A woman who was disowned by her husband, who had nothing of her own who would beg on platforms by singing became mother to hundreds of children.
How could that happen? From where did the resources come ? Continue reading MOTHER OF ORPHANS
Starbucks is a home between work and home , it’s not a place I go to have coffee, there are many places , I go to Starbucks because it is home. Continue reading WHY STARBUCKS IS MY FAVOURITE PLACE
There is mystery about life and death , that is how we become storytellers. That we will just vanish one day without a trace seems inexplicable. From where do we come and where do we go are questions asked since the beginning of time. There are no answers , it all seems meaningless, after all nothing matters, and to make sense of our existence we … Continue reading WHY DO WE TELL STORIES?
Every business has a story. I met Renuka after my cycling today , she has a food truck that sells healthy detox juices. I asked her her story. Renuka had lost her job of 19 years during the pandemic. She was managing the CRM at a real estate company. The business vanished , “we were like white elephants for the company, I was fired after … Continue reading A SMALL BUSINESS STORY
Organisation cultures are built around stories. When tribes gather they tell stories and some stories are passed down over generations. At Mastek an IT company I headed Corporate Communications there were many such stories. How the founders who studied together at IIM and went on to build an iconic global Indian IT company was a story . All the founders were first generation entrepreneurs made … Continue reading EMPLOYER BRANDING WITH STORYTELLING MY LESSONS AT MASTEK
He slept in buses and trains and on platforms on his journey. One day he slept in the slum and the next day he was in a palatial house on 35th floor in Mumbai ! He says he drank water from the taps of 80 cities of India , lived on had street food and if he found the food was expensive he would just … Continue reading HE TRAVELLED 80 CITIES IN INDIA WITH JUST 220 $
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