Tag: Excellence

  • How to accelerate arrival of your golden or defining moments!

    How to accelerate arrival of your golden or defining moments!

    (Credit for this post goes to one of the guests visiting this website, who inspired me to pen it.) Everyone experiences his/her golden or defining moment once or several times during life time. Such moment or turning point is an extremely important event, when you feel a step change in your paradigm! To many, defining…

  • Strange but true – good writing, speaking and execution skills seldom coexist!

    Strange but true – good writing, speaking and execution skills seldom coexist!

    You need ideas to write, you need ideas to speak and you need those to execute; yet research and surveys show these 3 skills normally do not exist together! Pick the names of great authors, barring few exceptions, by and large they were not great communicators. Take examples of effective corporate mentors, they make poor…

  • Why we fail to foresee or figure out what is coming!

    Iconic and huge companies like Apple and Dell have not been able to foresee what is coming. After cruising to crest, Apple is now staring at its fall. Its share price from the peak in September, 2012 has come down by more than 45% in a span of 6 months and its recovery till date…

  • Practices give repeat/peak Performance; but Breakthroughs come only when same are broken!

    Good practices are great to give repeat and consistent performance. But these by themselves cannot enable breakthroughs or innovations to improvise further. If that was to happen, you would have already got those! If you think that laid-down “practices and processes” alone would give you best results at all times to come; it may be…

  • Why most Leaders and Legends fall!

    Today, we need to ask and answer 2 questions: Is it a nature’s law that leaders and legends would fall in any case? If one has to fall in any case, is it worth going up the ladder of leadership and legendary? It is a stark reality that what goes up, comes down; excellence brings…

  • The biggest bug of Corporates – Complexities!

    Most corporates around world have no clue how complexities are silently and systematically killing them. Factually speaking, the killer bug has been inflicting damage to our private life and the most of public or private institutions too! Look at processes, procedures, policies, perceptions, behavior, basic needs and thinking, compare with what was prevalent say 5…

  • Presence of Paradoxes – A Bane or Blessing?

    In previous Post of 28-June-2012, we have seen how glaring paradoxes in our life are. Let us look at some more to gain deeper insight. Everything that we observe, including ourselves, has been created by nature out of Nothing! Science has developed devices to receive and relate signals from billions of miles away; but has…