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5 AM Club

Quite often, people 🤔 ask me – how do you manage to do multiple things? My answer is that I belong to “The 5 AM Club ⏰”.

“The 5 AM Club” by Robin Sharma is a motivational book that revolves around a revolutionary concept: owning your morning to elevate your life. Here is an infographic visual of “The 5 AM Club”.

Central to the book is the idea of the 5 AM club—a routine where individuals wake up early, dedicate time to personal growth, and start their day with exercise, meditation, and learning. According to Robin Sharma, this practice enhances focus 🎯, productivity, and overall well-being❤️‍🩹.

Key lessons 💡 include the value of consistent habits, the power of self-discipline, the importance of escaping complacency, mastery of time and the significance of nurturing mind, body, and spirit.

The author blends storytelling with practical advice, presenting a compelling case for how the early morning hours can be leveraged to achieve personal transformation and extraordinary results. “The 5 AM Club” ⌚serves as both a motivational tale and a blueprint📘 for readers seeking to maximize their potential 📈and lead a life of purpose and fulfilment and achieve lasting success 🎇.

Are you 5 AM Club member???

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5G at a glance

We all have been reading a lot about the launch of 4G in India. The air is filled with buzz as many types of debate and discussions are taking place. Today articles are being written on what will happen in terms of pricing and completion with the launch of 4G by one of the major telecom players. This made me wonder what will come next after 4G. Is 5G waiting for us in offering?

With this curiosity, I surfed the internet to discover the when, what, who and where about 5G. Read More…

7 Questions with Biren Parekh

This sure made my day! Here is a link to my latest interview – 7 Questions with Biren Parekh. Jonno White is a highly effective and experienced leadership coach. He has transformed several large and medium-sized corporations through his leadership coaching.

One can read answers to the following 7 questions in my interview

What have you found most challenging as a CEO or executive of a large enterprise?
How did you become a CEO or executive of a large enterprise? Can you please briefly tell the story?
How do you structure your work days from waking up to going to sleep?
What’s the most recent significant leadership lesson you’ve learned?
What’s one book that has had a profound impact on your leadership so far? Can you please briefly tell the story of how that book impacted your leadership?
How do you build leadership capacity in a large enterprise?
What is one meaningful story that comes to mind from your time as a CEO or executive of a large enterprise so far?

Grateful to my company Intellect Design Arena Ltd for the opportunity and freedom to showcase my leadership strength over years.

Waiting to hear your thoughts!

Agile V/s Waterfall – A Comparision

We have been hearing a lot about comparison between Waterfall project management versus Agile. And many of us have been dilemma as what exactly each one means & which one to use.

To address this, I am hereby publishing a Presentation prepared by Mr Koti, who is PMP, ACP, PSM1, PAHM, CSP, ITIL & PMI India Senior Champion. Pls click here to view the same.

AHA Moments

💡AHA Moments!!! 🪄

The moments ✨when people have realized what to do in life!!! ❄️

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines an Aha moment 🎊 as a moment of sudden realization, inspiration, insight, recognition, or comprehension. In the context of SaaS and product companies, the Aha! Moment is the first key moment when users realize the value of your product.

Few examples of AHA 🌟💫moments. Note the Age when these celebrities have realized their AHA moment and discovered the valuable 🏅 products!!!!

Any other examples???

Waiting for my AHA moment!!! 😊

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ANI

It was nice to see “Thank you Note” from Agile Network India. 👌

It was an interesting panel discussion with eminent panelists (Sandhya Vasudevan and Ashutosh Dabral) and moderated by Yashasree Barve.

I have been speaker/panelist 🎤of Agile Network India conferences multiple time and I have thoroughly enjoyed taking part as a speaker/panelist due to two reasons

1 – Unique topics
2 – Well organized

Kudos 👍 to Priyank DK Pathak, Noopur Pathak, Prashant M J and team for advocating Agile mindset through such conferences and webinars.

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ANI Event – Business Agility at CRISIL

It was the first time that CRISIL Limited collaborated with Agile open community Agile Network India to conduct a session on Enterprise Agility related discussion. As a part of that, we discussed on various aspects of “How to achieve and measure Business Agility in today’s VUCA world”.

It was an enlightening discussion 🌟whereby CRISIL’s enterprise agile journey and challenges were discussed, along with the industry’s best practices.

Thanks to Prashant Neharkar, Prashant Gulvadi, Deepti Shibad, Nidhi Badani, Nisha P, Kurush Wadia, for helping to organize the event.

The event was also attended by a good number of CRISILtes in-person and virtually.

It was wonderful to meet the LinkedIn family (hashtaglinkedinfam) and Agile coach – Jasmine Moosa. It was quite overwhelming to learn that because of my name in the event; she preferred to come over to CRISIL to attend the event in person. Thanks, Jasmine Moosa.

Such events really help to network with like-minded professionals. 👍

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Anil Kumble

👉It was quite inspiring to meet the legendary Anil Kumble during one event. I am always inspired by leaders 🧑‍💼and honest celebrities 👑 like him, which keeps me going. His perseverance and focus is one quality that inspires me a lot.

Everyone knows this fantabulous ✨cricketer, also known by his nickname Jumbo, holds the record of bowling 40,850 balls in the entire Test career, which is the highest for an Indian and second-highest overall, and he is also one of six bowlers to take 900+ (956 to be precise) wickets in his entire career. He holds several other records, awards, and honors far beyond one’s imagination.

▶️ He once said that no one should tell from your body language, whether you are at “50 for 5” or “200 for no loss”. And I think the same applies to leaders in whatever field you are.

▶️Similarly, among several rituals for preparation, which included training properly, eating right, and sleeping well, “visualization”, he said, was key. A day before the match, I would think of each batsman of the opposing team, one at a time, and visualize how I was going to get them out. I would picture the fielder’s positions, my bowling technique, the strategy I would use,”

The same applies to leaders to visualize the upcoming situation and define the strategy to make it 💫successful.

Who inspires you most??

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Are mobile Banking Apps Safe?

When Internet banking was launched by some private banks few years back i.e. around 2005, customers were apprehensive of using it. In year 2013, several private banks launched their mobile banking apps. At this point also, customers were merely wondering what mobile banking was and whether these kinds of applications were safe to use.

However, over the years, these applications have made our lives easy and banking customers have become quite comfortable with new technologies. They are using internet banking for balance inquiries as well as other things like funds transfer, credit card payment, utility bills payment and even equity trading. The Complex encryption software makes sure to protect your valuable information. However, every system has its flaw. Your account is at the risk of being attacked by hackers, phishing, malware and illegal activities. Read More…

AWS Cloud Practitioner

🌩️Breaking & Boring news 📰 alert: I’ve officially aced the AWS Cloud Practitioner exam! 🌥️

Yes, I have leveled up my cloud game with flying bytes! Officially AWS Cloud Practitioner certified !!! 🏆

Now, I can confidently say ‘Cloud Computing’ in meetings without sounding completely lost.

Time to celebrate with Kinetic firehose 🧯 and a serverless cake 🎂with fluffy VPC layers, a multi-AZ layered IAM cherries, and even a dash of DynamoDB for explosive taste.! 🎉🍰

My brain is sending ️⚡SNS for cloud challenge..☁️

Thanks to Narendra Dharm.. for being an instrumental guide and trainer in the journey.

…Cloud journey also begins.

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