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I thought I wanted to work in Marketing and drive Go-to-market strategy in my first role. As management trainees, we rotated across roles in the first year and I was assigned as the product manager to drive Product Usage and Retention for my State. It involved number crunching day in and out – analyzing customer …
Outer space is not the final frontier, our Brain is. Reverse engineering the human brain may be regarded as the most important project in history. Is the brain complex? In his book, Ray Kurzweil introduces the concept of *pattern recognition theory of mind*. (PRTM). He further draws an analogy to the famous Mandelbrot set, an …
Are people happier by changing their environments? A new job, a different car, moving countries, maybe a more receptive spouse, a better behaved kid or investments that grow at 14%? For the longest time I assumed so too. Asked myself pointless questions – should I have done an MS instead of an MBA? Should we …
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What do you do when people you manage fail? You forgive and forget You remember, pass blame, stigmatize and humiliate them 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, the …
Book 19/52 2021 Book – Ten Lessons for a Post–Pandemic World, Fareed Zakaria Genre – International Relations & Globalization, Sociology #reviewswithranjani Rating – 4/5 Lenin once said, “There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen.” The pandemic is the poster boy for the statement. To say things have changed – …
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I took up this course called Semiotics during my post graduation. If the subject was a person, we’d stand on two extreme ends of a football field, for the left-brained person I was. I remember the professor showing us an image of a pipe, titled “Ceci n’est pas une pipe” French for “This is not …
Top 7 mistakes to avoid in the first 90 days – Taken up a new job or new role within the same organization? #7TransitionTraps to avoid #1 Sticking to what you know :Doing the same things you did in your previous role, only more so. #2 Falling prey to ‘Action Imperative’ : You feel the …
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How does culture shape the brain? ‘Consider a monkey, bear and a banana’ – which two go together? My first thought? The monkey and the banana. A research I recall reading, uses this example to illustrate how Westerners would say bear and monkey (think categorically and put the animals together) vs East Asians who think …
Learning to Negotiate is what I call PIVOT skills. It is one of those high ROI skills that helps you tremendously Both in your career and in your life Here are Six Guidelines for “Getting to Yes” #1. Separate the people from the problem. #2. Focus on interests, not positions. #3. Learn to manage emotions. …
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“Projects fail at a spectacular rate. One reason is that too many people are reluctant to speak up about their reservations during the planning phase. By making it safe for dissenters who are knowledgeable and worried to speak up, you can improve a project’s chances of success.” How can you use pre-mortems to plan better? …