Unconventional Gyan

"Pioneers in Perspective & Culture training"

"Conventional ideas are usually
the most popular ones, not necessarily
THE BEST WAY TO DO THINGS..."

with love,
Deep

Welcome to the world of

Unconventional Gyan !!!

gyan quotes

The 'Costliest' gift you can ever give to someone is 'Free Will'... Even to your kids...:-)

Emotions are the ONLY drivers of Human Motivation...

Nothing in the universe except human beings follow Clock time... Not even the sun or earth for its rotation...

Practicing Abstinence to achieve higher level of Humility is like Ostrich sticking head in ground to be safe when scared.

The strongest element of an organisation is 'Informal Authority'...

All Emotions (positive-negative) indicate inaccurate projections; inaccurate knowledge of Truth

No one is Free to do what they Want, because no one chooses Freely what they Want in the first place...

Free Will / Freedom is Myth.... An illusion contained by perceived inabilities...

Your Emotions are your Perception of the world... World is what it is...

The most misconceived certainty is people think they know EXACTLY how human mind works...

Humour is just an emotion ignited by people's destituteness...

It is important to focus on EQ for future sustainable growth of business.

The best way to convince someone that you have done something is by actually doing it!

The world is your lab and pragmatism is the key to authentic Know-How...

Emotions can be defined as representation of satisfied or unsatisfied needs

Further away your achievement is from expectation, stronger is the emotion

Being Emotionally content with chaos facilitates giving up control and when forged with Authentic Know-How arising out of Pragmatism, is the pathway to Enlightenment...

Nobody, but YOU, decides where to draw the line or when to quit. You are only as strong as you THINK you are...

There is no invisible man UP there to take decisions on your behalf, wake-up and take charge of your life...

The biggest enemy of mankind is faith.. Faith in things that do not exist.. It keeps you waiting forever hoping for miracles that are never gonna happen...

The stupidest thoughts admired by Mankind are from Philosophy.. NEVER compare two different objects; everything has its own unique way of behaving / happening / occurring / processing / existing...

Be very careful while defining GOOD and BAD, RIGHT and WRONG for your kids. What your parents taught you may not be the best fit for your kid's future...

Every WANT has an expiry date, don't miss it.. Live your life NOW..

Do what you do the best... That is...Be Yourself....

To expect something unreasonable from life, be ready to give something unreasonable...

NEVER expect world to be a fair place, it is not... What matters is how you can make it biased towards you...

Nobody ever gets anything unless they deserve it, if you disagree in few cases, you definitely have not considered ALL parameters that matter...

Growth in life doesn't depend on how soon you learn things, but depends on how soon you UNLEARN things that don't exist...

Success doesn't come by suppressing your cravings or desires... It comes when you get done with them and move on to bigger things in life...

There's very thin line between calling one's act as Bravery or Insanity... If you win, it's Bravery, if you lose its Insanity!!!...

The attitude of 'Never Give Up' doesn't make sense at all times.... It is very important to QUIT when it's no longer worth the investments...

Any relation flourishes ONLY when both give what the other one expects, not when they give what they can...

Life has already kept away many things from you, which are beyond your control.. Do not add to the list by unnecessarily restricting yourself just because someone somewhere said so or wrote so calling it an 'Ideal' way of living life...

The only 'Ideal' way of living life is when you do whatever you like whenever you like... Noone, but yourself, can make rules for your life...

Just because you do not understand something doesn't mean it's gonna harm you... Overcoming fear of the unknown is the key to being where you never thought you could ever be...

Humans by nature are selfish, there's nothing wrong in it... One would be more concerned about a boil on their bum than earthquake in Japan...

Be friends with yourself, not the watch... Live your life doing what you want, not what the watch says...

Time is a Resource not a Constraint...

The sign of mastering politics is being referred to as the most apolitical person by all stakeholders...

There will often be times when your Theory about How The World Works would not match with reality. In those times you can either hold on to your Theory and keep calling reality as Wrong or you can accept reality and improve your Theory making it more realistic...

