If you tell students in life you get what you deserve, or what you choose, they look at you like you are from Mars! Imagine a kid coming to me and saying ‘I want to be an equity analyst’ what should I do? Well the answer is simple – start collecting balance sheets and start […]
One kid in our office was expressing some negative thoughts, or so I thought. Went to my archives and sent him a note on positive thoughts, and positive behavior. In fact wanted to send him the example from ‘The Secret’ but did not have a soft copy. The gist was if you keep saying something, […]
The MBA must be a very good degree – there is so much demand and so many colleges are creating them! I am sure all of you MBAs who are reading this will agree I have never spoken about the degree…well, there is always a first time! There are some brilliant solutions that I have […]
One of the important qualities of a good salesman is the ability to spot sales opportunities. Here is a nice story… In a tourist spot was a big general shop which was not doing too well. People would come and browse through, but the footfalls were not translating to sales. The owner had tried a […]
Last week somebody asked me this question. Is RM your share broker….and I really had to think hard. In 1979 I would have said yes. In 2010 it took me to a Bhagvat Geetha lecture that I had heard long, long back. Not sure whether the speaker was from Chinmaya Mission or from the Hare […]
Once upon a time there was a king and he had a faithful slave. His slave would do everything for him and would go everywhere where the king went. He had so to say no own life – he was like the king’s shadow. The king loved him….and was also completely dependent on him. One […]
I have seen a couple of people related / close to me who had a illness / suffering. One of them took it like “God choose me to have this suffering..I am the chosen one”. Went through Cancer treatment ..well almost laughing. The other person wanted the sympathies of everybody else. Went through a lot […]