My bookshelf is a good mix of fiction and business writing, with some sprinkles of philosophy and self-help. But I have come across so many people who look down on fiction, like it was meant for the uneducated or the downtrodden folks. Especially in the business world…

This is going to be the title of my new book this year. It is going to be excerpts of my conversation with a person who a business coach by profession — the reason we met I think in the first place. No he did not coach me, but a…

Missed writing my journal today. Instead went for a run. It was a beautiful morning and literally screaming ‘you gotta run’. Or maybe I was all pepped up about the day, what with a prospective closure meeting, or maybe it was my (still continuing) plant based dinner that kept the…

It’s been 5 months of no alcohol and 5 days of no meat. They are both conscious decisions, with no idea of the implications they will have on my mind. The former was easier. I just had to give myself a time and date, and a few days of mental…

I came across this term Passion Tax from Adam Grant’s post. While he has spoken in context of managers in an organisation, I thought of it as an entrepreneur. Intriguing as it is, the reality of it dawned like a flight of bricks being flung at me. I applied it…

I could write a book with this title. Most writers have this and hence they become writers. With stories running in our minds constantly, we can live and outlive our own imagination. Which is why we are extremists too. But this is not about being a writer or not. A…

Today morning I decided to make better use of the 45 minutes drive to work. I have shortlisted some amazing podcasts across business categories, which will give me company apart from the very awesome 90s to 20s playlist of course — not boycotting music in any way. The first one…

There are quite a few employee assessment tests. We can easily say there’s a bloodbath in that arena. But what about Employer assessment. When I googled it, I still got tests that makes employers assess the employees. Duuhh Google! Where are the tests that assess employers? Why has an employee…

I still remember what we got into 2020 with — “Fly or Fall” was the big question. I had a job then — we had the onus of keeping the company afloat, being a part of the marketing and sales team. It was an uphill task but…