Author Archives: Ramya Ranganathan

Free Image on Pixabay – 605603 Today morning, over breakfast, a colleague of mine was beating down the demonetization idea and his central argument was that it was causing a great deal of discomfort to people. In support of his argument he narrated an incident. He told us that he was having dinner the previousContinueContinue reading “Influence of Cognitive Biases on Individual and Collective Sensemaking Post Demonetization of Indian Currency”

As a Researcher and Faculty in Management, the one question I have found us looping back to again and again is ‘How do we get our employees and ourselves to be more productive’. How can we work more and procrastinate less? How can we create and generate more and do it with excellence? How doContinueContinue reading “Interest Quotient – the new IQ? & Excitement Quotient – the new EQ?”

Now this is going to sound like a fairy tale to some of you. I almost decided to not write about it because I thought nobody would believe me. Indeed I would not have believed it myself (except that because it happened to me, I have no option but to believe it). I was onContinueContinue reading “Whispers of Intuition”

You have probably heard from many places about the benefits of being able to let-go. Letting go of old habits, old pains and grievances, or even relationships. While letting go is great advice, it can sometimes be really difficult to implement. In this video I present an alternate frame we can try to play with,ContinueContinue reading “When we can Out-grow there is no need to Let-go!”

I am just back from having spent 2 entire days playing with the waves. Yes, I do mean two entire days. My son and his friend drove the agenda for this holiday and I was initially unsure when they wanted to stay in the sea the whole day. However the other mother with us wasContinueContinue reading “Playfulness, Peace and Potency – The 3 Ps of the Ocean”

For a Large part of my life I have hated my academic degrees. I know hate is a strong word, but yes, I have hated them. So what are these degrees I am talking about? I have a B Tech in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering from IIT Madras – probably India’s best engineering college,ContinueContinue reading “I Don’t Hate My Degrees Anymore”

A few years ago a friend sent me a link to a multiple intelligences test. When I saw my results, there was an explosion of acknowledgement inside me, and my body whispered, ‘what do think I’ve been trying to tell you all these years?’. My score for kinesthetic intelligence had dampened out the scores forContinueContinue reading “Creating a way of Learning, Working, and Living that is in line with our Kinesthetic Intelligence”

Once upon a time there was a little girl who learnt very early on (it was part of her culture) a phrase called ‘Mata, Pita, Devo Bhava’. Now I (who am turning 40) am no authority on scriptures to understand or interpret the true meaning of this phrase, and neither was this little girl atContinueContinue reading “Dark Side of ‘Mata, Pita, Devo Bhava’”

I went out for lunch yesterday with a friend and had a most amazing experience. We shared a wrap and a plate of pasta. Both the dishes had been made very well, the restaurant had a nice feel to it, and the waiter who served us was friendly and humorous. When we finished lunch, IContinueContinue reading “What Are You Hungry For?”

“ I am working on this project now, but perhaps I should be spending time with my children instead”. “Would it really be worth my time to go and watch that movie?” “I should really be doing something productive instead of sitting around wasting my time like this” “This train journey is so long, weContinueContinue reading “Time is Not a Problem – But You Might be Making it into One!”