Comm Sense June 20, 2022 ‘I don’t know’ Eons ago in my initial career years, I remember once being asked a question during a job interview that I had not really contemplated nor…
Comm Sense June 13, 2022 Your one act can make a difference One day a man was walking along the beach when he noticed a boy picking something up and gently throwing it into the ocean. Approaching…
Comm Sense June 6, 2022 Strategies for living in the ‘BANI’ world In my last post I spoke of how the ‘BANI’ world (B = brittle; A = anxiety; N = nonlinear; I = incomprehensible) has overtaken…
Comm Sense May 30, 2022 The VUCA world is dead. Welcome to the new BANI world. Who would have ever thought the pandemic would result in one more casualty; that of the VUCA world? The term ‘VUCA’ was coined by the…
Comm Sense May 23, 2022 Life-long lessons Last evening I got the sad news that my mentor had passed away in his sleep. No suffering. A peaceful end to a life fully…
Comm Sense May 16, 2022 Setting boundaries at the workplace Each time her manager would call for a meeting, my friend Isha would groan. ‘There he goes again. He will set the meeting time for…
Comm Sense May 9, 2022 Rewind. Redefine. Reset. The pandemic may be abetting but it is like that invisible shadow that seems to be lurking around. On speaking to a number of colleagues,…
Comm Sense May 2, 2022 I have a dream Do you recall your childhood dream? Wherein you dreamt or aspired to be someone, do something…what happened to that dream? Yesterday I volunteered with a…
Comm Sense April 25, 2022 If you can name it, you can tame it “I wrote a position paper, and it was approved without any changes”, said Aparna to me. “Wow! That is simply amazing you must be feeling…
Comm Sense April 18, 2022 The elusive ‘com’ in ‘passion’ In one of my conversations with a close friend, it came out that she was being constantly rebuked by her own daughter on not being…