We say necessity is the mother of invention. We are still out fighting poverty, malnutrition, poverty, and illiteracy. With technological advancement, we are hyper-connected, and innovation sharing has gotten easier. Covod19 occurrence, trace, and cure say it all. Our world has become a global village with the emergence of technology: Arab springs to Panama papers …
Category Archives: Random Thoughts
Sail
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 …
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 …
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 …
Innovation
India’s future growth depends on creating impactful software product companies. The ones which can go head-on with the companies from the US and China, be it in cutting-edge research in the areas of environmental research or space tech or software products. India will soon become the most populous country. It also means we can be …
time
I was supposed to join a super-experienced mentor of mine for lunch. I could not reach on time, and the meeting got called off. It was painful and sad. It also made me realize how important time is and being punctual. Show up early is one virtue am striving for now.
dormant
How easy it is to live in anger like a dormant volcano. Does it help anyone? Be it a relationship or business: disagreements are part of it. Some of us keep grudges and make things worst for everyone. We start forming our own opinions and keep everything in a prejudiced bucket. Who does it help? …