While working on a design deliverable, I wanted some clarity before I continued working on it. I walked to my manager, who sits a couple of cubicles away. He was heads-down working, but I nudged him with my question instead of passively listening to what I had to say. He…

I am riding my bike on a winding road covered with a canopy of trees. A flock of birds flying overhead and wild grass dancing as the breeze blew across. I can hear the pleasant sound of gushing water crashing against the rocks. I must say, it is very peaceful…

Imagine a brainless world where everyone around us does not think but just acts out of instinct or habit with the least resistance. Everything is easy, everything is accessible causing an indolent behavior that might sound amazing, but is it really? We are not thinking, comprehending, and then acting. We…

I was driving to this small town called South Amboy, where I worked. Blasting music and enjoying the fall weather. Everyone including me was frantically moving in the traffic. It was 8:30 am when I received an email from my Chief Operation Officer for a meeting at 9 am. It…

Stress is universally experienced by people of all type irrespective of their age, stage, position or status. There might be many causes of stress at work, called stressors, such as, workload, feeling undervalued, targets and deadlines, nature of assigned work, taking on other people’s work, job dissatisfaction, lack of control…

Marilyn Ferguson, an American author, observed that problems can be experienced as ‘a chance for renewal’ rather than ‘stress’. Starting from school days throughout my work experience as a professional, I have always felt that stressed situations were not always under my control. I have seen people succumb to work…

Once we generated enough data from the interviews and identified problems with affinity clustering, it was important to wrap those problems around a personality. Creating a personality is quite helpful, it gives us the opportunity to connect the needs to a face and also motivates us to solve a problem…

Human beings are biologically curious of the unknown. We have evolved over a million years due to our immense curiosity and a craving to search for answers to the world around us. Be it a twinkling star in the sky, a bolt of lightning and the sound of thunder. Curiosity…

The great King Arthur and his sword Excalibur has much folklore around it. One of the well-known stories was that Excalibur was stuck in a stone, it was believed that a chosen one will pull the sword and bring peace. Many tried pulling it out but failed, then came Arthur…