Category: Musings

Sleepy daughter and her awakened dad.

Sleepy daughter’s awakened father.

Tribute to Ratan Tata!

Ratan Tata passed away, it feels like a personal loss. He is a role model. The firm, Tata Group is a role model. He had less than 1%…

About My Research Journey!

  As a doctoral scholar at XLRI, one of India’s leading business schools (leading to degree FPM), I started my research journey. During the period, I worked full…

Reader Spotlight – Reflecting on the reading journey!

I joined Aniket’s reading program “The Reading Habits“ In its simplest form it is GRP – guided reading program.  I was curious to know, how he runs it…

Tribute to Irrfan Khan!

 3 Minute Quick Read. [Image Source: Wikipedia ] Irrfan Khan passed away just at 53. (29 April 2020). Tributes from all over the world are pouring, and rightly so….

How Vivekananda continues to Inspire!

5 Minute Quick Read.  [“I only tell you this, that whoever reads this letter will imbibe my spirit! “                     …

Reviving the blog –

I started this blog  on 29-Sept-2008, but it  is  dormant since my last post on 9-Sept-2013. I was in Tokyo in 2008, and was considering career switch from Oracle Database Administrator…

How people set their Salary Expectations ?

(Image Source: Wikimedia) How do people set their Salary expectations? Particularly the one who are returning to job-market after a break, returning from other country or switching careers….

Sleepy students and early morning class !

Today morning when I met first year student in lift, she was not active as one should be. I casually asked, so do you have class now? And…

Perils of higher Education !

Unemployment vs. Education level. (Ref-1) The times of India article mentions , “Higher your education, harder it is getting a job” . So true . The data in…

Unanticipated Consequence of Productivity tools !

PCMag has interesting article on productivity.  Opening of the article has interesting comment. Has anyone noticed that the computer revolution has turned its focus from improving productivity to…

Three ingredients of Charimsatic leadership and Anna Hazare

Anna Hazare, a grass root activist from a small village flashed suddenly on India’s national canvas with his anti-corruption campaign. In spite of his old age, humble background…

Smile – There are so many reasons …

Interesting talk by Ron Gutman smile – A curve that straightens cranky things … (Speech is supported by strong research findings from range of publications, and worth watching…

Changing the sleeping Blog ..

Currently this blog has infrequent updates, And this is about to change. Basically this blog is a reflective personal journal started as a learning tool. One can see…

East and West – Mythology explains business behavior

I watched this small video on TED , which draws parallels in eastern and western mythology with respective thinking and behavioral patterns. Video is really insightful and fascinating…

Indian Bureacracy – HR perspective .

Today I read the news about worst south Asian bureaucracy – India. Those who area aware of Indian bureaucracy should know that majority of them come through the…

Amazing Inspiring video

Looks like cadbury people have created this – but it is amazingly creative.