I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else
Do you you feel like the more you read or learn about the world around you, the more existential questions you have? These are my last 6 books – #1A riveting, personal account of a president who made history – ”’Whatever you do won’t be enough,’ I heard their voices say. ‘Try anyway.’” #2The painful …
Improving Productivity doesn’t imply putting more hours at work. Or pushing your teams to. Instead of resulting in greater output, longer hours lead to stress, a significant cause of both physical and mental health issues. This “productivity paradox” is countered by research that shows overwhelmingly that scheduling downtime actually makes you more productive. 3 steps …
The Doctor Will Sniff You Now It’s 2050 and you’re due for your monthly physical exam. Times have changed, so you no longer have to endure an orifices check, a needle in your vein, and a week of waiting for your blood test results.Instead, the nurse welcomes you with, “The doctor will sniff you now,” …
“When Ideas survive – it is not because that is true, but because they are interesting” In a classic paper, sociologist Murray Davies argued the above. What makes an idea interesting is that it challenges our weakly held opinions For example, did you know the Moon May Have Formed When Earth’s Magma Was Blasted into …
You may not choose to stay at a job just for the salary, but you won’t stay in the job if there is no salary. Your remuneration at work is thus a “hygiene factor” The only thing I remember from my Organizational Behavior Class almost a decade ago is “Herzberg’s Two Factor theory of motivation” …
What keeps people motivated – Motivators and Hygiene factors Read More »
It’s Better To Be Prolific Than Perfect In the book, Art & Fear, David Bayles and Ted Orland shared the following story: “The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded …
Should I resign this job? Should I move to a new city? Is this the stream I want to pursue? How can we take better decisions? Regardless of whether you are a student or a professional, the quality of the decisions you make ultimately determines the quality of your life. The 4 villains of decision …
Being Decisive – The WRAP framework for better and bolder decisions Read More »
Are you above average? Is your child an A student? Is your employee an introvert or an extrovert? Every day we are measured against the yardstick of averages, judged according to how closely we come to it or how far we deviate from it. The assumption that metrics comparing us to an average—like GPAs, personality …
The End of Average – How to succeed in a world that values sameness Read More »
Book 3/52 2021 Book – The Promised Land – Barack ObamaGenre – Presidential Memoir #reviewswithranjani#podshortschallenge Rating – 4.5/5 Book – A Promised Land, Barack Obama Today we are going to talk about one of the most highly anticipated books of 2020.The presidential memoir – A Promised Land – Barack Obama I love this genre …
Episode 34 : Three take-aways from A Promised Land by Barack Obama Read More »
So what? I wish people who work with data ask that question more often. Many a time, data scientists focus on first order thinking i.e. we need to build A, B and C. What drives business value though is second order thinking – thinking through how that outcome will help drive tangible business value. #1 …