Pragmatism is the key to perceived eternity…

Two hands at work are far better than hundred hands at begging for favouritism…

Education has ABSOLUTELY no relevance to Freedom... People are SLAVES to Fear Of The Unknown... They worship and surrender to things they don't understand…

The degree of illusion one lives in is directly proportional to the degree of impressed one feels when presented with simple Truth…

Happiness by Knowledge & Wisdon is as temporary as Happiness by Chocolate

Taking a break from running to gain Knowledge is beginning of gaining Wisdom…

Scientist Monk Yogi they all search for the same God – TRUTH The only difference is their language…

Everyone can give you something, but no one can give you Everything…

Time & Tide wait for no one… Then why do you run behind such UNLOYAL (namak haram) Clock Time???...

When was the last time you took a 3 second long breath???... MAKE IT EVERY BREATH…

Aiming at only Money in life is like consuming only Protein ignoring all other vitamins & minerals…

The Costliest resource you can give to someone is your Attention & Thoughts, not money, time or energy…

Human Mind is slave to symbolism… True Freedom is beyond this Slavery…

The fastest way to know the Truth is by surrendering to Illusion…

The purpose of life is to Attain and Sustain Emotional Equillibrium…

The fastest way of doing anything is by not doing it fast... :-)

Lately the challenge is not to make people do things, it is to make people not overdo things…

The BIGGEST sin is to abruptly end someone's sleep, including and especially your own…

Stronger is the Emotion bigger is the opportunity to Learn…

Human Mind is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING beyond a Photocopy Machine…

No pain - No gain is the biggest lie... Greatest possibilities are created from your strengths, within your comfort zone, by Stretching yourself to the max... not by Stress... :-)

If you believe at times people are just dumb and don't understand things, you need to ENFORCE rules to make them do the right thing... The reality is either you're not listening to them or you just don't know how to teach... You need to LEARN HOW TO TEACH... :-)

Laughter is ALWAYS ignited by Ego, by sense of superiority, higher intellect

Expect / Accept everything and you'll NEVER be disappointed / exhilarated…

Everyone wants Peace, try to Teach people how to achieve it... Speak when someone's listening... Teach when someone's learning... People Listen & Learn the best when they're Emotionally Neutral (Peaceful), so in the meanwhile HELP them achieve Peace... 😊😊😊

The fastest way of doing anything is by not doing it fast... :-)

The fastest way to know the Truth is by surrendering to Illusion…

Being anything away from an 'Average' person is a curse of loneliness…

The better you understand Freedom (Free-will), the worse you feel realising the Slavery you're living in…

True love is being in love with yourself…

Emotions are purest form of Logic…

KEEP WALKING' is a philosophy which keeps your one leg in future, other in past and your eyes at a distance far away... To 'LIVE IN THE MOMENT' you need to sit, relax and breathe easy.....

Leadership is not about making people do things your way, it is about helping them do things their way... So is Parenting... :-)

gyan articles

Educative Leadership

Leaders should be termed ‘Teachers’, not ‘Managers'...

Risk Taking – A Myth

Leadership decision making in face of ‘Risk’ is about evaluating ‘Risk, but with respect to whom?’

An Open Letter to ‘Boss’

Let us together make civilisation of corporate Bosses a better place to be in.. :-)

UNACCEPTABLE Theory of Motivation

Every Thought (leading to) Emotion (leading to) Action arises ONLY when Reality is UNACCEPTABLE…

Human Time

Clocks measure other clocks, they don’t measure Time….

Embracing Ambiguity - Achieving Unachieved Realms

Humko Toh Raahein Thi Chalaati, Woh Khud Apani Raah Banaata…

STEM Theory of Investment – Pathway to Prospering Lives

In Mumbai everyone is in hurry, but no one is on time…

Negotiation – An un-boon to exponentially flourishing relationships/organisations

‘When you’re good at something, it is the least you can do for free…’

Need-Emotion – A Complex system

The simple way Emotions can be defined is representation of satisfied or unsatisfied Needs (Maslow chacha ki theory for Needs).

TNA – Building on strengths way...

The biggest possibilities created by people lie in their ‘intellectual creativity’ of using their existing strengths

Flourishing Organisations – The People Way

Conventional practices make us benchmark the optimum productivity and the entire race is on finding the least required investment to reach that productivity…

Human Communication and Technology

We have seen and experienced amazing benefits of technology; however, we still have people (mainly from pre-internet revolution era) who do not find technology as a boon.

