‘The area of a rectangle is it’s length times it’s breadth.’ This is all the explanation you get from a legendary Indian math reference book we all grew up studying. Other concepts fare no better. The whole book comprises statements like ‘the lateral surface area is the area of four walls of a...

Which car, fountain pen, watch, speakers, camera, computer or guitar do you use?  Why do we care more for these, even though we know that it’s where you go, what you do with your time, what you write, listen to or create that really matters? ...

Remote work is not a substitute of in-person work, but not for the reasons we’d think.  We think we lose control, but we actually lose context – we can still track deliverables, but cant replicate water-cooler conversations We think we lose inspiration, but we actually...

People who: get jokes: can usually connect the dots and solve intellectual challenges make jokes: are articulate, have comedic timing, and know how to use words for impact take jokes: don’t take themselves too seriously, and are more open to differences The first, i.e. people...

Organizations pay headhunters more money to place one senior executive than they would pay all the coaches, trainers and people managers, combined, to develop that executive over their entire lifetime.  This is the Architect vs. Agent dilemma: of a 100 buildings in a colony...

The nails of a dog which hasn’t played on the road for a couple of weeks become overly sharp. They aren’t alone – we all develop rough edges when we disengage with a harsh source of reality. That reality check comes to us in the form of feedback.  One may assume that we...