As Human Beings one of our most treasured abilities is that we can (if we want) reflect on what we do and accept the outcome and correct what we feel is not right. But it is not a common act because Acceptance and Correction are not the favorite phenomena for most people. In business and at work we have this process of retrospective to check what … Continue reading Reflect, Accept & Correct From professional life to Personal Life
I have been a long time fan of TED talks. Yes I know you are too. Most of the times when I watch a TED talk. I watched the TED talk and went ahead and visited his website, a few of his articles on LinkedIn and then bought his book “The Business Romantic” from Amazon I also commented on TED because the talk is incomplete … Continue reading 4 ways to build a human company in the age of machines – Watched the TED Talk and Bought the Book
Haven’t you heard the saying “One does not choose one’s own parents”. I believe it is not just about Parents, many times we do not have a choice of our coworkers either. While with parents the lack of choice is not considered a burden and I am yet to find someone who wished they had a choice in there. But when it comes to coworkers … Continue reading People Management in a New Workplace
I was in Bangalore a few months back and this is where I started my career years back and felt like going down that memory lane and picking some old episode. I started my career selling computers. We used to buy parts and assemble PCs, Provide a Warranty to customers and sell and support them. This was the 90s in India before the boom of Laptops. The time … Continue reading Thinking on Your Feet – A Page from Memory
You have hear the word bombarded on the walls of conference rooms, in the corporate corridors and loud and clear through the mouth piece or headset. ‘Transparency’ has become both a request and an ask. Yet teams, organizations and individuals struggle with it. Transparency is not about the struggle to get everything right before letting anyone in. It is about being courageous, Courteous and Committed. … Continue reading Transparency For Transformation
Today as I was dropping my 9 year old to school, he seemed very happy and I asked him why. He said his teacher is back today. She had been off last two days not feeling well. I was looking back at my childhood and seeing if I had any moments like that. There were many teachers whom I liked and some I did not. … Continue reading When Your Kids praise their Teacher; Know they are taught by the best
I read The Alchemist long ago and I might be among those who did not find it really great. I might also be among the very few who openly say it. That brings me to the point that many times people do not say because they do not want to be the one with less friends. I will also agree that there are some people … Continue reading The Alchemist – Transforming a Name into a Brand
We all have different ideas about who a friend is, or who we consider to be a friend. I am sure we also do not go to the dictionary to find it out. Because we all are very sure about what we know. Oxford Dictionary says a friend is “A person with whom one has a bond of mutual affection, typically one exclusive of sexual … Continue reading A Friend is someone who will show you the mirror without worrying if you will take offense
A few weeks back I was driving back after going to an Elementary School to judge some literary work by small kids. My 9 year old son was sitting in the car behind me. We were having some father son time together driving back and forth. I had NPR playing and it was a discussion about the Private Prisons for illegal immigrant detainees in the … Continue reading The essence of being human is to never leave humanity out of our sight just like we never leave our kids from our sight
We all reflect on the past and come out with an array of emotions. All reflections are not conscious and planned. Many of them just happen unknowingly. You see someone or something or hear a song or go to a place and all of a sudden you are ported back into some point in your Past. But conscious reflection can be a really nice tool … Continue reading The Reflection Prescription
Vinod Narayan 