HR Interview

This article revolves around understanding role of HR in selection process. Is it limited to short-listing of candidates as per ‘check-list’ of JD / Desired Candidate profile or there is more to it?

Policy Designing

‘Policy Designing’ is as creative and innovative a job as much it is Statutorily Obligatory.

‘360 Degree Feedback’ is highly effective in headlining various perspectives towards one’s job and ensures input is received from all those who matter. But is it actually covering everything that matters?

Thinking Out Of The Box

‘Thinking Out Of The Box’ has always been the most admired approach to ‘Smartness’. ‘Out of the box’ ideas are considered to be very unique; it is something that comes only from few ‘Smarties’. Is it really so?

POSH Sessions
Gyan on Emotions
Gyan on Change Management
Gyan on Human Mind
Giving back to society

2 hrs. of Clock Time

Topic	Description
POSH (Prevention of Sexual Harrasment of Women at Workplace) Awareness	Understanding the Act andcreating general awareness amongs Employees

4 hrs. of Clock Time

Topic	Description
POSH (Prevention of Sexual Harrasment of Women at Workplace) for Team Managers	Understanding duties and responsibilities of Team Managers in ensuring safe workplace

8 hrs. of Clock Time ( 1 day )

Topic	Description
POSH (Prevention of Sexual Harrasment of Women at Workplace) for ICC	Being an ICC committee member is a very crucial and sensitive role, hence, it is imperative to be thorough with provisions of ACT, and be prepared to manage any complaints

2 hrs. of Clock Time

Topic	Description
Emotions and Intuition driven presentations	Presentation structures are usually simply guidelines, delivering high impact presentations need so called ‘X Factor’… Let’s explore the science behind it….
Human Communication – Beyond Business / Personal communication barriers	Erasing the myth about keeping Business and personal life as completely distinct… A person is what he/she is… Learning about Communication and using it to the best we can…. Not being slaves to rules of communication, but using it as a tool to benefit us…
Human Writing skills – Beyond Business / Personal communication barriers	Erasing the myth about keeping Business and personal life as completely distinct… A person is what he/she is… Learning about writing and using it to the best we can…. Not being slaves to rules of writing, but using it as a tool to benefit us…

4 hrs. of Clock Time

Topic	Description
Emotional Resilience	It doesn’t matter how hard you hit, what matters is how hard you can get and keep coming. Managing Emotions at work and in personal life is usually done by ‘Controlling’ them… Let’s get Real and let’s ‘Manage’ them well... Let’s bounce back faster and harder…
UNACCEPTABLE Theory of Motivation	Emotions are the ONLY driver of Human Motivation. Unifying all theories of Motivation in a simple practical approach to be used in day-to-day life.
Sadness – An indicator of becoming Smarter	We are TAUGHT to not let people be Sad, we are TAUGHT to not leave them alone when they are emotionally low and we are TAUGHT to focus on being Happy as much as we can… But the Reality is Sadness makes you Smarter, do we know that???...

8 hrs. of Clock Time ( 1 day )

Topic	Description
Emotions are more Logical than Brain	Focuses on classic Heart v/s Brain conflict and concludes emphasising on importance of Emotions, Emotional Intelligence at large.

32 hrs. of Clock Time ( 4 days )

Topic	Description
Leading organisations with Emotions	Emotions are the ONLY drivers of human motivation. We will explore the 'UNACCEPTABLE Theory of Motivation'. We will understand how is Emotional Leadership the pathway to triumph. How to have an entire organisation in self-motivated state delivering best of what they can without 'Reward & Punishment' methods...

