https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/ Field notes, frameworks and ideas from Leaders' Lab. en-IN https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/the-melian-dialogue/ https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/the-melian-dialogue/ Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Dr. Mohak Mehta What Athens told Melos about power and justice, and why principles last only when something sustains them. https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/the-indigo-debacle/ https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/the-indigo-debacle/ Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT Dr. Mohak Mehta When things go wrong, some teams say "this isn't my responsibility" and some say "this is on me". What accountability looks like in a well-run organisation. https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/five-key-risks-in-business-expansion/ https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/five-key-risks-in-business-expansion/ Fri, 29 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT Dr. Mohak Mehta What a tools manufacturer weighed before entering the lubricants market: bandwidth, diversification, knowledge, money and competition. https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/you-got-lucky/ https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/you-got-lucky/ Wed, 20 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT Dr. Mohak Mehta Why the sentence stings entrepreneurs, what luck really does to a business, and what isn't luck at all. https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/true-expertise-does-not-exist/ https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/true-expertise-does-not-exist/ Wed, 09 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT Dr. Mohak Mehta We are all learning, all the time, and what a program at IIM Ahmedabad taught me about it. https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/are-our-children-more-troubled-than-we-think/ https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/are-our-children-more-troubled-than-we-think/ Thu, 27 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT Dr. Mohak Mehta A conversation with a child mental health advocate about academic pressure, social anxiety and emotional support in schools. https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/empowering-nursing-champions-to-deliver-hashtagcarethatmatters-apple/ https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/empowering-nursing-champions-to-deliver-hashtagcarethatmatters-apple/ Thu, 27 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT Dr. Mohak Mehta A communication session for nursing champions at a children's hospital, built on understanding the other person's world first. https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/full-circle-moment-at-siddhi-vinayak-hospital/ https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/full-circle-moment-at-siddhi-vinayak-hospital/ Thu, 27 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT Dr. Mohak Mehta Meeting again the surgeon who led a hospital where the author began in healthcare management, eleven years on. https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/understanding-the-four-types-of-competence/ https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/understanding-the-four-types-of-competence/ Thu, 27 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT Dr. Mohak Mehta The four stages from unconscious incompetence to unconscious competence, and why they come in order. https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/alphazero-a-computer-program-which-is-not-quite-a-computer-program/ https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/alphazero-a-computer-program-which-is-not-quite-a-computer-program/ Sat, 11 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT Dr. Mohak Mehta A chess game with a cousin, and what a self-taught chess program suggests about creativity and business. https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/harnessing-the-power-of-the-ownership-pyramid/ https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/harnessing-the-power-of-the-ownership-pyramid/ Sat, 11 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT Dr. Mohak Mehta A four-level framework for building accountability and ownership in a team, from the foundation to leadership. https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/i-dont-agree-but-i-am-aligned-the-power-of-co-creation/ https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/i-dont-agree-but-i-am-aligned-the-power-of-co-creation/ Sat, 11 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT Dr. Mohak Mehta What a copper company that debated calling itself a family teaches about the difference between agreement and alignment. https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/instruction-vs-co-creation/ https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/instruction-vs-co-creation/ Sat, 11 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT Dr. Mohak Mehta Assembling a model aeroplane with an eight-year-old, and what it says about involving people in the solution. https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/graceful-yet-assertive-payment-collections/ https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/graceful-yet-assertive-payment-collections/ Tue, 23 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT Dr. Mohak Mehta A workshop on asking for overdue payments without losing dignity, and the team that recovered most of its outstanding dues within a week. https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/launch-strategy-for-a-health-app-with-the-founders/ https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/launch-strategy-for-a-health-app-with-the-founders/ Tue, 23 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT Dr. Mohak Mehta Why a first release should be simple, lovable and complete, not only minimal and viable. https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/one-dissection-one-laugh-one-heartbeat-at-a-time/ https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/one-dissection-one-laugh-one-heartbeat-at-a-time/ Tue, 23 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT Dr. Mohak Mehta A conversation with a first-year medical student who found her tribe, and a question about giving teenagers room to find their own way. https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/leadership-and-the-guitar/ https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/leadership-and-the-guitar/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT Dr. Mohak Mehta Why playing the guitar is a way to understand leadership: being one with the instrument, and pursuing a vision of excellence without watching yourself. https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/resolve-to-become-a-purpose-driven-business/ https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/resolve-to-become-a-purpose-driven-business/ Mon, 25 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMT Dr. Mohak Mehta A hospital's year-planning day, an administrator's challenge, and the director who owned up to letting the vision fade. https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/the-iceberg-of-ignorance/ https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/the-iceberg-of-ignorance/ Wed, 06 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMT Dr. Mohak Mehta Top management sees about 5% of a company's problems, staff see all of them, and why that matters for strategy. https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/what-matters-most-to-your-parents/ https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/what-matters-most-to-your-parents/ Thu, 16 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT Dr. Mohak Mehta A Diwali gift for my mother, and what it taught me about the thing seniors value most: the freedom to make their own decisions. https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/strategy-begins-with-why/ https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/strategy-begins-with-why/ Mon, 30 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT Dr. Mohak Mehta Four steps to designing a company's strategy: the current reality, a summation, the high-level future, and only then the detailed roadmap. https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/the-orange-swan-hypothesis/ https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/the-orange-swan-hypothesis/ Fri, 20 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT Dr. Mohak Mehta Black swans are sudden shocks. An orange swan is a sudden boom too big to meet alone, and how one company met it with a former rival. https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/communication-is-not-what-you-speak/ https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/communication-is-not-what-you-speak/ Sat, 14 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT Dr. Mohak Mehta A session with young physiotherapists on what communication really is, and "recreation": creating back for a patient what they said. https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/mental-health-is-a-universal-human-right/ https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/mental-health-is-a-universal-human-right/ Tue, 10 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT Dr. Mohak Mehta A trip with my brother in 2018, the loss that followed three years later, and why we should treat mental health with the respect we give physical health. https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/how-i-lost-two-crores-and-five-years-but-still-profited/ https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/how-i-lost-two-crores-and-five-years-but-still-profited/ Mon, 02 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT Dr. Mohak Mehta A reverse osmosis membrane plant that never worked, the money and years it cost, and what the failure taught. https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/want-to-break-a-tough-habit/ https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/want-to-break-a-tough-habit/ Fri, 15 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT Dr. Mohak Mehta Old patterns can't be erased, but new ones can take over. What it takes is the discipline to stay true to your word. https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/a-very-special-teacher/ https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/a-very-special-teacher/ Tue, 05 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT Dr. Mohak Mehta Watching my father go through the stormiest phases of his business, and the lesson in resilience it gave me. https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/a-contrarian-view/ https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/a-contrarian-view/ Tue, 15 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMT Dr. Mohak Mehta A freedom that is only asked for is rarely given. What Bhagat Singh's stand says about will, in a nation's struggle and in business. https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/being-authentic/ https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/being-authentic/ Mon, 31 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT Dr. Mohak Mehta What authenticity is, why it matters, and a simple three-step practice for living it. https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/how-leaders-lab-began/ https://theleaderslab.in/lab-notes/how-leaders-lab-began/ Tue, 25 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT Dr. Mohak Mehta A passion for helping people build their businesses, a friend's suggestion, and the first meeting of the Lab.