We just had a free-wheeling conversation with Meetul Patel, India Head of the Transformational Consulting Practice at Capgemini Consulting. His career story makes for a compelling read and he also has some great advice for aspiring CEOs. We’ve shared the conversation here.

Sanjeev Mohanty (LI) is the Managing Director (India) for Benetton India Pvt Ltd (South Asia & South East Asia Pacific). His has been a remarkable journey – a non-MBA who started off as an Executive Merchandiser in Tirupur and turned CEO in ten years. His story is inspirational and proof that one does not need an MBA degree from an elite b-school to rise up the corporate ladder. The workosaur team caught up with Sanjeev and sought his words of wisdom for our readers. Read it here.

Kensaku Konishi is the President and CEO of Canon India. Having worked with Canon for more than 20 years across different countries, Konishi now oversees the company’s management and business operations in India. The workosaur team caught up with him and sought his words of wisdom for our readers. You can read the conversation here.

The title of this post is a piece of advice shared by Viraj Malik, CEO and MD of Percept Knorigin, in an interview with us. Viraj also shares some interesting fun-filled anecdotes from his illustrious career. Read the interview here.

Just caught up over coffee with Clifford Patrao who heads the Management Consulting Services division at IBM India. He has great insights and advice for those looking to scale heights in the world of consulting. You can read the conversation here.

Many of us would relate to this conversation between Watson and Holmes. I certainly do. It explains what triggered inside me the urge to start something.

• Watson: Which is it today, morphine or cocaine?
• Holmes: It is cocaine, a seven-per-cent solution. Would you care to try it?
• Watson: No, indeed, my constitution has not got over the Afghan campaign yet. I cannot afford to throw any extra strain upon it.
• Holmes: Perhaps you are right, Watson, I suppose that its influence is physically a bad one. I find it, however, so transcendently stimulating and clarifying to the mind that its secondary action is a matter of small moment.
• Watson: But consider! Count the cost! Your brain may, as you say, be roused and excited, but it is a pathological and morbid process, which involves increased tissue-change, and may at last leave a permanent weakness. You know, too, what a black reaction comes upon you. Surely the game is hardly worth the candle. Why should you, for a mere passing pleasure, risk the loss of those great powers with which you have been endowed? Remember that I speak not only as one comrade to another, but as a medical man to one for whose constitution he is to some extent answerable.
• Holmes: My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artifical stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world.

• Well-wisher: Hey Nimish! I heard you started up.
• Nimish: Yes I did.
• Well-wisher: So where are you based?
• Nimish: Mumbai
• Well-wisher: Oh, so you are back in Mumbai. Where’s your office?
• Nimish: I don’t have one. I work out of home.
• Well-wisher: Huh! And so your tech team etc all come home is it?
• Nimish: I am the tech team and I am the design team. No other employees. In any case what’s the big deal about having an office or employees? I like to get my hands dirty. Even when I do have an office and employees, I’d expect the same out of everyone.