Recently I was at the IITs on the invitation of the placement cell. They wanted some grooming tips on facing interviews. Running the workshop for 300 students was fun! One of the questions which needed the most preparation was the seemingly innocuous question: “Tell me about yourself” . Interviewers often ask this question at the [...]

“You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks”, said Winston Churchill. Earlier, I wrote about the importance of Choosing Your Battles to Win the War: You need to ignore the small stuff— minor setbacks, obstacles and conflicts; so that you focus your energies for the big [...]

“How do you react if your bottom were pinched?” Yesterday, our 14-year old daughter, worry writ large on her face, hesitantly raised this question at dinner time. Welcome to the grown-up world, I thought inwardly. So what had happened was that in her school bus (unusually crowded as they were heading from school to a [...]

Once the jungle was ruled by a lion who was impartial, scrupulous and straightforward in his dealings. The one thing that the animals found difficult to reconcile with was he could not be defeated when he hunted for food, which meant that they lived in constant terror. They did not know which friend or relative [...]

Appearing confident starts with posture. Body language is the first thing people read about you. A hunched position conveys insecurity or fear. Straight shoulders, holding the head high with shoulders pushed back makes others perceive us as more confident.  There are times when we are unsure of ourselves. Particularly before people who intimidate us-like super [...]