There is no employee and employer anymore. There are only business partners. And thats the fundamental shift at the workplace, we see, but have not accepted. No longer the power rests with one side of the table – the employer. Both parties today have equal access to information and possibly equal opportunities. How do you […]
Its a joy to meet George. He is full of life and ideas. I had a chance to catch up with him after couple of years in Bangalore. We spoke about all the interesting things he has been working on – the TV show – Nazar ya Nazariya with Naseeruddin Shah, The EYEWAY project for […]
Its a joy to meet George. He is full of life and ideas. I had a chance to catch up with him after couple of years in Bangalore. We spoke about all the interesting things he has been working on – the TV show – Nazar ya Nazariya with Naseeruddin Shah, The EYEWAY project for […]
How can every child in India get the most appropriate treatment when they need it, irrespective of location and ability to pay. This is Dr Sai’s mission of life. When we were talking about some statistics, she simply said “I don’t have the statistics, all i know is that we need action”. And she IS action. She founded Ekam about […]
Self-Organizing, Adaptive Teams over Static Teams In Holacracy, teams are renamed ‘circles,’ and they can be created or destroyed anytime. The domain of a circle can be redefined multiple times, and the roles within a circle can be changed accordingly. Sounds messy, but there’s one rule that keeps things together: Circles only have the authority […]
When a human heart was being loaded into an ambulance at the General Hospital around 6.40pm on Monday, 6km away, at Light House, traffic inspector Uday Kumar’s walkietalkie crackled to life. He had been preparing for this moment.The ambulance bearing the heart – harvested from a 27-year-old brain-dead man in GH and to be transplanted […]
“What reading does, ultimately, is keep alive the dangerous and exhilarating idea that a life is not a sequence of lived moments, but a destiny…the time of reading, the time defined by the author’s language resonating in the self, is not the world’s time, but the soul’s. The energies that otherwise tend to stream outward […]
A Palliative care nurse in Australia compiled regrets of terminally ill patients. From her site My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives. People grow a lot when they are faced with their […]
A Palliative care nurse in Australia compiled regrets of terminally ill patients. From her site My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives. People grow a lot when they are faced with their […]
Prof Zollo at MIT worked with a group of scientists to analyse differences between entrepreneurs and manager’s brains. Turns out some parts of the brain is wired differently. More from their site [Also read my earlier post on Amateurs vs Professionals ] In our study, we used an fMRI to map brain activity in 25 entrepreneurs […]