Strategy & Tactics Episodes

🎙️ BasTalk S6 EP7: When Foreigners Visit India Offices" 🇮🇳🌍 What happens when East meets West in the office corridor? 🧳 Imagine stepping into a buzzing Indian workplace for the first time—where the chai flows, the greetings are warm, and the work ethic is relentless. Yet, for many foreign visitors, it’s not just the weather that’s a shock—it’s the cultural curveballs that follow! ☀️🥵 In this episode, we explore the first impressions, assumptions, and surprises foreign colleagues experience when ...

🎙️ BasTalk S6 EP3:Realities of Modern Sales Cultures This episode is based on audience request/ queries. In this episode of #BasTalk, we dive into the awkward world of post-demo ghosting — what it means, why it happens, and how to bring those prospects back from the dead. But that’s just the beginning... We also peel back the glossy layer of sales culture — from inspiring wins 🏆 to the dark side of quotas, burnout, and pressure 💣. And finally, is LinkedIn still your golden goose for leads, or ju...

Welcome Season 6, Episode 1 of BasTalk. Are 70-hour workweeks and work-filled Sundays, are they the badge of success or a recipe for disaster? In this episode of BasTalk , we explore the fine line between ambition and burnout, diving deep into the Indian work culture where "grind till you shine" seems to be the norm. Are long work hours really driving productivity? What can you do to reclaim your life without compromising your career? ✨ Join me as I unravel work-life balance, examine the econo...

An Eagle doesn't need to explain to a Crow why soaring is better than stooping. Soar high. #2023 Join me in this season finale, where I share thoughts on an interesting introspective exercise Continue, Start. Stop. for 2022- 2023. What are you going to take away from 2022? How will it be any different in 2023? What bad habit will you stop? Tune in to Bastalk.

Do you need to be Master Shifu to hire a Dragon warrior? Do you have the necessary skill sets to identify the next big thing? Or are you ignorant about it? Did you reject the top talent on the planet? If there is so much of top talent available, why do we keep hiring bad ones? Or if we are hiring top talent, why do we still hover around 20%+ attrition year over year? If you are a business leader listening to this, have you ever audited your hiring managers' interview reports? Why are they reject...

Can you negotiate a salary or compensation when you don't have an alternative plan? What measures can you take? Does not having a plan B jeopardise negotiation leverage? Tune in to get 3 tips to manage a negotiation situation in case you have no plan B in place. #careers, #job, #negotiations

How did it feel when you won that MVP award? I'm sure it must've felt great. And how did it feel when you were left out for the promotion over your fiercest rival? Miserable, I guess. How did it feel when you got your dream job, and what happened when you were laid off? For many, the feeling of loss is a far stronger emotion than the thrill of a victory, because no one taught you how to cope with a loss. So who taught you how to lose? Was it your teacher, your parents, friends, or siblings? Cha...

Is there a Burnol for sales burnouts? Chances are, if you are reading this or about to listen to this episode, you have Sales Fatigue! Here are three symptoms: Feeling drained on Monday morning forecast call. Unable to sleep without thinking about excel sheets Fearing the following business review Sounds familiar? Wish there was a Burnol for sales burns ? Let's get to the root cause and find ways to address these issues. (🥵 For those uninitiated, Google the word Burnol, and you will get the refe...

So you heard the candidates version, the recruiters version, now listen to the reality check.

When they said hope is not a strategy, 2020 laughed ! What are the top 10 lessons we learned from 2020? One way to look at it is, that we've all had a terrific year, surviving isn't it? Its time to give yourself a pat on the back. Join me in the final episode of Season 1 of BasTalk. In the next season, I will bring more handpicked curated content for you. If you want to tune in to all the episodes click here . Till then, stay safe, stay well, and bring your A game to work. Happy New Year folks....

First time you do it, they say it was a fluke, the second, was luck and the third is when the world goes wow! But what happens if the opposite happens? This one is for all those people who have missed a forecast, lost a deal, got hammered in the reviews and then lived, to fight one more day! Friends, what do you do when proverbial shit hits the fan? What do you do when you see the hammer coming at you? What do you do when your team team tried really hard but failed to get to their forecasted num...

What the hell is going on here? Why don't get a simple thing ? Why is it so difficult to understand this? If these are the questions exploding in your mind, you know you are in the middle of a Dhakkan Explosion! Here are 10 tell-tale signs to identify the Dhakkans around you. A bold and direct take on the colossal stupidity happening around your workplace. This is NSFW - so get your headphones and enjoy the BasTalk! #dhakkans #management #idiosyncracies #bozos #bozoexplosion #guykawasaki

What if you had Cersei Lannister as your stakeholder ? Now imagine you are Tyrion reporting to Cersei - how do you survive? How would you manage to navigate the complexity of the role and the expectations? This episode is more applicable to folks have multiple stakeholders across the globe , mostly in the US perhaps. By the end of it, you will have 3 things to better manage a complex situation like stakeholder management.

Do you have a Thanos at work ? How do you deal with tough situations at work? How do you manage conflict resolution? Join me in this ride, where we explore The Trinity of Truth, Thano's reality and more importantly, what you can do to take on Thanos in the real world. A podcast on truth and conflict resolution.

Business Leaders & Connection Requests on LinkedIn. Here's a typical example of a LinkedIn connect request : Job Seeker: Hi, can you give me a suitable job? Leader: But I don't know you. JS: But you are a leader, so you can refer me , no? Leader: No, I need to know more... JS: Argh , you're not a good leader! Leader :Huh? **end of chat** Join me in this ride, to better understand what leaders think or go through when they get random job requests on LinkedIn. In this ride, I will share the subtex...