"When People stop growing, the organization stops growing and then the decline starts ..."

-- From a senior person at my previous job whom I appreciate very much.

"A necessity possession for someone trying to take control is to also excel at losing control."

Many a times it becomes necessary to lose control so that you can move on to take control of something else - bigger or better or because you never should have taken control in the first place. Whatever be the cause, one of the hardest problem to cope ( Read more... )

"Girls 100m  heats 2 get ready" came a shout
I watched the other girls tighten laces of their spikes and keeping their blocks ready. I had nothing to do and just waited for them to read out the names and the track numbers. I was told that i was to take position in track #2. I walked up to the track, measured step from start line and took position ( Read more... )

An old incomplete blog entry.. restored from the draft today ( Read more... )

Life has been extremely difficult juggling around with a new job in a start-up, sister's marriage discussions, my own deep thoughts on relations, leaving out thoughts of higher studies.. and more!

Was telling a friend that no time seems sufficient. Coincidentally was looking at the manual pages of date to extract date in a specific format and ( Read more... )

Its 60th year of Independence. Most of us would have sung the National Anthem today (at least heard). I know a lot of the crowd don't fancy these things any longer. I would not be surprised if you tell me you were still asleep at 8 on August 15th ( Read more... )

I have time and again come to the same conclusion that what matters can be consolidated with "how you feel about yourself at the end of the day."

And anything and everything that drives to the end of the day happiness, a satisfaction matters. This is a generalised statement and I think everyone can match it with their own definition for what gives ( Read more... )