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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.
LATEST POSTS
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The Other Side of OCDs
I suffer from a multitude of obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCDs). Of late, however, I am wondering whether “suffering” is the right word to use since there is another side to it. And of late, I have started seeing the other – the good – side of OCDs and have learned how to use it to my
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The Other Side of Dreaming Big
The other side of dreaming big is that the world is just not ready for your ideas. And I am not saying that in a vain sort of Einsteinian or Newtonian kind of way but it’s a fact. Imagine if the smartphone had been invented in the 1970s, it would have been of no use
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The Other Side of Global Capability Centres
Over the years, the international service sector has seen progressive growth. Starting with the outsourcing of transactional backend work and steadily evolving to handle activities of increasing complexity through BPOs, KPOs through Service Integrators / Providers, and GCCs or Global Capability Centres running their own captive centres, India has become a hub of choice considering
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The Other Side of my Sports Life
People who know me well also know that I am not much into sports. The only games that I play are running for dear life and hanging in there. But nevertheless, from whatever little sporting activity I have been involved in – badminton, chess, cricket, paragliding, skipping, swimming, snorkeling, rafting, rappelling, running, table tennis, walking,
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The Other Side of a Soft Landing
The other side of starting your career in a small firm, be it a start-up, an agency, or even the service industry, is the opportunity that you get to do everything. Such companies put the onus on the business owners to run their respective businesses as their own. While on the one hand, they are
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The Other Side of Community Dogs
It’s more than a decade now since I, along with my sister, started feeding community dogs. It all started with one – Mystique (Mishtu in short) – who mysteriously disappeared one fine day; but what stayed with us was the phenomenal feeling of inner peace that comes out of spreading selfless love amongst these voiceless
The Other Side by Aparna 