I have been following Adam Grant for some time. I had most of his books from Give and Take, Originals, and Option B to Think Again. I have not read those books completely. But I have heard him enough on podcasts that I decided to read “Hidden Potential”. Adam Grant is an organisational psychologist and... Continue Reading →
A.E.S.O.P Tale
How do we move from Being to Having? Activate, Energize and Stoke y(O)ur Po10shall aka A.E.S.O.P tales demonstrate how to actuate your po10shall through day-to-day routines, systems, and experiences. They say when you are " in the zone", you are happy or excited because you are doing something very 'skillfully and easily'. When we are... Continue Reading →
Switch off & Switch On
As a nation when our PM inspired to switch off our lights and switch on lights at 9 PM for 9 minutes on April 5th, I didn't know that it was falling on the day I am completing my 25 years of professional career experience. The previous night I wrote down the list of... Continue Reading →
Be(a)ware of the Ide(a)s of March
In the tragedy Julius Caesar written by William Shakespeare, and supposedly also in real life, Caesar was warned by a soothsayer to 'beware the Ides of March. ' Caesar was killed on March 15th, and in Roman culture, the 'Ides' typically meant a day falling between the 13th and 15th of the month. The Ides of March is so unlucky that it is often spoken... Continue Reading →
Find your David
TILT is a crucible for aspiring leaders. On 15th September when David Faria came up on stage to talk to around 50 odd TILTians, I was sitting behind wondering "what is David going to speak?" David started giving some statistics at the beginning of his speech. His question of how old was the world was a... Continue Reading →
2.1kms “fine” short of a “moon shot”
I was getting out of the office and I was stuck in the traffic jam just outside our office at 9.30PM. While I was coming down through the lift I saw in the small screen that PM has just landed in Bangalore. I could relate that this holding up is for his convoys to pass... Continue Reading →
