The puzzling rub of the rupee

In 2007 an anti-corruption group in India developed a rather creative way to help people ‘just say no’ to corruption.
The ‘5th Pillar’ as the group is known printed some 25,000 rupee notes that had the official Mahatma Gandhi and design on the face of the note and a mission statement about anti-corruption on the other side.
The [...]

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Rock, paper, scissor those thighs

A few weeks ago I joined a gym at one of the nearby resorts.  It’s not really an open gym that advertises for members, but more the type where you have to know someone to know about it.
I decided to join because I have a bit more free time than I’m used to having.  To [...]

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The Italian Wife

This week there has been one item in the world news that I find too interesting to ignore.  Pulling up my daily news sites and scanning quickly through the international section, I skim the posts about war and politics until I come to what has now become a daily treat of ‘he said, she said’.
The failure of a marriage gone wrong [...]

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A Tiny Hop

And a jump for joy.  Two Fridays ago I had to give my teams their performance appraisals and guess what?  Progress is being made! Or at least it felt like a moment of progress – a step forward in the right direction, at any rate. 
After I completed each employee’s review, I asked them to give [...]

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2 outta 3 ain’t bad

First, there was the idea of Casual Day Fridays.  The office implemented this idea a few months ago and it was met with excitement and deemed a great success or so I thought.
Second, there was a re-work to the cherished and globally loved ‘Women on the Move’.  Men are also now shown to be ‘On the Move’.  It’s [...]

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