Change Your Ideas

Change Your Ideas

  • Your Notions, Perceptions & Traits could be Crippling, unless….

    13th day of a month falling on Friday or 13 as a number is ominous and sends shrills and shivers to many across the world. Many aircrafts do not have 13th row of seats! But, 13th Friday or 13th number has often worked for me and many more! People, who believe that does not work…

  • Your Barriers mainly come from your Notions, Perceptions and Traits

    In Corporate and elsewhere, we always talk of barriers and the need to overcome these. But unfortunately, in none of the debates, discussions or development programs it is brought out what makes barriers to surface and how to manage those. The main source for barriers is your own Notions, Perceptions and Traits (NPT). Are you…

  • Majority show sincerity n goodness out of fear or serving self!

    Jury from extensive research is out – the truth is what above caption speaks. There is a clear case to search your soul. A very high percentage of people – more than 90%, believe or make others to believe that they are sincere and good; but they display these qualities in public or private, corporates…

  • When your taste is for Success, why your recipe is for Failure?

    Everyone wants to be successful at work, career, professional or personal life; but few get it and others not, despite their best intentions and efforts. Often, we relate success and failure to stroke of luck or destiny. We have innumerable examples of many CEOs or top managers riding high and then gliding down. We tend…

  • 7 Mistakes most CEOs make!

    When going is good and company is on growth trajectory, CEO is like a God. His/her word or action is sacrosanct and beyond challenge. Board of the company, shareholders and media are all praise and plus for him/her. And, then comes the down slide. This is the story of most CEOs worldwide. There are very…

  • When you are on throes of a Dilemma….

    Everyone faces dilemma of varying degree at one time or another. Some dilemmas make you dumb or dazed e.g. You work with high degree of dedication, dynamism and diligence and one fine morning your boss comes to tell that you are not a good fit. You discover that your best friend has been digging under…

  • Myths about Mentoring in Corporates

    I doubt that Employer and Employees world over realize that good mentoring is not only a great passage to great career and personal growth; but also great for company’s growth! Few years back, I was requested by my overseas HR colleague to mentor one of high potential employees working in our company’s unit in a…

  • 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…

  • Our Life is full of Paradoxes! Why is that?

    Look at your life closely and you would be amazed to find plethora of paradoxes and clusters of contradictions, which you might have come across. But, wonder how much you have noticed; so please ponder the following: Nature has given right things in the wrong hands or places and wrong things in the right hands…

  • Is it Difficult to manage Difficult Boss (or People)?

    Yes, if you believe it is difficult, it would be. And if you can learn to manage, you would find it simple! Difficult people, bosses included, are all around the globe and there is definite reason, why the class of bosses is often like that. What I am sharing below applies to both, who is…