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 !
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
Yesterday when I started writing a blog, my mom asked me for something and I couldn’t tell her where that stuff was kept. I had to stop writing and get up to search for it. I completely lost my train of thought and it took me a good half hour before I could get back … Read more
Yesterday, a Club Mahindra executive called to say she is the assigned holiday planner for us and wanted to know our plans for sight seeing. I told her that we have our own plans and that we were actually here to do some work and not do the sight seeing much. She then wanted to … Read more
We have been members of Club Mahindra for almost a decade now. We have stayed in more than 7 of their resorts across India. With the exception of a few occasions, one item that has been common to all our stay is that we always came away with a list of service issues, and hence … Read more
I got this as a forward on WhatsApp and I am reproducing parts of it – I find the concept fascinating and would love for the readers of my blog to contribute their thoughts as well. *The Abilene Paradox* What is the Abilene Paradox ? Prof. Jerry Harvey calls it *“The Inability to Manage Agreement”.* … Read more
He joined a year back and was rated as “meets expectation” on his appraisal and he is fuming … She joined four years back, was promoted in the first year to senior processor and then she won several awards, was hoping each year to be promoted to a frontline team manager’s role, but that happened … Read more
The first thing I saw on Facebook today which got my attention was this picture and what it says – My respect for Jackie Chan went up several notches because even if he does just 50% of what he says, he would set a great example for his son and other parents. Out of curiosity … Read more
Yesterday I was doing “pico” on one of my new saris and suddenly realised that the sewing machine has lessons for “leaders” and “managers”. A sewing machine needs two threads – one threaded top down and the other bottoms up from the bobbin. Exactly the way we have in a company … the Management and … Read more
Most of us have read Stephen Covey’s landmark book – “Seven Habits of highly effective people”. Krishnan and I consider it a management bible and re-read it often, just to reinforce the habits. Stephen Covey does an experiment using rocks, gravel, sand and water to explain how to prioritise. Take a pot full of water, put … Read more
Happy Monday everyone. The person you are interviewing has long hair and is wearing red coloured shoes for the interview and you work for a prestigious consulting company. Lets say, your dress code says “FORMALS” in capitals !! What assumptions will you make of this interviewee ? He must be the new kid on the … Read more