Locating Culture
Many ask me this question: Where do we locate culture in an organization? Where is it sitting? The unfortunate...
February 25, 202200
The shadow of our limiting beliefs
At a Group Relations Conference two years back, the Primary Task was: to study the exercise of authority in...
February 25, 2022
Untying Knots and Locating Grief: Using GR Insights to Accept Loss
I lost my father two years back. We were very close – we used to share, discuss, argue, and...
October 2, 2021
Be Nice : breaking down the most overused word in the English language
The year ahead, like for every person and business in the world, is going to be testing and challenging...
September 19, 2020
The Making of Vector – Ather’s performance management program
My last article spoke about how consistent communication kept us at Ather, on an even keel through the transition to remote working....
June 25, 2020
Finding your moorings during uncertain times
A few months ago, if you’d told anyone…
June 25, 2020
Pecking order and pandering egos
At a wedding party, I was nibbling on hot, crisp starters. “Winter weddings are great, you don’t sweat in…
December 25, 2017
Black the bottomless Pit
That black T-shirt!! The all-powerful BLACK tee-shirt, where is it? Hell, I need it. We are having a product...
July 8, 2017
The Bronze Talisman on the Brink
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. ― Joseph Campbell Ten minutes into the conversation the…
June 29, 2017
Myopic Mindset and Marathon Race
“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.” ― Jalaluddin Rumi Recently travelled to Dubai and...
June 5, 2017
Beyond action into Burgeoning Stillness
“Be still Stillness reveals the secrets of eternity” ― Lao Tzu So much hyperbole on stillness, “Where the mind...
August 20, 2016
I am the elite-the educated-the intellectual-the class
I am the elite-the educated-the refined…
July 4, 2016
Godfathers, Gladiators and Goal posts
There is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of the act and what it brings. ―...
July 18, 2015
Confused Identity and Counterfeit Notes
Who knows truly? Who here will declare whence it arose, whence this creation? The gods are…
October 30, 2014
Bottle to a glass and the broken lives in between
What is an epidemic? Is it an outbreak of disease or…
May 29, 2014
Burgundy streaks, platinum jewelry and equality arrived
I was in a focus group discussion that was called by…
November 5, 2013
Game Changers and Galloping Gooseberries
Process engineering gives the leverage to peel the onion and understand the core competence of human capital…
September 20, 2012
Compelling Consistency and Kambipaagu
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. – Bernard Berenson The first...
July 2, 2012
Movers, Shakers and Country Bumpkins
Tamasha that the movers and shakers of this country did, while we the people, the mass, the ordinary you...
December 31, 2011
Children of a Lesser God
With Diwali round the corner, I wanted to do something worthwhile…
November 23, 2011
Zen and the art of making a perfect cup of filter coffee
If you are born to an intelligent father, life…
October 1, 2011
Objective Realities and Optical Illusions
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power –...
August 30, 2011
L board Lamenting
Crowds weaving their karmic dance or maybe driving to karmic tunes make you nervous while you are learning to...
July 31, 2011
Mergers, acquisitions and vada around the corner!
Huddled and cooped up in a cabin with…
June 23, 2011
Struggle for Freedom after Independence
You may not believe it as a way of existence, but we did exist; before the day you landed…
May 16, 2011
Touring talkies and our love story with it
When the mundane reaches beyond tolerance, am urged to go looking for the divine, just to compare notes…
March 29, 2011
Lettuce, Cabbages, Beetroot and Finally the Awakening
When do we start calling someone fat? When someone goes beyond the…
February 21, 2011
Twinkle twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are
You realize you are in your forties…
February 6, 2011
Scented, perfumed and accented Indian pickle
You can spot them in a few seconds; at cocktail parties wafting in and out of the smoky air,...
January 24, 2011
Why am I not Cleaning my Backyard?
Last week as we were signing off the year, I flipped through TV channels as they were celebrating the...
January 10, 2011
Neimurukku and New York Weather
Just heard the news that Grand Sweets @Adyar is closed in Chennai. This might be a temporary break or...
December 25, 2010
Black and White and a Myriad of Grey Shades
When you are brought up in a middle-class family, everything around you is oscillating between just good and bad,...
December 10, 2010