by Vani Malik | Nov 25, 2025 | Cross-Functional Collaboration, Organisational Alignment
“Your customer shouldn’t need a translator between departments.” You can tell a lot about an organisation by the way it talks to itself. If marketing says one thing, sales says another, and operations quietly rolls its eyes, it’s not a culture problem. It’s an...
by Vani Malik | Nov 20, 2025 | Change & Execution
“If you keep transforming every year, you’re probably just circling the same mountain.” Every few years, a company announces a new transformation initiative. There’s a sleek deck, a catchy name, “VisionNext,” “FutureFlow,” or “Project Phoenix” or any similar...
by Vani Malik | Nov 18, 2025 | Leadership & Culture
“Experience should guide your instincts, not guard your ego.” Experience is supposed to make us wiser. And usually, it does, until it doesn’t. Because at some point, what once made you brilliant can start making you blind. You stop asking questions. You stop doubting...
by Vani Malik | Nov 13, 2025 | Leadership & Culture
“Listening isn’t waiting to talk, it’s the discipline of understanding.” If leadership is about influence, then empathy is the secret frequency that makes people tune in. The problem is, many leaders think empathy is a soft skill, something that is nice-to-have, like...
by Vani Malik | Nov 11, 2025 | Leadership & Culture
“You can’t lead clearly when you’re running on empty.” If you’ve ever stared at your screen at 10 p.m. trying to “just finish one more thing,” or taken a deep breath before joining your fifth meeting of the day, or smiled through a conversation when all you wanted was...
