It all started with a simple question. We (Me, wifey and 7 year old daughter) were going somewhere or returning from somewhere when I happened to ask my daughter “Which is your favorite place?” I was expecting Kerala (as she usually has loads of fun during the summer vacation and is never at home there…
Category: Random Thoughts
It’s a bird, It’s a Plane, Its Superman… No wait…its Innovation!
Look anywhere and everywhere – you will find someone talking about innovation(me), someone listening to someone talk about innovation (you), someone innovating or someone googling on how to innovate and someone simply planning to innovate 🙂 What gives? Is Innovation a much touted hype? Unfortunately yes. Innovation is now, simply put, a more convenient and…
Have we lost the Human (touch) in Human Resources?
Who / What is this “Human” in Human Resources? You, me, all of us? So, obviously I would want to dedicate this thought and my subsequent rants to all my fellow “human” resources. A common definition for Resource would probably read – A resource would be a source / reserve / supply of something that…
For my kids, I am always some Khan and Mommy is a Padukone
Don’t you agree? Your kids would see you as the world’s best dad and the world’s best mom, and if you equate that to their favorite actors, you will naturally be the Salmans / Shah Rukhs and the Deepika Padukones of this world, for them. I am simply amazed at how easy our kids live…
To bell curve or not to?
Curves could be in but I prefer being straight.† Want to stay ahead of the curve…Easy….Eliminate the Curve itself! Think bell, think rank and yank! Not many would have grasped the context and significance of these lines above. I am one of them, for starters. 🙂 I am talking about the infamous bell curve –…
Anti-post: Battle of the Mind versus Brain?
If anti-matter exists, then anti-post most certainly does. But what is an anti-post? A post is generally an article written around a specific topic / subject and with a theme. In the same way, can we then create an anti-post which does not talk about anything AT ALL? If there were to be guidelines for…
A post full of questions – #1 – human memory
Do we know what memory is? Do we know what memory is made up of, and how this works? Do we know the different types of memories? How do we even remember to remember? Who taught us how to store and retrieve? Do we have memories before even we know how to think? How did…
Communicating well – Art or Science or just lady luck?
Why is it that Communicating (effectively), is usually called an Art and not a Science? Art stands for anything that is creative and comes from the heart, and not the mind (which is where science would come from). Science is purely technical, reason based and result oriented and has nothing to do with the heart…
The Lost Art of Giving
As much as the ongoing focus and growing popularization around understanding Life and Living, and more often than not, a mad rush in trying to improve how we live / perceive living (through self realization, meditation, therapy, wellness camps etc), not much is understood / practiced, when it comes to the art of giving /…
Most common phrases at work – what would work be, sans these?
We all thrive on using common phrases to describe situations, emphasize meaning – in our day to day life and work scenarios. It is also evident that there is a very divided school of thought around the usage / application of such phrases in day to day communication. To those few, who do get irritated…
Random Musings 