anecdotes

“Attending a committee meeting and going to the toilet are in many ways similar. In both the places you go sit down, make a lot of noise and finally the matter is dropped.” I haven’t yet used [...]

Communication is a dicey business. Unless what you think, say and what the others understand are aligned, communication can create embarassing sceanrios like it happened to an old mountain woman. [...]

There seems to be some sanctity attached to the number three – I came,I saw, I conquered ; Liberty,Equality,Fraternity;Brahma,Vishnu,Maheshwara;Father,Son and the Holy Ghost;- the list is [...]

People resist humor when it is imposed.When it is used to highlight or reinforce a point, it is more palatable and accepted. Here is an example of Point-Humor-Point or P-H-P, which I use often in [...]

“I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.” – Antonio Porchia We  say or write with certain assumptions and hope the other person will also [...]

To be precise, MY treasure chest ! While looking around for sources of inspiring quotes to sparkle my speeches , I found a formidable trio in George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde and Mark Twain. A [...]

MIT Manipal. Late 70s. We brought out a rag UG, which took an irreverent,frivolous and absurd view of campus life.The movie Kramer vs Kramer, starring Dustin Hoffman had just been released and [...]

Warren Buffet wrote a preface to “A Plain English Handbook” published by the SEC some years ago as a helpful guide to companies filing disclosure documents. He wrote “One [...]

Image via Wikipedia A well crafted speech opener gives you tremendous momentum. As a wag put it, a good speech opener helps you excite, link and involve the audience. One way is to prepare an apt [...]

I was chatting up with a friend working in the IT sector and the talk veered around the general gloom all over. He said” My organisation is only an employer but our Provider is up there and [...]