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Everybody Needs Downtime
Back in the days when I headed a police organization, we had 1,200 armed policemen in our reserves for handling contingencies. These policemen were supposed to frequently undergo a 2-week intensive training in batches of 100. But for decades, this...
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How to NOT quit
You can’t sustain a habit unless you learn how to NOT quit. We rarely quit because we decided to. Instead, this is what happens: 1. After sticking...
Micromanaging
In a project at McKinsey, I was loving it totally until I started hating it. At that time, I had joined the Firm just a few months ago. And when the...
You don’t need a billion
After reading about some unicorn founders recently indulging in financial fraud, I was wondering, what prompts such highly accomplished people to do...
How to sustain habits?
In 2009, when I quit McKinsey, I was at my unhealthiest. For the previous 10 years, through various jobs and my MBA, I had worked long back-breaking...
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Carve your own path
One of my best friends had joined the 5-year MSc Physics program at IIT Kanpur. He loved physics but his parents were very unhappy with his decision. They considered a science degree sub-par even though the physics program at IITK was highly...
Motivation is not the same as excitement.
I am not always excited about building my startup. But does that mean I am not motivated? Of course, I am. Motivation is not the same as excitement. Excitement is a temporary feeling that changes hour to hour. Motivation is the steady, underlying...
How to overcome stress?
How to overcome stress: 1. Whatever be the reason behind the stress, it manifests in your body by activating your Sympathetic Nervous System (SNS). 2. Once your SNS is activated, blood is diverted from the peripheral parts of the body to your big...
Be exceptional
During a taxi ride back from my office in New York City, the driver asked me, “So what do you do?” When I told him that I was a consultant, he asked, “IT consultant?” I hastily corrected him, “No, no… I am a strategy consultant.” In those days, IT...