3 years into consulting and independent, the learning never stops which makes the journey gratifying. I shared my first 2 years of education in a earlier blog and this is my continued education. An important disclaimer - these are my experiences, lessons and opinions. Consulting Blog Year 1 & 2 I said in the beginning that professional life could never be a popularity contest. A consulting job is no different. But here popularity isn’t about saying stuff that pleases your client, it is about MINDING YOUR OWN BUSINESS. Let me explain. Firstly, a consulting assignment is almost always on the basis of your past professional history and contacts where your interactions with some organisation and its employees were very different in terms of role and responsibility. Let’s say you were in a leadership, decision making position in one organisation and you dealt with some other organisation, who is now your client. While you then dealt with a counterpart, fact is you would have also...
With everybody clamouring to write about Shri Narendra Modi as he turns 75, I decided to instead put together my personal comments I have made in my blogs over the years. Here is the compendium over 12 years. They give a glimpse of evolving opinions rather than an article with a flow. 2013 Like many of his critics say, Modi had a great state (Gujarat), people and culture on which to build. What must be acknowledged is he managed to harness this capability to push Gujarat from a lower orbit to a higher orbit with new ideas, innovations and a results based approach. Whether Modi can work the same magic elsewhere is a question, but he has been able to provide astute and excellent leadership is a fact. I recently heard him speak in Hindi which was excellent but in English he did not ignite any spark at all. My take is that while his performance and leadership bestowed upon him substantial aura, it is his opponents who have catapulted hi...