Helping folks with practical tips to manage themselves better
March 12, 2022
This week has been very busy and stressful for me—long days, lots of meetings, proposals, conversations, with very little me time. Whenever I am in the midst of challenging situations like this, I know I have to de-stress. Stress is Read more…
March 11, 2022
Teams where the team members trust each other, operate more efficiently than those where there is lesser trust. Establishing trust within the groups is crucial to building what is known as “psychological safety.” Psychological safety is the shared belief that Read more…
March 9, 2022
Last week, I learned an important etiquette lesson from an old friend and senior professional acquaintance. I needed some market information that I felt this friend of mine would help me with. So I reached out to him, hopeful that Read more…
March 8, 2022
Clint Eastwood once said Sometimes, if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands. We all encounter situations, particularly in team settings, where everyone is waiting for the other person to Read more…
March 7, 2022
Are you thinking like an amateur or a professional? What kind of mindset and thinking differentiates an amateur from a professional. In a blog post in Farnam Street, titled The Difference Between Amateurs and Professionals, I came across this idea. The Read more…
March 6, 2022
In a village, there was a mouse at a farmer’s house. One day the mouse looked through the crack in the wall and noticed the farmer and his wife opening a box. “could it be some new food that the Read more…
This afternoon, I listened to a few talks by Professor B. Mahadevan from IIM Bangalore about Indian Vedanta Philosophy and its wisdom that we can apply in our day-to-day lives. In one of the talks, Prof. Mahadevan quotes this lovely verse from Read more…
March 5, 2022
In the Book Mindset, author Carol Dweck introduces us to the two types of mindsets people tend to operate with- Fixed and Growth. If you come with a fixed mindset, you see intelligence as static where you are always operating Read more…
March 4, 2022
Do you have a personal plan written down? A plan to get you to your personal goals? Workplaces force us to have goals and work plans. However, when it comes to personal goals and plans, we always slack out. Somehow Read more…
March 3, 2022
In one of his poems, Rudyard Kipling wrote – “we have forty million reasons for failure- but not one single excuse.” Whenever we get stuck in any situation, our natural tendency is to pull up excuses. I can’t do take up Read more…
