The Power of Asking: A Small Café Moment with a Big Life Lesson

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The Power of Asking: A Small Café Moment with a Big Life Lesson This weekend, I met up with my close friend Jenny Karunakaran (She/Her) for a long-overdue catch-up at a local café. As we walked in, the hostess offered us a table for two, but the available spots were right in the middle of the hustle...

The Imprint of Determination: A Reflection on Pressure, Purpose and Stories We Leave Behind

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The Imprint of Determination: A Reflection on Pressure, Purpose and Stories We Leave Behind I’ve told this story a hundred times, but today, I want to share it through a slightly different lens. It was one of those moments when the ground shifts beneath your feet. My team and I had just been declare...

When We Start Looking for Superheroes to Solve Our Problems…and Who the Real Superhero Is?

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When We Start Looking for Superheroes to Solve Our Problems…and Who the Real Superhero Is? A few days ago, my five-year-old watched a cartoon where the moment someone faced a problem, they called for help and a superhero jumped right in and fixed everything. Cute storyline… until I started noticing ...

The Blank Page Test of a Leadership

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The Blank Page Test of a Leadership A blank page test is used In technology and psychology to observe how systems or individuals respond when presented with nothing…no data, no instructions, no guidance. It reveals default behaviours, error-handling mechanisms, and even creativity under uncertainty....

Why Brilliance Feels Threatening and How to Handle It

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Why Brilliance Feels Threatening and How to Handle It I am on my third read of Devdutt Pattanaik’s Business Sutra and each time, it feels like a different book. Maybe I am reading with a new pair of eyes. This time, it was the story of Ashtavakra that really caught my attention. It is a story of ego...