The Power of Consistency in Leadership https://t.co/QkiCnyU7YO via @YouTube A few months ago a book which is a collection of my posts, Mondays @ 7 was launched. Amit Tandon did a chat session at the The Quorum Mumbai. I wasn't aware it was put out online until someone forwarded

The restriction is the freedom! The choices we make shape the life we lead. Most of us are a prisoner of our habits. We do not even consciously choose, we simply live our habits. Lets test this statement. To achieve anything in life, we need discipline. The greater the goal,

India needs pest control. Roman, Persian, Mongol, Ottoman empires could go as far as their soldiers could march. Europeans extended their reach by becoming sea-farers. French, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese controlled Africa upto Far East Asia. The Spanish went into most of Americas

Tomorrow is the Frenemy. Probably humans are the only animals aware of their life. Other animals go through life instinctively. This awareness has brought in the concept of time. That there will be a tomorrow and we need to prepare for it. This single concept has influence

The time will pass anyway! A lot of dreams die at the altar of procrastination. The reasoning we do with ourselves range from the sublime to the ridiculous! It’s amazing the game our mind plays on us. Sometimes the reasons for postponing action are because we fear failure,

Time for an Indian Dream. POTUS with one swift signature wrote the requiem on the American dream for talented immigrants from across the world that was enabled by H-1B visas. History tells us that in an endeavour to build a better life, humans migrated to where the rivers or

The Unit of Success. If the Unit of Current is Ampere, Power is Watt, Frequency is Hertz the unit of Success is Drive. The dictionary meaning of drive is the willingness to work persistently and push through difficulties to achieve a desired outcome. It is an innate insatiable

Hanlon's Razor. At the entrance of the 4th Century BC Temple of Apollo in Delphi, Greece was carved, “Know Thyself”. One thing common in all my self appraisals is every year I find new ways of doing stupid things. With practice I have really gotten good at it. Stupidity has

We are never more alone than when in a crowd! ज़िंदगी यूँ हुई बसर तन्हा क़ाफ़िला साथ और सफ़र तन्हा In such a way life was spent alone, in the midst of a crowd, my journey was lonely - Gulzar. Think about it. The one truth we spend our whole life denying - We are born alone,

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The Beauty of Pain. Life, the way we live it seems to be made up of just two activities. The pursuit of pleasure, and the avoidance of pain. Pleasure is like a mountain stream. Sings its song through the rocky descent but is shallow. Pain is like the ocean. Deep, Mysterious.

नभः स्पृशं दीप्तम् Touch the sky with glory is the motto of the Indian Air Force. This is taken from the Bhagwad Geeta when Krishna shows his mighty form to Arjun in the battlefield, he gets mortally scared and disturbed. Think about it. Thats exactly what seeing the Indian Air

The skill they don’t teach you. Jean Paul Sartre once said, “We are our choices”. The trajectory of our life is determined by the choices we make. Albus Dumbledore says, “The trouble is humans do have a knack of precisely choosing those things that are worst for them. It is

Today is the Bestest day ever of my entire life! Years ago, I would come back from office and ask my daughters how their day went. The older one, already in school would tell me in great detail from the moment I dropped her to the school bus to everything that happened

This Best seller is the product of having read thousands of best sellers across genres, time zones and languages. It is a product of values passed down generations through stories, it is the product of my observations and experiences as I go through life. The writing style has

चरैवेति चरैवेति A Zen Master had a favourite crystal cup from which he drank his tea. Every day he would admire it and say, “This cup is already broken.” One day it fell from the hands of the one serving him tea and shattered. There was stunned silence in the room. The master

Of Tall Mountains and Deep Valleys. These days it is fashionable to talk of entrepreneurship in glowing terms. It's been romanticised, heroised and its few success stories celebrated to the point that even outstanding professionals running large Institutions have started to

At SBFC Finance Ltd so far we have Zero marketing budget. At @HDFC_Bank I would see other banks larger and smaller than us have celebrity brand ambassadors and elaborate advertisement campaigns and I would ask the boss, Aditya Puri how does one make a brand in absence of

Gamification & Desensitization. In 1990 US led allies mounted Operation Desert Storm. The Iraqi scud missile being defended by the US Patriot missile system and the Tomahawks hitting their targets inside Iraq were live telecasted by CNN and in that moment war became

From the Tao Te Ching : When the student is ready, the teacher will appear. When the student is truly ready, the teacher will disappear. On this Gurupirnima -To the teachers that appeared when I was ready and those I missed because I wasn’t ready, I bow my head with gratitude.