Inspirational quotes are being increasingly short sold and aspiring professionals are getting misguided by the pompous interpretations of the self proclaimed experts, motivational speakers and career coaches. Below are two I have come across.

A lot is being said and written about the layoffs at better.com and people I know are mortified by the way the CEO terminated the employees over a video call. When we hear such news, our natural response is to assess them with our emotions. Business is all about revenue…

I was explaining Maslow’s hierarchy of needs to a good friend and that is when I realized how it can be used to understand patriarchy. We have come across patriarchy being interpreted and described in a variety of ways but we still do not have a good understanding of its…

Yes Vir Das the Indian movie actor and stand-up comedian was absolutely right. There are indeed two Indias. I came across an article which describes how a star can get reduced into a planetary body. For this to happen, the star will have to come under the influence of a…

This is the analysis about the jobs we do and our personality I have searched for many years. The classifications Jordan Peterson has made are quite simple but the underlying factors are extremely complex. From the business/corporate perspective, entrepreneurial/creative types have a synonym. Innovators. The problem with innovation though is…

When established norms and widely accepted views are questioned and challenged, it has become normal to call them conspiracy theories. The term conspiracy theory has a predecessor. Heresy. Anyone opposing the views of the Church were branded as heretics and burned on stakes. Apparently more than 50,000 women who opposed…

Human-wildlife conflict — Are animals in conflict with us? Human-wildlife conflict has been a growing concern globally especially in the last few decades. We are coming across more wild animals in towns and even cities which can create nightmarish situations if predators like leopards enter crowded residential areas. …

COVID-19 has brought into focus the importance of business risks due to natural disasters and epidemics Back in 2018, much before the pandemic began, a businessman I know told me one day that his company was taking up the franchise of Wrangler, the leading international apparel brand and he was…

On the intervening night of 2nd February, when most of India was fast asleep, international pop icon Rihanna detonated the equivalent of a nuclear bomb on Twitter. Nearly half of 1.25 …