April 10, 2025
Many feel uncomfortable with the idea of solitude. But, it is fundamental to any creative problem solving.
September 11, 2024
Our daily interactions are a key indicator of future success—improving the quality of these connections drives better outcomes.
May 20, 2024
Once upon a time, a priest on a walking tour in pre-revolutionary Russia was confronted by a soldier as he entered the town. The soldier pointed his bayonet at the priest and called out, The priest was unfazed. Instead of Read more…
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…
November 10, 2026
When a team struggles, it is easy for the leader to conclude the team is the problem. Sometimes it is. But leadership requires asking a harder question first. Have I created the conditions for these people to succeed? Are priorities Read more…
November 9, 2026
At work, it is easy to confuse loyalty with agreement. We naturally gravitate towards people who support us, reassure us, and make us feel good about our decisions. But the person protecting your ego is not always the person protecting Read more…
November 8, 2026
A grain merchant used a weighing stone slightly lighter than the standard, so that every customer received a little more than they paid for. His son, taking over, replaced it with an accurate one and showed his father the arithmetic. Read more…
November 7, 2026
It is the long Deepavali weekend, and I finally got some time to catch up on articles I had bookmarked. One of them, by mathematician Dan Rockmore in The New Yorker, is titled The Myth and Magic of Generating New Read more…
The first successful deployment changes everything. Before that, you are selling possibility. The solution may be strong. The problem may be real. The team may believe deeply in what it has built. But the client is still being asked to Read more…
November 5, 2026
Ownership is easy to talk about. You see it more clearly when something is not moving. There will always be reasons. Someone has not responded. A dependency is pending. A decision is delayed. Another team has not done what was Read more…
Whether it’s a proposal, an idea, a job application, or a sale, when something gets rejected, we instinctively want to understand why. We read the explanation carefully and start fixing ourselves around it. But not every rejection contains a lesson. Read more…
November 3, 2026
Feeling a roving sense of anxiousness? Feeling stressed? A lot of it comes from not keeping our attention on one thing at a time. You are eating breakfast while thinking about an email you have to send. You are on Read more…
November 2, 2026
Sharing this via Seth Godin’s blog post When things don’t turn out the way you pictured, how long does it take for you to move on? Reducing this window of disappointment unlocks the path to creativity and leadership. People who Read more…
November 1, 2026
“It is entirely your fault,” the master said. “My fault?” said the disciple. “I sit in meditation every day. I study. And still the world interrupts me. My mind drifts, my emotions storm, and the peace I find vanishes in Read more…
