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
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
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
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 