Aneesh Sathe

# Summary # Leaders are by the nature of their job, alone. Good leaders are thinkers, they explore and map their territory and lay out a course. That is they lead with vision. To develop a clear and confident vision leaders need to be able to concentrate on what’s important to take decisions with courage and conviction. Leaders don’t have the expertise to tackle every problem. Leadership teams have a wider expertise and should be structured such that there is openness and space to explore from a place of vulnerability. Good leadership teams are also good friends who are able to fearlessly …

Most people know my love for Norah Jones (I bought the cassette for Come Away with Me before all the awards), most people don’t know that I’m a long time fan of Anoushka Shankar also. To hear the sisters talk and play together is something else! If for some crazy reason you don’t want to listen to the podcast, here are some of their songs from albums: https://youtu.be/kEJSWIftX98 https://youtu.be/Wi7F-MlKLG4 https://youtu.be/wnkopIHRH3Q https://youtu.be/jguri1qOCY0 Here’s one of Anoushka with Sting: https://youtu.be/TmnDLMzpXLE And the best tribute I saw to Chris Cornell: …

As I start to build up my web presence during, what seems to be the fall of twitter, coming across article like these is heartening. Glen says: The hardest thing we can do, but the most vital, is to start building amateur websites again! […] Building amateur web pages increases the quality of content on the web as well. A status update or a tweet on a huge social network is a lot like fast food; it’s immediately satisfying, but it’s not good for you, and ultimately leaves you feeling empty. But writing content for your own site - something that you feel so passionate about that you needed to …

After an unusually wet season the wildflowers have gone into a superbloom. I can’t seem to get enough of them.

Little feet waddle over the bookshelf. Little hands grab books made for little hands. It’s his favourite, a cardboard box of four books: numbers, animal sounds, alphabet, and objects. Illustrated by Eric Carle, each page has one a lovely illustration accompanied by one or two words. We pick a book, as we do several times a day and what feels like several hundred times on the weekends. Usually the routine goes we open a book, I point at the picture and say the word often with some sound effects. Usually Aarin makes encouraging noises, stays till page four then goes and does the next thing but …