Don’t Try to Get Rich Twice
28th June 2025 Warren Buffett once gave a talk to a group of MBA students at the University of Maryland. A student asked the Oracle of Omaha, to name some common errors successful people make with their money. Buffett told the class: “Anyone who has become rich twice is dumb. Why would you risk what […]
Are You Letting The Bull Get Away?
27th June 2025 “Don’t wait for the perfect moment, take the moment & make it perfect.” But so often we wait for the conditions to be just right – the right weather, the right person to accompany us, the perfect location, the perfect time, the right mood etc, etc – and while we’re waiting the […]
The Hidden Cost of Certainty
13th June 2025 We are always looking for certainity. In all decisions we make, we look at trying to reduce the odds. But certainity can only lead to a limited outcome. As they say, we need to leave the safe shores to discover new lands and ships are the safest in the harbour, but they […]
If Money were No Object..
12th March 2025 We once conducted a small survey and asked the respondents this very question, ‘If Money were no object?’ And the respondent had to fill in the blanks. It was an open – ended question with no options. Everyone was free to choose whatever they wished to say or do. And the answers […]
‘Contentment’
3rd September, 2023 On a 17th-century tsukubai (water basin) stone at the Ryoanji Temple in Kyoto, there’s an ancient inscription where four Chinese characters are written on the stone. Read alone, these characters are of no significance. But when combined with the borders of the central square, they can be read as “ware Tada taru […]
The Last Dance
31st August, 2023 I recently had the opportunity to see the must watch Netflix documentary “The Last Dance” – about the Chicago Bulls’ dream run through the nineties winning six titles in eight seasons. Whilst everyone talks about teamwork as a takeaway from the documentary, I feel this documentary is all about leadership. Phil Jackson, […]
‘Value Life’
29th August, 2023 Carefulness is a characteristic of being cautious, thoughtful, or prudent. A friend of mine who used to say that he misplaces and loses his pen very often. He used only very cheap pens so that he does not need to worry about losing them. He was worried about hiscarelessness and wanted to […]
Better fail than regret later.
28th August, 2023 At a school reunion last year, I met a batchmate whom I had not seen for many many years. Vinay was a very bright student and had graduated with honors from a top notch college. His goal, and what he was passionate about, was to start his own business venture. During our […]
What Love means?
27th August, 2023 Touching words from the mouth of children. A group of researchers once people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8 year-olds, “What does love mean?” The answers they got were broader and deeper than anyone could have imagined. See what you think: 1. “When my grandmother got arthritis, she […]
Don’t hit the Snooze button.
26th August, 2023 I target getting up at 5.30 every morning and have an alarm on my phone to wake me up. The shrill sound of the wake-up alarm is the loudest noise of the day, But invariably, when the alarm rings, I hit the Snooze button, sometimes once, sometimes twice and I finally get […]