Archive for the month April 2020

Even in the times when they are home, staying in place. Because the laid back ones are busy chilling and Netflix-ing… The ambitious ones are in a rush to grow themselves, trying to partake in the free (and at times…

Raghuram Rajan erstwhile Chief Economist and at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) wrote in his book “Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy”: “Not taking risks one doesn’t understand is often the best form of risk management.”…

Looking for career progression? Then you may have to go through five jobs to experience it. The first job is when you get your first one. And, you should not sweat much about how that one is. The second job…

How do you make your dreams come true? You do it by working. But the mindless work cannot make our dreams true. We can live in the illusion of working and get almost nothing done. So, it is important to…

They never were. They have long been about monitoring. About surveillance. About keeping a tab. A place where we went to work. And, that place became a hub of stress, a place that hampered work when it should have facilitated.…

I was an ambitious kid. I had started thinking about my future during early teens. But I did not get much guidance. So I did what someone in my situation would do.  I read books and looked outside for inspiration.…

To win big you pay the price. You pay for success with time and effort. What if you don’t have any time left after work? You find time over the weekend. And, use that time to win. If you plan…

Career dreams are real. But for many of us, after we start working, these dreams die a slow death. Because the work takes over leaving us no time to pay attention to what we want and how to go there.…

This is an Update Post. Skip it if you are looking for some learning. Since Jan 2019, I have run a self-growth experiment every month. The idea behind these experiments is to put ideas that promise growth into action and…

Habits rule us. They affect the way we behave, and the way we act. We eat food and consume information as per our habits. But all our habits don’t serve us well. That is why we need to make a…

I have been working virtually for close to a decade. There have been times when I dropped in the office to work with my team or my time at LinkedIn where I worked out of an office, but a majority…

I came across this on social media. (RED REMARKS ARE MINE) Such images are shared often by those who have a lot of time on their hands. But not everyone is sitting at home and twiddling their thumbs. Ask moms…

The current chaos in the world has brought us back to living life the way we used to decades ago. Making do with less, doing our chores ourselves, eating at home, not traveling for fun every day, even those who…

Money arrived a long time after humans first appeared on earth. It was invented as a storage of value, that we exchanged with someone to get stuff. Over time, its storage signified power, security and prestige. That’s why everyone wants…

Whether you sell SaaS or serve clients as an agency or consultant with monthly retainers, you can reduce churn.
To do it you need to know what causes churn for you in the first place? Why do customers leave?
There…