Common Purpose Blog

Our world is often defined by winners and losers. Sports, politics, prize drawings, lottery, competitions, awards ceremonies, love, and life – all have winners and losers. Winning or losing is neither right nor wrong. It just is. Sometimes winning is due to luck; other times it is a function of skill; talent often plays a [...]

Day 3 of Dishaa was about “Birthing the creative moment”. Below is Rosie Walford’s insightful and intriguing blog about her experiences of this day and her personal reflections on how this is affecting her own perceptions of leadership. To start from the beginning, read her experience of Day 1 Everyone’s taking this adventure quite differently. [...]

Below is Rosie Walford’s guest post about her experiences on Day 2 of the Dishaa event taking place in Pune, India. To start from the beginning, check out her experience of Dishaa Day 1. To learn more about the initiative visit the Dishaa website. Responsibility and Complexity: This morning I discovered how much I admire [...]

“Enlightened trial and error succeeds over the planning of the lone genius.” This is a quote from an ABC Nightline news story about IDEO, a company in Palo Alto, CA who are experts in nothing but the process of how to design something. Participants at the Dishaa event in Pune watched this on day two [...]

Yesterday, 40 leaders from the UK and India gathered at the Tata Management Training Centre in Pune, India for the first event of the five year Dishaa initative. Launched by British Prime Minister David Cameron on 28 July 2010, Dishaa is an initiative that will expand, enrich and energise relations between India and the UK. [...]