The 1 Percent Rule: Why a Few People Get Most of the Rewards
The 1 Percent Rule: Why a Few People Get Most of the Rewards
How to Help a Colleague Who Seems Off Their Game
An interesting article on how you can help colleagues to perform at their best.
Why the constant followup, Mr. Mahindra ??
We have been members of Club Mahindra since 2006. In fact in 2006, the Club Mahindra Delhi office didn’t collect all our EMIs and I followed up with them to […]
Endless Zoom Calls ? Exhausted ?
Some strategies to reduce “Zoom fatigue” and manage through the endless video calls during the Corona Virus pandemic.
Rick Rescorla and Evacuation Drills
I read this article on Quora just now and wanted to share it more widely. In India we don’t believe much in evacuation drills and fire safety drills etc. I remember we had a fire breakout in the apartment below ours on Jan 4, 2012. I thought it was raining […]
Arjuna – Lessons in Up-skilling and Re-skilling
In the ongoing Mahabharata re-telecast, in an episode yesterday Guru Dronacharya constructs the Chakravyuha (a battle formation) in order to capture Yudhistra. The Kaurava strategy was to lure Arjuna […]
Lockdown Innovations #1
There was this tweet recently from Anand Mahindra about an auto rickshaw which has been divided into four compartments so that no two passengers sit close to each other and everyone is able to maintain social distancing. Here is the link to the video – https://twitter.com/anandmahindra/status/1253621833850593281?s=20. I have always felt that […]
Lockdown Learnings #2
#LockdownLearnings Hopefully on May 3rd, the Govt may take the decision to slowly ease out the lockdown… its a big “may”. The decision is a difficult one and the whole world seems to be really far away from being “normal” and as my friend Swapna said earlier in the day, […]
Promise Vs Reality – Big Basket :(
#LockdownTales I have been a Big Basketeer for the longest time ever since Vidya introduced us to it in Bangalore in 2012, but over the last one year, I have shifted completely to Milk Basket because I found that Big Basket was largely stocking only those items that were under […]
First Margadarshis meeting over Video !
#LockdownTales On Saturday, April 11th, we had our quarterly board meeting for ShikshaDaan. This was the first time we were doing it over video. Mostly we use this meeting as an opportunity to meet Rajeev, Akash, Tarita, Subbu and Kabir in person rather than just meet over a conference call. […]
