S-M-I-L-E
S-M-I-L-E As they say, a picture speaks louder than words. And this Peanuts cartoon gives such wonderful lessons. Positivity is as uncommon as common sense. A lot of people around us can discourage us & feed in negativity BUT we have the choice of ignoring them & instead, ourselves become the source of happiness, positivity […]
CEO & The Art of Chanakya Neeti
CE (go) O & the art of “Chanakya Neeti At Equirus Wealth Private Limited, it was my 3rd role as CEO and over the last 10 years as a CEO, I have had vast amounts of learnings.One of them is that my role involves a lot of Ego Management. “CEO” also stands for Chief Ego […]
H2S2W
H2S2W – Setting goals for the new year, every year Setting goals gives motivation & accountability for achieving them. To quote, Shiv Khera, Motivation = motive + action In other words, having a motive (goals) will push us into action to achieve the motive. We have started the New Year 2025 and it’s the […]
RRR – The 3Rs after resignation
RRR – The 3Rs after resignation This time during transition between jobs, I chose to take nearly a month off to not only prepare myself better but also to spend time in doing things that make me smile, laugh & be happy both now & in the long term. Here’s what I have been up […]
Men on Mission in Muscat
Men on Mission – in Muscat Recently, I got a rare opportunity to travel to Muscat for client meetings. While I was there for all of 21 hours, I really enjoyed experiencing the culture of Oman and meeting some interesting people. In the past I have done client meetings in geographies like Vietnam and UAE […]
Encounter with HUMBITION
Encounter with “HUMBITION” I was intrigued when I encountered the word “humbition” in the book “Go Further Faster” by brand & design evangelist, Lulu Raghavan, where she stresses on the importance of staying grounded and humble even as we nurture our ambitions. Humble + Ambition = Humbition. And recently I had a real life encounter […]
NO REGRETs – Lessons from an 88 Year Old
A LIFE LIVED TO THE FULLEST – NO REGRETs My 88 year young father, Shyam Bhave, told me yesterday that he had no regrets in life. I then discussed this insightful book with him to debate this. The authoress, Bronnie Ware was a caregiver to dying old patients in Australia for 4 years & got […]
कल मिलेंगे
कल मिलेंगे – Kal Milenge कल मिलेंगे – Kal Milenge (Roughly translated as “See you tomorrow”) Today is my father’s 85th birthday I have learned so much from him, the top 2 learnings being “Integrity” & “Positivity” Most of his working life, my father worked for an organisation where unfortunately corruption was prevalent & he […]
Maternal Mantras – 4 Lessons from my Mother
MATERNAL MANTRAs – मातृ मंत्र This is me with my mother, late Dr. Mrs. Shakuntala Bhave, during my sister, Dr. Mugdha Keskar‘s wedding in 1993 Coming to Mumbai from the small town of Pandharpur, my mother completed majority of her higher education after her marriage and achieved as many as 4 academic degrees – M.A., B.Ed., […]
Bhave Saheb – 7 Lessons from my Father
𝑩𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝑺𝒂𝒉𝒆𝒃 – 7 𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒎𝒚 𝒇𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 Bhave Saheb is what I fondly call my father, whom I normally address as Baba. Mr. Chintaman Raghunath Bhave (Shyam for family), has been an inspiration for me and still is, as he cheerfully interacts with all, from his hospital bed. Being average in academics in his […]
