Your Story Your Way is a self-published work on realising potential

Source: Hemant Bohra. 

Your Story Your Way by Hemant Bohra is for those starting off on their journey to success. In this real-life guide, the entrepreneur-turned-author discusses centuries-old wisdom that can help readers tap their true potential.

Hemant started his career with capital markets as an equity trader and holds more than two decades of experience across multiple sectors. He worked with Value Dialog, one of India’s earliest investor relations firms, and later co-founded Fortuna Public Relations, a pan-India communications firm. In 2015, he decided to write this book. 

According to Hemant, the heart and mind make the decisions in life. The two reason very differently, pulling the person in opposite directions. Depending on the decisions they make, people can either be the hero or the villain of their own life story. A hero moves towards success, while a villain remains mired in fear and doubt.

The stories in this book are a guide to understanding the role of the heart and the mind and finding the right balance between the two, with the help of six questions. There is no correct order to answering them, nor a single correct answer. Answers to these questions vary from person to person. In fact, the answer to the questions might also differ at different stages in life, but the questions remain the same.

Interested?

The Kindle and paperback versions of the book are available on Amazon

Singapore SMEs, startups get government boost for R&D&C

Help for SMEs and startups from the Singapore government for R&D&C continues to grow. The term comes from extending research and development (R&D) all the way to commercialisation (C).

Today, that help includes cash grants, business incubator schemes, and tax incentives, said Lim Chuan Poh, Chairman, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), speaking as the guest of honour at Developer and Global Entrepreneur Day during IBM's XCite event in Singapore.

"At A*STAR, our commercialisation arm, ETPL, supports budding technopreneurs from A*STAR's research institutes who desire to spin off their inventions. In March this year, we also introduced Headstart, a programme which grants royalty-free and exclusive intellectual property licenses for the first 18 months to SMEs that collaborate with A*STAR," he said.

Over the past five years, more than 700 SMEs have undertaken close to 2,200 projects with A*STAR, Lim disclosed, adding that the organisation's licensing policies and terms have been enhanced and simplified to allow more SMEs and startups to benefit from A*STAR's research. 

Besides providing IP to enable the development of new products and services, the government also helps SMEs and start-ups harness technology for business 
improvement. 

"At A*STAR, we facilitate technology adoption and upgrading through a variety of initiatives. For example, our Growing Enterprises through Technology Upgrade or GET-Up Programme includes a scheme that seconds researchers to SMEs to work on innovation projects leading to new products and services. 
In addition, A*STAR’s Technology Adoption Programme (TAP) offers technology 
consultancy to SMEs and subsequently matches them with solution providers," said Lim. 

Lim shared that A*STAR’s TAP team has engaged more than 4,600 
companies and helped more than 650 companies adopt new technologies since 2013. SPRING has invested S$40 million in 2011 to launch sector-specific accelerators to identify, invest and grow startups in areas like medical and clean technology as well.

Philippines government to find solutions for new graduates, the unemployed

Meanwhile, the government continues to expand its employment programmes to provide jobs for thousands expected to graduate in 2014 and also for those who remain unemployed, Malacañang said on March 30.

In an interview over dzRB Radyo ng Bayan, Presidential Communications Operations Office Secretary (PCOO) Herminio Coloma said 95,935 positions in different private and public corporations and agencies are currently up for grabs.

This is according to the Department of Labor and Employment’s (DOLE) www.phil-job.net, an internet-based job and applicant matching system, which aims to fast track the job seeker's search for employment and the employer's search for manpower.

Coloma said the government is also providing financial aid to self-employed individuals, landless farmers, non-wage domestic workers, young workers with dependents, low-income earners, and those who do not have permanent employment due to calamities through the Integrated Livelihood and Emergency Employment Program.

He said this programme also covers those who are listed in the Department of Social Welfare and Development's national household targeting system.

In a press briefing held in Malacañang on March 13, DOLE Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said there are an estimated 600,000 to 700,000 new entrants to the labour force this year.