Tag: Boss

  • How our beliefs & habits get built and why we need to break some!

    How our beliefs & habits get built and why we need to break some!

    Source: http://www.flickr.com/ Our beliefs build our character and habits shape our personality! Are our beliefs or habits gifts from destiny/divinity or products from our genes or DNA? Many tend to believe that it is; but that is not true. Our genes or DNA may influence some tendencies e.g. not recognizing impending dangers like legendary car racer…

  • Can you live happily ever after?

    Can you live happily ever after?

    Source: http://www.flickr.com/ Prince got married to the princess and they lived happily ever after! Story ends here. If you get relegated in history at the time of your happy moments, you are supposed to have lived happily thereafter, since no one has further information about your life!! Does that happen in reel or real life? First…

  • Good has limits; but bad knows none!

    Good has limits; but bad knows none!

    Source: http://www.flickr.com/ When going is good, we see no limit! Then, a stage comes when we start to take U turn. Good starts to become grim be it growth, success or relationship. Our belief that sky is the only limit gets grounded! To be truthful, “Sky is the limit” is only a phrase. Contrary to popular…

  • Being in double mind is indeed a double trouble!

    Being in double mind is indeed a double trouble!

    Source: http://www.flickr.com/ “Shall I do it or better leave it”, “This would work; no, it may not” or “Shall I frankly say that; but it may annoy her” is a regular struggle, most have in their minds! One of my former colleagues in USA was a group leader. He was intelligent, technically sound and in very…

  • Beauty and Banes of becoming or being Big!

    Beauty and Banes of becoming or being Big!

    Size and figures matter to all of us. Notion of what size or figures are appropriate or optimal varies from things to things. We would try to explore whether there could be a universal definition or norm for what is right. Companies, which are small in size, find it hard to survive in face of…

  • Why things show up often, when we are set to give up!

    Or things pop up, when you have already given up!! I came across a number of employees in the organizations, I have been associated with. These employees were sincere and hardworking; but like it happens in most companies, they developed feeling that they were not getting rewarded reasonably for their work and worth by the…

  • How can you tame and translate your troubles/problems into opportunities!

    Without exception, all leadership disciplines and discourses delve and coax you to see opportunity in very problem. You agree and resolve to do so; yet, you keep getting troubled and overwhelmed by problems. You helplessly watch one problem bringing another and make you more frustrated! Why is that all leadership, sane or saintly advices keep…

  • How to save and make your day!

    There are days, when you get up in morning with weird feelings and cannot figure out what is wrong. Events, which unfold on such days, keep you on the edge. You do not see most things going right; get a feeling that time is slipping out and opportunities being squandered by you! There are other…

  • Confusion in Corporates – lead by being Democratic, Autocratic or Authoritative?

    Successful companies or their managers do not practice, what they preach generally! Everyone talks of empowerment and encouraging openness or dissent; but when it comes to doing it, people do it selectively or secretively. If you look at leadership forums, conferences, articles or development programs, everyone would swear by vision, farsightedness, focus, drive, dynamism, empathy…

  • When were good leaders in good number?

    If good things were to be in good number, that would go against the rule of nature! This could be surprising to most; but is real! If we turn any page of history, we would discover that there were always calls for better leaders, as the ones present in societies or companies were not good…