Shantha Mohan Ph.D.

Shantha Mohan Ph.D. is an Executive In Residence at the Integrated Innovation Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. Before that, she was a global software engineering leader and entrepreneur, co-founding Retail Solutions Inc., a retail analytics company. Shantha also has over 20 years of experience focused on mission-critical systems to support semiconductor and other high-value-added manufacturing. She is the author of Roots and Wings - Inspiring stories of Indian Women in Engineering and is a co-author of Demystifying AI for The Enterprise - A Playbook for Business Value and Digital Transformation. Her book, Leadership Lessons with The Beatles, was published by Taylor & Francis in May 2022.

Shantha Mohan Ph.D. is an opinion columnist for the CEOWORLD magazine. Connect with her through LinkedIn. For more information, visit the author’s website.

Tech and Innovation

Leading Knowledge Workers: Do You Want To Know A Secret?

Tech and InnovationShantha Mohan Ph.D.

The Beatles sang, “Listen Do you want to know a secret? Do you promise not to tell? Whoa, oh, oh” I will tell you a secret, and I hope you will spread it. The Cambridge English Dictionary defines a knowledge worker as “an employee whose job involves developing and using...

Tech and Innovation

Balancing Leadership Tensions: The Duality

Tech and InnovationShantha Mohan Ph.D.

In their song, “Hello, Goodbye,” Lennon and McCartney wrote, “You say, ‘Yes’, I say, ‘No’ You say, ‘Stop’ and I say, ‘Go, go, go’ Oh no” McCartney was the primary writer, and he wrote the song when meeting with an assistant of The Beatles’ manager, asking for opposites to the...

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All You Need is Love: Seven Simple acts for Heart-Led Leadership

CEO InsiderShantha Mohan Ph.D.

Lennon and McCartney wrote the famous Beatles’ song “All You Need Is Love” at the height of the Vietnam war. A live and international television satellite production called “One World” played this song for the first time on June 25, 1967. The primary composer, Lennon, delivered a message that you...

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Leadership success requires the opposite of I Me Mine

CEO InsiderShantha Mohan Ph.D.

How empowering your organization is crucial: George Harrison wrote the song “I Me Mine” just as the Beatles were breaking up. In the book of the same name, George writes, “Suddenly I looked around and everything I could see was relative to my ego, like ‘that’s my piece of paper’ and...

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