Category: Articles
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Meaningful Workday
Sometimes I wonder whether I am making progress or simply becoming better at being busy. Every Thursday I will post something. The image will drive the post and it will be my Throwback Thursday moment. Sometimes the image will have some connections sometimes it wont have. I know this is not Facebook… it is LinkedIn..…
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The Human Advantage of AI
The more I try to understand the progress of AI, the more I find myself thinking less about what it can do and more about what it asks of us. As we start using it to analyze information, write, create, summarize, reason through problems, and automate work, where does our human element stand ? Yes…
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Loneliness is not always Alone
There comes a point in life when you feel alone and realize it is not because you are physically alone. It is because you have become disconnected from yourself. No one can do that work for us. People can support us, but the journey of finding ourselves is one we must take alone. Some of…
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Predictability and Clarity
Clarity on what a team can realistically take on. Clarity on dependencies, risks, and tradeoffs. All of these are critical to a team’s success. When teams lack clarity, everything starts to feel urgent. Work keeps getting added. Priorities keep shifting. People overcommit because no one wants to say no. Eventually stress becomes the new operating…
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Why can’t we be Good?
I was introduced to Jacob Needleman‘s work in 2012. Pretty much the same time I was entangling myself with Jiddu Krishnamoorthi inorder to be free 😄 Through Jacob Needleman‘s work, I was introduced to Gurdjieff and his works. And even today I go back to all of them from time to time in my life.…
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The blame games we get sucked into
I think many workplaces have the same reflex when something goes wrong. A deadline slips, a production issue appears, a customer complains or a team misses expectations. The immediate reaction is often to find who made the mistake. But many times the real problem is not the person. It is the system producing the behavior.…
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Readiness is so important
Most delivery problems don’t start during execution. They start much earlier. When we convince ourselves we are ready. Readiness is probably one of the most less talked aspects of delivery. We treat it like a checklist. A few documents, some estimates, dependencies noted and we move forward. But real readiness is not documentation. It is…
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Why we need Poems at work
“You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body. love what it loves.” These are the first few lines from the poem Wild Geese by Mary Oliver. I read…
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Improvement, Planning and Repeatability
Improvement is an interesting word, especially when the change we are talking about takes time. Because improvement is not just something we measure. It is something people should feel. Not just understood, but experienced, a sense that something is moving in the right direction. There will always be naysayers, people who prefer to complain rather…
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If people hate Mondays, something is broken.
I’ve never fully understood the idea of Monday blues. Monday is a beginning. A reset. A fresh page. And yet, for so many people, it feels like something to endure rather than look forward to. I see it across teams and conversations. People who actually enjoy parts of their work—their colleagues, their interactions, even the…
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