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The Realities of Careers
Job loss is not a blot on your career. It is an unfortunate feature of the free market economy. Gaps in your resume are also not a blot on your career. They reflect the realities of human life. One of my best hires at HabitStrong was freelancing...
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Mental health – remove stigma
Years ago, when I was a civil servant, a young IPS officer was briefly posted under me for training. A sensitive guy, he was struggling with some...
Work where you are respected
We often hear, 'Don't pick a job just for the salary.' But if not salary, then what? Typically, the answer is - role, company culture, growth...
Keep pushing the boundaries
I first read the book ‘Jonathan Livingston Seagull', more than a decade ago. Since my wife was raving about the book, I got curious about all the...
Nothing wastes more time than random activity.
During a leadership training at McKinsey in Chicago, we were split into teams and given a task: From cardboard kits for building toy planes, we had...
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An entrepreneur is a player – he can lose
Today, while talking to a friend at Juniper Networks, we got talking about the company's founder, an IIT Kanpur alumnus. His profile mentions that his dad wanted him to become an IAS officer. But instead, he went for higher studies and ended up...
This game stops when we stop
Most small goals in life are like a football match -- you can win, but you can also lose. If you are looking to crack a job interview or clear a particular exam, success is not guaranteed. But fortunately, the really big goals in life are like a...
Sometimes luck comes well-disguised
While I was running near the Rajbhavan in Trivandrum, the streetlights went off at 6 am. It was still dark but I kept running, daydreaming in my head. Then suddenly, I was abruptly brought to my senses. In the darkness, I tripped on the uneven...
Learning is the antidote to aging
A few years ago, I had to visit a hospital because of a persistent chest infection. It so happened that the senior doctor was unavailable and hence a relatively junior doctor had to attend to me. During the consultation, this junior doctor seemed...