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Ten Years of Digital: 2007- 2017 I began my digital journey in 2007 and recently completed ten years in the virtual world. I had started blogging in 2009 and decided to collate Top 10 posts on my blog since the begining of the journey. Here are the All Time Top 10 posts on my blog. Happy Reading. 1 PM Narendra Modi is my inspiration  The blog tops the charts with 5,000+ views. In a previous post, I had talked about how PM Modi’s inspirational storytelling approach had inspired me to create 7E model of Storytelling . (7Es of storytelling include Empathy, Emotional connect, Edutainment, Evocation, Eloquence, Energy and Engagement) Read More 2 Personal Branding as an Empowerment Tool Life is unfair”, we all would have uttered these words at some point of time in our lives. In spite of being equally competent, many of us lose out at the workplace because we are/ were :- - not educated at a premier b-school or - educated in a small town or - gentle/ unassertive nature or - ...

My coach Jennifer Sertl recently wrote the Foreword to our book "Personal Branding, Storytelling and Beyond". It has touched thousands of hearts and given a beautiful beginning to our book. And as they say, "Well begun is half done" I am reproducing the Foreword for the blog readers.   Foreword “If a story is not about the hearer he [or she] will not listen . . . A great lasting story is about everyone or it will not last. The strange and foreign is not interesting--only the deeply personal and familiar.” ―John Steinbeck All cultures throughout time have use stories to keep history alive, teach community and create demand. Ever since language began – we were telling stories on walls in caves and now we are telling stories on walls in clouds. Stories are how we breathe. We know now that robots are being taught empathy through literature. So clearly stories transcend technology. Stories are primal. As children we are great at telling stories. We know so ...

An Ode to my Coach Jennifer Sertl ( www.agility3r.com ) (What can be better than writing an ode in your honour, to wish you Merry Xmas & Happy New Year) Something higher to aspire There is an emotion higher than the base feeling, There is an aspiration beyond I, me, and mine. There is a philosophy beyond the mundane, There is a love beyond the conditional. There is humanity beyond geographical boundaries, There is a soul beyond the conscious mind. There is a goal beyond the blue horizon, There is a leap of faith beyond the routine. There is reflection beyond thinking, There is response beyond reaction. There is resilience beyond defeat, There is agility beyond mere leadership. There is a quantum leap beyond step by step, There is a serendipity beyond planning. There is something beyond human understanding, There is a faith beyond the logic. There is always that something to aspire, Something to touch, which is a little higher. There are angels beyon...

Storytelling in a VUCA world   More PowerPoint presentations from Dr Amit Nagpal ------------------------------ Thriving in a VUCA World-Corporate Training Program

Click here to add this blog to your feed and you will not miss out on any story Then    &      Now                                                                     3E Story Blogathon Post #2-Jennifer Sertl For Day 2 of the Story Blogathon, Jennifer Sertl shares a touching story about her childhood struggles and the impact of the struggles on her as an adult. She tried to learn from the dragon of mental illness. A very inspiring story about the strength of the human spirit.                                                     I am a reconciliation of spirits. My father was a surgeon and my mother an artis...

3R and 3E -Models of Sustainable Success for Organizations and Individuals 3R Model for Organizational Growth by Jennifer Sertl Resilience, Responsiveness and Reflection In the midst of so much data and so many choices, it is vital to create filters as a means to help you synthesize both what you pay attention to and also how you want to present yourself to the macro. Naming and claiming a filter is vital. If I only had one word to brand or describe what I hope to contribute, I would use the word Agility - both as a filter as well as the contribution I want to make. I would then further describe Agility with three terms Resilience, Responsiveness and Reflection.  Here is how I make these terms both actionable as well as mental muscles I practice .... Resilience How well you bounce back from failure. How well you learn from that failure and also inform the entire eco-system of that learning so the lesson can be scaled. Diversity of experience--The more robust ...