Srikumar Rao's Blog, page 19
September 13, 2021
Advice for Couples – Be like the Cashew Nut and not like the Walnut
Advice for Couples – Be like the Cashew Nut and not like the Walnut It is almost a half century since I graduated with an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad. Technically it was a diploma, but everybody recognized it as an MBA including Columbia Business School which gave me full course…
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September 6, 2021
This is How the Lies Begin
This is How the Lies Begin And the lies spread until you are enveloped in a cocoon of falsehood As I write this I am in San Francisco with my daughter and her family. Krish, my grandson, is not quite two yet and is a bundle of energy. When he sees me in the morning…
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August 29, 2021
You Cannot Solve an Internal Problem with External Action!
You Cannot Solve an Internal Problem with External Action! Yet this is what you try to do again and again! I have taught Creativity and Personal Mastery at many top business schools including Columbia, Kellogg, London Business School and Berkeley. And, without fail, the same incident happens. Sometimes it happens more than once. A woman…
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You Cannot Solve and Internal Problem with External Action!
You Cannot Solve and Internal Problem with External Action! Yet this is what you try to do again and again! I have taught Creativity and Personal Mastery at many top business schools including Columbia, Kellogg, London Business School and Berkeley. And, without fail, the same incident happens. Sometimes it happens more than once. A woman…
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August 22, 2021
What Are You Not Seeing?
What Are You Not Seeing? Sometimes what you miss may be more important than what you observe If someone were to ask you whether you are good at observing what is really happening, what would your answer be? We visited some friends we had not seen for a while, and it was a most delightful…
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August 16, 2021
You Have Never Lived in the Real World!
You Have Never Lived in the Real World! You live in a construct – and you experience it the way you have built it. You live in a dream world. You have always lived in a dream world. You have never known anything but this dream world, so you think it is ‘real’. And it…
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August 8, 2021
Who are you being?
Who are you being? It matters what you do. It matters much more who you are being as you do it! We wake up every morning and go to work. Or to whatever we do. And, each day, we have a choice. We can break rocks. Or we can help build a cathedral. I cannot…
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August 1, 2021
Where do Those Darn Mental Models Come From?
Where do Those Darn Mental Models Come From? Is a long dead person running your life? Persons who take Creativity and Personal Mastery (CPM) find their lives transformed. Many shake their heads in disbelief as they discover entire systems of beliefs that were running their lives and ruining their lives. Wherever did I pick that…
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July 25, 2021
What To Do When the Balloons Escape
What to do When the Balloons Escape It has happened to you and it will happen again. This is the nature of life and it is beautiful! It happened many decades ago, but I still remember it clearly. I was walking on the beach in Madras – as Chennai was then known – and it…
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July 19, 2021
The Secret Strategy to Be Happy AND to Really Achieve Your Goals
The Secret Strategy to Be Happy AND to Really Achieve Your Goals I bet you made resolutions for this year and I further bet that many of you have already seen some of these fall by the wayside! Let me share something with you that really works. It is probably accurate to say that virtually…
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