Watched the movie ‘Pink’. Risking the wrath of armchair activists at home, I dare say that the movie was below average, but it did make me think. The social norms, prejudices, perceptions and character judgments shaped by media and society, influence each of us on a daily basis. It is said that a lie repeated…
It’s only when there’s some disruption to one’s life that it hits you how much we live in presumption of continuity. Be it loss of job, a loved one, a friend, relationship or even something very small that you held dear, like an emotional anchor, that you are confronted with reality of change and discontinuity….
Words – they tear you apart, cajole you, excite you, motivate you, make you cry or make you laugh and experience a range of emotions. Sometimes… just sometimes, you hear or read something and then those words clamp up your heart, nibble at your soul and drop themselves in your psyche like a boat anchor;…
My stress was stressing me out further. The more I tried to calm my mind more it added to the stress. My mind refused to obey my mind… well, for the record, so does my body. Then I read somewhere that meditation can help. There seem to be many different methods, but the most talked…
RIP Robin Williams. For me, one of his most memorable performances was in Dead Poets Society. I still remember his recital of Walt Whitman’s poem – O Me! O Life! Having heard and read the news of his tragic suicide the thought that came to my mind – is this how it ends? Many more…
I am a lazy blogger. It’s not that I don’t have much to say. It’s just that most of the times when I sit down to spill out the thoughts that have been bubbling up, I lose interest. I am told that all successful people blog on a regular basis. So, I have decided that…
What does it mean to have a collaborative enterprise? How to encourage collaboration behavior and imbibe it in corporate culture? These and other ideas are shared in my post on this topic
Enterprise Social Networks (ESN) have been in focus since public social media sites and tools like Facebook and Twitter have gained in popularity and use. In the last couple of years many tools have been introduced that attempt to mimic the public social media and attempt to streamline the communications among globally spread co-workers… continue…
In case you haven’t paid close attention, another acronym has been gaining ground on the heels of IoT (Internet of Things). The new term, EoT (Enterprise of Things), is about IoT’s impact to and integration into the enterprise. In my previous blog, I wrote about how IoT will dramatically change the way we work and…
It was early 1995 when I first heard of something called Mosaic that one could download to browse a rapidly evolving cluster of web-sites. At that time, the number of web-sites online was somewhere around twenty thousand, but growing rapidly. When I internalized the implications of what I saw, I told my wife that this…