Note: This is a very special post for me. I am dedicating this to all those people that have created an ultimate lasting impression in my life. In the end, there is a call to action for all of you 🙂 How do you create an ultimate lasting impression? There is no single answer to… Continue reading →

Lisa Haneberg talks about the butterfly effect in her books and talks. You can read more about Butterfly effect here. The butterfly effect is a phrase that encapsulates the more technical notion of sensitive dependence on initial conditions in chaos theory. Small variations of the initial condition of a nonlinear dynamical system may produce large… Continue reading →

History is filled with accounts of products that were discovered as a result of accidents. Here are a few examples 1. Alexander Fleming discovered the anti-biotic properties of Penicillin by accident 2. Heard about Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company? May be not. But you sure have heard of 3M (3M = MMM = Minnesota Mining… Continue reading →

Most often, we want to be congratulated for our contributions. Depending on the nature, size and frequency of contributions, we may expect different things – a raise, a pat on the back, a promotion or simply some sort of recognition. What gets conveniently overlooked is that cost that we bring along with the contribution. Whether… Continue reading →

I can confidently say that one of the biggest time-savers in the last decade for me is this philosophy of having a wilingness to enjoy the incomplete. It may seem like an odd proposition but interestingly enough, it works. Let me give a few examples: * Imagine you were able to walk out of a… Continue reading →

I think there are some questions for which it is hard to find “good enough” answers. These, for me, are questions to wonder about. I am not suggesting that you should not think about them (if those areas are of your interest) or avoid them. You do what you choose to do based on your… Continue reading →

Being present and being in the present are both very important. However, there are times when you are better off being absent or in other words, you will create more harm by being present. I will give you a few scenarios and you can add your own to the list: 1. When someone wants to… Continue reading →

No, I am not talking about what you say. I want to focus on what you communicate – sometimes a) with your words or b) with how you say those words or c) with your body language or d) with what you choose not to talk about Everything counts. Here are a few examples: Example… Continue reading →

Of course all of us are thoughtful. Are we really? It seems like common sense but it’s not. They say that we are either thinking about what happened in the past or worrying about what will happen in the future. So where do we have the time to be “thoughtful” in the present? Let’s do… Continue reading →

“It’s not what you think…it’s what you say” – Susan Scott (from Fierce Conversations) Think about some of your recent “difficult” conversations with people. When the other person made an inappropriate comment, Was it a reaction or a response? Whenever the other person was unreasonable, chances were that the person was reacting rather than responding…. Continue reading →