To Live in the Present Moment Is a Miracle

“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment.” Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

To Be a Great Leader, First Become a Great Person

  In the famous story, The Leader Who Had No Title by Robin Sharma, one of the four teachers, Jet Brisley, was trying to provide a lesson on leadership to Black. He illustrated a very important lesson that usually leaders forget while trying to lead their teams. The lesson was:  To be a great leader, …

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Book Review- Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything

I was wondering about how much courage anyone could have to be able to share his/ her personal story. Elizabeth Gilbert, in her book Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything, told us her story in a very inspirational way. The search for a true meaning in life was always an interesting topic for me. …

Book Review- Murder in the Name of Honour

A heartbreaking, tough and not easy reading about one of the most sensitive topics in our society, this book comes as a candle that has to be lighted instead of just cursing the darkness. The author, Rana Husseini, who is a famous journalist and activist in Jordan, wrote this remarkable book, Murder in the Name …

The Likeability Factor

Whether we prefer to believe in this or not, likable leaders have more power and get more cooperation from their teams and followers. Lois P. Frankel, in her book, See Jane Lead: 99 Ways for Women to Take Charge at Work, discussed this concept under what she called "The Likeability Factor" which can be enhanced …

Life Begins at the End of Your Comfort Zone

Comfort zone is defined as "a place or situation where one feels safe or at ease and without stress". Fundamentally, the comfort zone isn’t wrong. All creatures seek a place of natural settlement. The problem is when we become a prisoner of that zone, we block opportunities to grow, chances to be healthier, reasons to …

Lead as a Human Being not as a Human Doing

Leadership is not a rocket science. Sometime, a simple act would make a difference. Lois P. Frankel, in her book See Jane Lead: 99 Ways for Women to Take Charge at Work, told us about a nice experience where she asked the participants in one of her leadership workshops the following: name the people who …

Book Review- The 48 Laws of Power

With more than 4 out of 5 rating on Goodreads.com website and more than 4.5 out of 5 rating on Amazon.com and already a best-seller book at different platforms, you can't, but start thinking how many do really believe in this book, The 48 Laws of Power. A friend of mine gave me the book …

Book Review- See Jane Lead: 99 Ways for Women to Take Charge at Work

With a focus on revealing and solving the different attitudes that are under what is called "Nice Girls Syndrome", Lois P. Frankel developed this book, See Jane Lead: 99 Ways for Women to Take Charge at Work, to discuss the "feminization of leadership", i.e. how women can lead in the workplace without being called too …

The Daily 5 Concept

One of the many great concepts Robin Sharma discussed in his book The Leader Who Had No Title is The Daily 5 Concept. A very good way to ensure that you are progressing and moving things forward. Personally, it is one of the great things that I have learned to beat procrastination and perfectionism. "The …