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War on technology addiction is one sided!

3-minute quick read.  When smart-phone was introduced by Apple –it was supposed to be a combination of iPod and phone. Facebook was also introduced to just connect girl-friends,…

Getting used to Digital Quarantine!

 3-minute quick read       We are becoming social media and mobile junky. On average we check mobile every 12 minutes sometimes up to 96 times a…

10 ways to contribute in a (Virtual) Book club!

3 Minute Quick Read. Few toastmasters have come together and formed a small book club “Books for Self-learning. Its a virtual book club. Generally, we talk and post…

How Vivekananda continues to Inspire!

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

How to Write a Lot !

5 minute read – Book Review of “How to Write a Lot” [Image Source : https://www.amazon.in/How-Write-Lot-Practical-Productive-ebook/dp/B001Y35G60 ] In general writing productivity and particular academic productivity boils down to simply how…

Learning’s from Japan!

This is my Project-8 or CC#8 of competent communicator manual in toastmasters. (Though this is posted on blog on 27-Sept-2016, I delivered it in club on 30th-Mar-2013). Project…

How one Harvard Professor found his life purpose!

Finding purpose of life often requires deep introspection. You have to struggle, face dilemma’s for long period. But it is worth it. Find below the snippet from Clayton…

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…

On being a teacher …

I attended  Gurucharan Das’s  “India grows at night” book release function by BDB Book club. I liked his style and picked up his “Difficulty of being good” for…

A.P.J. Abdul Kalam on Importance of re-writing speeches

Speech re-writing is very important condition for successful speech. Toastmasters Competent communicator manual also emphasizes the drafting of the speech. Andrew Dlugun ,a famous toast-master also emphasized this…

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…

“7 Habits” : A Management Guru Stephen Covey – passed away.

Stephen Covey , The author of the best seller “7 Habits of highly effective people” passed away. I hooked to  this book ,when I just passed out of…

Personal Branding : Some useful resources

Personal branding is when you take charge of your career.   It gels well with protean careers or boundary less careers. You want to take charge of your career. …

How to sale yourself ?

The following speech I made for my toastmasters project-7.  Project was targeted at research skills and using the relevant data to drive , convince audience about your point…

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…

How to decide whether the job is great ?

I wanted to enter academics, and that is the reason I applied for research program at XLRI. The interview committee tried to probe, why I want to switch…