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Help Others Grow

If you are a leader in your workplace, you advance when people working in your team grow. I experienced the best growth when I helped my teammates deliver their best in whatever roles they were essaying. A teacher’s stature automatically Read more…


Take Feedback But Ignore Opinions

People always have opinions about others. That is human nature. “He is aggressive.” “He is smart,” “He is self-centered.” “He is not confident.” “I love the way he works.” “He is a difficult person.” For everyone, whatever one may do, Read more…


Five Keys To Happiness

Last week I came across an interview that Jeff Weiner, the founder of Linkedin, gave to New York Times in which he mentions five keys of happiness that one of his mentors Ray Chambers shared with him.  The 5 points Read more…


Good Times,Bad Times

Our life is like a wave that keeps flowing through time. We all will have our share of ups and downs. Our emotional state represents the amplitude of the wave. When things around us happen in a way aligned to Read more…


Problems Are Good

We live in an interconnected world. Every person’s success comes from solving someone else’s problem. When encountering any challenge of difficulty, do we see it as a problem, or do we see it as an opportunity? There were once two Read more…


Give Whatever It Takes

At some point in our life, all of us have to deliver results associated with a set of goals. It could be qualifying examinations for a student; for an sales executive, it could be delivering sales targets in a calendar Read more…


Reaction And Response

When I was young, in India, we used to have street dogs roaming around the colony where I used to live. A few kids in the neighborhood would instigate the street dogs for sadistic pleasure by feigning to throw stones Read more…


Subject Of Life

There are three ways in which we learn anything- With the help of a teacher, through Self-study, and by learning from experience when we do something. As students, we gain knowledge in academic subjects like Sciences, Mathematics, Languages, History. We Read more…


Your Tone Matters

Becoming effective in communication is a significant area of personal development for me. Why do I say this? The real test of good communication is not when things are relaxed and comfortable. It is how one communicates in a situation Read more…


Life Lessons From Coach Wooden

Without really planning for it, in the last couple of days, I have quoted John Wooden in my blogs.Who are you on the inside. focus on the process Coach Wooden, as he was popularly known, has been and continues to Read more…