Yesterday, I spent part of my day cleaning my garage. This has been an impending task for a long time and I was excited I was able to accomplish more than what I set out to do. At the end, I wondered why I was able to do more than what I had planned. What [...]

Here is a great talk by, psychologist Philip Zimbardo. He says happiness and success are rooted in a trait most of us disregard: the way we orient toward the past, present and future. He suggests we calibrate our outlook on time as a first step to improving our lives.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.- Lao Tzu Travel is a way a man set out to explore the world he has no seen or experienced. A recent article posted on CNN.com reports that experiences, in the long run, “make people happier than possessions.” But why? In part, [...]

“Stretch a boat to very full and you would wish you had stopped in time.” Lao Tsu. Life is about finding balance in life. We should never take an extreme position on any thing. Life is in finding harmony in all aspects of your life. If you are professionally driven – Don’t try to succeed [...]

I love being in New York city. If someone asked me at any instance of time, where would you like to be – the answer is clear. What New York represents to me is the how I see the world. It is the city that is diverse, global, multicultural, multiracial and beyond. Yeah! it is [...]

The beauty of the word diversity is that it means different things to different people. Many globally diversity leaders have realized that diversity transcends dividing people in different ethnic groups. I have come to believe that hiring people based on different ethnic backgrounds is not an effective criteria to gauge if they will fit into [...]

The term multiculturalism generally refers to a theory promoting retention of various cultural divisions for the sake of diversity that applies to the demographic make-up of a specific place, usually at the scale of an organization such as a school, business, neighborhood, city or nation. It originated with the emergence of building communities where social [...]

On my recent trip to India, I had the opportunity to go into an Indian village. Having grown up in India, I thought it would be just another village tour. It was meant to be a simple exploration and walk down the memory lane which turned into a learning experience. In this village, I saw [...]

I got a call this evening informing me of sudden death of Michael Jackson. For some reason, I had never prepared for this call. Michael was someone, who had shaped my teenage years. I remember growing up in India and the release of his album ‘Thriller’. As a kid, I would play his video for [...]

At the Diversity Leadership Forum, I was asked the following question: Do you think a new generation of people leading diversity? Do you think Gen Y leaders would approach these topics differently? According to Wikipedia, Generation Y is approximately a third of the US population currently. In passing, I heard that a fifth of Generation [...]