November 5, 2024  
handling job layoffs
Career Growth

I Got Laid Off! What next? – Tips to Handle Job Layoffs!

“Hey Dilip, Sorry buddy. The company had to make some difficult decisions and we are letting go off some of our good employees. And unfortunately you are one of them”. That was a conversation I had with my skip level manager one fine day. A normal day just became a “not so normal” day for

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February 15, 2023  
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Career Growth

Why should you struggle to Succeed? Shouldn’t Success be Easy?

Success is not as easy as winners make it look nor as hard as losers make it sound” – Orrin Woodward Success isn’t easy and it shouldn’t be easy. Else there wouldn’t be any motivation to succeed. The other day, I was reading the book “Atomic Habits” by James Clear and there was this particular

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November 8, 2022  
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Career Growth, Organizational Culture

Don’t define Efficiency by the Number of Work Hours!

The other day I was watching an Instagram video post where a young Founder was seen answering a question from another young man. He was either an employee or, an audience. Since start-ups are a craze these days, you will find a lot of such charismatic young founders on social media helping and supporting other

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September 26, 2022  
attractive businessman busy clock
Self Development

You’ve been lied to. Being on Time is truly a virtue!

It was about 18 years back. I was new to corporates and was slowly learning the tricks of the trade – the art of surviving in a corporate. People around me told me a big secret to success – “Come to the office before your boss comes. And leave only after your boss leaves”. I

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November 6, 2016  
how to be a good manager
Leadership Skills

How to Be a Good Manager by Being a Good Team Member

How to be a Good Manager? The yearly metric which was being used to measure the success of a manager, which a lot of organizations call “employee satisfaction scores”, were at an all time low. People were not coming to office and would call in sick very frequently. Low attendance was impacting the overall delivery

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February 1, 2015  
Being Mobile
Career Growth

Why Being Mobile is Extremely Important for Career Growth?

How mobile are you? Strange question, isn’t it? But bear in mind that if you don’t have an answer to this question, then you might be in for a challenge with your career growth. I had a strange phobia towards moving to newer places. And that was probably the reason why I did not want

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