Focus Vs Obsession…
Often times there is a very thin line between these two! No matter what you want to accomplish, focus is key! Focus helps you stay on the task… focus enables engaging all your facilities for...
Monthly Archive: September 2016
Be selective about your Associations…
Consider a rain drop…. if you allow it to fall directly into your mouth, it can be drunk… but the same rain drop falling in filthy water becomes unfit to even touch! If it...
Practice like you never won and perform like you never lost
Someone sent me the following quote recently and I felt it was extremely compelling… “Practice like you never won and perform like you never lost…” This is not one of those quotes that you...
The Appreciation-Criticism Anomaly!
If you feel good at being appreciated for doing a good job and feel bad for being criticized for not doing a good job, you are suffering from grave self-esteem and self-evaluation issues!!! Does...
Attitude… a small case study!
I would like to relate two conversations that I had with two senior engineers in my team over the past 5 days… Firstly, about them: Both highly talented, hard working girls, good with communication...
Cowardice
When you run away from a mad dog or a maniac carrying a weapon, it is prudence… and yes! prudence is the best form of valor… I might consider respecting an unreasonable thug that...
Are you doing things in vain?
Before you spend time, energy, intellect or emotion on anything…. I told you that I will write a 10 day series on Execution yesterday, but am today writing on one other important topic… I...
EXECUTION…
“The Preface or the Forward” Today I start a series on the one word/subject that determines the (level of) success or failure of anything that we undertake… I have been writing on disparate topics...
The most sought after skill set
Strategy is defining the map…. the starting point, the destination, each milestone/ checkpoint, the path between milestone and milestone, determining what is needed to get from one milestone to the other, defining the criteria...
Character
Ask yourself these questions… and be honest! No one’s coming to cross-verify…🙃 – Do I do what one inspects or what one expects? – Is it alright as long as no one knows??? –...
