Last week a question started bothering me. Do people really hate Mondays? We all have seen people who on a Monday and on the same Friday look like they are not even related to each other. They appear and act as if they are two different people. Most of us might not see them on a Sunday evening to know if there is a third … Continue reading Looking forward for a Monday at Work
Is there one such profession where you keep getting better. I think every profession that we see gives us the opportunities to be better. The question is how we define better. And the fact is that we don’t get better in any profession unless we start doing something about it. It is not always about skills enhancement; it might be about the difference we make … Continue reading A profession where you can keep getting better
Many of you might have probably read about The 10,000 Hour Rule that is closely associated with writer Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers. The principle says that 10,000 hours of “deliberate practice” is needed to become world-class in any field. To give you a sense of the actual passing time. If you spend 2 hours a day you hit this in close to 14 years provided you do it every single day. … Continue reading How Passion and Purpose can together drive Meaningful and Rewarding Professions
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
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
Norman Vincent Peale the American Author most notable for his book titled “The Power of Positive Thinking” said “Change your Thoughts and You change your world”. So true because the world as we see it is a culmination of every thought that is going on through people’s minds. Not just the thoughts now, but also the thoughts that have gone through the mind of people … Continue reading Change your thoughts and you change your world – Norman Vincent Peale
Vinod Narayan 