The Vivekananda series ….. 5. Daring
Be daring … dare to dream, dare to fall, dare to love, dare to try, dare to take life head on …. Just dare to live, fully.
Corporate
All musings from the corporate world…. A woman’s perspective
The Vivekananda series … 3. Serenity
Serenity is not just for the monks. It’s even more critical for you and I, who are in the marketplace to be serene everyday.
Leadership Lessons from the Bhagavad Gita #43 – Progress
This blogpost is part of a series where I have tried to interpret the verses from the Gita for the corporate world. This post is on “progress”.
The Myth of Multitasking
Multitasking is overhyped. Unless you are Maa Durga with eight functioning hands, you cannot multitask. Focus on the task at hand !
Be a Great Mentor – Change Lives!!
Mentoring helps and a great mentor changes lives ! Read the article to understand how corporate mentoring differs from student mentoring.
A Dose of Reality – In search of the miraculous
A couple of days back, while channel surfing just to pick the headlines, I saw this interview with the self-proclaimed God-woman Radhe Maa on the India Today channel. She was bizarre, spoke nonsense and I couldn’t bring myself to watch the interview beyond a few minutes… I am still wondering how Sahil Joshi, the interviewer … Read more
Succession Wars
The Mahabharata is essentially a succession war, even though it was a Monarchy and the father handed over his kingdom to his eldest son basis certain rules, the Kurukshetra war happened because Duryodhana who was not in line to succeed the kingdom of Hastinapur, wanted it and the entire epic revolves around that central issue. … Read more
Trust, but verify !
On Jan 26th, we started our drive from Gurgaon to come to Chennai. As always on the first day, we halt for the night at Sagar. The route we take is Gurgaon – Yamuna Expressway – Agra bypass – Gwalior – Jhansi – Lalitpur – Sagar. The last couple of times that we did this … Read more
The many shades of blue !
Since its a Monday morning and all my friends working in the corporate world will be dressed in some shade of blue I wanted to share my “Monday” dressing too to keep them company. Ok, will share my kinda white too in another post … The American corporate world’s “power dressing” has unfortunately influenced the … Read more
BJP, Congress, AAP, Third front…. In the corporate world
It’s exciting times ahead, with elections, the arguments and counter arguments, the exit polls and opinion polls – the democratic process in all it’s glory ! The way the various parties and netas behave provides a lot of fodder for people like me who like to extrapolate these situations to the corporate world and think … Read more