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 […]

Ideas, Leadership

The Role of a Leader – Comfort the Disturbed and Disturb the Comfortable

This is a picture that I had clicked some time back. This was a street art and at that time, it rang true for what it said, from the perspective of an artist (and yes, I do consider myself as an artist who works with words). When I was going through my instagram feed and stumbled on to this picture again, I realised that this is exactly what a leader is to do – to comfort the disturbed and to disturb the comfortable. Leaders comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable – Mukesh gupta Comforting the disturbed: One of the […]

Creativity, Innovation, Leadership

To me more Creative, Be open to being Bored!

This is probably the best explanation that I have come across in a long time for the power of boredom. The current zeitgeist is all about shunning boredom. People do not want to feel the boredom. The moment they are alone with their thoughts, out comes the phone or the tablet and we get lost in the world of social media or the imaginary world of audio/video content. I am as guilty of this as anyone else. However, everyday, I slow down and observe what is around me, look for beauty in the surroundings and try to enjoy it. Sometimes, […]