The times have changed, and time strategies also need to change. Are you open to embracing the new paradigm? As a leader, one is not only responsible for managing one's own time but for investing the time of one's followers in a way that maximizes the...
Return On Time Invested (ROTI) can be multiplied through awareness of the elements in your ecosystem that decide how much you gain out of any effort in your life...
Viral, microbial, technological, or socio-economic, disruptions like the present one are clarion calls for revisiting the immutable principles of transition leadership I type this article quarantined in my room with just my wife for company in another socially distanced room. Alas! From my apartment located on the...
When will men and women be equal? When will they be at par with men?When will we have gender parity? The harsh reality is – never. Not in our lifetime. The Global Gender Gap Report 2020 reveals that it may take 99.5 years to attain...
How much is your hour worth? Have you ever calculated this? These questions had never popped in my mind till Brian Tracy, world’s best goal setting author, asked us these questions in his seminar in Chennai in 2013. It took some time for it to...
While I was glued on to the TV to watch #HowdyModi, my focus was on what we can learn from his oratory skills. These are a few aspects I picked up. Please add your learnings in the comments and we will have many perspectives on...
Takeaways from APSC. "You talk too much." My ears had to tolerate these words throughout my childhood. I grew with this made-belief. The informal chatterbox moved on to the stage during school and continued through NDA, IMA and the Army Career. It got further intense when...
Most trainers and speakers aspire to speak on platforms like TEDx / TED. So did I. It took me more than a year to get an opportunity. I have been speaking on the stage, both in English and Hindi, since I was in Class 7. Throughout my Army...
52 years ago, I joined the National Defence Academy (NDA) when I was just 15 years young. Being from a Sainik School, I was well aware of the type of physical and mental life that awaited me. Yet, the reality surpassed my imagination. Life was much tougher, and we had very little rest or sleep. As I was woken up by my orderly one day,...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]23 Nov 2018 was a great day. I should have known it. It was a fact. But it did’nt strike me that I was the only male speaker among all women speakers (the only other two gentlemen being in...