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 !
All musings from the corporate world…. A woman’s perspective
There were two news items last week that were heartwarming and slightly different from the regular. We see news everyday about greed, about one upmanship, getting ahead and making busloads of money. Then the economic slowdown, the rich becoming richer and the divide just expanding. Crime graphs soaring, defaulters galore, Swiss bank accounts becoming fatter … Read more
Do you have a work day start and finish with nothing accomplished ? I have had many days like that and those days also felt heavy and exhaustive … But nothing much got done. Time went by and several pages of notes went by and still a sense of accomplishment wasn’t there. Those days in … Read more
There is a whole host of articles, books and research on what makes a successful leader and somewhere am sure what I am about to write also has been covered. So this is my version 🙂 I feel a successful leader can be assessed only after they move out. I know many people may not … Read more
This is one of my personal favorites and I love the topic – daring …. Many of us live safe and secure lives, never pushing the boundaries on anything – whether education or work or experiences. Every child is born courageous, and we as parents and more mature individuals introduce fear and limits, clipping the … Read more
A great question asked by the Master ! Especially for us corporate types …. How often do you become disturbed in the course of a day ? Innumerable times, so often that we can’t count ? The deadlines, targets, politics, comparisons, money all adding up to the stress and “getting disturbed” situation. I get disturbed … Read more
Am sure many read the title as Work life balance and assumed I had done a typo error …. No I haven’t. While most organizations have this as one of their “cultural” pillars, the reality is quite different. What is work life balance and why is it important ? I always say during my town … Read more
Yesterday I spoke in our internal women network session about self limiting beliefs that women carry, which doesn’t let us reach senior leadership levels in organizations and also doesn’t let us live to our potential. Am attaching the slides here on this blog. Please share widely. Slide 1 The next two slides talk about my … Read more
I was discussing a particularly well known leader with a colleague at work and it suddenly dawned on me that this leader had not allowed a single person to grow under him. We discussed our respective favorite leaders and all of them had several stories of helping their team members grow. Interesting. So I thought … Read more
This article that I came across is a great second post after my “misplaced priorities” post !! What do you truly value in life ? And in the “busy-ness” of every day you forget what’s important. Also many of us live lives dictated by others – there are truly very few, who are free, and … Read more
It was a Monday then, and I walked in to the office and met my brother. We also moved offices that day and one of my requests to the universe was met – I had commented to Krishnan when the Center Court building came up that it would be nice if I could work in … Read more