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

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

Does Luck really favor the brave? Comparing our lives with others is probably the biggest hobby and pastime of humans… Sometimes we watch in awe the growth and success of certain individuals particularly those who don’t fall into our traditional criteria to be met by people to be successful. This article is a continuation of

As Pope Benedict breathed his last on the 31st of December 2022, tributes came in far and wide from heads of states to commoners, from staunch believers to military leaders. Most called him as a clever theologian and a committed stalwart in the traditions and believes of the Church. But for me like many others

What differentiates the success of Kohli, Sachin and Federer? This is a continuation of the article that I had written about India becoming the CEO factory of the world. The link to this article is attached for your ready reference.  The Secret Component of the Indian Global CEO factory – Rejo Francis When each one

One of the biggest challenges all managers face is in separating the performance from the person behind the performance. To think about it managing the performance and performer are two separate things and needs to be treated differently. One of the primary reasons why we find it difficult to segregate the two is because of

Have you ever wondered why we get induced to make some random and impulse purchases even when we had never planned for any such shopping? Or why we feel comfortable watching some advertisements or some movies again and again. Sometimes we feel comfortable in the company of certain people though both of us are so

There is a regular pattern which happens after each review. As soon as the review is over or during review breaks most managers call up their teams on the areas where they found their teams to be lacking and immediately give a set of instructions to take performance measurement numbers from x to y. Some

The other day while I was watching TV there was this news story about how lot of people were duped by a financial institution which had collected lot of money from various investors by promising exuberantly high returns. After paying the promised high returns for a few years the said institution suddenly folded up disappearing

We use the term greatness very frequently in our day-to-day life. We call some fine work done by someone as great work, we refer to companies that are doing well as great companies, we watch nice movies and see fantastic acting and respond as great actors, we watch live sports and get drawn to some