by Shantanu | Aug 7, 2021 | Consultancy Services, Outdoor Leadership
* Freedom to speak against authority is related to effectiveness, safety and leadership * Imagine sitting in a group on a windblown corner of a fort situated atop a mountain and you feeling cold and everyone else obviously feeling cold but nobody speaking or doing...
by Shantanu | Jul 27, 2021 | Consultancy Services
* Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. – Marcus Aurelius * Every time I am involved in a discussion on different perspectives, then be it among a bunch of friends having a furious debate over drinks or a...
by Shantanu | Jul 14, 2021 | Consultancy Services, Hiking In The Himalayas
* There must always be room for judgment, but judgment aided – and even enhanced – by procedure. – Dr. Atul Gawande in ‘Checklist manifesto’ * “Critical incident related to hypothermia: involving the assistant leader (AL) of a two-person leadership team leading a...
by Shantanu | Jun 23, 2021 | Experiential Education, Outdoor Skills
* Your feet are but followers of your imagination * The OutdoorPersons (OP) series continues with some thoughts expressed by my son Meghan. I started taking him out in the hills right since when he could hardly stand. Then came a time when I left it to him to ‘take...
by Shantanu | Jun 12, 2021 | Experiential Education, Hiking in the Indian Western Ghats
* The silent and meditative world of climbers * The Sahyadri landscape is characterized by a distinctive feature: pinnacles! Many of these stand typically isolated next to flat topped bulks that signify the flat basaltic flows that formed the Deccan traps of...
