Advice for Couples – Be like the Cashew Nut and not like the Walnut It is almost a half century since I graduated with an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad. Technically it was a diploma, but everybody recognized it as an MBA including Columbia Business School which gave me …
This is How the Lies Begin
This is How the Lies Begin And the lies spread until you are enveloped in a cocoon of falsehood As I write this I am in San Francisco with my daughter and her family. Krish, my grandson, is not quite two yet and is a bundle of energy. When he sees me in the morning he says “Tatha,” and …
You Cannot Solve an Internal Problem with External Action!
You Cannot Solve an Internal Problem with External Action! Yet this is what you try to do again and again! I have taught Creativity and Personal Mastery at many top business schools including Columbia, Kellogg, London Business School and Berkeley. And, without fail, the same incident …
What Are You Not Seeing?
What Are You Not Seeing? Sometimes what you miss may be more important than what you observe If someone were to ask you whether you are good at observing what is really happening, what would your answer be? We visited some friends we had not seen for a while, and it was a most delightful …
You Have Never Lived in the Real World!
You Have Never Lived in the Real World! You live in a construct – and you experience it the way you have built it. You live in a dream world. You have always lived in a dream world. You have never known anything but this dream world, so you think it is ‘real’. And it is real. But it …
Who are you being?
Who are you being? It matters what you do. It matters much more who you are being as you do it! We wake up every morning and go to work. Or to whatever we do. And, each day, we have a choice. We can break rocks. Or we can help build a cathedral. I cannot define for you the cathedral …
Where do Those Darn Mental Models Come From?
Where do Those Darn Mental Models Come From? Is a long dead person running your life? Persons who take Creativity and Personal Mastery (CPM) find their lives transformed. Many shake their heads in disbelief as they discover entire systems of beliefs that were running their lives and ruining …
What To Do When the Balloons Escape
What to do When the Balloons Escape It has happened to you and it will happen again. This is the nature of life and it is beautiful! It happened many decades ago, but I still remember it clearly. I was walking on the beach in Madras – as Chennai was then known – and it was a glorious, …
The Secret Strategy to Be Happy AND to Really Achieve Your Goals
The Secret Strategy to Be Happy AND to Really Achieve Your Goals I bet you made resolutions for this year and I further bet that many of you have already seen some of these fall by the wayside! Let me share something with you that really works. It is probably accurate to say that …