The missing ingredient in Leadership – Love

I waited for almost a year since I first stumbled upon Love Leadership to get my hands on it. I finally ordered it online and it arrived a few weeks back and I devoured this slim 190 pages book in two sittings. On hindsight, I should have ordered this much earlier. This autobiographical book of [...]

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A different vocabulary at workplace…

Cross Posted from “Love and Leadership“ “The inherent language of the corporate workplace is far too small for us now. It has too little poetry, too little humanity, and too little good business sense for the world that lies before us. We only have to look at the most important word in the lexicon of [...]

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5 fundamental laws of leadership

Cross posted from my other blog Love and Leadership [Via John Hope Bryant's book - Love Leadership] Love Leadership distills what I have learnt about leading, particularly in these turbulent times, into five fundamental laws. 1. Loss Creates Leaders: There can be no rainbow without a storm. That is, there can be no strength or inner growth without the [...]

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Corporate leaders and one question about Kriya and Meditation.

So how does one explain as to why one needs to do the practices – of SudarshanKriya, Meditation etc. – to someone who is not open to listening? There are times, when I keep quite and I pray and hope that some day, and hopefully not too late in their lives, they get to experience [...]

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Now, as never before, a higher standard of leadership will serve us all.

Dr. Keshavan Nari, writes a must read book on Leadership based on the life of Gandhi – “A Higher Standard of Leadership”. I am also simultaneously reading Eknath Easwaran’s “Gandhi – The Man“. Keshavan Nair, writes: We are all leaders. Each one of us is setting an example for someone else, and each one of [...]

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Leading Volunteers

Via [CharityFocus/Stanford GSB] Many nonprofits suffer from a “faulty understanding” of the value of their volunteers and “faulty execution” in using them, said Robert T. Grimm Jr., director of research and policy development at the CNCS. Grimm and Washburn urged nonprofit leaders to “plug the holes in the leaky bucket” of volunteering. But even as [...]

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Great Leadership is Conscious Leadership

A brand new post on Fred Koffman’s book “Conscious Business” on my other blog http://loveandleadership.blogspot.com/2009/09/from-unconscious-to-conscious.html Check it out.

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Inspire Change

Couple of weeks back I left a comment on Lance Secretan’ blog and as a response Lance sent me a very beautiful polished brass coin titled “Inspire Change“. Trust me, the coin is much more beautiful to hold and look at, than it appears in the picture. The coin is waiting to be passed on….to [...]

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Leadership in difficult times

Marking this good talk as a placeholder http://www.livemint.com/2009/01/13212610/Leadership-in-difficult-times.html

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Inner World of Silence and Truth to Outer World of Deceit and fraud!

I am back from the Ashram after a wonderful 4 days spent mostly in silence and lot of awareness of what is happening within my body-mind complex using the power of breath. It is interesting to observe this complex phenomena of mind-body complex with awareness. After a point of time, as one starts observing the [...]

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