I wrote earlier about seeing an “Opportunity in Crisis” – we always have two choices when faced with a difficult moment. You can either escape or have courage to be persistent. Escapism is easier – to be persistent needs courage. In this context, I loved the quote on courage I read on Crossderry Blog. Here it goes. […]
I always thought about integrating my blog to my LinkedIn profile. The only way I could do that so far was to add my blog URL in LinkedIn profile – and add a LinkedIn profile button onto my blog. I always wanted something more than this. And it finally happened with LinkedIn introducing “InApps” – […]
The lessons I learnt in the Management Development Programme (MDP) way back in Apr 2008 keeps clogging my mind space – and something new comes out as an insight. One of the topics Mr. Pillai touched upon was motherhood and management. Let me explain. I have always seen my mother give me plenty – she […]
October 2008 was month of travel. I travelled to two great destinations – Mahabaleshwar for a family vacation and Dubai for a business trip. Both these locations are diametrically different from each other. While Mahabaleshwar is very rustic and rural, Dubai is highly urbane’. Both these trips were a tremendous learning experience – about life […]
In my first job, my immediate colleagues cursed me for my inability to say no – and my boss loved me for that! I said yes to everything that was given to me – and then stretched thin to get it done. At times, this even landed me in terrible situations just because I did not […]
Each day begins with newspapers reporting despondent news on economic downturn – and a general feeling of despair surrounds us. Some inspiration was needed before I start my week and I sought help from my friend – the feed reader. This friend never lets me down – it searches effectively from some 100 odd good […]
In my earlier post today, I wrote about decision making in general and “elephantine” way of decision making where I shared a short story of a tamed elephant. The subject did not leave my brain for the entire day and my mind pushed me to think a little further on it – dig a little more and […]
Decision making is one of the key personal/organizational skills – for decisions shape our futures. While thinking about this, I realized that the speed of making a decision is directly proportional to your desire to get to something. If you are not very keen about something, decision making will be a slower process. A few […]
Feels proud to mention that Insights is reviewed by “Bloggy Award” – for those who don’t know – Bloggy Awards reviews good blogs and rates them on different parameters like Visual Aesthetics, User Friendliness, Reading Enjoyment, Useful Info and the Overall Experience. End of each month, winner is declared. Apart from ratings on a 10 […]