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  • LEADING FROM HOME 

    The Tangible and Intangible Elements of Leadership in the #StayAtHome Times Social distancing has brought us very close together, face to face, virtually. Even in the pre-corona times, one didn’t sit so close to one’s teammates to spot the fine lines on their face. Now every gray hair, wrinkle, and crease is broadcast (and alas…

  • A Floral Sutra

    A photo walk through a rural, humble, unpretentious open-air flower market in the heart of south India – Madurai. Aural-visual impressions that greet visitors: vendors and buyers haggling over prices in the local language – Tamil, spoken with a strong regional accent. Alleys of flower vendors and weavers seated behind heaps, sacks and baskets filled…

  • a video for your next coffee break…

      If thinking is the enemy of creativity then spontaneity could be a useful partner…? here’s a video for your midweek coffee break . Some impressions of a place far far away from your desktop.    

  • 7 European countries in 10 days! Plus tips to cope

    7 European countries in 10 days! Plus tips to cope

    Many holiday goers look to cover several cities and countries too, in a single holiday. Europe is a great destination to quench such wanderlust, especially for the skimming travelers. (I call them skimming travelers because such visitors expect to touch and go swiftly, have brief local encounters and experiences and then take off for the…

  • 4 Common Fallacies of Big Data, especially in Germany

    4 Common Fallacies of Big Data, especially in Germany

    Big Data Analytics – a nascent business area that had a glamorous start in 2012 is currently undergoing an image problem, especially in this part of the world. If Trust and Acceptance were represented as a curve, then Big Data is currently being pushed back to the early stages of the curve namely Skepticism and…

  • Yours Mindfully

      Mindfulness is not about getting somewhere in your mind, it is about harnessing the power of the present moment.  There are many ways in which you can harness your internal resources to bring out that state of mind and the best in you. Afterall the quality of our life depends on the state of…

  • Gold Miners in Business

    The summer of 2012, at the Billy Jean King National Tennis Centre in Queens, NY, the stage was set for the best-of-the-best in the tennis world to serve, lob, love, volley, slam and ace their way to the top of the American charts. The sporting event had close to a million visitors and had many…

  • Can you guess the city in the background?

    Can you guess the city in the background?

    “Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.”    (borrowed quote from a Japanese Swordsman ) I spent the last  few days of 2012 and the first few days of 2013 in a place…

  • DESKTOP YOGA

    DESKTOP YOGA

    A few emails here, a tweet there, another status update here, a quick news scan, a skeptical eye on the stock market quotes, an instant message from a friend, the routine dial to mum and dad, a sneak peek at your ex’s holiday pictures…. all the while resisting the daily discounts delivered unfailingly every morning…

  • It is said, ‘Communication works for those who work at it’…

    The term ‘Business Communication’ sounds a bit drab, colorless and boring as it is often associated with tons of tedious text, prepared speeches and other such perceived monologues on a variety of sleep-inducing topics. But communication of any type isn’t jaded when you look at the different ways in which you can communicate to make…