Calm and passionate

“She comes across as a calm kid. Must be lacking passion.” Except that she has so much of it that she doesn’t need to prove her mettle by being boastful of it. The greatest achievement in life is having great achievements and not feeling the need to show them. ...

Scaling up leadership

When we say, “All good things take time”, we mean it for us as individuals. Love, finances, family, individual success. Almost every time we miss out on how good leadership is formed: by devoting a lot of time. As an organisation scales, if it gets easy to manage...

At home or at peace?

Maybe you had a traumatic childhood.Perhaps you can never be positive because everyone in your family is negative and toxic.Or maybe fights at home are your daily alarm clocks. In such cases, you may wonder how to find yourself and your happiness back? By getting...

Our work and grapevines

In almost every organisation, there are grapevines. People who think how work should be done, how others are doing it, and how it serves as a platform for them to gossip. The sad part is, sometimes it affects the people who aren’t a part of that grapevine.  It...

Entrepreneurship as a choice

“I want to start a startup because I am tired of my boss.Just can’t wait to have no boss ever!” This is almost always the incorrect reason to venture into entrepreneurship. Everyone is answerable to someone, including the CEOs of top companies. Entrepreneurship is...

The test of criticism

“Do you even know how I was treated?” Perhaps very badly. That’s sad. Shouldn’t have happened. However, if we attach what someone else did to how we feel, we are always placing others on a pedestal to make us happy.  That’s not vulnerable; that’s rather...