Disagree and commit

Jeff Bezos famously spoke about the culture at Amazon – disagree and commit. Not everyone will agree to a single point of view. And yet one has to ensure the company moves forward. So you get everyone in a room, have an honest debate about the decision to be...

What are you good at?

How many of you are not quite proud of what you are good at? You perhaps think it’s not what the world would call intellectual. It isn’t math or physics or biology or business or excel or powerpoint or finance or well, cryptocurrency! You perhaps things...

Why do we share?

Why do we share what’s going on in our lives, with other people? Good and bad things? When we know that it’s impossible for someone else to know what we are truly going through? When we know it’s likely they can’t help? When we know it’s...

Years of doing it the wrong way

I am getting coached in tennis nowadays. Decided it was high time I fulfilled this childhood desire of mine. Having played table tennis for several years and tennis too for some (while in school), it didn’t take long for me to find a rhythm of rallying. However,...

Motivation vs inspiration

People aren’t motivated to do what “they should do”. They are motivated by what “they could do”. The mountain they can climb. The peak they can conquer. The notion they can dispel about themselves. The payback attached to it. The...