Archive for March, 2010
Facing Fear – The Hidden Enemy
Posted by: | CommentsWho has not felt the cold clammy hand of fear grip one’s spirit and paralyze our actions mid step? Sometimes this happens right at the moment when we are on the very verge of accomplishing our greatest success! Foiled by the Enemy again!
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most of us are enslaved by some kind of fear or the other. Like many of you, I have encountered fear in many different forms.
The fear of being stuck in a permanent cage – unable to fulfil my true potential, the fear of not living up to the expectations of the people who matter most to me, the fear of loss of my loved ones, the constant fear of being insignificant or of the things I give my life to not mattering to the world.
In my childhood I used to be petrified of water and of drowning .
I avoided water sports and when I eventually decided to overcome it, I learnt to swim in 45 minutes flat ! I guess the speed of learning was directly attributable to the intensity of my fear and the strength of my survival instinct!
And in facing that fear, I am finally able to enjoy the joys of being in the water with the rest of my friends.
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Reputation Management -Taming the Tiger
Posted by: | CommentsReputation is character minus what you have been caught doing – Michael Iopace
Who will tame the Tiger? The Tiger Woods debacle occurring funnily enough at the start of the Year of the Tiger seems almost like a contradiction in terms. This has hardly been his year so far!
Reputation is a notoriously fickle beast.
It took talent, skill and many hours of relentless practice to establish him as the much admired Wunderkind of Golf.
It only took a few poor choices and the viral power of Internet broadcasting to blast his squeaky clean reputation and marriage to smithereens in a matter of seconds.
This makes personal and corporate reputation management a hot topic these days.
A point to note is that it was his performance on the golf course that put him on the pedestal, but it was his personal actions off the field that toppled him over. What has one to do with the other you may ask? Everything!
The Windmills of your Mind
Posted by: | CommentsI heard this beautiful song for the first time in the earlier version of the film “The Thomas Crown Affair”, and the lyrics were a source of endless fascination to me weaving a rich tapestry of visuals for the pathways of meandering thoughts in our minds.
Here are some of the lyrics so you can judge for yourself what I mean…
Like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel,
Never ending or beginning on an ever spinning reel,
Like a snowball down a mountain or a carnival balloon
Like a carousel that’s turning running rings around the moon.
Like a tunnel that you follow to a tunnel of its own,
Down a hollow to a cavern where the sun has never shone,
Like a door that keeps revolving in a half-forgotten dream,
Or the ripples from a pebble someone tosses in a stream.
Team Morale
Posted by: | CommentsTeam Morale
The proverbial Elephant in the room ! Everybody knows it when morale is plummeting, but few realize that it is gaining momentum until after it is too late and not much can be done to restore it .
And yet, all along, it has been right there staring them in the face and trumpeting up a storm, but each person politely looks away and goes about the day in the vain hope that if they ignore it , it will go away. Sound familiar?
Sinking Team Morale is one of the Red Flags of many more serious issues that need to be dealt with , as soon as they are observed, instead of being swept under the carpet. The result of doing that is dangerous not just to the emotional health of an uncared for team, but also to the productivity and resultant profitability of the company.
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