Sashank Purighalla Blog

Surfacing conflicts

Surfacing conflicts….

Most people are uncomfortable with confrontation… they lack the strength to call out interpersonal problems that clearly may be looming right below the seemingly professional calm surface…. You must have, I am sure, witnessed instances, where people make deliberate attempts to ignore peoples’ problems… they want to pretend...

To identify is the first step…

Improvement starts with identifying that there is an improvement due… Change comes from the identification that change is necessary…. As long as there is a justification to continue doing what you have been doing or to continue behaving the way you have always behaved, you have not categorized...

Tolerate no more than one time… be patient every time….

Patience is a virtue… and you will be expected to be patient every time! At home with your children… your siblings… your parents… your spouse… your relatives; at work with your co-workers… your direct reports… your boss; while in the traffic; at airports; while waiting for your turn...

Feel your way through to success

Feel your way through to success….

The most practical and commercial decisions are still emotional in flavor…. We live in a practical capitalistic world, yet we always deal with emotional words all the time…. Trust, Ethics, Authenticity, Honesty, etc…. You want to do business with people that you ‘trust’… you are comfortable working with...

Toughness

Toughness….

Growing up, we had a friend who could be provoked in the easiest of ways…. and he would ‘react’! If it was with extreme excitement on occasion, it was with anger and arguments on other occasions… and most ended up with him crying! The rest of us had...

Handling the feeling of being lost….

When things don’t go the way you had planned or hoped for, especially over a span of time, the natural tendency is for you to feel discouraged, sometimes, down to the point of feeling lost. While no body likes living in such a state, most people do not...

In the face of declining results….

Ask yourself this one important question…. “Have I been working diligently and consistently over a long span of time… and is that work based on grounded thought, rooted in knowledge and on sound principles and methods”? For some, this may be a difficult answer, or the answer may...