We all love stories. Humans enjoyed telling stories to each other. A story is a simple narration with a beginning, middle and the end. A proper story should have the beginning and the end tied up with the middle providing the structure to the story. If you look at any of our conversations, they alwaysContinue reading “Decision-making using stories”
Tag Archives: Leadership
Wired for movement
Walking is an evergreen exercise. From the time we as human beings learn to use our two limbs to walk on this beautiful earth, we are ushered into the infinite possibilities of movement. The ability to walk helps us to seek and discover. It helps us to face and experience the elements in their finestContinue reading “Wired for movement”
Fighting and Winning
‘The Last Jedi’ was a Star Wars movie that ended up polarizing its fan base when it took lots of risks with its unique storytelling and choices that was different for one of the most lucrative movie franchises of all time. In the movie, the story progresses immediately after the end of its predecessor ‘TheContinue reading “Fighting and Winning”
The more of everything, the less of anything
Go big or go home’ is the battle cry of capitalism. ‘You need to grow faster or you are toast’ another famous cry to make hay while the sun shines. There is a Biblical story of Joseph who could interpret dreams and was a prisoner in the Pharaoh prisons. When the Pharaoh saw a dreamContinue reading “The more of everything, the less of anything”
The image problem
We worry about our image all the time. How did we reach here? It may not be a bad thing.
A truth(less) world
​The other day while glancing through the website of my alma mater I chanced across a headline that read like this. ‘Trustworthy advice for a post-truth world’. It was an interesting headline one that made me think for sometime. Disruption is an act of nature. If you see the world around us, everything is inContinue reading “A truth(less) world”
Why I hate M&A?
I am a big big opponent of mergers and acquisitions and no matter whatever is being promised, most often people who spend day and night striving to build the company end up paying a heavy price.
Worst Case Scenario
We all have a tendency to get carried away whenever disaster strikes our lives. We tend to think and ponder over the worst that could/may happen. We tend to think much ahead and ponder over a time that might happen and the consequences that may occur subsequently.
Politics: Left, Right, Straight, etc.
I have followed politics since the time I can remember yet I was never enamored by it. My FB profile states me as a ‘Liberal by mind and a Conservative’ by heart. I have spend a lot of time in my life trying to understand what is the difference between both the right and leftContinue reading “Politics: Left, Right, Straight, etc.”
Confrontation
Is face-to-face confrontation a good thing? This is a perennial question always being asked in management circles. Most of the time from what I have seen or heard from till now, leaders/managers try to avoid face to face confrontation by delegating it to soft forms like email, letters or even delegating it to HR orContinue reading “Confrontation”
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