Helping folks with practical tips to manage themselves better
May 26, 2021
In 1990, Elizabeth Newton, a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University, did a study to check how confident people were about communicating some message to someone and how successful they were in getting the message across to the recipient. In the Read more…
October 7, 2022
In my last two posts, Nobody Rises To Low Expectations and It’s On You I have reflected on leadership from two different perspectives. Continuing on the same theme, here is another perspective on the paradox of leadership. If you want Read more…
October 6, 2022
This is an idea on leadership that I have borrowed from Gary Vaynerchuk. If you are a leader and your team is not performing, it’s always on you. Gary says solving the problem comes down to three things. Then Read more…
October 5, 2022
There is a powerful quote by Calvin Lloyd: “Nobody rises to low expectations.” As a parent, I have always pushed my children to be the best they can be. How do I do that? By demanding more from them. I Read more…
October 4, 2022
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching Read more…
October 2, 2022
Twenty days remained until the big game. Then, finally, the two teams made it to the finals after multiple rounds of intense competition. There was, however, an uneasy undercurrent that the university head coach felt. He observed a palpable build-up Read more…
When we are working on any task, we can approach it in two ways. Like it is ‘deep work’ or like it is ‘shallow work.’ Let’s look at an example. Imagine it’s a Sunday, and you are starting the new Read more…
September 30, 2022
I was in a business conversation with a client this afternoon, and we were both grappling with issues in delivering a technical solution on time. The critical issue was that the users on the client side and engineering teams on Read more…
September 29, 2022
Browsing through my collection of great commencement speeches, I found an old reference to a famous address at Georgia Tech University by the ex-Coca-Cola CEO Brian Dyson about the ‘Five Balls of Life.’ This speech is one of the more Read more…
How do you know if something will work if you are doing it for the first time? In exploring anything new, the cycle/the process is always the same. You start first by Deciding-> Then you do and experience-> Then you Read more…
September 28, 2022
In 1966, SLA Marshall, a General in the United States Army, wrote a groundbreaking book on military leadership titled The Officer As A Leader. His book, based on his experiences from the World War, examines the psychology of leadership and the Read more…
