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Whether it scapes our attention or escapes our attention, we are always playing the "now". Maybe, we heavily host the past or lean to future, hence crowd out the  expansive "being" awareness. Playing "Now" through several contemplative tools like mindfulness/meditation, enables the moral compass + creativity sparkplug.

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The current Alibaba IPO sparked another round of discussions amongst thinkers on the future of ecommerce. While scale seems to be the name of the game for players like Amazon, EBay and Alibaba, some thinkers have already started to call them too big to dance and perhaps too vulnerable. Commerce 3.0 will continue with more scale and some verticalization niche play. An interesting flux seems to be brewing whereby there is a slow but sure spark of hobbyist entrepreneurs (with 70% employees across corporations being disengaged and now looking for new jobs or self employment-The Taos Institute). Plus the sure emergence of contemplative or wisdom living through concepts like conscious capitalism and mindfulness. The following may be the construction materials of Commerce 4.0: 1. Entrepreneur: Conscious Social Capitalist & Hobbyist 2. Financiers: Crowdfunding 3. Employees: Hobbyists 4. Vendors: Conscious Social Capitalist & Hobbyist 5. Customers: Mindfulness...

Our research and reflection of 120+ thinkers across quantum science, social construction, positive psychology, sports psychology, neuroscience, scriptural research, justice system, etc reveals that point A & B mentioned in the following two slides, would reduce the chances of cancer and also a lot many ailments. Incidentally it will also help improve Enterprise Value (EV) of the individual and the institution in the long run. The above zones of (A)* and (B)** also has potential to improve the enterprise value (EV) in the long run. Happy Hunting Malignant. Happy Seeding Benignant.

Next time when people say "Yes", beware !!! A latest study amongst the best employers of the world suggests that "Yes" has become a commodity. It isn't a customized response. So why have employees stopped saying "No". Well! "Yes" seems to have survival advantage...or so it seems ** . "No" as an answer or response can't be tolerated by many listener. The proverbial turn towards the "yes" lane or the "no" lane comes at the crossroad of reason and faith. The team-lead or manager would walk in and want accomplice. Hence reason is fired !!!! But the "Yes" so achieved is the tip of the iceberg. The underlying/invisible part of the iceberg is a big "doubt" or a "no". And this "no" or "doubt" keeps the water (feeling) engaged in coil and boil thus preparing for a volcano. Politics (Poll by an Ivy League US University), Disengagement (Gal...

Great Epic Mahabharata offers lessons in excellence on life's battlefield. Do Corporate go through Mahabharata?  Yes.  And interestingly the biggest battle of a corporate is not outside of the organization, albeit it's in the inside of the organization. Mirror Mirror? Who amongst of Mktg / HR / IT / SCM / F&A / Sales is Imp of them all? This question is celebrating 104 mn weeks jubilee on human thought screen. Just that this dispute was called  the varna systems as per Vedic traditions or the city-state-soldier analogy as per Aristotle. Circa Corporate Age. HR says they are important because its all about people. Marketing says they are important because its all about perception. F&A says they are important because its all about the money. SCM says they are important because its all about the matter...its optimized movement. Operations says they are important because its all about true karma (actual labor). CRM says...

70/365/24/7 Online. (70 yrs avg age: WHO) . That's human. Occupied all the time. Occupied in mining memories, playing sensories, rearranging materials, influencing minds. By now, we have reached an age of information obesity. Hence each of us have to be sense-making very fast, at a huge scale...meaning almost industrial mode. Sense-making is on an industrial mode. Is industrial mode good? Lets peep at one of our age-old & tasty occupations. Food. Cooking. Eating. Michael Pollan is a contemporary thinker on food and culture. Studying treatment of food...from its raw consumption era to industrial cooking era. Seeing four distinct evolution in human history. 1st:  Raw food meets fire. 2nd: Raw food meets water heating. 3rd:  Raw food meets air baking. 4th:  Raw food meets earth fermentation. Optimizing & Balancing effort, taste and nourishment. Delivering health for a long time. Somewhere in 1950s, World War 2 technologies started entering ...

