Board Members and worked on Leadership Development. Deepak is a certified CEO Coach and is an alumnus of IIT Madras, IIM Ahmedabad and London Business School. His profile can be found at https://in.linkedin.com/in/djayaraman and https://www.playtopotential.com/aboutdeepak  Other Guests Podcast Archives (102 guests, 1000+ nuggets)  - www.playtopotential.com Key guests and Stats ( as of July 2023) - https://bit.ly/3NCDIlM  DISCLAIMER All content and opinions expressed in the podcast are that of the guests and are not necessarily the opinions of Deepak Jayaraman and Transition Insight Private Limited. Views expressed in comments to blog are the personal opinions of the author of the comment. They do not necessarily reflect the views of The Company or the author of the blog. Participants are responsible for the content of their comments and all comments that are posted are in the public domain. The Company reserves the right to monitor, edit, and/or publish any submitted comments. Not all comments may be published. Any third-party comments published are third party information and The Company takes no responsibility and disclaims all liability. The Company reserves the right, but is not obligated to monitor and delete any comments or postings at any time without notice.

GUEST Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. This quote is attributed to Viktor Emil Frankl, an Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor, devoted his life to studying, understanding and promoting “meaning.”  Carol Kaufman and David Noble give us practical tools that we can use to make the ‘space’ count.  Carol and David have authored Real-Time Leadership - Find Your Winning Moves When the Stakes Are High. In the podcast conversation they expand on the 4 step MOVE framework which lays out the various ways in which leaders can be deliberate in the way they go about playing the role of a leader. Published in May 2023. HOST Deepak Jayaraman, the host of this podcast series, works with Leaders and Organizations with a growth mindset and helps them play to their full potential. He strives to spend significant upfront energy in understand the nuances of the context and then armed with the mutual trust and understanding of the context, strives to be of value as a (behind the scenes and discreet) Coach / Sounding Board for their journeys. LinkedIn profile here.  ABOUT THE PODCAST Play to Potential podcast started in Dec 2016 and features conversations around three broad themes - Leadership, Transitions and Careers. Guests include leading Business Leaders from Corporate India, Global Thinkers (several Thinkers 50 listers and Ivy League Professors), Authors, Coaches, Sports(wo)men, Artists and other individuals who have strived towards excellence.  While you can access the full conversations in common podcast platforms, to access some of the premium content, head to www.playtopotential.com. To understand more about membership benefits such as Curated Nuggets, Hand edited Transcripts, Customizable playlists and Learning Community, please see the Video here. OTHER GUESTS 1.Vijay Amritraj 2.Amish Tripathi 3.Raghu Raman 4.Papa CJ 5.Kartik Hosanagar 6.Ravi Venkatesan 7.Abhijit Bhaduri 8.Viren Rasquinha 9.Prakash Iyer 10.Avnish Bajaj 11.Nandan Nilekani 12.Atul Kasbekar 13.Karthik Reddy 14.Pramath Sinha 15.Vedika Bhandarkar 16.Vinita Bali 17.Zia Mody 18.Rama Bijapurkar 19.Dheeraj Pandey 20.Anu Madgavkar 21.Vishy Anand 22. Meher Pudumjee 23.KV Shridhar (Pops) 24.Suresh Naraynan 25.Devdutt Pattanaik 26.Jay Panda 27.Amit Chandra 28.Chandramouli Venkatesan 29.Roopa Kudva 30.Vinay Sitapati 31.Neera Nundy. 32.Deepa Malik 33.Bombay Jayashri. 34.Arun Maira 35.Ambi Parameswaran 36.OP Bhaat 37.Indranil Chakraborty 38.Tarun Khanna 39. Ramachandra Guha 40. Stewart Friedman 41. Rich Fernandez 42. Falguni Nayar 43. Rajat Gupta 44. Kartik Hosanagar 45. Michael Watkins 46. Matt Dixon 47. Herminia Ibarra 48. Paddy Upton 49. Tasha Eurich 50. Alan Eagle 51. Sudhir Sitapati 52. James Clear 53. Lynda Gratton 54. Jennifer Petriglieri. 55. Matthew Walker 56. Raj Raghunathan 57. Jennifer Garvey Berger 58. BJ Fogg 59. R Gopolakrishnan 60. Sir Andrew Likierman. 61. Atul Khatri 62. Whitney Jonson 63. Venkat Krishnan 64. Marshall Goldsmith 65. Ashish Dhawan 66. Vinay Sitapati 67. Ashley Whillans 68. Tenzin Priyadarshi 69. Ramesh Srinivasan 70. Bruce Feiler 71. Sanjeev Aggarwal and T. N. Hari 72. Bill Carr 73. Jennifer Wetzler 74. Sally Helgesen 75. Dan Cable 76. Tom Vanderbilt 77. Darleen DeRosa 78. Amy Edmondson 79. Katy Milkman 80. Harish Bhatt 81. Lloyd Reeb 82. Sukhinder Cassidy 83. Harsh Mariwala 84. Rajiv Vij 85. Dorie Clark 86. Ayse Birsel 87. Ravi Venkatesan E2 88. Pradeep Chakravarthy 89. Dan Pink 90. Alisa Cohn 91. Ayelet Fishbach 92. Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg 93. Raghu Ananthnarayanan 94. Tarun Khanna EP2 95. Manjari Jaruhar 96. Ethan Kross 97. David Bradford 98. Jeffrey Pfeffer 99. Michiel Kruyt 100. Christopher Clarey 101. Stephen M.R. Covey DISCLAIMER All content and opinions expressed in the podcast are that of the guests and are not necessarily the opinions of Deepak Jayaraman and Transition Insight Private Limited. Views expressed in comments to blog are the personal opinions of the author of the comment. They do not necessarily reflect the views of The Company or the author of the blog. Participants are responsible for the content of their comments and all comments that are posted are in the public domain. The Company reserves the right to monitor, edit, and/or publish any submitted comments. Not all comments may be published. Any third-party comments published are third party information and The Company takes no responsibility and disclaims all liability. The Company reserves the right, but is not obligated to monitor and delete any comments or postings at any time without notice.