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Be A High Agency Person

High agency

Most people wait for permission to solve problems. The message they send, in asking for permission, without realizing it, is simple. Tell me what to do. I won’t figure it out myself. High agency people are different. They care. And Read more…


Three Steps To Delivering Exceptional Results

Something James Clear shared in one of his blog posts. 1) Do less. Stop dividing your attention. 2) Do it right now. Once you have identified the essential, go fast. Maintain a bias toward action. 3) Do it the right Read more…


Choose Different

choose different

An uncomfortable question worth sitting with. Can your current choices carry you to where you want to go? Not will they. Can they. Because in many cases, the outcome you want will keep eluding you even if you try harder. Read more…


Get Into It

Get into it

Big goals do that to you. They sit in your head and feel impossible. The expectation feels unrealistic. The risk of failure feels very real. And somewhere in the background, a quiet voice asks whether you even want to take Read more…


Choosing Your Pain

choose your pain

When circumstances change, many people delay action because they are searching for a painless path. A decision without discomfort. A shift without trade-offs. A result without sacrifice. But whether it is personal transformation or institutional transformation, every meaningful path carries Read more…


Focus On The System

Focus on the system

Last week, during our global AOP discussions in Bangalore, one thought kept coming back to me. If you genuinely care about the goal, you will focus on the system. It is easy to get caught up in ambition. Growth targets, Read more…


Weekend Story-When The Readers Returned The Stories

stories

It happened quietly, the way bad news often does. In the early 90s, a fire broke out in the office where years of Amar Chitra Katha work was stored. Not just stacks of printed copies, but original illustrations, artwork, archives. Read more…


Permission Is A Crutch

permission is a crutch

A lot of people wait for permission far too often.It feels responsible. It feels proper. It feels safe. But often, asking for permission is less about protocol and more about self-protection. If the answer is no, we have someone to Read more…


Weekend Story-Aim Ahead

Aim Ahead

There’s this old Irish archer named Finn. His students would watch him practice and be completely confused. The man would aim at what looked like empty space—and still hit his target every single time. One day, Cormac couldn’t take it Read more…


Happy Customers

Happy Customers

There’s a simple truth about building a business that becomes obvious only after you’ve spent enough time doing it. Growing a business is not as complicated as we often make it out to be. It doesn’t come from amazing products, Read more…