In 1997, a young entrepreneur named Jeff Bezos took a leap of faith and founded Amazon, an online bookstore operating from his garage. Despite facing numerous challenges, Bezos had a vision—a deep belief in the potential of e-commerce. What he might not have realized at the time was how his personal experiences, subconscious fears, and

Recently, there has been a significant uproar on social media following comments made by the CEO of one of India’s largest companies advocating for a 90-hour work week for employees. A similar backlash occurred when one of the founders of India’s most respected software companies suggested the necessity of a 70-hour work week. These statements

We spend fifty percent or more of the time that we are awake at our workplace. We don’t often realize the time that we end up spending with our colleagues and our bosses at our workplace. I have been fortunate to work with some 30 odd bosses during my career. While we don’t realize it

The motivation to write this was triggered by the news last week that Kerala’s ex chief minister and opposition leader had completed 101 years of age. Though no longer active in public life reaching such an old page for someone who was extremely active in public life including holding senior executive positions till about a

In our day-to-day life’s, we go through ups and down, success and failures that tests our resilience, strength, and determination. Often, we find ourselves at crossroads, where challenges and setbacks stand as formidable barriers between us and our goals. Many of these tend to happen despite our best efforts and hard work. In these moments,

There is this interesting episode that I recently watched the Indian cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar narrate. Tendulkar during the first stages of his career moved from school cricket to Ranji Trophy to playing for India in a matter of about a year. So, in 1989 when he made his debut for India in test cricket

During our lives and careers, we would have seen ourselves and those with whom we have worked closely evolve into different kinds of individuals with different leadership styles. If we think about ourselves also, we would have seen ourselves change in our leadership styles as we have progressed in our lives and careers. We would

Have talked several times about Michael Phelps the ace US swimmer who was blessed with perhaps the best natural physique that maxims the performance as a swimmer. Though he was almost 6.5 feet tall he had very short legs for someone of that height. Since the legs were smaller in height the upper torso was

Bill Grant was a successful chain store owner and had made a fortune through his 25 cent stores across the US where he mainly specialized in selling kitchen supplies and household wares. In 1937 he approached Harvard University to help identify ways in which he could identify the best store managers and employees for his

A few weeks back I accidentally started watching a movie called Captain Phillips in one of the English movie channels. The movie is based on a real story of a freight ship which is boarded by about four determined young pirates and how the crew led by their captain manage to get things back on