I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else
What do you do when people you manage fail? 1) You forgive and forget 2) You remember, pass blame, stigmatise and humiliate them 3) You forgive and remember The right approach that Bob Sutton, Professor of Management at Stanford University advocates is to *forgive* so that people have psychological safety and *remember*, so that you can learn, …
“In June 1944, Germany flew several raids on London. War experts plotted the position of each bomb as it fell and noticed one cluster near Regent’s Park, and another along the banks of the Thames. This clustering concerned them because it implied that the German military had designed a new bomb that was more accurate …
“I want to be doing something different. I want to get promoted to the next role?” Yesterday, I was chatting with this young woman who asked, what is a very common question. Our career conversations usually tend to start with what “WE want” Ironically though, you tend to progress faster when you start with “What …
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100% Is Easier Than 98% … it’s easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time. Going the extra mile than the majority is what differentiates one in a normal distribution. It is quite easy to get lost in the middle – Be that …
Two Women who break stereotypes. One, a Spy. And Two World Wars between them. Based on the enthralling historical account of the ‘queen of spies’, French secret agent who went by the Pseudonym, Alice Dubois ended up running a network of 100+ agents The book takes creative liberty with new characters entwined within this and …
What makes the Metaverse different from a Virtual World – 7 essential ingredients. Our marketing professor once used an analogy with Second Life during a session Second life is an online platform that allows people to create an avatar for themselves and have a well, second life in an online virtual world. “Would you care …
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The book that introduced us to the original Metaverse “This Snow Crash thing–is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?” Juanita shrugs. “What’s the difference?” It is astounding that Neal Stephenson could envision a world that seamlessly merges the physical and the virtual – way back in 1992 ‘Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza in real …
Playing the long game In my first job, I ended up weeping in the restroom within the first 3 months My team lead was a stickler for writing good code and rightly so. He added comments like a pro. The first time he reviewed mine, he edited, formatted and deleted parts of it. He didn’t …
Day 6 – #30daysofWeb3 Learning Challenge Who will control the software that powers the internet with Web 3.0? Can decentralisation move the narrative from ‘Don’t be evil’ to ‘Can’t be evil’? 5 key take-aways Sources below #1 Over the 35 years lifespan of the internet, control gradually shifted from the open-source protocols to proprietary services …
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What I learned from 4 months of maintaining a Decision Log? I maintained a log of all decisions I have taken, the reasons why and how they turned out. And this is one thing I have learnt That the decisions that tend to not do exceptionally well are the ones that start with requiring massive …
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