Kaipa Group: What we do
Kaipa Group is a Silicon Valley based consulting firm providing Coaching, Advice and Executive Education to CEOs, Board Members and Senior Executives. We focus on igniting innovation and transformation in executives and their organizations by helping them tap into their natural genius.
Our Mission: To ignite the natural genius* within executives and their teams.
*Natural genius is the source of our unique competencies and
capacities that make us effective, creative and energetic. Igniting the genius within allows one to become clear and passionate about ones next significant step and take it.
Uniqueness: We have an integrated approach that brings together global perspectives from the business, technology/science and spirituality domains.
Process: We use a four-step framework: Expanding Scope, Creating Gap, Enabling Mind-Shift and Transcending Polarities. Each one of these steps combine perspectives and insights from the business, technology and spirituality domains. This approach has helped over 100 C-level executives, and over 10,000 individuals in 30 companies in 7 countries in the areas of Global Leadership, Innovation, Business and Personal Transformation.
Our Clients: We have worked with Apple, Adobe, BAE Systems, Boeing, Cisco Systems, Citibank, Disney, Ford, HP, Mastek, Mobistar, Navteq, Pepsi, Polaris, Sun Microsystems, SBC and Xerox.
Personal Mastery
To kick off 2007, I have sent out a newsletter on the theme - personal mastery. Considering the theme, it felt very appropriate to include an interview with Dr. Peter Senge who popularized the theme of personal mastery through his groundbreaking book The Fifth Discipline in 1990. In this interview done as a part of Leadership and Many Ways of Knowing project, he reflects on his own journey towards personal mastery. Despite knowing Peter for 20 years and listening to him and working with him in various committees and meetings, I found myself being connected freshly and being touched deeply by Peter's authenticity and presence. Let me know your reactions.
Personal mastery requires deep awareness -- of what our internal gaps are how they impact our ability to function effectively. We discuss various levels of functionality and how they are related to our capacity to think, feel, act and be in the world. In another article, we discuss a unique concept called "Core Incompetence" and how that is connected with our signature strength. Finally, we bring wisdom from Indian spirituality -- Vedanta perspective on change and personal mastery.
While the major gift giving season is behind us in the United States, we are always giving and receiving gifts on various occasions. How much attention do we pay to wrap and unwrap our gifts? What could we add to communicate our care and love in putting together and receiving gifts? I learned from an old friend Harrison Owen that it is not the gifts that make the most difference but the engagement with the person who gives or receives. We put together a slide show on exploring the spirit of gift exchange and would love to hear your response to it.
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Continuous Change, Discontinuous Life
Four Questions
An Approach to Ignite Your Natural Genius
- Prasad Kaipa, Ph. D. ( download this article in pdf )
I found four questions to be extremely important in working with CEOs and senior executives in assisting them and their organizations identify their unique DNA. (While the term DNA could refer to both personal DNA or organizational DNA, for this article, I will focus just on personal DNA). How we use this approach to understand and map organizational DNA will be subject of another article. By tapping into our DNA, we can find ways distinguish ourselves, unleash our authentic leadership, evoke passion, harvest our creativity (potentially resulting in new intellectual property, innovative products and services) and build a brand. In this short article I pose four questions, propose an integrated framework and offer some suggestions on how to inquire into these questions to tap into personal DNA and ignite natural genius. Ones natural genius is the source of ones unique competencies and capacities that makes one effective, creative and energetic.
Vision, Mision, Confusion
We had a conversation about purpose, vision and mission in a board meeting that I recently attended. These have become rubber words you can stretch them any way you want and dont mean very much for many people because they see them all the time on the walls of conference rooms in companies but rarely pay attention to them in terms of providing service to customers or dealing with employees let alone dealing with investors.
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Music and Self Management
Prasad Kaipa, Ph. D. and Giridhar Tirumalai, Ph. D.
During the 20th century Industrial Age, people and machines worked side by side with little difference between them in terms of the expected output. Efficiency management (of a machine or a person) was the primary focus then. In the 21st century Knowledge Age, the survival and growth of a company depends not merely on efficiency but effectiveness, not on repetitiveness but on innovation, not on one-time success but continuous growth that is sustainable. Effectiveness, Innovation and Sustainability are not objective, external factors and cannot be achieved by efficiency-management by others; they are subjective, human factors that require a great deal of self-management by individuals. The aim of this article is to explore and reflect on the role music could play in helping people self manage their work and bring healing, balance and meaning in their life.