Talking About What Matters: The White, The Black and the Lighter Shades of Grey

Talking About What Matters: The White, The Black and the Lighter Shades of Grey

Author: vijayalakshmi balakrishnan March 14, 2021 Duration: 2:09:11

How did individuals, and organisations, respond when the first pandemic of the 21st century hit? What happens when an individual life-career pivot sends you on a career path you had not planned? Havovi Wadia, CEO of Save The Children India (STCI) shares what responding to the Covid 19 pandemic, meant, when government decisions and court orders, made lives more vulnerable, the everyday difficulties of ensuring children and women, are helped when they are most in need, has meant and how the organisation is preparing for a future, where many of the assumptions that were the foundation of planning, are no longer relevant. She talks her journey’s milestones about making the best use of available opportunities and how learning and making a job one’s own is the best kept secret of career success. This episode was recorded in the last fortnight of 2020.

Selection of Writings

https://azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/SitePages/pdf/Havovi-Wadia-Confining-childhood-in-India.pdf

https://idronline.org/how-to-use-data-to-improve-decision-making/


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