I write about leadership, execution and the transition from technical roles into organizational responsibility. My essays examine why capable teams struggle, why transformations stall, and how professionals grow from individual contributors into leaders. More about my background is on the About page. I read and respond to thoughtful responses. You can also reach me on LinkedIn.
Secrets for Conceiving a Gifted Child Many pure souls are wandering about in the ether, desperately knocking at every door [door of the parents]. They go back heaving a deep and anguished sigh not being able to find a conducive breeding ground to be reborn. As a result, society is fast draining out of capable […]
The dinner guests were sitting around the table discussing life. One man, a CEO, decided to explain the problem with education. He argued, “What’s a kid going to learn from someone who decided his best option in life was to become a teacher?” To stress his point he said to another guest; “You’re a teacher, […]
Below is a excerpt from Shahrukh’s interview to times of india, eventhough I am not a fan of the kind of films he does, I always like his the approach towards life and his messages to youth. How unreal does all this look today? When you lost him, you were a fatherless 14-year-old in a […]
Bad news is everywhere. Spiralling cost of food. Terrorist strikes. Police atrocities. Maoist attacks. New bridges collapsing. Scams where thousands lose their life savings. Poaching in sanctuaries. Human rights violations. Farmer suicides. Awful tax laws. Vanishing species. Attacks on schools, colleges, hospitals. Vaccines leading to deaths. Students taking their own lives. Shrinking jobs. Fewer investors. […]
Today when I hosted WCF service in IIS 7.0. I got an error like HTTP Error 404.3 – Not Found Description: The page you are requesting cannot be served because of the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) map policy that is configured on the Web server. The page you requested has a file name extension […]
Why do some people have all the luck while others are perpetually unlucky? Professor Richard Wiseman of the University of Hertfordshire was determined to get to the scientific bottom of the phenomenon of luck, and what he discovered may surprise you: I placed advertisements in national newspapers asking for people who felt consistently lucky or […]