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Gen gap

Asking Alone Ain’t Enough

It’s always an interesting discussion: how current generations are different from the earlier ones.  The stance of the senior ones is typically to announce nostalgia for their younger days (Doordarshan, simpler lives, close to nature, “real” sports, et al).  The [...]

June 9, 2023 Awareness, Career Success, Life Skills, Society
Evolution

Crunch Point Thesis

Biological evolution versus Social evolution…. Mankind chose to raise Social evolution as a counter to slow biological evolution (so no survival of the fittest – of 100 aspects needed to survive biologically, if someone has 5-10, that’s OK – the [...]

April 27, 2022 Awareness, Competitiveness, Innovation, Life Skills, Management, Society, Spirituality
be one with nature

Value Nature – Stay Connected

Disconnect with nature, non-appreciation of its laws, can wreak havoc. We have experts talking of the Butterfly Effect, indicating the tenuous devious fine-balance way there is interconnectedness between various modules, systems, flora and fauna of our universe, our planet, our [...]

February 3, 2015 Blog, Competitiveness, Life Skills, Society, Sustainability
Be happy

Live to the Hilt – Be Happy

Don’t Worry, Be happy went the Grammy winning song. For the sheer thrill, the lyrics bring, as written by Bobby McFerrin: Here’s a little song I wrote You might want to sing it note for note Don’t worry be happy [...]

January 26, 2015 Blog, Life Skills, Society
what a child may become

Who Knows What A Child Can Become

The oft quoted life sketch of Albert Einstein, where the school teachers spurned the kid Albert, and where the grown-up Mr. Einstein shone like Venus the planet, is a case in point. History abounds with differently challenged children later on [...]

January 1, 2015 Blog, Human Resources, Leadership, Life Skills, Society
sensitive versus bullies

The Sensitive Shall Rule/ Be Ruled?

Those who care, are concerned about others, often stand exploitation and bullying by those who don’t. Now it ain’t this always, that the sensitive are weak or something, they are just more accommodating. Yes, a few times, the sensitive ones [...]

September 23, 2014 Blog, Leadership, Life Skills, Society
Learn all Your Life

Be a Learner All Life

Would you like to hazard an age at which a human being can afford to stop learning? Life throws umpteen challenges, many of them new ones, few of them rehashes of earlier challenges, and most repeat of once or few [...]

July 23, 2014 Blog, Human Resources, Leadership, Life Skills, Society
rights contest

Rights Competitiveness

A quotation in a magazine triggered this write-up: If a CEO performs his duties, the rights of the people are protected; if the people perform their duties, rights of the nation are protected. Porterian conception was a paradigm changer, as [...]

December 28, 2011 Blog, Competitiveness, Leadership, Society
Team Anna

My Take on Team Anna Situation as of 27th Dec 2011

My Take on Team Anna Situation as of 27th Dec 2011: (Deliberated, intuitively figured out, with whatever limited info’ a common Indian citizen has access to, with some access to gossip of workers of few political parties) – Team Anna [...]

December 27, 2011 Blog, Politics, Society
size sweden equivalent

Relooking Competitiveness – 2

Variations exist, but broadly competitiveness is a non-dimensional ratio of output to input. Thus it talks of efficiency as the norm; higher the efficiency, more the competitiveness. A nation that can produce more with less inputs is the winner. Assumption [...]

January 27, 2011 Blog, Competitiveness, Economy, Society