Category: Long Reads

• The Other Side of me (my alter ego)

  

  My mother started her career as a librarian in my school. I therefore had the privilege to spend time with her after my school hours and keep disturbing her neatly stacked books categorized by authors & titles while she catalogued each intricate detail in her beautiful handwriting. My love for books and reading started here.…

  theothersidebyaparna

  January 25, 2024

  Long Reads

  #alterego, #books, #classic, #life, #perfection, #poetry, #theothersidebyaparna, love, spirituality, writing

• The Other Side of Leadership

  

  When I got into a leadership role for the first time way back in May 2004, I was a wannabe tigress. Reality quickly turned me into a scaredy cat. Circumstances made me a conniving fox. Ambition had me soaring like a fierce falcon. For the ones who put their trust in me, I was a…

  theothersidebyaparna

  January 11, 2024

  Long Reads

  #business, #corporate, #corporateblogger, #corporateculture, #corporatelife, #corporateworld, #leadership, #management, #motivation, #theothersidebyaparna, #workculture, work

• The Other Side of Women Empowerment

  

  Back in the 1980s, when I had just about begun to understand world politics, two strong women were at the helm of their respective parliaments – one, often referred to as the “Iron Lady”, Margaret Thatcher was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the other, famously known as the “only man in the…

  theothersidebyaparna

  December 14, 2023

  Long Reads

  #equality, #feminism, #genderequality, #independent, #ironlady, #liberation, #mother, #theothersidebyaparna, #women, #womenempowerment, blog, women-empowerment

• The Other Side of Being Single

  

  When I was 8 years old, my brother who was 4 years old at the time, underwent multiple surgeries for a life-threatening condition. We literally pulled him out of almost certain death and it’s a miracle that he came out of it alive. Needless to mention, our lives changed overnight and our childhood was snatched…

  theothersidebyaparna

  November 30, 2023

  Long Reads

  #beingsingle, #life, #selfworth, #single, #singlegirl, #singlelife, #theothersidebyaparna, #womanhood, #womanleader

• The Other Side of Reading

  

  The first book that I remember reading when I was very young is Alice in Wonderland. It remains my favorite till today but I will talk more about it in another article on “The Other Side of Me (my alter ego)”. The thing is, from Alice in Wonderland, I directly jumped to Great Expectations by…

  theothersidebyaparna

  November 26, 2023

  Long Reads

  #agathachristie, #aristotle, #books, #charlesdickens, #iskcon, #janeausten, #philosophy, #plato, #rakeshsharma, #reading, #socrates, #theothersidebyaparna, #williamshakespeare

• The Other Side of Inclusivity

  

  What is inclusivity? It is ensuring that you provide equal opportunities to everyone regardless of their race, gender or physical disabilities, treating them fairly and not marginalizing the minority communities. Nowadays you see a lot of organizations harping about their culture of inclusivity. Many a time, this culture is reduced to a statistic where leaders…

  theothersidebyaparna

  November 22, 2023

  Long Reads

  #corporate, #corporateblogger, #corporateculture, #corporatelife, #corporateworld, #diversity, #equality, #inclusivity, #leadership, #theothersidebyaparna

• The Other Side of Festivities

  

  The balcony of my 5th floor apartment opens up to a huge tree which over the years has been supporting a thriving ecosystem of a variety of birds and other life forms. Early in the morning, its branches offer some much-needed respite to a noisy bunch of parrots who avail a few minutes of rest…

  theothersidebyaparna

  November 16, 2023

  Long Reads

  #animals, #birds, #diwali, #dogs, #earth, #festivals, #humanity, #nature, #planet, #prasiddhisingh, #theothersidebyaparna

• 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…

  theothersidebyaparna

  November 11, 2023

  Long Reads

  #70hourworkweek, #BPO, #corporate, #corporateblogger, #corporateculture, #corporatelife, #corporateworld, #gcc, #generationgap, #theothersidebyaparna, #workculture

• 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…

  theothersidebyaparna

  November 11, 2023

  Long Reads

  #corporate, #corporateblogger, #corporateculture, #corporatelife, #corporatetoxicity, #corporateworld, #theothersidebyaparna, #toxiccolleagues, #toxicworkplace, #workculture, #workplacetoxicity

• 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…

  theothersidebyaparna

  November 11, 2023

  Long Reads

  #corporate, #corporateblogger, #corporateculture, #corporatelife, #corporateworld, #gcc, #globalcorporatecentre, #mnc, #theothersidebyaparna