Next time you feel someone is lucky; ask yourself

Leadership, Management, Mentoring
What differentiates people? This is a blog for career professionals and individuals wanting to make something out of their life. The ideas mentioned herein are applicable equally to the upper-tier, middle-tier and to a large extent to the entry-tier people. This is not a political blog. So, I am not going to discuss political reasons in the examples given. Recently, I was engaged in a conversation where one of the participants was lamenting that his peers & juniors were ahead of him despite him having more or better skills than them. His primary arguments were that he did not get equal opportunities and/or the others were ‘lucky’. On the question of opportunities, I firmly believe that all one of us are presented with opportunities. We need to have the eye…
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The Politics of Nitish Kumar and its impact on 2019

Current Affairs, Politics
Nitish Kumar had snapped ties with NDA in 2013 after 17 years of togetherness when the BJP decided to project Narendra Modi as their prime ministerial candidate. This break up lasted only till last July when he announced his inability to continue in the Maha-gathbandhan government along with the ‘tainted’ RJD leadership and ‘weakening’ Congress. Being an architect of the 2015 Maha-gathbandhan in Bihar, which brought together Lalu Prasad and the Congress under this umbrella, Nitish Kumar was being seen by many as the prospective leader of a non-BJP alliance that could challenge Narendra Modi's overwhelming political supremacy in time for the 2019 general election. Let us go back to 2013 and understand a few events from Nitish Kumar’s perspective. Nitish Kumar wants to be a governance leader and not a political…
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My Impressions – Mandate: Will of the People

Current Affairs, education, Politics
Mandate: Will of the People by Vir Sanghvi, one of India’s respected journalist, began its life as a television series, called Mandate With Destiny. The motivation to write this book is Vir Shanghvi’s discovery of, during his travels for the TV series, lack of awareness amongst educated Indians on emergency or Punjab insurgency; in general, a lack of awareness of India’s political journey that has shaped today’s India. The book is a distilled version of the TV series (Note: I am yet to see all the episodes of the TV series). This book is a journalist’s observations along with his personal prejudices about events, leaders & their actions. Amish Tripathi, a best seller author, writes the foreword; a very nice note of his learnings of the economic parameter. The book…
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