Tag: Career
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Our Relationship with work
We don’t work for the same reasons at 25 as we do at 55, yet companies and people could mistakenly treat us in the same way. It is not anyone’s fault it is about change, about what matters, what is visible and what transpires in our professional life. What We Seek at Work Changes with…
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Being Authentic
Sometimes it is a coincidence when you end up watching or listening to something that you have been thinking about. Yesterday I listened to an interview that Jason Averbook was having with Dr Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic on his podcast “Now to Next” where they talk about Tomas’s new book “Don’t Be Yourself: Why Authenticity Is Overrated…
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My love hate with AI
As I read posts on LinkedIn, I wonder if it is written by an AI tool. The posts are so well optimized on word density, layout and icons. Not an extra word. They hit you like bullets and arrows. Like corporate talk should be. I agree LinkedIn is not Facebook, it is a professional network,…
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Meaningful Work: Goldfishes, Community, Contribution and Challenges
Last week I wrote an article about my journey of recovery and the process. It got a good readership and I got messages from both friends and acquaintances. There were two kind of responses I received. One was from people who wanted to genuinely help me and the other was people who felt what I…
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My journey of recovery and the process
The only person on whom we can experiment is ourselves. Even when we want others to change, the closest person we can work on changing is ourselves. I have not had a lot of Monday blues in my life. I liked going to office. But last four months were different. I had so many days…
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The Cost of not doing
‘The cost of not doing’ is a profound question. Yet we ask less of it. The question feels trivial. We are suppose to do things & not ask what happens if we don’t do it. But the question and the answer can make a significant impact on how we prioritize things. Both in personal and…
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Calling In by Loretta Ross: Book Positive
Calling Out and Calling In. I figured out the importance of that differentiation and was able to delver deeper into the meaning and difference as I read Loretta Ross’s new book Calling In: How to Start Making Change with Those You’d Rather Cancel. We don’t agree with everyone we come across. People at work and…
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Severance: What my Innie tells my Outie
Finally I watched Severance. It took me a while. And something in me is wanting me to look at work, both my past, present and future at work and life. In my career, I have worked with people who came to work just because they could not stand their personal life and relationships. I have…
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Learn, Earn and Live fully
In 2020, he started middle school. Seeing him do ventriloquism, his teacher asked “why don’t you teach others”. No puppets for all, so he innovated with socks. Around 10 kids learned every week. Then pandemic hit, two years the world was at home. Then came high school. And now he is graduating. I had read…
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With my daughter 🥰
The other day as I was buying my lunch at our cafeteria, I get a message on our family group from my daughter Rhea. She is in her office today. Her office is 3 minutes from mine. I said “come over and let’s have lunch”. Then she said she wanted to see where I work.…
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