Ancient Wisdom, Inspiration, Leadership

Insanely Interesting People who Influenced me: #3 Swami Vivekananda

For the rest of the year, I would like to take a moment and thank the people who have had a significant impact on me as an individual. The way they have lived their lives and their body of work has had an outsized impact on how I think about life in general and and work, in particular. Some of these are contemporary thinkers and some of them are just a memory. Some of them are famous in their own rights and some of them are yet to be found by others. Some of them are young and some of […]

Leadership

Driving Significant Results

I was going through my notes from the past few years and I stumbled onto my notes from a book called “Turning Goals into Results” by Jim Collins. In the book he talks about the power of something he calls “Catalytic Mechanisms”. These are devices that we put in place within our businesses that play an outsized role in translating our lofty aspirations into reality. We can understand what a catalytic mechanism is and how it helps us by looking at an example. I would like to introduce you to Granite Rock. They are a California-based construction materials and contracting […]

Inspiration

Insanely Interesting and Influential People – #2 Paulo Coelho

For the rest of the year, I would like to take a moment and thank the people who have had a significant impact on me as an individual. The way they have lived their lives and their body of work has had an outsized impact on how I think about life in general and and work, in particular. Some of these are contemporary thinkers and some of them are just a memory. Some of them are famous in their own rights and some of them are yet to be found by others. Some of them are young and some of […]

Inspiration

Insanely Interesting and Influential People: #1 Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt

For the rest of the year, I would like to take a moment and thank the people who have had a significant impact on me as an individual. The way they have lived their lives and their body of work has had an outsized impact on how I think about life in general and and work, in particular. Some of these are contemporary thinkers and some of them are just a memory. Some of them are famous in their own rights and some of them are yet to be found by others. Some of them are young and some of […]

Leadership

Going Back to Office or Continue to Work from Home?

There is a lot of discussion going on about the opening up of the marketplace and with it comes the question about whether people will go back to the office or would like to continue to work from wherever they wanted to work from. I know that there are people who are waiting to get back to working in their respective offices and then there are a lot of people who are enjoying their freedom of working from wherever they want to. Recently, Dan Ariely (James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University and a founding […]