Archive for the year 2010

Your private profile

In today’s world so conscious of appearances and how we look in public — we put a lot of effort in creating the right facebook profile, 100% complete LinkedIn profile with good recommendations and 500+ connections. If you have a…

Yes you can write!

Blogging is a great way to get visibility for businesses and individuals. Artists, entrepreneurs, academicians all can benefit from the long-lasting and wide-reaching impact of blogging – when done right. Blogs have contributed a lot to the growth of people.…

How to grow a service business?

Many of my friends are start-up entrepreneurs, who are constantly on the look-out to grow and stay competitive. The write-up is an attempt to share some ideas in written form with them. Hopefully it will also benefit you, my readers…

Celebrate your success

In our quest for success we keep on working day in and day out. But when you keep working like that – days, weeks, months and years will pass by you. One day you will realize that a significant part…

Unpack your day

All ambitious souls of 21st century want to achieve a lot in less time. That is why we tend to pack too much in our lives and hence in our days. If you think about it – only doing…

Water plants of your relationships?

Few centuries ago people relied on community for financial support, security and also for justice. There was little reliance on banks, courts of law and police – even if they existed in some form. This gave people a reason to…

Is there a better way?

All of us want to become successful in whatever we do. Becoming successful in your chosen field is easy and asking right questions is a part of it. If you ask yourself regularly – “is there a better way?”, you…

Is success a baggage for you?

“Humility makes great men twice honorable.” ~ Benjamin Franklin This thought emerged in my mind couple of days back while sitting with a group of people over lunch, one of whom was ex-chairman of a large public sector corporation. I…

Starting early as an entrepreneur

The idea for this article emerged during an entrepreneurship workshop at a leading business school, earlier during the day. Entrepreneurs have existed on our planet for a long time. But it in recent times, entrepreneurship has gained popular acceptance as…

Personal Review

Companies do reviews to assess and improve. Why can’t individuals do the same and improve? This case has been made earlier also. The idea now is to bring some structure to it. For some people a structured life is boring.…

Confused? Try this.

There are times when people get confused. In today’s world of information overload, plenty of options, lack of resources (time or money or both); lack of understanding of the topic on hand and rush for doing more in less time…

Will you recommend yourself?

Of course, most will reply. This is a human thing. People love themselves the most. Later comes life partner, kids anybody else. Let us be more specific. Think of a business situation — will you hire and work with a…

Parallel Path

Today I spoke to an enthusiastic group of people at one of world’s leading insurance majors. The idea of this article emerged there — discussing the possibility of doing what you love. People started talking about their dreams and some…

Stop living in the past

How many times have you read this? I guess many a times. Before you make any judgments about what is written below, let me ask you a question — You love your past but does your past love you? Strange…