Shalu Wasu |
Shalu Wasu is a creativity consultant and trainer apart from being a guest faculty for some well-known business schools in Singapore. An MBA from IIM, Ahmedabad (1999), he founded training company Life Ahoy Pte. Ltd. and tickledbylife.com in 2008 after 9 years in the corporate fast lane across 6 countries, 4 industries and 2 multinational companies. For Shalu, these 9 years were an exciting playfield of creativity where he let loose his out-of-the-box ideas and spearheaded many a business breakthrough. His creativity in finding workable solutions to intractable business problems earned him the sobriquet ‘ideas man’ wherever he worked. Shalu became the youngest ever regional head at NIIT in 2003 (at age 26) heading a team of 150 and also the youngest ever Country Manager at Polaroid in 2005 (at age 28) heading operations for ASEAN and India. He is now seriously considering to dye his sideburns grey to come across as a mature creativity trainer, his boyish looks notwithstanding. shalu@tickledbylife.com http://www.lifeahoy.sg |
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How to purposefully increase your natural creativity! by Shalu Wasu There are three different kinds of creative responses. Which is yours? |
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3 myths related to training and learning by Shalu Wasu Myths have a way of perpetuating themselves. There are quite a few related to training and learning too. Everyone seems to believe in them. So much so that they have become sacrosanct and no one even bothers to question them. |
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Avoiding Death by PowerPoint! by Shalu Wasu I must say that I am equally fed up of the numerous ‘rules for making presentations’ that we stumble across every few days either in a presentation or on the net. When you google ‘rules for making presentations’, you get more than 8 million results! Most of them are standard clichés that irk me no end. So I have created my own set of presentation rules. I follow my rules to the last detail and I have rarely been disappointed. I implore you, urge you and beg you to follow my rules as well. |
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My Favourite Quotes on New Year Resolutions by Shalu Wasu Here are some of my favourite quotes on new year resoultions. |
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Serendipity is not an accident. by Shalu Wasu Let us first see what stops us from making happy discoveries. We have been conditioned to see what we expect. Our preconceptions creep into whatever we come across. We don’t see things as they are but as we expect them to be. Secondly, we force our preconceptions into whatever we do and want a task to go along predetermined lines. Too obsessed with how things should be, we don’t recognize lucky turns of events and new possibilities. |
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My secret new year resolutions! by Shalu Wasu Do you have secret resolutions to share? |
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Reframing a situation for creative ideas by Shalu Wasu A very old Chinese Taoist story describes a farmer in a poor country village. He owned a horse which he used for plowing and for transportation. |
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Myths about creativity by Shalu Wasu Creativity has long been looked upon as an activity behind the closet. No wonder many myths have developed around the creative process. Not to be left behind, there are many myth busters out there as well! |
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16 habits of highly creative people by Shalu Wasu Many people believe that creativity is inborn and only a chosen few are creative. While it is true that creativity is inborn, it is not true that only a chosen few are creative. |
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Happy New Year, 2010? by Shalu Wasu I have been actively making new-year resolutions for the last 3 years with very little success. It is usually regular stuff like fitness, skills, jobs, money, etc. It usually lasts for a few weeks. The longest was last year when I started jogging regularly and kept at it for a few months. |
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15 elephant tethers that stop you from being creative! by Shalu Wasu As you grow up and gain experience, you absorb assumptions which then drive your life and limit your choices. You can break away from them with a simple tug if you want to but you don’t. As you acquire more and more experience, your repertoire of blind assumptions grows too, correspondingly limiting your choices. Your experience becomes a hindrance in your being creative. |
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Right brain? Left brain? by Shalu Wasu You've probably heard this left/right brain dichotomy before. It goes something like this: the left hemisphere of the brain is logical, deductive, mathematical, etc., while the right hemisphere is artistic, visual and imaginative. |
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Watch out for the new look TickledByLife.com! by Shalu Wasu [caption id="attachment_7948" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="That's Panna Lal working on the TickledbyLife.com revamp!"][/caption] We are working on revamping TickledbyLife.com to make it more useful for all our readers. Most of the ... |
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Guide to boosting creativity - by Panna Lal by Shalu Wasu Tickled by Life recently celebrated its first birthday. To celebrate the occasion we have created a series of marvelous ebooks for our readers. These ebooks are beautifully designed compilations of the best articles published on Tickled by Life in t... |
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Stuck for an idea? Try this. by Shalu Wasu When was the last time you were stuck for an idea? It happens with everyone, but the trick is not to remain stuck for long. What if you had a magic wand and you could come up with ideas about anything at will? How would it change your life? This arti... |
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Forcing yourself to get up early in the morning is pointless! by Shalu Wasu So here are 10 points about why you should stay up late and still not feel bad when you come across another article by the self-help gurus who preach getting up early in the morning! |
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Smoking a cigarette is like talking to your mother-in-law because... by Shalu Wasu Once upon a time, many years ago, in prehistoric times, at a time when there were no cities, no buildings and perhaps even no villages, there was a hunter. He had had a successful day and was walking through a forest back to his tribe. He had slung ... |
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My favourite quotes on creativity by Shalu Wasu Creativity means different things to different people. Here are a few popular definitions of creativity. Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties: Gail Sheehy Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaki... |
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I love to fail! by Shalu Wasu Our attitude towards failure gets formed very early in life. Usually in school…and it never just goes away. All through school, we perhaps take hundreds of tests, exams, assignments etc. And we are in BIG trouble if we fail even ONCE. So we are sca... |
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I save 1 hour every day by using simple email tricks! by Shalu Wasu I sometimes get hundreds of emails a day. I used to get sucked in and spend hours sorting them out. I invariably ended up having a day when nothing seemed to be getting done. Over time, I discovered and started using these tricks and now I feel compl... |
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Why the worst may be over in the worldwide Financial Crisis!?! by Shalu Wasu Yesterday I was in the middle of conducting a training programme on creativity for a group of Singaporeans when I got a call from my mom who lives in Gurgaon near Delhi. Of course, my mobile was in the silent mode during the session and I got to know... |
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Top 10 ideas for how NOT to make a million dollars! by Shalu Wasu 1. Start a cool looking website. Flick some good content from various sites, put it all together and make it look coherent. Optimize your website for google. Add on some google ads on your site and voila! you are ready to make your first million on t... |
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Is curiosity a cousin of creativity? by Shalu Wasu Curiosity is made up of an open mind, acute sensing abilities and an urge to seek and find. As a child, you had natural curiosity and a sense of wonder. Hungry for novelty, you were always on your toes to welcome the next moment... |
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Banking for the moving Citi! by Shalu Wasu Citibank has recently opened up branches/sales outlets inside a number of MRT stations. This is a superb example of creativity and innovation. I am sure it is paying off handsome dividends to some smart marketing manager at Citibank! These n... |
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Top 10 ideas for increasing medal tally of Singapore at the next Olympics! by Shalu Wasu Offer Singaporean citizenship to all finalists of all events, just five minutes before the final event. If they decline, threaten to sue for defamation for 100 million dollars. Singapore should host the Olympics and include new medal ... |
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Top 10 ideas for increasing medal tally of India at the next Olympics! by Shalu Wasu HRD minister Arjun Singh should fight for reservations of medals for all countries on the basis of population. Use the country’s expertise in bribing to make sure that kabaddi, chess and coding (notice, no cricket) are included and everything ... |
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Why be creative? by Shalu Wasu Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. – George Lois The popular perception is that creativity is just for writers, artists, scientists and advertising people. Not... |
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