Category: Career & Work
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297/365 Walking through the Front Door
I am sure you have noticed that many buildings have rear and side doors which is how most people get in using the badge. If there is a chance I prefer taking the front door. I can understand that rear and side doors are convenient for employees to get in as there are more parking…
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295/365 Being Forthright
Yesterday someone came up to me and told me about an issue they have with one of their colleagues. As I heard the person, he also told me something interesting. He said that he likes people who are open about the issues they have with others rather than those who hide what they feel. The…
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279/365 Are you Safe at your workplace?
Psychological Safety is such an important thing in today’s professional world. If you want teams to perform to their best abilities. You want innovation and be a step ahead of the curve, you have to check the psychological safety in your work environment. Are people talking, raising their opinions, agreement and disagreements without fear. There…
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272/365 Finding Meaningful Work
I was reading an article on meaningful work and if I remember correctly I had also put my thoughts on in this blog. Well I don’t want to go back and see what I said back then. But there is another thought that comes to me now. This is also a question that came up…
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266/365 Entrepreneurship is not for Escapists
Everyone wants to be their own boss. I have seen so many people in my life who have told me that they want to be an entrepreneur. I later figured that some of them said so in order to escape from what they were doing presently, may be even their boss.. or any boss. Some…
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259/365 A Long Conversation in Person
One of the things I missed from the last two years is long conversations with others.. in person…. I happened to have one such conversation a few days back… Well I cannot say I have not had long conversations.. but in the office discussing a product being developed hearing the problem being defined and technical…
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256/365 Work From Home, Office or Hybrid
Yesterday someone asked a question…. What do I prefer… working from home, office or hybrid…. I answered that it was too early to decide… I started working from office only two weeks ago… And I like it… One main thing is I don’t have a long commute… I have been in a hybrid mode for…
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249/365 Thinking on Your Feet – A Page from Memory
I was in Bangalore in 2020 and this is where I started my career years ago and felt like going down that memory lane and picking some old episodes. I started my career selling computers. We used to buy parts and assemble PCs, Provide a Warranty to customers and sell and support them. This was the 90s…
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241/365 Back to working from office
I write this on a Monday but you will read it on a Tuesday… Today is a holiday.. President’s day in the United States… Not just that.. I am also starting a new job on Tuesday. Usually people ask you if you are taking a break when you move into a new job… I have…
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136/365 The “Love My Work’ Week
There was a 2019 book by Marcus Buckingham ‘Nine Lies About Work’ that he had coauthored with Ashley Goodall.. I highly recommend you all to read it…. In fact the Episode 9 of the Penpositive Outclass Podcast was about that… The book again came to my mind recently as I started reading and writing about…
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