Vihaan Initiatives

How do you test your CV?   When I ask others about this, the usual response is - by sending it to an organization for a role requiring...

“You’ll take up consulting assignments in the telecom domain?”   I had decided to start my own consulting practice after 32 years in the...

“Turn the music off; the new MD is coming on rounds.” The head of the administration department came to my workplace and told me this...

Me: Culture in an organization is what you make it to be. Him: Don’t make clichéd statements.   This discussion took place with a senior...

“Do you think you can do this?” Many years ago, this was a question asked to me during a job interview after I was informed about the...

“Mr. Karan, you’re an electrical engineer, no; the forklift is not starting!”. This was the moment we were told to dread whilst students...

“Hey trainee, get me a photocopy of this”. From my second day as a graduate engineer trainee in the technical department of motor...

“It’s not the plane. It is the pilot”. I remind my mentees of this dialogue from Top Gun Maverick when I’m asked how they should tailor...

My manager called me and asked which business I’d like to move to; he also mentioned the two businesses which had expressed the desire to...

As an army kid, the only life I’d seen growing up was in army establishments, in Pune, Rajauri, Tezpur (Assam), and Mumbai (then,...

“Get a great first boss. That will make or break your career”. “I joined this company because I wanted to work here, but I want to leave...

It has been almost a year since I left HFCL/Reliance Jio and nine months since I started Vihaan Initiatives. I have met some very good...

This was during a chat on a batch-mates’ WhatsApp group. It was on achievement and success. I shared my thoughts, and a friend’s reaction...

A conversation with a student studying in a premier B-School: Student: Most of my batchmates are taking on-line courses for building...

“I did everything I could, just to get the required result, but it just didn’t happen”.   “It was a text-book execution, I wonder what...

I have travelled a lot over the last few years, at work and otherwise. Me being me, I always seek and enjoy a good conversation, and end...

Was asked by my PGDM Institute to write an article to address questions that the second year students had. This was published in the...