As a team leader, how does one inspire creativity among team members? Or how does one become creative in order to come up with innovative solutions to solve technological, social problems? The solution seems simple. A Google search on creativity throws up a few hundred creativity techniques to push one…

My computer had a dream yesterday. I am damn sure about it but my wife does not believe it. I went to bed at 1140 pm after shutting down my computer. As usual, I couldn’t sleep immediately. Sometime later, I was disturbed by a noise from the hall, where I…

Kundu parked the cab at his owner’s place and returned home. It was already 0830 pm but it was early for him as he would normally get customers till 10 pm through the app. Today there were no customers for an hour. When he entered his small one-room house with…

Just as much sleep is part of our lives, so are dreams. From historic times, dreams have been prominent as a communication channel between super natural beings and us, crystal ball to look into the future and outlet to express our unexpressed feelings. In this article, I am not so…

In businesses, relationships, we make mistakes very often, even when we have the right information. This is because sometimes we don’t consider new information that comes to us and we stick to the existing mental model. What is obvious fact to others is opaque to us. Why do we commit…

Many of us may have come across the following situation. Let us consider the activity of peeling carrot. The peels are kept on one side and the carrot is in the hand. I need to throw the peels in the waste bin. Instead of peels, I put the carrot in…

And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharoah — Exodus 9: 12 Probably, the Pharoah is the first recorded person who had the opportunity to be ‘twice born’. The Bible says that his heart was hardened and didn’t let the Israelites to their place. You may wonder the connect between…

440 pm. K’s home-office The rays of the afternoon sun reflected in the window. It didn’t bother K due to the 18°C on the AC. In fact, it had been months since he went out in the sun. He had violated the guidelines given by his department. It doesn’t matter. …

A farmer is worth what he produces. This is dependent upon the type of crop and the amount of the crop. This is further compounded by the market philosophy of ‘demand and supply’. So, has it been for almost 5,000 years. This is because farmer is seen as a producer…