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Career Crisis in 30s: Fancy First Job, Changed Market Condition, Pretentious Titles, Inflated Salaries and Unclear Career Path“You know we are a highly rated corporate only because of the value of the commodity we deal with!”, I remember this conversation with an oil company senior executive in my corporate days. While fossil fuel remains one of the primary commodities, today, seasonally hyped commodities and services create very large value corporates for few years that disappear in the quicksand of market trends. Along with them disappear the dreams and aspirations of careers as well.…
I have had an ''event''ful year so far including being invited to speak in 5 academic seminars and two more coming up in the next 10 days. Some observations - Academics have become event managers in many institutions thanks to the corrupt rating system that gives them extra points Ridiculous rules on what constitutes ''international'' or ''national'' seminar or conference - if there is 1 person joining from another time zone, even if it is Sri Lanka, it becomes a ''international'' conference, if two people from neighbouring states join it becomes ''national''. Preference seems…
Summary of my talk on 26th Feb 2025 at the International Seminar on Technology & Innovation driven Opportunities in Entrepreneurship organized by the Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda College, Chennai --The opportunities for Entrepreneurs and the ecosystem to facilitate has never been as good as now, utilize itConcentrate on creating values rather than profits, where value is delivered to customer, profit is bound to followSolve societal problems to become relevant as an entrepreneur, however, take time to recognize the problems. Don't rush with whatever solution you fantasize and…
Several years ago in a workshop, I was asked the question, what do I think is the most important lesson I can learn from Gandhi? I had listed the following 3 characteristics –Never give up faith in the capacity of the ordinary people (Indians in his case)Never stop engaging with the adversary at a human level even under the most trying circumstances Retain a sense of humour Isolation, Exclusion, and Discrimination based on aggregated identities of religion, nationality, race, culture, etc., doesn’t seem to be a smart strategy when the same destructive practice of the past is…
I had learnt to love and have a lot of pride about India from reading Swami Vivekananda in my youth days. I got introduced to his works through service activities and subsequently through him discovered his guru and my own spiritual pathway.So, it was with a pleasant surprise that I accepted to be a speaker and give a TED talk on Social Entrepreneurship in the workshop titled Swami Vivekananda & Start-ups in the RKM residential college in Narendrapur, Kolkata on 18th Jan 2025.
The visit itself turned out to be quite wonderful and filled…
Greetings on the New Year 2025.What gives us hope in a year where continuation and institutionalization of several disasters are predetermined? Million unassuming people making one small change in their lives each day asserting their sense of what is right by the planet is what gives me hope. Farmers, Rural Women, Artisans, Entrepreneurs, Intellectuals, and Students are taking that one small step of change every day to make the planet a better place. They don't pretend to change the world, they are not going to be glossily presented to us or…