As I saw it

This post has been delayed by exactly one year but here goes. Last year same day I saw a man in the back lane of Daryaganj in Delhi, trudging along wearily, wearing a soiled blue t-shirt with the message you see below. While his tired and sad face didn’t reveal what all he had to lose and win, the message hit me home straight away. I knew that I had to lose some weight around my stomach, lose some more of my ego and win some more of my relationships and wisdom. I had to win some more expansiveness around my heart. 😌😌🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

I have failed four times in an entrepreneurial journey that started 13 years ago in London when I was all but 30 years old. I am on my fifth attempt and it has held steady even as I haven’t expanded my firm in any sense of the term. It has in a way held steady through all kinds of Ups and Downs and even through financial crisis so bad that I had to start looking for a job. Hence for all these reasons and more I totally resonate with the article written by Mr. Vivek Wadhwa. Thanks a lot for this Mr. Wadhwa along with the brief snippets from the study your team at the Duke and Harvard universities conducted. Coming back to my own journey, along the way I came across a momentous point when I was finally able to clarify the Vision and Mission of my firm - the Purpose and Essence of why I brought it to life in an already crowded market. And the best part was that I was able to articulate them in a simple, straightforward sentence each. I was also able to clarify and articulate ...

For quite some time now I have been wanting to do a dots-of-gratitude exercise on paper. The idea is simple. I take any incident or experience that I am grateful for in my life and start connecting the dots backward in terms of the people who were the cause of that experience in my life and then the people because of whom I met them and so on. And so the dots keep going backward. Invariably most of the dots have ended up with my father, given some of the decisions he took for and about me. Nevertheless I want to share here something that I did recently and connect the dots to and with some of the people I am eternally grateful to. Responsible hospitality is one of my favourite themes and I love studying the hotel and hospitality industry. I have often quoted examples from the Oberoi, Taj, Lemon Tree, Sayaji, Barbeque Nation and the Arya Niwas hotels in my corporate training sessions. On 26 th February, I was asked to design and conduct a short session on netw...