“You don’t know anyone at the party, so you don’t want to go. You don’t like cottage cheese, so you haven’t eaten it in years. This is your choice, of course but don’t kid yourself: it’s also the flinch. Your personality is not set in stone. You may think a morning coffee is the most …
Read these someplace: No one really makes it alone. Behind every success story is a whole village of unsung authors. The teacher who saw a spark in you. The friend who introduced you to someone who introduced you to your destiny. The stranger who said “yes” when they had no reason to. We love the …
I have run out of book space in my study – or as Keshav calls it – the bookshop. I also have run out of book space in the rest of the house – so well, time for some ingenious solutions:) To start, two things to do now – add more shelves in my room, …
One of the Shlokas that I want to teach Rohāmrta is the Deepa Jyothi shloka. I did try hard to search for its original source, but was unsuccessful. But sometimes origins do not matter. Here is a shloka that a child can recite in the evening, after lighting a Deepa. Not a candle, but a …
Guess who we met last Saturday? Why, it was good ol’ John Felton! I had met this gentleman around three years back, at Times Square mall where he had a stall where he sold books written by him. Had bought a couple of books from him then, and they turned out to be quite the …
This week someone asked me why a ‘Board of Directors’ was called thus. Turns out that I had written about it a couple of years back:) Here it is! Meetings, meetings, meetings. Some are very productive, others a total waste of time. Some serendipitous, some scheduled, others impromptu. Internal meetings, external meetings. Face to a …
It’s appraisal time, again:) Every year, we have a theme for our appraisals. Last year it was leadership. This year, it would be centered around the hot topic of the year – technology. I believe the annual appraisal is a good time for everyone to reflect – employees reflect on their performances, managers reflect on …
Time that runs away! Ricardo Gondim I counted my years and found that I will have less time to live from now on than I have lived until now. I feel like that boy who was given a bowl of fruits. The first ones, he sucked carelessly, but realizing that there are few left, he gnaws the kernel. …
Every quarter, I sit through a few presentations of people who want to change the world. A very few of them, if any, end up doing so. Every founder is taught to start with a question – what is the problem and how can I solve it? Some start with the question – What can …
We finally managed to visit Malgudi. Not the town – that’s fictional, yet immortalized by R.K. Narayan, the prolific author who created Malgudi (thought to be an amalgamation of Malleshwaram and Basavangudi) and brother of equally famous R.K. Laxman (the Common Man). Both brothers Padma Vibhushans, both lived to the 90s. As they say – …
