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Asynchronicity

The world is becoming ever more asynchronous. We do many things together, but this has become increasingly likely to be done at arms length. Face to face meetings have become less likely. Even worse, instead...

Leader is what leader does….

Last week, we spoke about leadership as a process of influencing and understanding followers to work together to achieve objectives. This week we ask the question “How do I practice leadership to support my team...

Are you a leader?

The latest promotion has taken you from being part of the team of nine others to the top of the team…yay! You are now a team leader. Your responsibilities have increased and now you have...

Financial Planning for Women

Women are underserved and underestimated as consumers… ~ Geraldine Laybourne The general perception is that only men ideally need financial planning.  Most educated and working women feel that managing money is a man’s job. Why...

Get started… Follow what you believe in

This is the final article of this series. We have been tracing our journey from CAN’Tto CAN over the past few weeks. Last week, we got introduced to people who make the impossible,‘possible’ and this...

You can make a difference, will you?

The first article in the inspiration series introduced you to the four letter word we can live without and the second article discussed shifting language and behavior to be reflective of a ‘can do’ attitude....

CAN the CAN’T

This article continues from Part One… Last week, we discussed the hare and tortoise race from Aesop’s fable. The tortoise overtook the hare because it told itself ‘I CAN’. This week we discuss ‘CAN’ the...

The Less You Know

The more you learn, the less you know. What? How can this be? Some sort of weird paradox? No — the more you learn, the vastness of what you do not know becomes more apparent,...

A four letter word we can live without… CAN’T

Once upon a time a hare and tortoise decided to race each other. Remember the story?  The hare as we know is a fast animal and it was a no brainer that the hare would win...

Happiness is Uncovering What You Already Have

When I set out to convert my unhappiness with my life into happiness, about 7 years ago, I had some ideas about how to do it. I was going to get out of debt and...

Retirement Blues : S. Shankar Menon

Opthals, doctors, lawyers,tinkers, tailors can carry on until they can’t cure their own cataracts, torts and writs lose their bites and pots and pans become ifs and ands. For the likes of me, all bureau-cats are...

MeMumbaikar – Clean, Talented and Honest

Our city’s leading historian, Sharada Dwivedi, who passed away much too early recently, told me that the best possible birthday of Bombay is June 21,1661.That was when it was handed over to Charles II by...