Crushing boundaries

How crushing boundaries can help elevate mindset and individual / team performance

New kid on the block! Young author alert

We have a 11 year old strutting around the house as if he is a celebrity! Well, why not! Ashvik has authored, illustrated and published his first book – a science fiction novel, or that’s what it looks like. 😄 Extremely elated to announce that his maiden book has now hit the stands and is…

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0/5 to 3/5 – it’s all in the game

My son is my guru, competitor and nemesis, all rolled into one small little package 😄 He has latched onto Basketball for the last few good months and it gives me great joy to see his steady progress. From playing, he is also onto watching full time BasketBall youtube videos, already picked out his favourite…

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Bond, Collaborate, Grow

I have been having some fantastic time connecting with teams and colleagues, both internal and external and am constantly revamping how I engage with / learn from them. These are what I consistently pick up: Following are some important questions, we need to ask, from ourselves and people around us, who are in a position…

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Men speak 7000 words a day vs 20000 by women..ahem

That’s a very (un)popular myth IMHO and has had its prominence, debunking, and a fair bit of memes going around as well. My first thought as I try to take this in was, why doesn’t this background stat help show up in the workplace scenario as much as it could have? We see anywhere between…

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Claim your seat at the table

This is my next in series of the (hopefully) morale boosting pep rants, aimed at team building and personality development. There are more often than not, multi faceted categories of people, in a team setting or situation: the table creators the din makers the note takers the mannequins The table creators are good at identifying…

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What is your brand value?

And WTH do onions have to do with your brand value? These are not trick questions folks, and not for the marketing savvy alone. This is my favourite opening dialogue when I engage in a mentoring session. Past good few months i have consciously been connecting with a multitude of people, as part of various…

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Do you Go to the Get or Get to the Go?

Figured the cryptic title yet? Almost rhapsodic! * pic courtesy: sketch by my 10 year old son Warning: Significant wordplay involved. Two innocuous statements combined to cause massive confusion 😄 I submit my quick perspective around this. The above 2 statements generically typecasts 2 kinds of people you get to (be and) meet. There is…

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