“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” – Maya Angelou Accelerating your career and achieving your definition of career success will be a journey that is unique to you. However, there are some guiding principles which can accelerate your career...
1093 patents (singly or jointly), the inventor of the phonograph, the incandescent light bulb, a highly successful manufacturer and businessman- also known as Wizard of Menlo Park! Thomas Alva Edison was all of this, but what was behind this prolific talent and output? When Edison visited Louis...
The Future of Work is here. Do you want to prepare for it? Follow these 5 Steps : 1. Be curious - Ask, seek out, learn, try, experiment. Let curiosity be your compass. Think about it - what are voice assistants like Alexa, Siri, Ok Google...
Movies and stories – they often imitate real life and sometimes they can be powerful analogies to explore themes in real life. Many of you may have seen the classic, intensely dark psychological thriller SEVEN. Seven (stylized as SE7EN) is a 1995 American crime thriller film directed...
I have always marveled at the power of stories and myths in helping us make sense of our (personal and collective) psychological realities as well as in understanding broader socio-cultural-economic shifts. Myths find their reflections in reality and studying them gives us another frame with...
Last week, two conversations stood out for me. One, when I was coaching a person around transition and the other a conversation with an ecosystem partner. In the first conversation, the person was trying to ‘mainstream’ into a corporate career after years of being an entrepreneur...
In the first part of this series on Preparing for the Future of Work and Transitions, I spoke about the pressing need to re-invent oneself, not only in terms of skills, but also by re-wiring how we think about our work and ourselves to navigate the new...
This is part 1 of a 2 part series on preparing for the Future of Work, Transitions and Re-inventing oneself. If there’s one phrase which has caught the imagination of people from every walk of life - students, professionals, CEOs, policymakers, entrepreneurs, in the last couple...
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