Notes From The Hills
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Category: The OWL Despatch
A curated fortnightly edition of the best thoughts on work , learning and the changing nature of work
Profiles In Everyday Courage. How Courageous Are You?
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The courage that meets us in everyday moments, wrapped in the mundane and set amongst ordinary people.
Advice After A Promotion – Five points to remember
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Recollecting advice that was received that helped heaps. Advice that gave a very good perspective to the work ahead.
“How can I have a thriving career?”
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A young man who has just passed out of campus asked me a simple question: “How can I have a thriving career given that there is so much change happening?”. The first thing he ought to do, I suggested, was to stop seeking straightforward answers as soon as the question popped up. One part of Read more
Raising the bar
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The expression “raising the bar” comes from sport. To raise the bar indicates the setting of a new standard. What it often results in, is a new a new set of expectations. Every-time I hear that expression, I am reminded of Sergei Bubka, the pole vaulter who broke the world record 35 times! The story Read more
Gradually and then suddenly.
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Last week, I bumped into someone who I hadn’t met in a long while. It was he who walked up to me and said hello. Truth be told, I had struggled to place him. He was a pale version of the easy, sharp, witty, handsome and fit chap everyone else wanted to be. “One success Read more
New rules of the game
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A couple of weeks ago a Whatsapp group that am a part of, erupted in anger. This is not the typical Whatsapp group with partisan politics and repugnant nonsense. This was a group that informed each other on sports and fitness with a sane set of people. With a hurry and a worry on what Read more
Celebrating a personal milestone with you
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My dream of pursuing a different life outside the corporate world was triggered by several casual conversations. One such stellar conversation lead me to the 1000 day rule. The way a serial entrepreneur articulated the rule went something like this: “If you are able to survive without a salary for a 1000 days and have Read more
The Fake boyfriend app??
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I read about the “fake boyfriend app” with a half smile and a full heart. To each, her own, as the saying goes! The lady who, with a click of a button has her notional hero come to her rescue, is the lady of the modern day world! The world that we live in provides Read more
Conversations with cab drivers
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The other day, a banter with my cab driver lead me to a mutual friend. There we were stuck in a jam whilst I was thrilled to bits. A random conversation with a stranger in a battered cab leading me to someone who I had lost contact with for almost a decade. I promptly called Read more