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In today’s age, we keep getting bombarded with tips and tricks, motivational quotes, guidebooks, etc. on how to be a good leader, how to build a happy and inclusive work culture, how to be customer-centric, how to balance our work and life, how to build agile processes, how to be fearless and speak up. However, there is always another side to being an ideal leader in a happy workplace with a perfect work-life balance running a world-class organization. Over the coming months, please watch this space for snippets, articles, podcasts, etc. on my personal experience with this other side over the past couple of decades. And while I put across my point of view, I would love to know yours. I would love to be challenged, and know your side – the other side.
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The Other Side of the High Life
I don’t cook – I can but I don’t, it’s just one of the many things that I just don’t feel like doing. However, I love watching anything & everything about food on TV. I am obsessed with watching these master chefs create their mouth-wateringly wonderful dishes with stars in my eyes – especially when
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The Other Side of Relativity
There was a young lady named Bright,Whose speed was faster than light;She went out one day in a relative way,And returned on the previous night. ― Arthur Henry Reginald Buller My astrophysicist father was a big fan of Albert Einstein. So, the college where he was the Head of the Physics Department couldn’t find a better
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Looking back… at the Other Side
In September 2023, I had posted my first article on LinkedIn that marked the beginning of the series “The Other Side by Aparna”. 11 months later, I am posting my 50th article – a fitting milestone for taking a look back at how it all started and an opportunity to share some analytics. On a
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And Just Like That… I was on the Other Side
When I was pursuing my M.Sc. in Pune University, I had once nicked my left forearm. The cut was so small that I disregarded it, not realizing that over the days that followed, it had festered into a pus-filled mess that made my entire arm swell like a loaf. I kept ignoring it in spite
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Speaking up! … has Another Side
Whenever there is a mishap or accident on the road, have you noticed that no matter whose fault it is, the driver of the bigger vehicle always gets beaten up? If a pedestrian is crossing the road even when there is heavy influx of traffic, without paying any heed to passing vehicles, if a person
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Service Providers… and their Other Side
The experience that I have garnered over the last 10 months as an Independent Consultant for Pharma Global Capability Centres (GCCs) & Service Providers has not only given me a lot of insights into the thought process that goes behind establishing GCCs in India but also the other side of Service Providers which, like the
The Other Side by Aparna 