Category: Short Reads

• The Other Side of Moving (and moving on)

  

  When I was going through the finer details of a health insurance policy that I bought a few months back, what caught my eye was the mention of a 30% reduction in the premium amount if I was able to complete 10,000 steps for 270 days in a year. I can proudly say that I…

  theothersidebyaparna

  December 28, 2023

  Short Reads

  #Keepmoving, #life, #moving, #movingon, #past, #theothersidebyaparna

• The Other Side of Goal Setting

  

  The other side of setting goals is something to consider seriously – I have seen people (including myself) getting complacent when they have achieved their objectives. We feel a sense of achievement, we feel safe – even when the target is short of 100%. Which means our shortcomings, limitations, errors, are all tolerated. And we…

  theothersidebyaparna

  December 23, 2023

  Short Reads

  #business, #corporate, #corporateblogger, #corporateculture, #corporatelife, #corporateworld, #goals, #goalsetting, #objectives, #theothersidebyaparna, #workculture

• The Other Side of Ethical Dilemmas

  

  In my opinion, there are no such things as “ethical dilemmas” because ethical behavior does not present us with just two choices – either this or that. Being ethical is not that simple – it’s an intertwined mesh of options presented to us with the decisions that we take not falling into the conventional brackets…

  theothersidebyaparna

  November 14, 2023

  Short Reads

  #corporate, #corporateblogger, #corporateculture, #corporatelife, #corporateworld, #dilemma, #ethicaldilemma, #ethics, #leadership, #theothersidebyaparna, #workculture

• 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…

  theothersidebyaparna

  November 11, 2023

  Short Reads

  #corporate, #corporateblogger, #corporateculture, #corporatelife, #corporateworld, #obsessivecompulsivedisorder, #ocd, #organize, #plan, #theothersidebyaparna, #workculture

• 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…

  theothersidebyaparna

  November 11, 2023

  Short Reads

  #change, #corporate, #corporateblogger, #corporateculture, #corporatelife, #corporateworld, #dream, #supplychain, #technology, #theothersidebyaparna, #workculture

• 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…

  theothersidebyaparna

  November 11, 2023

  Short Reads

  #career, #collaboration, #competition, #corporate, #corporateculture, #corporatelife, #corporateworld, #leadership, #softlanding, #startup, #theothersidebyaparna, #workculture

• 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…

  theothersidebyaparna

  November 11, 2023

  Short Reads

  #corporateculture, #corporateworld, #customercare, #customerservice, #theothersidebyaparna

• 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…

  theothersidebyaparna

  November 10, 2023

  Short Reads

  #corporate, #corporatelife, #corprateworkculture, #growth, #leadership, #mentoring, #theothersidebyaparna

• The Other Side of a Support System

  

  When designing businesses/processes the fundamental question that we need to ask ourselves is which is the entity adding actual value? And many a time that question cannot be answered easily because the true value adders are hidden deep inside corporate layers of what ideally constitute a “support system”. To deep dive into the core, we need to…

  theothersidebyaparna

  November 10, 2023

  Short Reads

  #beingacorporate, #businessprocess, #corporate, #corporatelife, #management, #organisation, #support, #supportsystem, #theothersidebyaparna, #value, #valueadd, #workculture

• The Other Side

  In a world full of bandwagons designed to herd masses in one direction, explore the road less taken, by embarking on a journey with me to the other side. Read my alternate thoughts on some common subjects and join me in looking at things from a different perspective. Feel free to react, comment, challenge, support…

  theothersidebyaparna

  November 10, 2023

  Short Reads

  #agileprocess, #corporateculture, #corporateworld, #leadership, #motivation, #theothersidebyaparna, #workculture, #worklifebalance