Constructive meetings
I started writing a beautiful article once about constructive meetings. But then, I realised that my meetings were not as effective either. Meetings started and ended on a good note, but there was often no great output. So, I performed a 5 Y analysis to understand what was going wrong. I realised that there are at least 11 causes of ineffective meetings. Each of them contributes to ineffectiveness to a certain degree. Here is the cool part: each one of these contributors can
Why we lose
I am reminded of a story of Alexander the Great. A great crowd of individuals surrounded him and sang his praises. It lifted Alexander's self-esteem so much, that he started getting lazy. A little slack, a little folding of the hands, and he realised that his winning streaks were getting tougher to prolong. To avoid this, he hired a soldier who was hurt in the battle. The one task given to the soldier was this: to keep muttering in Alexander's ears : "You are just a man. You
