How quitting corporate life changed my world
Quitting corporate life was an event that happened exactly on today’s date, 5 years ago. Out of the 30 years of corporate life, I had spent 25 years in large…
Quitting corporate life was an event that happened exactly on today’s date, 5 years ago. Out of the 30 years of corporate life, I had spent 25 years in large…
Many a time, an external perspective helps. I was coaching a middle-aged senior executive. He was extremely upset with how things were going on at work. Obviously, he was going…
Basha ji, the gardener, who hails from Bagalkot, Karnataka, visits our home every Sunday. Basha ji replaces Gopal about whom I had written rather glowingly in an earlier post. However,…
Recently, I met a friend after several years. Ours has been a time-tested relationship. As we got talking, I realized that he was quite frustrated with his 25-year old son.…
Why are we faking it? I was at one of the outlets of an international coffee chain in Bangalore this week to meet a friend and discuss a new and…
I have never met Christopher Columbus in my lifetime but I gather that he was an explorer who sailed the seas in search of a new route and when he…
For 25 out of the 30 years of my corporate career, my workplace was centrally air-conditioned. My cubicle was a part of a large community of cubicles set in a…
Listening is critical. Here is my story. Marriage Jyothi and I got married in 1988. Ours was an arranged marriage and Jyothi had stepped into a new joint family. For…
Expressing your opinion is critical! Many of us are tossed around in life by others’ opinions of us. For some of us, having others approve our actions is an integral…
Some of us live our life through comparisons. We are happy not because we value what we have. We are happy only because what we have is better than what…
It's all about perspectives!