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@ Chennai! My new Karmabhoomi! New?! Or is it back, ‘home’? Where it all started, professionally, on 1/1/91. At #21, Patullos Road! ‘Took the road less travelled’! Drove down, enjoyed driving through torrential rains. Heavy traffic on the NH (courtesy, ‘CV’s!) do not allow to speed up. I empathise with CVs (commercial vehicles, that is) on highways, having worked with the industry for 15 yrsJ A little lane-discipline, from us all, will surely help. The tollbooths should add t

Infosys is a hugely successful start up. An inspiration for an entire generation, now passing out of India’s universities. One more case of an iconic founder returning, but not making much of an impact in the second innings. But, NRN steps down with humility and hands over reins to a professional, hand-picked. They could have done better succession planning? An area where Microsoft perhaps fumbled, but Apple did not?! Sikka means ‘money’. A self-confessed ‘fake punjabi’, brou

To grow PR firm, he consulted a ‘bug’ guy – not a ‘big’ guy, as we often reach out to guys who we think are ‘big’ and successful. But instead opted for a guy from a totally different line of business, managing cockroach menace!Silver Fox was a platform used to reach out to the mentor. Useful reminder to look for networking opportunities.The client was right not to only identify & reach out to a mentor, he felt was appropriate, but also be aware, ‘customer service’ was the key

NASA has renewed the contract to provide executive coaching services across the national space agency. ‘NASA’ exemplifies team spirit and team work (I’m reminded of the inspiring story of ‘the janitor also working to put Man on the moon’). And with NASA’s aforementioned decision, the relevance of executive coaching for leadership teams, or team coaching for leaders, has been validated yet again.  And as Google’s Schmidt says, Everyone needs a Coach . In large organizations l

When a patient goes to a doctor/dentist/ortho, a hair-dresser, a spa, a guru or even a movie/play, he should have made preliminary checks before making a decision & plan. The target customer for executive coaching, middle/senior level managers, would consider themselves smarter than ‘aam aadmi’. Similarly HR/L & D also will make enquiries to check out on the credential of the coach/firm, accredited or not. Where is the scope for a coach ‘to play any game’ ?! And where is need

After several posts on Coaching, from the perspective of the practice (art, science and lot more!), here is something on how the coachee (client) makes the whole difference.Any coach, executive/life/transformational/spiritual/sports/etc, would give anything to get client like this: focussed – not distracted at all simple – though we tend to unnecessarily complicate stuff, thanks to the monkey-mind. Simplicity is closest to spirituality clear on goals passionate hard-working –