You have to be mad head to run your enterprise, the main reason being uncertainty. You are on a treadmill and a vicious cycle of things working and not working. Every other day in the founder’s journey is a challenge: customers leaving, employees leaving, or failing product timelines. Media only glorifies the founder’s life, unicorn …
Author Archives: Atul
blame
We become how we feel: a victim or a survivor depending on our mindset in business. The fight-and-flight mode of our brain always nudges us to run away, blame others, or sink in guilt. We are no more rational creatures but an animal up in rage to react when the ego gets in our way. …
lead
Leadership is not about telling the team what to do but working with them, hand in hand, and showing them the way. How do you expect a team to peak performance when a leader is in leisure and least bothered about the organization? How will your team perform when you are unavailable for them or …
Practice
Practice to perfection: we are told about it time and again.No job is small. Every task or position requires dedication and practice. We can not be the best in trade by sitting idle or just doing enough. In the book: score takes care of itself, the author talks about his best players’ grit, daily grunt, …
imagination
Imagination drives us to build a castle in thin air. It pushes us to work harder and seek the unachievable. Our imagination enables us to leave our daily chores and fantasize about travel, food, falling in love, or becoming a billionaire. Our imagination gives purpose to our life. It makes us more creative, frees us …
waqt
Waqt aur zindgi ka kya hai rista?Ek Suee-Dhage ke mafik smajhliziye. Waqt agar tili hai to zindgi ek chingari. Hamae waqt me hum khud ke ho zate hai aur be-waqt hum zindgi auro ko kiye dete hai. Heer-Ranjha, Laila-Majnu, Romeo-Juliet nae apne waqt ko auro ke zindgi me kar diya fana. Is waqt hum yaar …
waqt
Khoya kya hai humne iss waqt ke siva?Ye Daulat, Sohrat, Ishq aur rushwaiyaa waqt ka hissa he to hai. Aaz waqt ke saath hum the, hum waqt ke ho liye. Kal hum waqt se fana huye ek aur duniya ko chale zainge. Ye waqt he hai jo hai is zindgi ka. Aur waise bhi hai …
lost
We are all lost with deep desires to be someone or mark a dent in the universe. Many of us disappeared into the darkness & given up our life. They consumed alcohol, took psychotropic substances, or committed suicide. Externalities fuel our wants.We are no more ourselves.We are lost in the consumerism era, which will live …
list
Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography talks about his vice/virtue list. It has been a transformation for me in the last six years. My list of virtue list has controlled eating and avoiding meat, sugar, wheat, and milk. I have monthly notes pinned on my room which list dates I missed my eating habits. Has anyone else done …
move
Polaroid, Blockbuster, and Kodak have a few things in common: They are all bankrupt. They were all early innovators. They did not change with time and tune their business model. Companies and management get lazy and don’t see the future because they have a cash cow present. They don’t want to innovate or disrupt it. …