A leader’s role is temporary but the organization lasts for decades. A successful leader creates an environment and trains and motivates their team so that teaching and learning continue even in their absence. You don’t want to be a control-free leader but create an environment where teaching philosophy has deeply ingrained within your organization. Whether …
Author Archives: Atul
community
Over seven years as a community manager and an evangelist my only job was to spend time with community contributors. The thing working for me has been treating contributors as human’s first code contribution or organizing events being secondary. The same goes for gifting swags, it came last. I still hang out with folks from …
Leadership Principles
In the book, “The score takes care of itself”, the Author talks about 13 leadership principles. I liked it and felt like sharing it. Be yourself. As a leader, the most important trait is being the best version of self. We are all different. It is not necessary that what worked for Steve Jobs or …
progress
What is your definition of progress?Is becoming famous and rich a sign of progress? The more I see these days titles where the author talks about getting rich, famous, or finding a soulmate who falls for you. I start questioning consciousness. We and the world has become more prosperous than before. Our life expectancy has …
Validation
We live in a world where our survival depends on how others perceive us. The reason why beauty care, fashionwear, or social media thrives. The burden of validation impacts everyone. The person seeking validation and people in their circle. Sometimes I wonder which came first our ego or the craving for validation. Or is anger …
complex
Have we made our life complex with our needs, actions, and desires? We want love, we seek attention and we crave independence. As a result, we end up building a complex maze of wants. We end up being angry, depressed, and sad when desires are unmet. We get stressed, overwork, collapse and go down further …
ethics
Any relationship is fruitful if it’s built on some ethics. We are mammals and we do see and observe things. We do have emotions. The more I venture out into this uncharted territory I feel isolated, be it personal or professional life. The importance of ethics is rotting with the generation. Is it the progress …
Manipal
After living in metros for over two decades, I am moving to Manipal, a small town in coastal Karnataka known for engineering/medical college.It also has an adjacent temple town named Udupi which I want to explore. Moving out of Bangalore is simple: to indulge in nature and water sports. I also have half a dozen …
mirror
One of our mind’s negative manifest is mirroring.We expect things to be as they were in a job, relationship, or life.The reason is our laziness and comfort.It adds a barrier to our life and affects our progress. We start comparing our new companion with the old one.We start comparing the previous job perk with the …
entrepreneurship
My biggest challenge with entrepreneurship is the amount of hype it gets. We are not some modern gladiators or in the fashion parade.We don’t need all the media boost and appeasement.Some end up calling themselves entrepreneurs just for the glory and wrong reasons. Entrepreneurship is like any other occupation to solve customers’ pain, work with …