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Month: September 2022

Are You “Above The Line”?

Above the line

If you are a leader, it is essential to acknowledge that everyone around is watching you for how you are behaving and operating at all times. What you do and how you behave directly impact those around you, and often Read more…


Thinking Big Vs. Thinking Small

Recently, I was with a young colleague and our conversation veered towards the idea of thinking big. My young colleague had a pertinent question. Someone is looking to acquire wealth, so, to that person thinking big makes sense. They have Read more…


Weekend Story- The Eagle And The Chicken

eagle

Once, a farmer placed an eagle’s egg in the nest of a prairie chicken. After a few days, the egg hatched, and the little bird inside came out thinking it was a prairie chicken. So the baby eagle did what Read more…


Be Interested

Be Interested

Something most people strive to do through their work or in the way they engage with the people around them is to gain the attention of others.  Many often make the mistake of thinking that the more they speak, the Read more…


Go After Your Top Goal Everyday

top goal

In most workplaces, there are always some fires burning. One of the most common challenges many people encounter daily in the workplace is that they seem to have infinite things to do, yet weeks go by, and they don’t feel Read more…


Another Ten Wisdom Quotes

Wisdom comes only through suffering. Aeschylus Patience is the companion of wisdom. St. Augustine Everyone whose deeds are more than his wisdom, his wisdom endures; and everyone whose wisdom is more than his deeds, his wisdom does not endure. The Read more…


What’s Your Commitment ?

Commitment

A mentee recently reached out to me with a business plan that he was pursuing. He was looking for some validation from me. “Can you please look at my business plan and let me know what you think?” he said, opening his Read more…


The Less You Speak….

speak less

There is a saying –The more you tell, the less you sell. Whether with my kids or my superiors or colleagues and teammates, whenever I get into an unconscious tendency to tell, talk or preach more, the less persuasive and Read more…


Beware Of Blind Conformance

Blind Conformance

I recently came across a rivetting TED Talk by James Surowiecki titled “the power and the danger of online crowds.” The core thesis of this talk is that as people, when we act en masse, there is a collective intelligence Read more…


Weekend Story- The Monk And The Garden

Monk and the garden

There was once a monk in a monastery who was very fond of tending to his Japanese garden for hours on end. The monk would keep picking up the dry twigs from the immaculately maintained flowering bushes. One day, while Read more…