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155: Leadership Series: Emotional Intelligence / Emotional Quotient

Emotional intelligence (otherwise also known as emotional quotient or EQ) helps in building stronger relationships, success at work, and achieving career and personal goals. It can also help one to connect with their feelings, turn intention into action, and make informed decisions about what matters most.

 

Defining EQ / EI

Emotional intelligence is defined as the ability to perceive, use, understand and manage emotions. People with high emotional intelligence can recognize their own emotions and those of others, use emotional information to guide thinking and behavior, discern between different feelings and label them appropriately, and adjust emotions to adapt to environments.

Emotional intelligence is the ability to understand, use, and manage your own emotions in positive ways to relieve stress, communicate effectively, empathize with others, overcome challenges and defuse conflict.

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153: Theatre Command : Bird’s eye view

My views on the issue of jointness and HDO reforms.

(For selective viewing, please click on the links below)

  1. Upto 03:30 – Introduction.
  2. 03:30 – 09:00 – Perspective on the issue of jointness and theaterisation.
  3. 09:00 – 16:40 – Peculiarities of each service with areas of convergence.
  4. 16:40 – 19:15 – Issue of meagre resources.
  5. 19:15 – 26:30 – Are we blindly following others?
  6. 26:30 – 32:45 – Is the timing right?
  7. 32:45 -39:45 – Are we addressing the issue in an ad hoc way?
  8. 39:45 – 45:55 – Views about AD Command.
  9. 45:55 – 51:25 – Way forward and recommendations.
  10. 51:25 – 59:05 – Issue of discussion in open media.
  11.  59:05 onwards – Concluding thoughts.

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152: My Tryst with HT-2 Aircraft: The Day God Flew With Me

 My previous story titled “The day I flew my dad’s Car” started with the sentence “It was the year of the lord……..” Well this one is also form the same year of the lord. It seems that 1979 was a very eventful year. It was eventful indeed, as this was the year when I started flying (or rather started learning how to fly), this was the year I earned my Wings and also got commissioned in the Indian Air Force. These events changed my life, making the next forty years most enjoyable ones.

 

 

This story is about my tryst with the HT-2 aircraft (I always lovingly called it Dalda Tin aircraft). Well that was the first impression one got on seeing it. But looks can be deceptive and in this case it was true. HT – 2 (Hindustan Trainer – 2) was one lean mean flying machine. This machine had deflated the ego of many an ace pilots by rubbing their nose into the dirt or by giving them a swinging  time (literally). HT-2 was a very simple machine with mechanical controls but a complex one to control. The machine seemed to have a mind of its own and reminded one of bronc riding rodeo. It is said that if one can drive on Indian roads, he or she can drive anywhere in the world. Similar thing can be said about HT-2, if you can fly the HT-2, you can fly any aircraft in the world.

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