Welcome to 5 O’Clock Reflections, a daily blog by Hemant Rustogi as he explores lessons learned in life, business, and his quest for wisdom. Each month Hemant invites a person who intrigues him, to join him for a 5 pm interview to share their insights over their favorite cocktail. You can learn more here.

Integrity Counts

Don’t do the right thing because you live in a fishbowl, where very action is viewed by the outsiders, looking in. Integrity is about doing the right thing when no one is looking; when it’s only between you and your maker. Integrity is about … [Continue reading]

Please Stop the Hate

The hateful rhetoric, the killings of innocent people during prayer, bombs designed to maim and destroy. What is wrong with our world? And this is supposed to be one of the most developed nations in the world? Is this civilized behavior? We must … [Continue reading]

Words of Wisdom

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. — Socrates … [Continue reading]

Nostalgia

I spent most of today lost in my own head, not able to articulate why I felt the way I did. And then, at the end of the day, it hit home. I received a number of photographs from my childhood, that my brother discovered in an old box at home. Some of … [Continue reading]