May 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 1 mo · Pune, Maharashtra, India · Remote

• Mr Ten’s Gym is inspired by my book, Mr Ten’s Commandments.
• It’s a blueprint for daily success and happiness — not just theory, but a method I’ve practiced for the past few years. At its core is one simple idea: turn big goals into small, consistent ‘micro-wins’ and celebrate each one. This is how you build real well-being — one focused step at a time.
• Here's a short writeup to explain Mr Ten's Gym --> https://tenmg.blogspot.com/2025/07/mr-tens-gym.html
• Please feel free to use this material to practice "Management Tools" - a ten minute morning ritual to build your Leadership Competencies --> https://tenmg.blogspot.com/2025/07/cerebral-brawn-practicing-management.html

Jan 2024 – Apr 2024 · 3 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

• Creating study material for The art and science of happiness based on the MIT curriculum.
• Here's a link to the 12 assignments that I did as part of the course - https://tenmg.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-art-and-science-of-happiness_22.html

Apr 2020 – Jul 2025 · 5 yrs 3 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

• WHO (The World Health Organization) cares for our well-being.
• Around three years ago, we stumbled upon a list of ten subjects identified by WHO for school children. WHO's objective was to strengthen the children's skills to face the daily challenges of the world.
• To our surprise, all these topics were as relevant to the adults as the kids across the globe.
• We looked for a good repository of study material on these topics. It was scattered across the internet, so we decided to collate the essence of these in a single place.
• Our effort involved a study of around 250 articles, videos, speeches, books... exciting moments!!
• We published the first LinkedIn article on 10 April 2020 as part of a 66-day challenge where we published daily posts about what we studied.
• The result of our study is available to you here --> https://tenmg.blogspot.com/2023/06/study-material-21st-century-skills.html
• Hope our efforts help you in your journey.
• We are grateful to all those experts who shared their wisdom.
• What next? We don't know. Tell us.

Apr 2015 – Jul 2017 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Manipal

Jun 2014 – Mar 2015 · 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Volunteered for a candidate for general assembly. It was my first experience of doing door-to-door campaigning and participating in rallies etc.
• Volunteered for NHRD, a national level network of HR professionals. Got to know closely how these organisations work. They work only because a few feel strongly about making a change for their brethren. Most of the managing committee members are senior Heads of HR. In spite of their hectic schedule, they are able to give that extra hour (mostly from their personal time).for all the HR professionals. If only all of us could take at least an hour a month to support them!!

Aug 2012 – May 2014 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Employee Engagement, Post acquisition integration, Harmonization of policies, Redundancy management
• Other:
• Introduced the Multiple Intelligences concept to the corporate world by creating a framework to nurture talents of employees
• Celebrated 60th birthday with Prof Anil Gupta (IIMA) and his grass-root level inventors from villages in Gujarat
• Built ‘report cards’ for a few friends talking to them each month

Dec 2009 – May 2024 · 14 yrs 5 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

• Books, Articles, Blogs, YouTube Videos

Jan 2006 – Jul 2012 · 6 yrs 6 mos

• Performance Management, Employee engagement, implementing PCMM, technical competency framework for 4 Offshore countries, Manager-employee-dialogue dashboard based on Gallup Q12, Fellowship framework, People Manager manual called Bushido
• Other:
• Started learning painting, sitting alongside 6-12 year olds
• Introduced birthday meetings with employees
• Learnt the art and science of coaching (Paris/ Reading)
• Wrote my first book
• Invented an exercise called ‘ball bearing’
• Initiated ‘90 day project’ videos for young parents
• Created a tool based on Tom Peters’ ‘Have you in the last ten days?’
• Pushed my 81 year old mother to start her blog
• Started an experiment in collaborative painting
• Started creating designer books for global CEOs
• Pushed my 82 year old mother to make edits in Wikipedia
• Published my first book (Amazon, 2010)
• Birthday gift for my mother-book on her 10 year research on medicinal plants
• Started sessions on ‘What’s your passsion?’ to egg people find their passion
• Started giving away my books free to those who donate to Sunitha Krishnan
• Worked with the famous Seattle fishmongers
• Learnt Fishbone diagram to apply it to a problem – ‘The managers know it all about managing people, yet they don’t practice it – Why?’
• Five day world conference on Appreciative Enquiry, Ghent, Belgium
• Presented a new concept called ‘Project Manager donning a CEO hat’ in CII
• Initiated a collaborative exercise where Writers’ club members co-authored a book with a management guru

Oct 2003 – Dec 2005 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Development and implementation of Telecom products
• Other:
• Lived in a village to observe school drop-outs ‘converted’ into entrepreneurs
• Submitted a patent idea in telecom domain
• Started giving annual donation to MIT OpenCourseWare as my way of ‘giving’

Jun 2003 – Sep 2003 · 3 mos

• Creating harmonised QA processes for the client.
• Other:
• Created a tool for Project Managers – freedom from fear of QA audits

Feb 2003 – Jun 2003 · 4 mos

• Managing the product centre in the BFSI space

Aug 2002 – Feb 2003 · 6 mos

• Transitioning product centre in BFSI space
• Other:
• Learnt ‘lateral thinking’ from Peter De Bono in Oxford

Jul 1997 – Jul 2002 · 5 yrs

• Managing all the support functions

Jun 1996 – Jun 1997 · 1 yr

• Product development in BFSI space

Nov 1994 – May 1996 · 1 yr 6 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Development and implementation of software product in BFSI space

Apr 1973 – Oct 1994 · 21 yrs 6 mos