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Passive income
There is a new fashion in town: bad-mouth 9-to-5 jobs and glorify passive income. It is as if we can all quit our jobs and just create an online course or something like that, and money will start rolling in. I think that is total nonsense. I am...
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Read this before jumping into entrepreneurship
Before you quit your job and become an entrepreneur to earn untold riches, please read this story. In the early 2000s, when I was serving as the...
Hit hard – don’t dilute your words with fillers
Do you know why instead of hitting hard, our words come out limp? Because we sabotage ourselves. We dilute our speech with fillers like "Umm, Uuuu,...
Happiness is in the now
The guy working in a small company wants a job at Amazon. The one in Amazon doesn’t want to work at all. We all want to jump out of our current...
Mental health – remove stigma
Years ago, when I was a civil servant, a young IPS officer was briefly posted under me for training. A sensitive guy, he was struggling with some...
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Work where you are respected
We often hear, 'Don't pick a job just for the salary.' But if not salary, then what? Typically, the answer is - role, company culture, growth opportunities, brand, etc. And admittedly, all these things have serious merit. However, in my opinion,...
Keep pushing the boundaries
I first read the book ‘Jonathan Livingston Seagull', more than a decade ago. Since my wife was raving about the book, I got curious about all the hullabaloo. When I read the book, I found it stunningly disappointing. No storyline, no hero or...
Nothing wastes more time than random activity.
During a leadership training at McKinsey in Chicago, we were split into teams and given a task: From cardboard kits for building toy planes, we had to build the most number of planes in a given time. We thought it was a fun team-building exercise....
An entrepreneur is a player – he can lose
Today, while talking to a friend at Juniper Networks, we got talking about the company's founder, an IIT Kanpur alumnus. His profile mentions that his dad wanted him to become an IAS officer. But instead, he went for higher studies and ended up...