I am not sure why but sometimes I know exactly what all need to be done, yet I don’t do it. I tried to check if it is procrastination. But no, it is something else. It is a hold up that is stopping me from acting. Today driving back from office, that is what my thought was throughout. Rather than doing it, the thought was … Continue reading The cost of inaction
Two friends meet after years and spend a few days talking about career and life. One friend has had a great career in science with double doctorate and spends his time in United states and the other chose a simpler life as a meteorologist in a remote place. A life of evident obscurity and financial insufficiency, yet calm and serene.. living with his wife, books … Continue reading Success and Waste
In Ichiro Kishimi‘s ’The courage to be disliked‘ there is an interesting sentence that comes to me over and over. It goes something like this, or that is how I understood. “Happiness and self worth comes from being beneficial to the community, by being of use to someone else.” This is a profound and deep idea in a world where time and again people feel … Continue reading Happiness of being used
“When you see someone often flashing their rank or position, or someone whose name is often bandied about in public, don’t be envious; such things are bought at the expense of life. . . . Some die on the first rungs of the ladder of success, others before they can reach the top, and the few that make it to the top of their ambition through a thousand … Continue reading Flashing my Rank
There are two things that can happen most weeks. One is achievement and other is Learning. Achievements are personal, there can be a time and place for discussing them. Every place is not for it. And there might not be one of them every week. Sometimes getting through a week in itself can seem like an achievement 🙏 But Learnings are worth documenting and sharing. … Continue reading What happens most weeks
After many years of doing it, I guess now I am officially certified to do it 😁 I wrote my PMP and they have confirmed that I passed. But why now…. after so many years being in this profession why get a certification now…. Here is why… I first heard about PMP in 2000 during a banking project in the middle east when I met … Continue reading My PMP Certification – Why now
I recently read ‘The 4 stages of psychological safety’ by Timothy Clark. A book that is among the many books on my manager‘s desk. I love it when you have books around you at work. It is a sign telling you there is room for improvement for everyone. I have been reading the book for past few days as it is also a topic often … Continue reading The 4 stages of Psychological Safety
The art of always being ready to “NOT KNOW” what we have to say, and then to forget something completely and knowing that we had to say something but we forcibly tried to forget it. And succeeded. That is important. And then we start afresh like nothing happened. That is even more important ! I know it will not make sense to a lot of … Continue reading The Art of Not Knowing
One of the most important books I have read in the recent times is The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder. Written by Bob Sutton and Huggy Rao. The title itself speaks a lot as there are times when we find the reverse manifest itself. It becomes so obvious that it is easy to do the … Continue reading The Friction Project Book
A while back Infosys founder Narayana Murthy mentioned that he was disappointed when companies moved to a 5 day work week. He had also said youth should work for 70 hours instead of 40 a week. The simple question is “why..?” Our body & organs have to work 24 hours a day. It stops life stops. If we need our body to work properly we … Continue reading 2025 Thought: How many hours should we work?
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