Posts from the leadership category.
Many books about success promise transformation. Brian Tracy’s Million Dollar Habits makes a quieter promise: transformation begins long before results appear, hidden inside ordinary routines that most people never think twice about. It is less interested in dramatic breakthroughs than in the small decisions that eventually become identity.Tracy has spent decades writing about achievement, and rea...
There is a quiet assumption built into modern success stories: that one decisive moment changes everything. The promotion. The startup. The move abroad. The breakthrough. We love milestones because they give life a neat shape. Reality is rarely so accommodating. Most lives are altered not by dramatic turning points but by hundreds of small adjustments that only make sense in retrospect.That is the...
Most careers prepare people to do the work. Very few prepare them for the moment when their success depends on helping others do it.That gap sits at the heart of Nikhil Tripathi’s Level 10 Leader. It is a gap familiar to anyone who has watched a high-performing individual contributor become a manager overnight and discover that competence and leadership are not interchangeable skills. The promotio...
Most military defeats are analysed after they happen. Maps are redrawn, reports are written, blame is assigned. What is far rarer is discovering a man who predicted the defeat in advance, documented his concerns, and then watched those warnings disappear into bureaucratic silence.That unsettling reality sits at the heart of From Reveille to Retreat, the autobiography of Lieutenant General S. P. P....
There is an old habit in Indian households that rarely gets questioned. When a wedding is being planned, a festival approaches, or a daughter’s future is discussed, someone eventually says, “Let’s go to our jeweller.”Not a jewellery store. Not a brand.Our jeweller.The phrase carries generations of trust, familiarity, and inherited loyalty. It describes a relationship that survived economic upheava...
There is a peculiar irony in modern success. The more ambitious people become, the less likely they are to admit exhaustion. Burnout is discussed openly, yet often worn as a badge of honour. Calendars overflow, notifications multiply, and the ability to remain constantly busy is frequently mistaken for evidence of importance. Somewhere along the way, achievement stopped being a destination and bec...
The page had barely settled after a chapter when I looked up from my office desk and noticed the silence. Not the dramatic kind. Just the familiar stillness that arrives when you work alone for long enough. The soft hum of the air conditioner. A half-empty water bottle beside the keyboard. A notebook lying open with a few unfinished thoughts waiting to be revisited. I found myself staring at those...
The first thing I noticed while reading The Rise Within was not ambition. It was fatigue. The kind that settles quietly into a person after too many site meetings, too many delayed calls, too many mornings where your shoes carry yesterday’s dust into a new day. I was reading this book late at night with the balcony window slightly open, and at one point, the distant sound of construction work from...
There’s a moment in every Indian household connected to the armed forces when history stops being a chapter in a textbook and becomes deeply personal. Sometimes it arrives through an old photograph in uniform. Sometimes through a trunk filled with fading documents. Sometimes through the way a father falls silent when a war is mentioned on television.While reading From Reveille to Retreat by Lt. Ge...
There’s a moment every working professional knows too well — the moment when your plate is overflowing, your inbox is a battlefield, and the easiest escape feels like handing something off to someone else. Relief, instant and tempting. I walked into Never Delegate Again expecting that familiar conversation around efficiency and smarter task management. What I didn’t expect was to feel quietly conf...
