"Captain Poonam Devrakhyani"

  When asked what is the most key element in leadership, I heard two words that are rarely expressed in business: Empathy and Compassion. Empathy is to think of wearing somebody else’s shoes A friend of yours has always shared a problem with you, and you say, "Oh, I know how you feel?" Okay, that's sort of empathy. Compassion is to wear someone else’s shoes or walking the distance You are being compassionate when you rely on what you think or believe for others. Clearly put, Compassion= Empathy+Action picture credit @Cnews The greatest gap we have in our culture and in the world right now is a lack of empathy. We need people to be allowed to step in someone else's shoes and explore the world from their eyes. Importance Of Compassion In Building Leadership Demonstrating compassion would mean partnering with the colleagues: Most people believe that being caring would mean agreeing with something done by subordinates, which is not true. One should still be compassionate ...

At this time and age in India, we can proudly declare that women entrepreneurs in India are not a mysterious concept. Women in India have taken up entrepreneurship on a small and medium scale since time immemorial, but much of it has begun with the need to run their households and businesses. picture credit @freepik The modern Indian woman is no longer typically in a need-based environment. Taking the lead in entrepreneurship now is a matter of choice and they are no longer restricting themselves to certain sectors but their expertise and creative reach across sectors - from conventional sectors like food processing, agro-products, handicrafts, and textiles. Women entrepreneurs are now venturing across sectors like Aviation, real estate development, ITES, BFSI, Pharmaceuticals, hospitality, tourism, etc. India has been labeled as one of the fastest-growing start-up communities in the world, with 11% of the adult population involved in early-stage entrepreneurship. The participation of ...

Education is a system of awareness, ability, and decision. Moving to the top of a mountain involves rock climbing, but this doesn't mean this climbing is the only way to reach there. picture credit @freepik The important thing is that we don't have to teach our new generation that education is the key to success. In order to become successful, we have to become capable, we should have the knowledge or certain sets of skills. First, let's talk about the rich criminals, they have much more knowledge than those who have a degree and got the selection. And I wonder if they are more educated than other "successful qualified" men. But we still don't expect that to happen. We want them to get degrees and more to win than they have the potential to thrive. So we have got to modify our system for that. Now, these criminals too have categories, the real criminals that have never taken the right route to recovery, believe me, that they are not going too far, so the real ...