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A year later, a coordinator joined. He uped my game and asked me to speak in daily assemblies. It would be only 4 - 5 sentences. I wrote them in a paper and mostly just read them. I was even afraid to look up and see the crowd.
It went on for months until I got good to manage those debates to certain extent. Later Basha refused to help unless I put in the work first. We studied in residential college and hence we became good friends.
I wanted to participate, but couldn't because I wasn't fluent in English. I had a helpful bench-mate. Basha would listen to what I had to say, translate to English, scribble in a note, and even whisper the tough words to pronounce. I'll read from what he wrote.
When I got into Engineering college, I couldn't speak a sentence English. In the first year, our English teacher would conduct debate sessions and he would compell us to speak in English.
@PanelbearHQ Great. You got a user now. Hope to turn into a customer soon.
@anthonynsimon @PanelbearHQ Came across this post and signed up for @PanelbearHQ. Loved the details. Will wait for further posts.
@vicchow Thank you Victor
It is people who carry the vision through insurmountable challenges. When companies treat people as potatoes (replaceable), people start behaving as potatoes (not caring about the company).
I am not against processes. Processes bring clarity. Processes help a committed, skilled, and intelligent employee to achieve phenomenal success. Processes are the pathway to success. But processes themselves can’t and won’t carry us to success.
Processes by themselves are lifeless. It is the people who inject life into processes.
The thinking in the corporate world is to showcase certifications as a measure of maturity. So they pursue CMMi, PCI, and ISO. All certificates mandate processes.
@PovilasKorop Thank you.
@PovilasKorop Thank you @PovilasKorop for the tweet. Where did you read about it?
@jackerhack QBasic
@fran__sevillano Thank you for sharing this. This is a good equation to memorise and practice L = D * T
@paulminors This is a good one. I too journal but have not yet articulated how I do. May be I will, after reading this post
Have you paused to think what makes a great job for you? If you have not defined it, how will you get it? Read more here:
Commensurate Compensation : Some would consider the pay pie to be bigger than others in the circle of ‘ideal job’. Money is essential but not the only necessity in life. Pay package should commensurate with the outcome.
Flexible Hours : 9 to 5 work hours is a terrible inheritance from industrial revolution. Ideas don’t come within a fixed block of time and flexible hours doesn’t mean lethargy. It just means I am free to work when I work the best.
Appreciative Clients: Often a single appreciation from the client can make you forget all the travail of the assignment, especially if the recognition is public. Not many clients do it but when done right, you are energized and ready to ensure success of the assignment.
Co-operative Team : Despite the hype built around leadership, successful leaders aren’t loners. Behind every triumphant leader, there is a hard-working team. Through the highs and lows of the assignment, it is the team that makes the journey joyful.
Supportive Boss : Corporate structure is hierarchical and our immediate supervisor is an important link in that structure. Your manager will determine the career graph you'll have in the company. So it is important to get to know who you'll work with.
Stimulating Work : I enjoy those assignments where I apply my knowledge but I enjoy more when there is an opportunity to learn new things.
@madversity அது போன மாசம். இது இந்த மாசம்... Since people have Kajini memory, political parties can flip and flop. We will continue to vote them to power
@ahmed_sulajman @igrigorik Documenting your decisions is something I learnt while working for Govt of India. It helps the successors to decide if they need to revisit the decision:
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When you see the other garden green, it is time for you to water your garden. Only by that, you create a space for you to thrive, excel, and celebrate. Don't throw stones at locals and crowns at the others.
What do we do when a women makes it in India? We berate her, throw stones at her, call her nasty things. When a local businessman makes it, we gossip that he should've bribed to make to the top.
When Sunder Pitchai becomes the CEO of Google, we jump up and down as if one in our family won a lottery.
We forget that even with 200 years of history, the Americans have elected a women only to a 2nd top position. Within 75 years, we had a women prime-minister, defence minister, finance minister, and countless women chief ministers.
@JakeCahan Thanks for sharing this. Where is this from?
@gregisenberg Isn't Ello, Mastodon attempts in these directions?
@gregisenberg I agree with you on this: > Everything stretched to the extremes; either extremely censored (i.e: Twitter) or non-censored (i.e: Parler). Extremely free (i.e: subsidized by ads, like FB) or extremely paid (i.e: OnlyFans). Extremely asynchronous or extremely synchronous.
@theresiatanzil Thank you
I'm going to create a video or a post everyday at least for 30 days before I assess or give up. What idea are you embracing? What are you doing with it?
2nd: @sachdevasampark shared his secret to @LinkedIn success. Embrace LI as its own platform. Write in it everyday. He wrote an article everyday. He challenged to do the same. I'm starting with this video:
2 examples from my life: 1st a parable called Mathew effect: Those who gain with what they have, gain more. Those who bury what they have will lose what they have. @ScottAdamsSays calls it skill stacking. I was a developer. Stacked writing, speaking. Adding video now.
You gain from all three types of books. Even leaf books give you short-term gains. You need to be cautious because you could chase one shiny object after another, never building a strong foundation to build lasting success
Leaf books : - Excel 2019 All-In-One For Dummies - Membership Economy
Branch books : - McGraw-Hill’s Finance for Non-Financial Managers - The Seven Basic Plots by Christopher Booker
Examples of these books: Trunk books - What the CEO wants you to know by Ram Charan - On Writing Well by William Zinsser
We can take Elon's classification to books: - trunk books : explains fundamentals of a domain - branch books : explains an area of a domain - leaf books : teaches a skill
Most of the time, we focus on "leaves" because they are trendy and sexy. Nothing wrong with it, if that "leaf" opens way to deeper knowledge. What you learn as "trunk" and "branch" will stay with you long. They lay strong foundation.
"make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to"
@Miss_Snuffy @Abhishek_Rai Just this morning started reading this from @commoncog by @ejames_c. For deliberate practice we need teachers and coaches. Not everything can be learnt by ourselves.
@AmberCadabra @Abhishek_Rai 50% of marketing is a waste of money. Trouble is knowing which half 😱
@GrayCellTech @munishjauhar Wishing everyone in GCT a funtastic Diwali celebration
@ryanstephens As a consumer prefer quality of output. As a creator put in quantity.