Blog-List

2023 Sep 07

Desires, Decisions & Destiny

Your destiny is shaped by your decisions. Not by your desires.   They say, when you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. However our response can be often contradictory. We may: Wait for the horse to revive Lower the standards so that dead horses can be included Invest extra funds to increase the dead horse’s performance   If you want to ...

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2023 Sep 06

The greatest teacher

Resides in you Guides you If you listen to it   The second greatest teacher Makes you realise it   Happy Teachers Day To the Teacher in all of us and around us

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2023 Sep 04

Diamonds are forever. What about questions.

Do you see answers as frozen pictures in time and questions as dynamic compass. Answers reflect our understanding at a point of time. Questions reflect what matters most to us. Great questions, like the compass, show the right direction. Organizations that are century old still grapple with the same questions. Who are we, what problem are we solving, who are our customers, how do we stay relevant. The answers ...

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2023 Sep 03

Getting better at what

‘Corporate planning I have observed is like a ritual rain dance … directed at improving the dancing, not the weather.’ Russell Ackoff, Organizational theorist.   Are you working hard on your dance. Is it changing your weather. If no, revisit your assumptions, rather than work harder to get better.   PS: Is there a troupe dancing with you.

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2023 Sep 02

Strike a pose

That captures your madness   See who you are When you are at your best When even you don’t know how you did it   See the pose says it all, when Neeraj Chopra hurls the javelin into the sky Usain Bolt leans back and gestures to the sky Diego Maradona punches the air with his fisted hand   The pose is the true form The burst of the ...

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2023 Sep 01

Are you the butterfly which has become a caterpillar

By not fully knowing yourself By not realizing the value hidden inside you   By positioning yourself into a box And defining yourself by the requirements of the box   Shatter the boxes in your mind   Find your wings Find your style Fly   Why crawl.

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2023 Aug 30

Are you a cake

Then why are you looking for a recipe for success. Recipes are best followed for making cakes. If by following recipes, hacks, rules, x steps to success, bestsellers, and biographies, we could be the movie star, the Olympic champion, billionaire, and entrepreneur, then we would have become so, by now. You are unique. Your recipe is your reality. You are the combination of your content, your context, and the ...

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2023 Aug 28

Small misses vs. Fundamental miss

When you walk your path, you will make mistakes, as your path is uncharted. These are small misses. When you do not walk your path, that is a fundamental miss. All misses are not equal. Some make a life. Others don’t matter.   śreyān sva-dharmo viguṇaḥ para-dharmāt svanuṣṭhitāt | sva-dharme nidhanaṃ śreyaḥ para-dharmo bhayāvaḥ || It is far better to perform one’s prescribed duties, even though faultily, than another’s duties ...

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2023 Aug 27

You are uniquely creative

Creativity is the intersection of your internal perspective and your external world. You are unique and irreplaceable by design. Be confident. Be grateful.  

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2023 Aug 25

You grow when you complement

Seek complementarity not similarity. Complementarity completes you and the other person. Similarity makes one of the two defunct.

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