Transformation
Sing a song, sing out loud
For those who are spiritual, religion becomes a serious affair as they think they are doing something holy by following certain rituals.
They start feeling holier than others, superior to others. This creates an ego, an image, a false identity and often people go astray from true religiousness and their authentic being.
Their mind becomes more dominant than heart. Mind is full of thoughts, while heart is full of love, compassion and sensitivity. Sometimes heart can act so irrationally that the mind may not understand it.
There’ a story of St. Francis of Assisi, who sang while lying on his deathbed. He sang so loudly that the entire neighbourhood came to know. Continue reading
Thank you for making me smile sometime in my life….
A lovely little girl was holding two apples with both hands.
Her mum came in and softly asked her little daughter with a smile: my sweetie, could you give your mum one of your two apples?

The girl looked up at her mum for some seconds, then she suddenly took a quick bite on one apple, and then quickly on the other.
The mum felt the smile on her face freeze. She tried hard not to reveal her disappointment. Continue reading
No Ordinary Disruption

Between 1980 and 2010, 1.1 billion adults entered the twenty- to sixty-four-year-old age bracket and joined the world’s labor force. But due to a host of demographic factors, global labor force growth will fall by nearly one-third by 2030. Continue reading
People with a high level of personal mastery are acutely aware of their ignorance, their incompetence, their growth areas….
Silence is the Problem
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Eight hundred years ago, Catherine, a woman living in Sienna Italy who was later to become a saint, stated: “Speak the truth in a million voices. It is silence that kills.” Her words haunt me today, as I notice how much silence there is, and how it is growing around the world. Here are just a few examples:
Trust Overcomes Fear
The antidote to fear is trust, and we all have a desire to find something to trust in an uncertain world. Fear and trust are powerful forces, and while they are not opposites, exactly, trust is the best tool for driving out fear.
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First, Let’s Fire All the Managers
Management is the least efficient activity in your organization.

Think of the countless hours that team leaders, department heads, and vice presidents devote to supervising the work of others. Most managers are hardworking; the problem doesn’t lie with them. The inefficiency stems from a top-heavy management model that is both cumbersome and costly.