Peter Senge: Top 25 Management Gurus:  "My intuition is they (India and China) will move somewhat together but in very distinctive ways. But I think the thing that will be really common to both of them will be the fact that they won't be able to do this without reconnecting their heritage. They will have to develop a confidence that they can do this as Indians and they can do this as Chinese. They have learnt a lot from the West but they don't have to copy, they cannot create a Chinese or Indian version of a Western model. The Western model itself is basically bankrupt. It does not give enough attention to the human side of development." End of Quote. Is strategy required if everything was in abundance? I guess the answer is "No". One factor about strategy is that it has to be applied to aspects / things that are "limited/finite". It could be time, space and matter. Is strategy required if everybody knew what was to be done? ...

On last Thursday, I was having a word with the Asia Pac Head of a successful company. Our discussions strolled the sticky aisles of office politics. Why is it so widespread across corporate? Our boots went into the history first. The original definition of the word "politics" was about its ability to influence community. Meaning that, (a) every human interacts with other humans, and (b) in doing so, influences each other. The quality of influence is always towards a goal. The goal is either self-serving or serving a community or a beautiful combination of both. It would be visible in interactions/influence, whether the influencer (any human) is operating from centers of half-knowledge, ego, jealousy, unbridled desire, insecurity on one hand or from compassion, friendliness, joy, discretion on the other hand. Coming back to corporate. Corporate is its "collective "will"" vs its "collective won't". Every employee ...

Place, Chandigarh (North India) Almost three years ago. Upon an afternoon, the sun was pouring scorchy heat. I met a very old age fakir. He was on his long continuous wander. But he still made a stop, for giving mould to my amoebic curiosity about life. He immersed me in a true story about another fakir ... dating back hundreds of years The fakir in the narrated story was simply interested in visiting banks. He would walk and walk and walk And just go and spend months along several banks. Only that these banks were the banks of and along the small rivers. The fakir mentioned that the river banks used to be great teachers of human condition. These river banks were constantly in liquidity position (water+mineral deposits) as the human inhabitants engrossed in eco-friendly occupations, thus ensuring nature's repletion cycle. These banks ensured self-moderation in humans, because only through right conduct with other co-habitants that bred trust, it ens...

I went to a retail format over the weekend. Management chaos + Chaos Management at its feed-forward-back best. Product Categories clubbed and displayed separately. Having different brands and SKUs. However different products and brands have error-full placements. Brands don't talk to each other as they are in competition. Brands & Product Categories have no collaboration. Each brand and product category shouting loud to get attention and stamp of approval. Because the more attention and approvals they get from customer, they have a life of moving higher on the shelves and even occupying larger real estate in the store. Product categories range across Maslow's Hierarchy or Vedic Purusharth, from utilities' product to actualization-positioned- products. Cut this to corporate now. Individual employees are brands. Corporate Departments are product categories. Hierarchy of Trainees to Leadership are the Maslow's Hierarchy...Leaders here have a job. Job of m...

An attempt to draw semblance to two popular modern principles of management (by Jim Collins of Built-to-Last & Good-to-Great fame) and happiness (Dr Martin Seligman- Speaker/Consultant to UK & Australia Government on Happiness Index) with ancient wisdom. There is sure overlap even between these five concepts if one spends just two minutes to understand. "Money makes the world go around" is a popular saying. And its also visible that the set of values nursed by capitalism/free market economies also become people's own set of values in almost all walks of life. Hence if corporate sector is able to bring a shift in their consciousness, it will have tremendous impact on the society. Last decade saw some organizations dip into their existence and trying to find meanings...deeper meanings. And this led to several functions of the organizations also following suit...marketing, finance, etc. However, most organizations are still trying to wink and s...

Monday Blues, Pink Slip, Dark Gloom, Red Face, Pale Heart .... Wow...we surely play a lot with colors. And as a race, we invite so many of them in different hues. Its just that in these cases, the colors mark difficult mind conditions or diseased body conditions. Whats with green that can savior these conditions? Lets turn our attention to two really good thinkers of our times: Dr Dean Ornish: "Best food is the third world food". [Dean Michael Ornish is a physician and president and founder of the nonprofit Preventive Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito, California, as well as Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco . He was also special advisor to USA President Bill Clinton] Michael Pollan: "Cook more at home" Michael Pollan is an American author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. A 2006 New York Times book review describes him as a ...