As I finally start winding down my new book on Leadership (5 more interviews to go), one of the common themes that ran through the interviews done so far with some awesome people is that “GREAT LEADERS DO NOT JUDGE”. As I thought this through and thought back on many anecdotes in my life, I […]

I have a friend who’s never read a personal development book in her life (except mine, and she went through that more out of loyalty to me than any deep driving desire to read it). But she gives 110% to everything she does. She works 70 hour weeks in a senior position in a world […]

The ultimate compliment a person can get (from someone who is not family or close friend) is that he / she is a thorough professional. There are many aspects to what constitutes professional behavior, possibly too many to capture in a single post. However, over my career and beyond, I have personally experienced one particular […]

Apparently, money makes the world go round (it doesn’t actually, though it helps a little). I continue to be stunned into silence by the lack of financial planning of most people I know. They spend more time in choosing a smartphone worth Rs 20 or 30000 than in planning their financials. More often than not, […]

We are a sum of the friends we have. According to a post on Steve Pavlina’s blog, 40% of people do not have a single growth oriented friend and 20% have just one. While this was mostly a US based study, chances are the numbers in India would be similar. That’s crazy. That means that […]

The other day, during a Coaching session, a suggestion came up that Yogic concepts could easily be translated into daily Corporate Life. Of course they can. For example, one of the most basic yogic concepts is that of the three Gunas – Sattvik, Rajasic, Tamasic. If we were to translate this into the institution of […]