Tag: #theothersidebyaparna

• 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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  November 11, 2023

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

• 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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  November 11, 2023

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  #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…

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  November 11, 2023

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

• 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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  November 11, 2023

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

• 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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  November 11, 2023

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  #corporate, #corporateculture, #corporatelife, #corporateworld, #lifeincorporate, #sports, #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…

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  November 11, 2023

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

• 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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  November 11, 2023

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  #animals, #communitydogs, #corporate, #corporateculture, #corporateworld, #dogs, #freeroamingpets, #leadership, #streetdogs, #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…

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  November 11, 2023

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  #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…

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  November 10, 2023

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  #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…

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  November 10, 2023

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