'How did we get here'?
Have you found yourself asking this question, amid stony silence or a screaming match or resigned defeat with someone you know well, with someone you care about? I have. And by the time I am asking myself that question, it seems like the proverbial horse has bolted.
Susan Scott in…
My first engagement with Colombo Swim Week was in 2016, and it has been a privilege and an enormous learning experience to continue to work with Ajai Singh (Founder, President, Managing Director - Colombo Fashion Week) and Fazeena Rajabdeen (Chief Executive Officer - Colombo Fashion Week) and their team in 2017 and 2018. And I…
Happy New Year dear friends,
A little late, but I am happy to be finally writing to you, with my New Year wishes, for you and me.
I am happiest wishing you by sharing the lessons I am taking forward, and here is what I learnt (again!) last year.
Everything was all right in the end (as…
Dear Friends,
I just made my deadline to pen my reflections down of the old year and get ready to welcome the New Year!
First things first … No apocalypse … the world didn’t end. Its still here. But I think the world as we know it, has been changing (for a while now).…
"... leadership has nothing to do with position, salary, or number of direct reports. I believe a leader is anyone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes."
In more and more companies today, leaders manage their communication efforts in a way that calls to mind ordinary, person-to-person conversation. Where this kind of organizational conversation has taken hold, leaders build engagement and drive strategic alignment by enabling ideas and information to move efficiently across their company.
This article was recently posted on Elephant Journal .
Recently a story of a wooden boulder that bobbed along streams, rivers and seas taught me that I am not lost. An art exhibition taught me that framing is key to deep understanding.
Lessons come from the most unexpected places, and this insight I…
I was deeply touched by Frank Warren’s TED Talk, on Half a Million Secrets, delivered last March (2012).
Frank Warren invited people to anonymously send him their secrets in 2004. Now, eight years later, he is the “owner” of over half a million secrets. People from all over the world, shared their ‘shocking, silly and soulful’…
I looked around the living room of my home, on my fortieth birthday and I realised how lucky I was to be surrounded by those who meant most to me. I was also surrounded by the wishes and love of even those who couldn't be there with me in person. I felt blessed.
I also realised…
I wish you,
A tune in the soles of your feet,
on the tip of your toes that taps and dances you,
a rhythm in your hips that sways you
in wild abandonment.
Smiles that creeps on you unexpectedly
that quirks your mouth upwards,
crinkles the corners of your eyes
and gleams them bright.
Poignant thoughts that softens your heart
and fills you with longing…
My dearest friends
Whatever that can be said about 2011, is that it was not boring.
Most would agree that 2011 has been a year full of surprises, excitement and lessons. This year saw the crumbling of many institutions, world wide social and economic activism and sadly loss of lives in human made conflicts and in natural…
The gardens in Lunuganga estate are breathtakingly beautiful, vistas of water, trees, granite sculptures, stone work, rolling lawns, nooks and crannies of shade and light capture your senses as you walk in. It was here that I, along with other fellow students of Anoma Wijewardene's art class settled in for the day to draw, sketch,…
