Have you ever seen the vision statement or purpose of a sugarcane? It would probably say something like, “We make your life sweet.” Simple, tidy, no consultant required. Corporate life, however, is remarkably similar to the sugarcane juice machine you see on the roadside. Two giant steel rollers, one poor sugarcane, and a fellow who…
You were told, for God’s sake, not to venture into derivatives, F&O and other corners of the market where people lose money using vocabulary nobody at home understands. Buy good companies, invest through mutual funds and leave the money alone. But that sounded painfully ordinary. Then somebody mentioned a trader who had made ten times…
Remember the Good Morning WhatsApp Uncle? Every morning, before you had even opened your eyes, your phone would light up with a rising sun, two roses, a waterfall, folded hands and a quote that Buddha, Einstein and Shakespeare collectively never wrote. Nobody had asked for it, yet he felt personally responsible for ensuring your day…
I have always felt a little sorry for Abraham Maslow. Imagine spending a lifetime constructing that famous pyramid of needs, wants, desires and finally self-actualisation, only to have it demolished by one Bengali drunkard called Devdas. If Maslow had watched Devdas, I suspect he would have quietly withdrawn his paper, apologised to academia and taken…
