Many people like to think of their dads as heroes. I don’t. I don’t think it would be fair for me to even try to compare any superhero with my dad. You see, even superheroes have weaknesses. Superman has kryptonite and the red sun, Batman is only human and things like that. My dad on… Read more »
Why Darth Vader would have made a crappy entrepreneur
I know, I know. Yes he is probably the greatest villain of all time and yes your geek blood is boiling at the mere mention that Vader is not good at something that you wish to kick my behind all the way to tatooine. But trust me it hurts me even more that there are… Read more »
Six Years
There she was. He couldn’t stop looking at her. He was happy and surprised and happy. Though they had known each other since they were kids its been long since they saw each other. “She should be mine’, he thought. Blink. They have been together for 6 years. He is still happy and surprised and… Read more »
Basic guide for Indian Engineers to becoming Employable
It’s hiring season in Green Apple Solutions and like every time these are very exciting times. As a policy we prefer to hire freshers only. There is an elaborate theory behind doing this which I shall share some other time but the short reason is that freshers are fast learners and that is extremely important… Read more »
You don’t want to be in a pile
We all are selling something. Maybe you don’t realize it but you are selling something . Consultants are selling their time, candidates are trying to sell themselves, men and women constantly try to sell themselves to the other (or the same) sex. We are all marketing something, some better than the other. The moment you… Read more »
Don’t fear the review
To be told what whatever you did was a failure or had shortcomings is one of the worst nightmares of many people. This feeling is sometimes so strong that some people don’t even do anything that is worthy of a feedback let alone criticism. These are the sheep I talked about in my last post…. Read more »
And we turn three today
No matter how neatly it has been segregated into seconds, minutes, hours, days; time is still a relative phenomenon. It flies fast if you are doing something you like and crawls if the company is not right. Today we have completed three years of our existence as Green Apple Solutions. To start with a cliché,… Read more »
What are you – Lion or Sheep?
You have to be different to be noticed. That is the rule. There is nothing remarkable or noteworthy in doing what everyone does. Everyone knows this and yet we don’t try to stand out. We try to comply with the rules and the norms of the society even if we don’t fully agree. We crave… Read more »
Write what you would read
We like to be praised. We want our blogs to be shared, wall posts to be liked and tweets to be retweeted. To fulfil this desire we start to create content which we think would be liked by others. Sometimes it works but mostly it doesn’t. It doesn’t work because our writing stops representing us…. Read more »
The Daily Introspection – My System
I once read a great quote on the whiteboard at a client’s conference room – “What cannot be measured, cannot be managed”. Anything that needs to be managed should have at least one quantifiable aspect. If you are running a business you have your bottom line to manage and for that you need all sorts… Read more »