Thoughts

More often than not, the title “Manager” is doled as a reward for the amount of years one has spent with the company (tenure) or for the solid performances that he/she has put in over a period of time. That is the result of businesses not knowing how to create highly valued non-managerial positions within the existing structure (another discussion for a later time). Unless and until businesses understand that managerial positions are not rewards for solid performances and long tenures, they will continue losing money and talents. Gallup, in their blog (  https://bit.ly/2MmbTkU ) says that a dismal 85% of the employees are not engaged at work and the consequences of this “global norm” is costing the approximately $7 trillion (yes, you read that right!) in lost productivity. Out of the 85%, a huge chunk of 67% consists of employees who are “not engaged”. They are not your worst employees, they are those who are indifferent to the business, who do not provide the best effort nor ...

A coffee mate once asked me whether I was a good manager? That got me thinking. Am I a good Manager? May be. May be not. In my 14 years in a responsible management position in one of the most trusted employer brands in the country, I have never been asked that, either by my bosses or by my peers or by my staff. That’s why it got me thinking. To be the judge and jury of your own work is a bit selfish. For me, the work I have done over the entire course of my tenure as a team leader, and later as a manager, has been deeply satisfying. I have not mastered all, but I have learnt to see growing complexity, uncertainty, volatility and ambiguity through a different lens. Most of us are bad at most things by default. We are wired that way. The good thing is that our brain’s efficacy for putting the dots together and make sense of our environment, our body and the people around us is so damn good we can mold ourselves to be the experts at anything we set our minds to. So the secr...

As with your phones, your tablets, and your laptops,  you have an operating system too . And just like those gadgets need updates every now and then,  your brain does too —maybe even more often. If you want to be a high-performing, forward-thinking leader in today’s world, you’ve got to  upgrade your internal software . No excuses. No delays. The World Has Moved On Artificial Intelligence is already shaping industries. The Metaverse is here—slowly, but surely. Web3, blockchain, quantum computing, automation—it’s all happening. If your mindset is still stuck in 2000, you’re already playing catch-up. Do What the Greats Do Think of Bill, Steve, Mark, and the other high-flyers. They don’t binge negativity. They feed their minds—every single day. ✅ A few pages of a book. ✅ A podcast that sparks curiosity. ✅ A TED Talk that shifts perspective. ✅ A video on Robotics, Expansion of the Universe, the String Theory etc.. ✅ Even a song that lifts your energy. The input matters. Becau...