Yes and No. Are these two extremes as we make ourselves to believe?
Sunday, 04 June 2023
If we watch any of the movies there will multiple scenes where there is a key decision being taken where the hero or heroine must take the key decision very often between a Yes and a No, like in the case of the movie I watched this weekend, “Pachuvum Athbutha Vilakum” about when the heroine
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Choking under Pressure – Why does this happen at the most crucial moments of our life.
Saturday, 20 May 2023
Right throughout the turn of the century the South African cricket team was the most powerful and the team to beat in the cricketing world. But despite being the best team and despite doing the best among all teams during the preliminary stages of most of the World Cups they would end up losing in
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Stories – Why we love them and the people who tell them…
Saturday, 13 May 2023
We live in a world where we are flooded with fake messages and videos which are often created so well that a normal person cannot even differentiate between an original message and a fake one. I was also watching a few days back about how AI could be used to make such fake videos in
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Difficult Conversations – Is there an easier way to manage them?
Sunday, 07 May 2023
We all have these difficult conversations daily. At times they are part of our work and at times they are part of our personal lives but there are conversations which are very difficult and there are always some people with whom all conversations are difficult. Some conversations are so difficult that we find ways and
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Unraveling the Mystery of The Act of Persuasion…
Saturday, 29 April 2023
This article is a continuation of an earlier article link of the which is as below: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/do-fancy-gifts-prizes-lure-influence-our-purchase-rejo-francis/ In addition to gifts and fancy prizes that indulge us to take certain decisions there are several other strategies and techniques which are used to overcome the rational part of the brain and how the same requirement when
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Stress and Pressure… Two sides of the same coin?
Sunday, 23 April 2023
This year’s IPL has started and almost all the matches in the last 10 days have been very close ones. While normally I don’t watch matches in full during the first half of the tournament but only keep a tab on who’s winning and losing …these close finishes have pushed me to watch almost all
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Labelling – Another Technique to Successful Negotiations
Sunday, 16 April 2023
We would have very often seen in today’s social media world where some people who are in person very quiet being very aggressive and argumentative particularly in WhatsApp groups. We would also have noticed how with very close friends and relatives when we have difference of opinions, and we get into an argument we very
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Work Pressure: How does it really affect our performance?
Saturday, 08 April 2023
We are all familiar with instances of high performing individuals and teams behaving, performing, and reacting very differently under high pressure situations. To quote an example during the last football world cup quarter finals where Spain, a previous world cup champion and ranked around 7 in the world at that time got knocked out in
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Using Mirroring to Crack the Toughest of Negotiations…
Saturday, 04 March 2023
Negotiation is a fundamental skill that plays a critical role in both personal and professional life. When we talk about negotiation, we always think about big negotiations leading to big outcomes. But negotiation is something that we keep using in our day to day lives and is so much part of our routine that we
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Compound your actions into your dreams- The power of Compounding
Saturday, 04 February 2023
The last month has been filled with news stories about Joshimath in Uttarakhand. About how this small town has been developing cracks on floors and buildings. A few weeks back newspaper talked about an ISRO finding which showed that the area had sunk by 5 centimeters in 12 days. But is it that these things
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