This time it’s different. Our media likes to publish now and then about the pandemic, pollution, or recession. We are told how our world is falling apart and, we should be prepared to build our own Noah’s Arch. We, humans, thrive on uncertainty. The dinosaurs disappeared, pandemic came, world war happened, we bounced back from […]
Category Archives: Life
feed
You can’t force-feed a donkey and make them a racehorse. The sooner we understand it, the better it will be for us. Knowing our blind spot and circle of competence can change the way we see our life and work. We are living in a world where externalities are governing us, the decisions of our […]
Lessons to lead by
In the last chapter of the book, The ride of a lifetime, Robert Iger shares his life lessons. I am adding limited ones I could resonate well, read the book for the rest others : Great talents tell great stories. Innovate or die. Avoid mediocrity Take responsibility when you screw up. Treat everyone with fairness […]
creative
Indians are not creative. They under-utilize the creative brain. Are we Indians not creative. Or is it because we are a developing economy and we have to work harder than our counterparts from the developed world for end meets? When our basic necessity is not with us, how will we think or be creative? When […]
weakness
Be strong; do not show your weakness. But why? Why can’t we be vulnerable? Why do we have to talk to a faceless therapist about what is fucking us up from inside? We have lived in a close-knit since eternity, what happened to us now? We got all it takes to make: wealth, social status, […]
spoonfeed
Is it our culture, education system, or society that craves newcomers for being spoonfed or micromanaged? In my limited experience, I have seen most dislike in figuring out things: be it with life decisions, education, skill acquisition, or work. I have been interviewing candidates for various roles in the last few months, and most of […]
right
A leader’s job is not to be right. Their job is to ensure an organization is working together as an operating system. They have to ensure that the team is motivated and aware of overall milestones and companies vision. It is the team and togetherness which guarantees any organization’s success. The cult leadership creates a […]
past
How much our past matters? I was going through photograph dumps, notes, scribbles. We change with time; Our priority, People, and the journey keep moving. I am barely in touch with my school and college friends. I am hardly in touch with folks from my first job. At the same time, I have noticed our […]
Shoe Dog
It was 5-6 months back when Karthik had recommended the list of autobiographies. Shoe Dog was one of the recommendations besides a dozen others. Sometimes we need encouragement and autobiographies like these help. It resulted in me reading Shoe Dog. I enjoyed every page of the book; It was like a script out of a […]
Daughter
Patriarchy is part and parcel of Indian society. As a son, we have more authority, freedom. Although we are getting better, we are still far away. The priority of dream, aspirations, independence of daughter still takes backfoot over son. The choice of finding a partner, job, city to live in, who to meet, and when […]