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,…
I am on a new adventure and I would like to share this journey with you too!
As I enjoy a beautiful spring afternoon in London, I am only a few days away from attending the first workshop in a doctoral program in Organizational Change offered by Ashridge School of Business.
Its been almost two years since…
On the 14th of April, we celebrated Sinhala and Tamil New Year in Sri Lanka. It is a time when families and communities get together to celebrate the dawn of the New Year and engage in many traditional rituals and ceremonies, of observing auspicious times for lighting the fire, cooking kiri bath (milk rice, normally…
Its cricket fever, and normally I am not an ardent cricket fan, but if that were true today, I would be the only person in Sri Lanka who would have been immune to it.
Its no secret that I do not go out of my way to watch cricket. When I have occasioned to watch it,…
“You cannot cross the same river twice”
We think we are full stops. unchanging. but at best we are commas, in a sentence, a pause if at all, before the sentence takes shape and continue giving meaning. Most times, if there is congruency the sentence makes sense, and has a flow, so we don’t always…
I couldn't sleep and I am up at 4:30 am on a Sunday morning listening to Nigel Marsh : How to make work-life balance work on TED talk. Ironic.
He is brutally honest and insightful and does this with such compelling humour,that it is difficult to ignore the reality of what he says.
The way we have…
“Measuring our progress as a country not just by how our economy is growing, but by how our lives are improving . . . not just by our standard of living, but by our quality of life.” David Cameron.
In November, UK Prime Minister David Cameron announced that, to help guide national policy, the British government…
I spent an enjoyable weekend with a lovely group of people from Citi Bank Sri Lanka last weekend conducting a self and leadership development program.
The objective of the program was to enable participants to reflect on their own development, strengths and areas for improvement in the way they manage their work, career and personal life,…
What a decade it has been!!!
In June 2000 when Corporate Druids first began it’s work, I must admit that we didn't have a very clear path nor very ambitious goals. However I had some very strong intentions that I unwaveringly held on to on the kind of influence Corporate Druids wanted to have in the…
I had an 'aha' moment this morning about my own patterns of habits when I was reflecting on an incident when I felt let down by someone close to me.
I have always been secretly pleased (and smug) with myself about the fact that I can eventually learn to let go of the expectations I have…