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The Other Side of a 70-hour Work Week
Sometime during the early 2000s when I had just embarked on my career journey with the International Service Sector, I was volunteering for a music concert in Bengaluru – an event that was being sponsored by some of the most prestigious MNCs of those times. My work mainly involved distributing pamphlets during the week leading…
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The Other Side of a Toxic Work Culture
I grew up on a staple diet of tales from the Panchatantra and reading Aesop’s fables. In addition to this, we were taught Moral Science in school – a subject that was taken very seriously back then. It is therefore ironic when young children who are told that honesty is the best policy are taught…
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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…
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The Other Side of Customer Service
I remember when I was transitioning a Medical Underwriting function from a large US based Life Insurance company to India, the first thing that I was told is that each application has to be processed as if you are processing it for your mother. A few years later when I was transitioning a Supply Chain…
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The Other Side of Gardening
I have a small little garden on my balcony – it’s more of a collection of mismatched pots and containers than anything else, and it’s created through foraged seeds collected on my morning walks or when I go out to feed my gang of community dogs. So it’s far from a well-manicured mini Mughal garden…
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The Other Side by Aparna 