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The CEO
Was catching up with a dear friend. She is a mother of two. Her boy is about 10 and the her daughter 3. Soon after her daughter was born she started an MBA at a prestigious school. Amidst the diapers, the sleepless nights, the other kid going through its own phases, a full time job…
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Celebrations!
I was consulting for an American corporate recently and got the chance to spend quite some time as an integrated members of their teams. Receiving all their mass emails and all. What really caught my attention was a flood of emails labelled “Win”. My initial reaction was to ignore them and focus on my project…
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The beauty and the beast
I recently watched Beauty and the Beast (like how old am I really? As I did not watch it with a kid… anyhow). I actually watched a production by RAI, which was a little closer to reality than the Disney version that has the storyline unfolding around magic. Funnily, as a kid I was instilled…
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Untuned
I often wonder what gets us into arguing. Not the legal arguing, the one with the shouting and all things heated in the social setting. I tried to find the definition of “argue” and was astonished to read that the root of the word comes from arguo, which means to make clear. It is not…
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50%
We are all part of teams, right? We pair up, couple, up or team up. In love, at life, at work or just for fun or for a hobby. I often see teams succeed and more often, unfortunately but rather admittedly, I see teams fail. I have myself been part of teams, pairs, groups that…
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The surprise
I was pondering what it is that holds us back from perfection. Why is the human nature so full of mistakes and why it seems dystopian to live in a world of robots. I then realized that if you go to a restaurant for instance where everything is prepared to perfection every time, how many…
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The Bench
Kate Middleton or Princess of Wales rather is not well. That is a bad piece of news for her family. It is actually more than just bad for her husband and three young children. She is a young woman and is devastating to have to face what she is already or about to go through.…
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Oscars night
Get the pop corn out! Grab your seats! It is the Oscars tonight! Americans obviously make a spectacular show out of it, as they are the masters to it. It is so good, so tempting, so shinny, so cool that people in different time zones across the globe contemplate watching it in the middle of…
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Woman’s day
Having a day to celebrate women is a failure in itself. Being a woman is not an issue. To some is arguably a choice but to most is not. It’s simply who they are. Born a woman. There is nothing to celebrate, nothing to worry about. There is no issue to be resolved. There is…
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Referrals and recommendations
There is still out there the old skool expectation to offer referrals to a future employment. There are even CVs ending with the tag line “references available upon request”. Thank God it is considered old skool, but why are snippets of this out there? A referral or recommendation only makes sense when you know and…
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