Author: Dennis Taraporewala

Storyteller, Business Owner, Musician, Life Strategist.

Power Love: The Missing Ingredient in the Corporate World?

A much abused and over used term – love. Most shy away from using this term. And in the corporate world, this term does not even come up. How can we talk about love, amongst profits, markets, shareholders, stakeholders, growth rates, HR models and hierarchies. Wouldn’t that make you a “softy”, perhaps even a “flake”?

Now, that would be the case, if one were talking about love within the context of its most common associations – romantic love, family love, love within the context of a single or sometimes multiple relationships, love to the country or even love for the world. But there is another kind of love present in the depths of your being. For the sake of a name lets call it POWER LOVE. This love, when experienced is literally “EARTH SHATTERING” and can penetrate the very fabric of your blood. This love, gives you the intuitive understanding of the universe, its principles, its knowledge and its mysteries. It’s the love that enables you to see breathing God in every being, in every thing. Few have experienced POWER LOVE, but those who have, have experienced a deep inner movement, a current that connects them to the universal.

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My India – Potentially Flawed?

Yes, we all want to see India do well, especially those of us who stay in India and are brought up here. And yes, we have inherited a great culture as we like to say, 5000 years old say some. But when I look around me, either we are blinded by this great culture we have inherited or we are plain shitting on it – this applies literally as well. Remember Indonesia, Malaysia, Egypt and many others are developing nations like India, but we have a unique reputation globally, of defecating on the streets. And I cannot ignore this. A nation that “allows” people to defecate on its streets on a regular basis, creating tons of organic waste left outside to rot, reflects an inner state within the cultural fabric of its soul. It communicates very simply – we don’t care, say what you like, when I want to shit, I will just defecate right there in front of you – that, is the inner feeling. Of course, the solution is not in having more public toilets (that is one of the outer effects of an inner change) , the solution is in changing our mindset first – both parties, the ones who shit and the ones who do not – need to care about the country. But do we really?

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Do PR Agencies Need Multiple Offices?

When I was working as the Marketing Head of large format organizations, I always found it amusing that PR agencies would present to us “we have 7 or 14 or 32 (whatever maybe the actual number), offices in India” and then go on to show an India map with the infamous dots on them, for each office. As the marketing head I always wanted to know two things:

1. Who will be the people working on my account? The agency may have 52 offices in India for all I care, but give me 2 sub standard PR executives working on my account and I would have a fire on my hands.

2. How did PR agencies manage so many offices anyways (given that PR agencies are always on the bottom end of the marketing spectrum -:))? Were their rates being increased more by the amounts they would be spending on office rent and housing all the people, rather than good talent?

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The Awareness of “Lack”

The human mind is a trickster.  It not only takes itself too seriously, it is also in a continous state/awareness of “lack”. ‘Not enough money’, ‘not enough of adulation’, ‘my pictures are not taken’, ‘my play is not reviewed’, ‘my career is frustrating’, ‘my spouse is not responding’ and the mental dialouges are endless. And when the mind takes such a posture, it inevitably blames everyone around it for its stress – ‘you did not publish it’, ‘you are holding back my career’, ‘you do not notice me’ etc.

The constant awareness of “lack” in all aspects of life, becomes a self fulfilling propecy, Continue reading “The Awareness of “Lack””