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The CEO of a large company asked me to meet with his HR manager to discuss the possibility of conducting workshops on Lateral Thinking for his colleagues. I sought an appointment with the HR manager only to find the man was not interested in meeting me. I suspected that he did not like the idea of being told whom to meet.

I was privy to many an enlightening conversation in my lifetime; not by invitation but by virtue of being a very ordinary and colourless individual who can blend in the background and can be easily ignored. I am like your ubiquitous taxi/auto driver, housekeeping staff, waiter in a bar or a fly-on-the-wall. It has its [...]

When I  began  my career as a corporate trainer I conducted  workshops on public speaking for which  I was paid a modest  remuneration.  Subsequently I offered workshops on a high value  added subject of Lateral Thinking. I found myself running into  high resistance in respect of my fees which were   much higher than what [...]

I practice a kind of thinking called multiple order thinking. This means that I try to go beyond the obvious and the apparent. At first I try and get into the second order thinking where one can grasp what lies beneath. In the third order I try to get at the underlying concepts of deeper [...]

So I was reading too many books on quantum mechanics, then moved to cosmology and from then moved to evolution of life. As a general feeling, my belief that there is no role of God to influence our life gets stronger. Because after all, universe is nothing but a huge collection of matter collected to [...]