This blog is our space to write about our thoughts, views and notes about our travels. Osho owned 90 Rolls Royces while being a Sanyasi ….. The so-felt contradiction is very fascinating and hence the name !
V G Krishnan Lot of us lament about the fact that today’s employees are not productive from day one despite the fact that most of them being very well qualified, at least on paper. Am sure that we can recall several interviews and interactions wherein the candidates could not explain even basic concepts related to their subject of … Read more
People at all levels are constantly looking for a change of job, and keep thinking of ways and means of getting the attention of recruiters and folks in the HR department. Happened to read this very interesting one recently…please do read… http://finance.yahoo.com/news/heres-cold-linkedin-message-prompted-185800074.html
I read the article on the 10/10/10 rule for taking touch decisions,and I have shared the link below. Its different than whatever I have read in the past.
Please do read and share your thoughts on what do you think about the article.
Many of us, when asked the question about our life purpose or what do we want in our lives, answer ‘to be happy’ or ‘ be happy always’ or a combination of words that mean happiness or to be happy is our goal in our lives. Can happiness be the goal? Or even the life purpose? Well, I liked the article whose link is provided below.
Please do read.
While there is a lot of focus, of late, on the importance and learnings of failure, at work and also in life, going through the phase immediately after what you have termed as a failure on your part is not easy. It’s very difficult. It looks great when you read such stories of failures in fiction books and the occasional movies.
Having gone through bankruptcy myself in mid nineties through business mishappenings, I can understand the emotions and feelings facing failure, and the huge consequences that come with it. It took six years for me and my life partner to come out of the financial mess. But the insights and learnings that we got out of the failure is immeasurable. In fact more valuable than the program that I did from IIM Ahmedabad in the late nineties that was central to our recovery. While you may not be prepared to fail you should be ready to learn from the failure(s) and mistakes.
As parents, it’s very important to let your kids, fall and/or fail. Small or big. You don’t have to motivate them to fail but you can always support and help them. My parents never scolded or offended us post our business disaster but supported us right through the recovery phase in innumerable ways. Their tolerance for our failures was a huge contributing factor in our growth.
Here is an interesting article on the subject of patents letting their kids fail.
I never had to hate any of my bosses over almost three decades of my work in organisations. But I definitely did not like some of them for some of their actions and inactions, prejudice, unfairness, micromanaging including editing my emails, lying, using paid time for personal/family work, and the list can go on..
Survey after survey, done globally and locally, have consistently highlighted the correlation between levels of employee engagement and the relationship between the boss and the employee. We have all heard that employee joins the organisation but leaves because of the boss.
If you hate your boss but don’t know what to do or evaluating your options, please click on the link below for an excellent article on the subject:
While most people don’t like or appreciate the idea of having a contrarian in their team, I have always loved to have one. In fact I would love to be a contrarian in any group or team that I am part of. A contrarian or a divergent view makes you think and if it comes from a person with experience and/or expertise, you value the contrarian view even more. Sometimes just the fact that someone presented a different view, in itself is very interesting, and very much required.
We have in our advisory board of ShikshaDaan Foundation one such contrarian. We invited the person to join us with the purpose and clarity of his differing views. Almost with one different view in every meeting that we have had in the last six quarterly meetings.
Contrary to what most may think, contrarian views matter. It makes you think. They make a huge difference. Here is an interesting article on the subject:
All of us want to be more successful. I do want to be. Is there anyone who doesn’t want to be? And for many of us to be more successful means to be happier or just stay happy. How are success and happiness related? Am happy to share what the new Harvard Research has to reveal on the subject:
Be More Successful: New Harvard Research Reveals A Fun Way To Do It
Enjoy. It’s very interesting.
Well. What makes a good life is a very interesting question, and I am sure that there would be as many answers as there are people on this planet. If you answered name and fame…here is a TED video where according to psychiatrist Robert Waldinger, you’re mistaken. As the director of a 75-year-old study on adult development, Waldinger has unprecedented access to data on true happiness and satisfaction. In this talk, he shares three important lessons learned from the study as well as some practical, old-as-the-hills wisdom on how to build a fulfilling, long life. Enjoy.
Here is the link to the video:
What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness