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My Business Partner & I keep sharing notes on our views on Emerging Opportunities & Challenges in Business. This week he shared a story of a Unicorn (a startup company valued at over $1 billion) with an underlying message that Profitability and defendable business model are the only sustainable way to be...Funding, customer love, great technology are but enablers...What he was telling was that if we take care of the Basics that is Profitability & defendable business model, everything else usually takes care of itself. However, we tend to skip over the Basics for a variety of reasons, including impatience, laziness, or a kind of arrogance that thinks we can sort of getaway. But when we don't take care of the Basics, the foundation is shaky for whatever we've built: a business, a relationship, a career or personal well-being. Perhaps, we can get away with this for a while, but there's usually a background cost in uneasiness, waiting for a day of reckoning. And ...

This week I lost one of my school friends. I had met him recently in one of our Social Get-Togethers. He was as always Full of Life, a Family Man, Very Caring and of Helping Nature. Now, what he has left behind is His Memories and we all Friends are going to miss him. Events like these make you look at Life from a different perspective. Yesterday I saw this Ford India advertisement as part of its latest brand campaign – Discover the More in You. The campaign encourages viewers to lend a helping hand to those in need. Discover the More in You - draws from our experiences of situations that lead to self-discovery and help to make us choose what’s right. It's very hard to Discover More In You. It would be much easier if our lives came with a manual that clearly showed us what our passions and talents are with instructions on what to do with them. Discovering who you are today is the first step to being who you will be tomorrow. We attract the right things when we have a sense of wh...

Today is Father's day and many of us like me must have wished their Father and thanked him for just being there for us. However, from all the values he gave us, if I was to pick one value which sets him apart, it will be his hard-working attitude towards life. I have learned from my Father that a dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work. I think hard work definitely pays off. Pretty much anyone who has accomplished anything has had to work hard to achieve their goal. Over the years I have realized that harder We work, the more Luck We have. If we believe that we are going to be successful at anything, the key thing is to Work Hard. However, it's equally important that we should enjoy the work we do and be passionate about it. In the last few years of my Entrepreneurial Journey, I enjoy the work I do and have been part of my life. I think about my work pretty much 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. I am of the opinion all the hard w...

This week I saw this Ted Talk about the above. I could relate to it so much to my Journey. Authenticity for me is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It’s all about the choice to show up and be real, to be and to let out true selves be seen. It is also about being true to who we really are. Authenticity is more than speaking; Authenticity is also about doing. Every decision we make says something about who we are. Authenticity starts in the heart. If we are our authentic selves, we will have no competition. I believe Hard times arouse an instinctive desire in us to Be Authentic. As a part of our uneasiness towards change, we tend to resist anything that feels uncomfortable, scary, different and new. We tend to play small even, to resist being seen and evaluated. To resist the unknown. Being Uncomfortable brings engagement and change. Doing Uncomfortable work means we’re doing something that others were unlikely to do because they’re hiding out in their comfort zo...

This week on my flight to Bangalore, happen to meet one of my Ex Colleagues, who was sounding very frustrated with his Present Job, had not received appraisal as per his expectations. He took out his Business Plan on which he has been working for long and wanted my inputs whether he should quit his job and get into an Entrepreneurial role. He was among the many I had met in the last few years waiting until they have all the information they want before making a decision putting them at risk of waiting too long. Sure, we do need to do homework, run the numbers and assess the pros and cons. But sometimes we have to put our spreadsheet aside, trust our instinct and take a leap of faith, despite the uncertainty and don't play safe. In a world where change is happening fast and the windows of opportunity are limited, indecision can be costly. Some of us equate playing it safe with being sensible and prudent. But most of the time, it’s something else altogether. The real problem isn’t...