Poorani Thanusha

I am so proud of my first role model, my mother Jaya, who has inspired me to be my self. I am super proud that she has finally written a book about her life that is being launched today for online pre-orders. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09VGLLZH8

Most importantly, its her birthday! Happy Birthday dearest Amma. Thank you for your lifelong unwavering empowerment of the best in people. Shout out to my fellow beneficiaries Dr. Ramesh Ramachandra Krishna Ramachandra Gane Ramachandra

**Meet Jaya Baleswari Ramachandra, everyone! **

Mind Spirit Works is delighted to announce the author of our upcoming book - Jaya Baleswari Ramachandra!

Jaya Baleswari was born in Jaffna, Ceylon, and moved to Singapore with her husband and her four children in 1972.

In this memoir, Jaya outlines her life in two parallel tracks. As a Ceylon Tamil whose third of the community is now part of a global diaspora, Jaya recollects in the first half her memories of growing up in her homeland, shares about her family as well as recall key events unfolding in Ceylon in the 1950s that set the stage for subsequent ethnic unrest.

In the second half, she recounts the adventures in her new adopted land of Singapore, adapting to a different culture and lifestyle, facing challenges in health, finding her entrepreneurial spirit and joy of volunteering, witnessing with anguish the escalating violence back in Sri Lanka from the 1980s and the 25-year long civil war that ensured as well as losing her nearest and dearest in recent years.

Jaya counts her blessings for the people and situations throughout the years and looks forward to continuing her life-long learning and connecting with new people and new situations.

The book is available for pre-order on Amazon.

Here's the link -
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09VGLLZH8

Pre-book your copy now!

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It was the pleasure of Ramesh and myself to be able to support in fulfilling her commitment to family businesses in Vietnam. We were most happy and honoured to share our experience and expertise with all the amazing people who were there!

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Which comes first - the family or the ?

My co-facilitator from , Ramesh shares her take on this. Read to find out more.

“Is there room for Love in a family business?” As established in my previous article, many entrepreneur-owners of family businesses would sooner demonstrate love for their children than entrust them with their business. It’s like the famous Godfather line, “It’s not personal, it’s business.

In working with family businesses over the last 15 years, one of the recurring themes we observed is that business owners who love their children may not necessarily trust them with the business.

My colleague and sister, Ramesh, who just completed her doctorate on innovation in family businesses, has something to say about it:

“I love you my child. I just don’t trust you with my business yet.” Most big businesses that we know today started out as family businesses. In fact, just a week ago, it was reported that three family businesses in the United States – the Walton, Koch and Mars families – have a combined wealth of US$348.

Life is full of worries. The challenge is to look beyond. That’s what my sister, Ramesh, and I seem to be doing at our most recent class at Bangkok. Or maybe we were just looking at the Lunch specials ✌🏼

A good session can really bring out the smiles of satisfaction. That’s what on display here with 56 participants who were thoroughly immersed in our Family Business Management Module in Mandalay.👍🏽 Next stop was Yangon and here you can see my co-facilitator ready to break the ice with the hula hoop gang.🤗 Keep you posted on what happens next in Yangon!👐

Whenever I see birds resting on phone wires, I’m reminded of how they look like notes on a music sheet. Ring a bell?