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 […]
Naysayers are important people – who push you to do more and do better. When they reject an idea, you have an opportunity to do more and prove a point to them. When I decided to take up a career in IT/Software almost a decade back – many people tried putting me off saying that […]
Via Be Excellent Blog – Simple yet profound lesson from Olympics. “In business, words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.” From words to actions, and strategy to execution – doing it is what matters. Like Tom Peters says: “You only get oil by drilling the wells – you may […]
Recently, I was exchanging thoughts with one of my colleagues and he referred to innovation as a way to overcome routine hurdles that one faces in day-to-day work life. During discussion, he referred to 3M – a 100+ years old company which thrives on innovation. Their success as a company is a result of innovative […]