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The Challenge of Leadership - Sashank

The Challenge of Leadership

If you have been in a position of leadership in situations where you have had to deal with varying expectations needing to be reconciled in the interest of the whole for a certain span of time, you will relate to this: The toughest challenge of being a leader...

The dichotomy of leadership - Sashank

The dichotomy of leadership

As a leader, you may find yourself in situations where your decisions taken for the benefit of the whole might seem unfavorable to some. Your most well-intentioned moves, may come across as being contrary to your core belief system. The promises you might have made, may have to...

Earnings Vs Money - Sashank

Earnings Vs Money

Money is about the only earning that most of us have come to recognize. It is the only earning that we look to make and value. Spend it and it is gone! You must earn more. How about looking at earning other things in addition; things that you...

Theatrics Vs Productivity - Sashank

Theatrics Vs Productivity

Theatrics can get you only so far. Those about you quickly decipher drama from true progress. True progress can only be impacted by genuine effort coupled with knowledge and skill. It’s a factor of commitment and complete involvement. In the long run, it is only through productivity that...

Your role in the Playbook - Sashank

Your role in the Playbook

There are people that excel at playing by the rules of a playbook and those that could never play by its rules. There’s nothing inglorious about being a rebel nor is there glory in it. It is about expectations. It’s always relative to whether there is a playbook...

Power of positive thinking = Extreme Action - Sashank

Power of positive thinking = Extreme Action

Everything starts with thought, whether original or inspired. There are many talks and articles around the power of positive thinking. Sit on your couch and think every positive thought that is conceivable about having a great body. Your body will show results only when you care to exercise...

Pick your fights - Sashank

Pick your fights

It may not always seem easy or possible to reconcile seemingly divergent points of view. Some of the greatest battles that the world has seen are a result of varying points of view that people do not seem to be able to reconcile. History tells us how peoples’...

Ambition with detachment - Sashank

Ambition with detachment

How about being laser focused on your goal and your task at hand with no attachment nor worry about the result? This is the method to apply the doctrine of ‘Karma’ to your life. And if you look deeply into your life, you will realize that this expression...