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 !
Years back, my wife and I were facing one of the most challenging situations of our lives, to put it mildly. We had just exited our businesses, with a huge loss. We had borrowed from our friends, relatives including parents, well wishers, financial institutions and money lenders, and were paying high rates of interest on … Read more
As the appraisal season is on us, I was wondering about the bell curve, the high potentials and this whole angst ridden process. Ideally every team should have people with different competencies, abilities and attitudes. Overlay this with two other concepts – you hire people like yourselves and birds of a feather flock together. What … Read more
Just now I read a very interesting interview that was published in knowledge.Wharton. The interview was of the former CEO of Revlon Cosmetics, Mr. Alan Ennis. Mr Ennis has a background in Finance, and was leading Revlon, a company whose products have been targeting women since 1932,when it was founded. A strange combination where a … Read more
Paul Polman – A refreshing true leader in an 150 year old firm. This interview came in the Economic Times – corporate dossier and was an absolute pleasure to read. Paul speaks of sustainability, basics of leadership and gives jargon-less practical “gyan”. Reading this interview also made me believe again in the value of purpose, … 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
There are some over abused words in the corporate world, like “visibility”, “proactive”, “R and R”, “Values”, “metrics”, “vision”, etc and then there is death by PowerPoint :):) on these very topics. The hope is, inadequacy of skill will be made up with adequate and eloquent words. The world doesn’t work that way, fortunately !! … Read more