The week of 9th January 2017 holds certain significance in my life. This was the week when I was part of a series of workshops in Mumbai, on Primal Posture™ with the founder of the Gokhale Method™ Esther Gokhale. This was the first time, the method was being promoted actively in India. Hundreds of people […]
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I was on a United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Paris last week. After a short and intense work week in the US, all I wanted to do was catch up on my sleep. It felt like only a few hours since our take off, when the attendant came up and straightened my seat
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Yet another International Women’s Day is here. I know that celebrating one day can be merely tokenism. It doesn’t bring about any real change. But I also believe, it is a good idea to dedicate the day to express gratitude to someone who has made a difference, to thank her for inspiring you in some
Over the past few weeks we have been reading about the people who are entering Europe seeking care, food and shelter. The European nations are overwhelmed with this human crisis. This situation has triggered a debate – what to call the people who are arriving by the thousands. Some believe they are refugees- meaning people
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I was in Munich a few months back on a holiday with my family. We attended a concert by Munich Philarmonic at the Gasteig. This was the first western symphony I was attending, and I was thrilled that the Director was Zubin Mehta. As we walked in to take our seats inside the concert hall,
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I find running, challenging! I am on a fitness regimen guided by my coach, which includes cycling, swimming, strength training and walking. I am to add running when I feel fit to do so. My coach never pushes anything onto someone if one doesn’t feel ready and always insists on keeping the long-term goal in
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I was on a holiday with my family in Salzburg, Austria recently. On one of the evenings, my son was insistent on a boat ride in the Salzach river. Being a tourist season, we had to wait in a queue to get in. Standing just next to us were two young Tamil-speaking couples. I say
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I have had the same hairstylist for the last 4 years. She was the one who gave me a dramatically different look a couple of years back, that led to some interesting experiences. You can read it here… At the beginning of this year, she quit the salon, saying she was starting on her own
Every company aims to have an environment where people are energised and motivated to give their best. But when the leadership teams notice a dip in employee engagement they often turn to HR department to come up with a solution. And the usual approach includes, reward schemes, incentive programs, allocating small budgets to project teams
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One of the favourite topics for research in the area of women’s leadership is on why women generally do not negotiate for themselves. There is substantial amount of research on why women don’t ask and how this results in us getting much less in life, especially professional lives. It is bad enough that we have
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