2 hrs. of Clock Time

Topic	Description
Risk Taking – A Myth	Describes and elaborates how ‘Risk Taking’ or ‘Being Lucky’ is a science and not a matter of fanatic coincidence. Risk taking doesn’t exist, people NEVER take any Risk.
Communication with Emotions to build Influence	It is widely followed that Communication has to be assertive, empathetic, but with ‘Controlled’ Emotions… Is that the best way of Communicating???...
Definition of Boss – At service to Juniors	Upward delegation is more important than downward delegation. Bosses are not the ever-super-smart individuals driving a team, they are service providers to their Team members… It is important to teach everyone how to utilize their Boss efficiently…
Rada (Conflict) Management	Fight the battles you can win… Conflicts / difference of opinions will always exist, in fact it’s a good sign that people stand for something… Conflict Management is not about being a school teacher punishing those dis-agreeing with each other, but it is more-of being a referee of a boxing match… Setting back the right way of disagreeing, making people agree to disagree… Eventually finding the best way of doing things…
Self-Branding (Khud ki lal karna)	It is often said that the best branding is when people talk about you and your work… But Reality is no one knows you and your work better than you… Should one really shy away from mastering skills of Self-Branding???...
Ethics	Every culture is collection of behaviours driven by philosophies and line of thought. Core Values define overall outcome of an organisation’s purpose. Defining those Values which matter is like defining constitution of the organisation.

4 hrs. of Clock Time

Topic	Description
Biryani Recipe	Making Strengths so large that the Weakness becomes irrelevant…
Who the F*** made the check-list???...	Conventional ideas are usually the most popular ones, not necessarily THE BEST WAY TO DO THINGS...
Is Harry Potter a Religion? – Organisation Culture	Understanding what is ‘Culture’, how it gets build uncontrolled and how it evolves… We can then master driving the ‘Change’ we desire…
Organisation Rituals – Building a sustainable culture	Rituals build Religion, Rituals build society, can Rituals build a sustainable culture in Organisations? Let’s find out the practical use and impact of Rituals…
Selling and Cross-Selling and Re-Selling and Re-Re-Selling	Why is the generic notion of Sales an unpleasant one? Being a Sales person or meeting a Sales person is usually considered an out-of-comfort zone job… When Sales is the best thing that can happen to an Organisation, what makes it so undesired???... Let’s find out…
Diplomacy – A Virus….	Communicating with Truth and Transparency is often observed as a scary way of doing things… The Fear of being Honest or say being against expectations of others drive Diplomacy. That’s a Virus, it does no good and only takes the whole system down…
Team Building – Either everyone wins or no-one does	This session is not about Gyan in classroom, it is full of only exercises and games. Where people don’t listen or read, but experience the feel of either winning together or losing together….
Decision Making by coin toss	The best way to make a decision is by tossing a coin, don’t let anyone tell anything otherwise…
Never Give-Up / Don’t Quit – Stupidest philosophy ever…	Quitting is more important than mindlessly pursuing… Keep going on and on and on and on and on is supposed to be a brave thing to do which leads you to success…. Does it really???...

8 hrs. of Clock Time ( 1 day )

Topic	Description
Leading with Emotions	Do Emotions make someone weak? Make someone vulnerable? Make someone non-logical???... Emotions make the Greatest Leaders… Let’s find out how…
Informal Leadership	Ever seen people immensely drive people motivation and thoughts in spite of not being in any Formal authoritative position? Of course, you have… Let’s find out what makes them so…
Exponential and Sustainable performance of employees	It is said that greatest achievements ever have been self-initiated and driven by self-motivation. The science behind achieving exponential and sustainable performance of employees is rather simple. We already know what works, we just need to un-learn and stop reinforcing what doesn’t work…
Gandhian Management	Wasn’t he the most effective Informal Leader world has ever seen???... He drove huge masses of people without being in formal authority of leading them… What was the magic he did? Let’s find out…
Jack Sparrow’s compass	Pirates of Caribbean Fans can relate to this easily… Jack Sparrow had a compass that didn’t point north, but pointed in the direction of what the holder wanted the most. That always gave him an edge over others… We all have this compass, wanna learn how to use it???...

