Money for nothing

Just out of a meeting with a financial intermediary who arranges project finance. His terms and conditions seem to good to be true. My take on this level of officiousness, especially in a liquidity-starved economy is:

In finance, if something sounds too good to be true, chances are that it is too good to be true.

Convenient Leadership

He is one of those ever-inspiring leaders who leads by example,- by others example, that is.

Free Spirit

With introspection, it should be inferred that spirituality is a dance (at least the Bharatanatyam kind).

Though there is flow, it is not boundless, though there is energy, it is never unbridled. So also with spirituality. There is never an asphyxiation of the aspiration or suffocation of the spirit, unless of course, you wish to feel so. In which case, the Bharatanatyam of spirituality is not meant for you.

Painfully poignant

Was talking to ours truly Sanjay Mankani yesterday, and he mentioned something that so is obvious in its profundity, that we overlook it in toto.

He mused that sage Narada medidated for 60,000 years (525 million hours) to have just one glimpse of Lord Vishnu, and here, we can't sit for four hours in Kulwant Hall... 'coz our backs hurt.

On Leading to the letter

Looking at the way some of us office-bearers conduct ourselves, it might be worth reflecting:

Let not the strive for robotic efficiency kill the human in the being.

Let not the general in the seva dal stifle the seva in the dal.

Let us rule for betterment, rather than for the rule itself.

Very often we follow rules to the letter that we forget the spirit of the sentence. Magnanimity of action based on pusillanimity of thought is self-defeating.

Enduring ideas for enduring success

Recollecting something that our Joint Chairman mentioned many months ago: The business of life is not different from the business of business. Following is a link that will take you to the site of the grandfather of strategy, McKinsey, and some very valuable frameworks for them, especially relevant in these times of turbulence.

http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Enduring_Ideas_Portfolio_of_initiatives_2446

Redefining our perception

Assuming the silly to be stupid is as fallacious as supposing the serious to be sagacious.

Coming to the critical point

Point to note:

Some of our youth are always critical without being categorical, just like some professors are always explaining, but never answering.

Punishing Papa

I started a new chapter in my parent-child relationship with Akshitha,- that of corporeal punishhment: one smack for Baby and a giant leap for her development.

Just musing that, had I been in the US, my child could have been taken away to a foster home for my act of atrocity, but a few Indian laws are strangely about being sane, and less about being legal.

Smiling sincerity

Barring that of an air-hostess, a smile is the best way of vivifying one's personal biosphere.

Money speaks a lot about people

I have figured out one thing recently:

You are as rich as your thoughts. The richest people need not be the wealthiest ones.