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“We can do anything but we can’t do everything.” I used to believe I can do everything! By everything I mean my growing list of passions and aspirations from which responsibilities and commitments are naturally born. By doing I mean doing well, extremely well. It is either a job well done or a job not [...]
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“Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps between geography and lifestyle because the older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.” A brilliant quote from Mary Schmich (later used by Baz Luhrmann in [...]
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From the voice of a true skeptic who refused to join Facebook and give in to social peer pressure, I want to pay a tribute for the richness that Facebook has brought to my life. Share on your favorite Social Network:
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I picked up “The Zahir” before leaving Tokyo airport in September. Paulo Coelho is a new author, the story line sounded adventurous and I had precious few options in the “English” or rather, foreign book section. I started reading it in Hawaii on vacation and finished it in the course of two days. Here is [...]
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It was nearly two years after I had received “On Writing Well” that I started to read it. William Zinsser is not just writing a book on writing well; he is in love with the art of writing and using the English language. This passion comes through clearly in every page and invites the reader [...]
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“Getting to Yes“ is quite possibly one of the best negotiation books you will ever read. First published in 1981, the authors founded the first Negotiation Program at Harvard Law School and have been successfully teaching their negotiation technique globally. I enrolled in a one-day course at my company. The course teaches the fundamentals of [...]
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I met Sylvia Ann Hewitt at a leadership summit in California in May of 2006. She is a fantastic speaker with sharp presence. She was there to promote her book and also to speak to women managers and leaders about the topic of her book. I had a special invite to the event, and she [...]
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Solving puzzles with Microsoft’s Cult of the Puzzle book. World’s smartest companies select the most creative thinkers.Being asked the impossible question in an already intense conversation better known as the “job interview”. I loved this book. I loved the puzzle focus, the questions, the brain teasers combined with the history of some of Silicon Valley’s [...]
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“The more I understand differences, the more I like people.” These were the words our leadership instructor wrote on the flip chart the day we talked about our communication styles. Our subject that day was Laura Browne’s blue book, an insightful pack of surprisingly eye-opening material in just 158 pages. Share on your favorite Social Network:
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In the eyes of Keith Ferrazzi, success – in our careers and in life – is all about relationships. Everything in our universe is related to everything else through a relationship. We must develop, establish and nurture our relationships in life. We live in a fast paced life and a connected age, where the day’s [...]
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True leadership is recognized universally, regardless of bipartisanship, differences in style and strategy and desired outcome. True leadership is recognized by everyone, and we would be hard pressed to find anyone that would not recognize it in Colin Powell. Oren Harari does a thorough job portraying that character in his book, ”Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell“. Harari [...]
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What makes one idea stick and another fade? What seeming intangibles do people with successful ideas grasp and implement better than rest of us? In a world where technology, work and media move at a maddening pace, no one wants to be left behind. And it is a struggle to get anyone’s attention – not [...]
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“You punk, if you don’t know how to lose, you’ll never know how to win. If you don’t know this, you shouldn’t be playing.” – Grace Welch Jack Welch claims that his biggest influence in life came from his mother in the form of those words. When he lost a game of hockey at an [...]
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What is it like to be a CEO of a company? I have wondered about this question for as long as I have dreamt to be in the position of a Chief Executive someday, somehow, somewhere. Ambitions of a current phase I suppose. The more I read, the more I realize that this lofty ambition, [...]
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