16 hrs. of Clock Time ( 2 days )

Topic	Description
People Management beyond Carrot and Stick	Everything we do around involves People Management, but the only way we know of motivating people is ‘Carrot & Stick’ / ‘Reward & Punishment’… Human Motivation is much more than that…
Organisation Politics a Friend or a Foe? – Crash course in Change Management	Nahi aata kyon bolu, nahi karna keh kar taal na du… Politics is a Reality, we can either stuff our head in ground like an Ostrich or we can stand-up and understand how does People synergy work in group. It can be the MOST powerful tool to achieve high people productivity…
Problem Solving is Creation of biggest Problem…	If every morning when you reach office, your efforts are focused in identifying problems and fixing them, you end up making the entire organisation a huge problem to be solved… Stop focusing on problem identification to solve, begin creating new possibilities…

2 hrs. of Clock Time

Topic	Description
Brave or Stupid	There’s always very thin line between being ‘Brave’ or being ‘Stupid’… What is it???...
Knowledge v/s Wisdom	What is Wisdom? How is it different from Knowledge? What gives better results? Let's find out…

4 hrs. of Clock Time

Topic	Description
Rituals – Meaningless practices or Boon	Focuses on understand nature of Human Mind. Thorough discussion on understanding nature of Rituals. Concludes by discovering answer to question in topic.
STEM Theory of Investment	We are very very very careful about being conservative in expending our three resources of Time, Energy and Money…. In this race, we waste the most important resource ‘S’… Let’s find better ways of doing things…
Human Time management – Time Management beyond Clock-Time and Multi-Tasking	In Mumbai, everyone is in hurry all the time, but everyone is also late all the time… What’s happening???... Squeezing in every minute of Clock Time in schedule to be on your toes, do more, keep yourself busy by planning, organising, priotising, multi-tasking… Trying to be highly efficient against Clock Time, have we lost the meaning of Time altogether???…
Stress Management	Leading Cause of Stress is Reality…. The race for Money, Fame, everlasting good health, etc. etc. etc. Isn’t it necessary to break the Rat Race? To understand what EXACTLY we are running behind? Being LEAN in thoughts only increases productivity…
Philosophy v/s Truth	Life is like a flowing river, it always keeps going on…. Is it really so? Philosophies define a lot about the way we do things, especially those catchy and rhyming ones… But Pragmatism is the key to filter fancy philosophies keeping them away from Truth, keeping them away from what decides how we chose to take decisions in our life…
ROI beyond Money	Going back to the old question of how is success defined? We know it’s not just money, but we still crave for money… We know it’s beyond money, but what beyond money? Money is the most liked and the most hated part of everyone’s life… What makes it so???... Let’s find out…

32 hrs. of Clock Time (4 days )

Topic	Description
Who are you?	Self-confidence is not just about being someone or something the world approves of… It is about understanding and DEFINING yourself…
The ONLY Guideline	Take care of yourself VERY WELL… Give yourself EVERYTHING your Heart asks for… In-turn CONSTANTLY seek answers to two questions; - IS THERE A BETTER WAY OF DOING THINGS? - HOW MUCH IS TOO MUCH?

All I have learnt is from the world around me and I continue to use the knowledge to step-up in my life and be ‘happy’. This is my attempt to give-back to society what it has helped me earn, to share my learning and knowledge. Offering free seminar at your place; your office, community, social group, friends, family, relatives, neighbours, anyone… Gather a group of people and buzz me… I’ll be there…

16 hrs. of Clock Time (2 days)

Topic	Description
Being Emotionally Street Smart	Being ‘Emotionally street-smart’ is an expression that represents gaining emotional intelligence and using it in day-to-day life.

32 hrs. of Clock Time (4 days)

Topic	Description
Appreciative Inquiry	Change is inevitable, but the outcome of the change to be positive is a choice we can make… Appreciative Inquiry is a philosophy, an approach to doing everything in life focusing on getting the best of people!.

An Organisation is nothing much beyond the people who make it… People doing what they do gives life to a living system called an organisation… Decades old debate on considering people as one of resources (Human Resources) has gained very short-term ground. Sustainable businesses and causes have their roots in focus on well-being of people effecting and effected by it.

Organisations flourish exponentially when each person associated with the organisation gives best of themselves. The focus may be in any and every area like optimising operations, cost cutting, bringing business, increasing valuation, delighting customers, etc. etc. etc…. All of this happens when people doing these tasks do what they do the best… It all boils down to motivation for making things happen… Including motivation for skill upgradation…

Co-Creation is the key to developing organisations and together we can facilitate the process by giving the alive system (organisation – People doing what they do) it’s chance to flourish and achieve heights never projected…

Let’s together create possibilities…

Workshops

Certification Workshop in Strategic Performance Management