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Mike Brearley, Clive Lloyd, MS Dhoni, & Saurav Ganguly were not the greatest players in their teams but great captains, no doubt. On the flip side, you had Sachin Tendulkar, I…

Denis Diderot, the famous French philosopher lived most of his life impoverished In 1763, Diderot’s daughter was about to be married, but he could not afford a dowry. Diderot w…

 A commission was instituted for the following budgetary issues and the meeting was held to discuss all three: a) A £10 million proposal for a nuclear power plant b) Su…

You want to bake a cake, so you head to the kitchen. You realise that you don’t have some of the ingredients.  You decide to go to the store pick it up. So you decid…

During the fall orientation at Smith College, and at the final exam time, students were astonished to see some surprising quotes on the large screen in the campus: the worst failu…

A customer/ patient Does not want to be there.  Customers/patients have not come to have a good time. They have not come to leave their troubles behind, and they ar…

Remember you had finished your schooling and thinking of engineering as a career. The Gold Standard was IITs or one of the Ivy League universities. Only the creme de la creme got …

I love playing Sudoku. As you are aware, Sudoku usually comes in 3/4 levels - easy, intermediate, and hard/ tough. I like to play the hard level only. There are no monetary reward…

An idea/ concept that appears to be simple yet is very complex and vice versa. Atoms are relatively simple. As a collection, complex behaviour emerges, such as superconductivit…

I was helping an organization to finalize an ad agency for a new product. The attitude of the CXO was of – ‘there are so many agencies I can get any one of them.  The same…

Christopher Heckscher predicted that the 2018 Atlantic Ocean hurricane season would be strong, with accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) —between 70 and 150. The source of his data - …

In a study, by the noted author Mark Murphy a few years back, out of 20000 new hires. 46% of them failed within 18 months. But even more surprising, was that when new hires failed…

Busy is probably the easiest excuse for not working, not prioritizing, not understanding, and a host of other reasons! Being busy is frantic shifting from one task to another, wit…

Everything takes time & if you wait until the last minute or expect things to happen suddenly, it's being unreasonable. Having an understanding of the importance of time and k…