Archive for the ‘Leadership’ Category

We are going to look at the very same passage of Scripture that we looked yesterday – 1 Samuel 18:6ff. Yesterday, we dwelt on the theme of professional jealousy. We saw how King Saul grew jealous of David’s rising popularity. We saw how this professional jealousy was due to deep seated insecurity, spiritual deficiency and [...]

‘An unexamined life’ said Socrates,  “is not worth living”. True. Life is a gift from God and what we do with life is our gift to God. I have written down few questions to help me do an audit for the year 2008 and also set some goals for the year 2009. 1.    Three things [...]

Why is it that we don’t love our jobs any longer? why is that we are constantly complaining about our jobs? Why is it that we want a “get-away” solution to work related stress?  Why is it that we get to work with a “Thank-God-its-a-Friday” attitude? This is an issue that needs to be dealt [...]

Most of us do not land in our dream jobs. We don’t get to do things that we love to do. We first keep dreaming, then we move on day dreaming. As the reality-expectation gap increases we get frustrated. And so we sulk! We blame our luck. We point fingers at people. We complain endlessly. [...]

Do you love your work? Are you happy? How do we experience happiness at work? Well…here something about happiness I never knew, I never knew. Happiness is probably the easiest emotion to feel, the most elusive to create deliberately, and the most difficult to define. It is experienced differently by different people – Norman cousins, [...]

Watch Collateral Collateral ( 2004) is a interesting story involving three people: Max, the cab driver, Vincent, a contract killer and Anne, a lawyer. As fate would have it, the three people meet each other one day. In the casual conversations that unfold between them we get to see/understand their perspectives towards work. It also [...]