Recently, I had the opportunity to address the 22nd Batch of young men undergoing the Behdin Passban training, under the aegis of the Athornan Foundation. Behdin Pasbans are our silently dedicated set of behdins who undergo religious training which enables them to augment our Yozdathregar Mobedjis in pasbani and nigehbani of our Pak Agiaries, Dadgahs […]
Charisma and Humility are the attractive twins that rampart your success. Charisma, however, tends to get attracted to Arrogance and loses out. Humility, likewise, gets bestraddled with muted Reticence, and loses out too! Wrong marriages!! Charisma without Humility has a short shelf-life, for it has a tendency beyond a point, to start walking on marshy […]
Leadership is all about keeping the glass always half-empty. True this for parents as well. Whilst your ‘Vision’ should always be to have a ‘Full Glass’, the glass should always be left ‘Half Empty’! As a leader or a parent, you are mandated to perform this tricky role of maintaining this ever-dynamic equilibrium. Building your team’s […]
“Confidence is good, but Over-confidence always sinks the ship.” – Oscar Wilde Confidence leads to success, which in turn builds up further confidence. Initially, confidence brings along with it, a certain enjoyable power-experience. However, the craving for more of it, unless controlled by a wise mind, has the potential to culminate into Over-confidence… and that […]
An old joke goes that a farmer, a surgeon and a leader were arguing about the world’s oldest profession (certainly not what the world otherwise believes!). The farmer insisted it was Farming… after all did God not give Adam all the animals and plants to tend as he gave him birth? The surgeon claimed it […]
Learning From ‘The Lion King’ Today, I feel like sharing a story with you. I am a big fan of Disney’s runaway hit, ‘The Lion King’. For the unfamiliar, the story goes thus….. Simba, the lion cub, idolizes his father, King Mufasa. But not everyone in the kingdom celebrates the new cub Simba’s arrival. Scar, Mufasa’s […]
Your Net-Work Determines Your New Net-Worth! We live in a new world where systematically building and investing to enhance our ‘Social Capital’ is the only long-term sustainable solution to survive, thrive and prosper. To that end, what a brilliant, powerful and timely idea this ‘Udvada Utsav’ has been …particularly, for a unique community like ours, […]
Man Is The Product Of The Choices He Makes Sharpen your edge, unleash your freedom to choose…men are naturally designed to choose, and their success is defined not by the conditions they face, but by the choices they make, given the conditions. Every individual’s most powerful attribute is his ‘Freedom to Choose’. If you were […]
Design To Win It is the ‘Sharp-Edge’ that maketh a cutting difference between the average, the good and the excellent! The difference is in the edge and never in the superficialities of family inheritances, schools one got sent to, or the locality in which one grew up. It’s never just a one-off. I could share […]