Author: vinodnarayan
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EP 262 (198/365) Planning for a Monday in Office
Before the start of this week, On last Sunday evening I took sometime to send message to some of my old business acquaintances, colleagues turned friends and old business connections and then sat down to list a few things, that I look forward to for a Monday at work. I have mentioned before that I…
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EP 261 (197/365) The 50:40:10 Principle in Hiring and Job Search
When a company looks for a new hire they put in a job description…. The first problem is they put everything in it that it makes so difficult to find a person… Next even if they get people to apply, they want a perfect person…. It is like they want some one who has been…
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EP 260 (196/365) What Do we Want?
If someone asks us ‘What do you want?…’ the question can come out as quite rude based on the situation. But it is one of the most important questions both for an individual and for the team we work in and with the people we work with… On an individual level we should as often…
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EP 259 (195/365) Will miss you my dear Reyna
Today we lost Reyna… I have never had a pet as a kid… And then when my kids insisted… I mean when they kept begging for it for a very long time… we got her…. and now she is gone and it leaves such a big vacuum in our lives…. I was not afraid of…
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EP 258 (194/365) “Yeah! Let’s Plant some Shit”
Sometimes we all get inspired and that inspiration takes us change things.. Do things like they were never done before. I should say some people get inspired…. because I don’t think I have been inspired to change things… may be in smaller ways but not that makes significant changes… A few years back I heard…
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EP 257 (193/365) A Super Malayali in Minnal Speed
Minnal means lighting in Malayalam language…. My Mother Tongue… So it is lighting speed and the wait for a Malayali Super Hero ended towards the end of 2021 with the releasing of Basil Joseph’s entertainer Minnal Murali on Netflix I have another reason I liked that movie… My first and only appearance in a role…
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EP 256 (193/365) Thinking of Super Heroes
My earliest memories was that of spider man that I used to watch in black and white… not even sure if it was english or farsi… because I watched them while living in Iran in the seventies. Then I remember when the Christopher Reeves starer Superman was released… And also the TV shows that used…
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EP 255 (192/365) Listen Before You Speak; I mean Communicate
The ability to listen is our biggest strength especially at work. It does not matter what stage in the career we are, listening can be our one big asset. And in my years working I have found interesting concepts on the ‘art of listening’ Listening is a waste of time: There is an interesting notion among some that…
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EP 254 (191/365) Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans
Planning is what helps us to do more in the available time we have and save us from surprises that peep from the corner. But there is also a certain adventure with not planning things. A certain love affair with the unknown surprise that makes its way to our life. When I started writing this…
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EP 253 (190/365) How to feel complete in the new year
How does someone feel complete? On December 31st one more day and you step into a new year. Your one year is complete and you used up another year of your life. Do you feel complete? what does complete mean? Does it mean different things for different people? Over the years I have heard people…
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