I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else
The husband and I were changing into non-marking shoes right outside of our Tennis court last week. When this elderly gentleman who was playing the earlier set walks out. He looks at me and then points out the set of rules nearby Reading it out loud, almost as if I were a child. Calling out …
A Must-Ask Question to make Good Decisions I had a 1×1 yesterday with a senior leader I quite admire. We were chatting about decisions – and how one usually has to make them with incomplete information She mentioned an instance when she had to move roles and was quite torn about picking the right move …
“The job is what you do when you are told what to do. The job is showing up at the factory, following instructions, meeting spec, and being managed. Someone can always do your job a little better or faster or cheaper than you can. Your art is what you do when no one can tell …
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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, …
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 …
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 …
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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What is the one thing that makes exceptional leaders? Earlier in my career, I reached out to a women leader – someone I admired but didn’t know at all. She chose to make time for someone who wanted to be her. In my raw ambition, I told her my grand career plans and all that …
Morgan Housel asks brilliant questions. In his blog, he recently asked 6 questions. Ones that make you ponder over them. And learn something about yourself. The one that caught my fancy the most is – “What have you changed your mind about in the last decade?” The writer Derek Thomson, to whom the question was …
“When the Black Death plague entered England in 1348, the Scots up north laughed at their good fortune. With the English crippled by disease, now was a perfect time for Scotland to stage an attack on its neighbor. The Scots huddled together thousands of troops in preparation for battle. Which, of course, is the worst …