Category: Work & Career
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234/365 Poetry and Business – Finding that Link
In 1991 there was an essay in ‘The Atlantic’ by Dana Gioia titled ‘Can Poetry Matter? It points out that Poetry has vanished as a cultural force in America. If poets venture outside their confined world, they can work to make it essential once more This and a few other essays were then published as…
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225/365 Colleagues and Bosses you wish you never had
At the onset let me tell you that I have been way lucky to have bosses who I did not have any problem with. While there were people I really loved working for and had utmost respect for there were some who were not that great.. but still I will never say they were bad.…
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224/365 When my resume was no good
I had created a one page resume immediately after college.. when I had gone to Bangalore in search of a job in 1993. Since I thought I was more a sales kind of person that is what I looked forward with the resume… I did not even use the word resume… We used CV.. Curriculum…
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219/365 A profession where you can keep getting better
Is there one such profession where you keep getting better. I think every profession that we see gives us the opportunities to be better. The question is how we define better. And the fact is that we don’t get better in any profession unless we start doing something about it. It is not always about…
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215/365 Learning from Philip Levine on what Work Is
I was watching an interview with Philip Levine as he remembers his life in the Ford’s River Rouge Plant. As he talks about his life there; a time when his young self never knew if he would ever have a way out of there and not even in his wildest dreams did he think it…
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214/365 How many of us are Workaholic Synonymous?
There are many people among us who work more than 40 hours a week. And I am not talking of like 41 or 42 hours, but way over that. You might also have read Melinda Gates recently say about the problems of the workaholic culture and the impacts it might have had on diversity. Well…
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213/365 Don’t try getting into the Good Books!!!
“You need to work in order to get into their Good Books” we have all heard that a few times. It sounds as if people are walking around with two books in their hand. One to write the names of the Good people and one to note the names of bad people. My theory is…
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212/365 We all need that Thinking Time
‘Thinking’ or may be the time to ‘THINK’ is getting scarce now. Are people stressed and overworked because they don’t have enough time to ‘THINK’? Our little handheld devices take such a lot of our time. Distractions, incomplete work and jumping from one priority to other, all leave people stressed and overworked. I am just…
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209/365 Only a culture that allows making mistakes will improve
Daniel Kahneman, in the introduction to his book ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow” says why we should be concerned of Gossip. “Because it is much easier, as well as far more enjoyable, to identify and label the mistake of others than to recognize one’s own” Gossip is dark inside but extremely illuminating outside and with excellent…
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207/365 Building a Reputation
“Your Reputation defines who you are and it is your responsibility to protect and manage it” Your Reputation has become more important than it has been ever before, not because you have just become a celebrity. But because now there are so many ways in which it can be damaged. Without you knowing your name…
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