Your vision gives you purpose and a direction. If you follow this direction, you may realize that you are taking the wrong path and that’s OK because that’s an opportunity to adjust your course towards a new promising destination. Focus for entrepreneurs is a double-edged sword cause: You want to stick to your vision by […]Read More
Kamal Ahluwalia was an executive coach and mentor at Excaliber. A gem of a person, we lost him to Covid.
You can find your inspiration in your past, as Sarah Ban does in her book – Something More- excavating your authentic being. To do so, you need to revisit earlier years. The acronym DICE – will be helpful in the following exercise: D – Dig down. I – investigate what you have unearthed. C – […]Read More
Amusingly, most of us want to fall in love, be loved, dream to have a life of bliss, ecstasy, flowering, innocence, celebration, humor, expansion. Yet for most these are simple empty words – unfulfilled desires mirages that are seldom reality. Our dreams of being in love, cared do visit us occasionally – and when they […]Read More
I am not a philoshoper, not creating a system. Neither I am here to create a theory or be a theologian. Neither I am to be drowned in scriptures. My only interest is to flower – and be so. That’s ecstasy – the language of my existence. And what do I infer from the word […]Read More
Let’s reflect on the following: Need to create a culture of asking questions- and transform students from being passive listeners to volatile innovators. Education should not encourage creating cow webs in the brain, but should evolve mechanisms of liberating it from them. Concept of control should be substituted by the concept of objectivity. Let student […]Read More
The danger of manipulation is that they work and because manipulations work, they have become a norm, practiced liberally by majority individuals, enterprise, corporate and institutions- regardless of size, industry, geography, ageing and ethnicities. That fact alone creates a systematic and ever increasing peer pressure. With perfect irony, we the manipulators have been manipulated by […]Read More
It’s simple – explains a television commercial – simply put your gold jewellery in the prepaid insured envelope and we will send you the cheque for the value of gold – in just 48 hours– with no questions asked – screams Muthoot Gold and many others – claiming to be the leaders in their said […]Read More
An establishment glorifies and sensitises us all to cleanness with drives, movements which many adore and adapt while others desist, fence with and have issues. Let’s examine what cleanliness — Swachh Bharat means to me: Cleanliness is next to godliness — a phrase that we have grown up with, yet all the while we keep […]Read More
I cannot dispute that manipulations work. Each one of them can indeed help influence behaviour, indeed help influence behaviour and help a company become successful. Yet there are trade-offs. Not a single one of them breeds loyalty. Over a course of time, they cost more and more. The gains are only short term while they […]Read More
In a major innovation in design and engineering, Motorola has created a phone of firsts. Read a 2004 press release that announced the launch of the mobile phone manufacturer’s entry to the ultra competitive mobile phone market. The combination of metals, such as aircraft grade aluminium, with new advances, such as an internal antenna and […]Read More