Most people do not think that it is a good idea to get too friendly with a colleague. I grew up reading Spy vs Spy in MAD magazine. The white spy and the dark spy are continuously trying to outwit each other. Life has not changed. Yet this is a lost opportunity to create meaning at work. I read Gianpiero Petriglieri article on How to Make Better Friends at Work and thought I share the gems.
Young has consistently demonstrated the unbridled passion of an artist who understands that self-renewal is the only way to avoid burning out. For this reason, he has remained one of the most significant artists of the rock and roll era.
— Rock and Roll Hall of Fame website
A personal brand is the degree of trust others have in your ability to do what you say. That happens when others say what you do.
The settings are varied. What goes on behind the scenes when two star musicians from India and Pakistan share the stage in a concert for peace? A small-town music teacher and a big-city businessman team up. They plan a hunt for India’s best new classical talent—and make a few crores in the process? How does it end? Shubha Mudgal writes about these from the point of view of an insider. That is why each story is so true. The tone is funny but there is a tinge of sadness I felt right through even as I laughed. The stories have a wicked humor that comes from someone who has seen these characters at close quarters.
The world often hands us what are called "wicked problems". These are settings where the rules of the game are unclear or incomplete. The patterns do not repeat and feedback is often delayed or misleading. The world is increasingly beginning to sound close to that description. Who will be more successful - the generalist or the specialist?
Social Psychologist Katherine Milkman speaks about the mental accounting that we do to create landmarks that show the passage of time. According to her research if you reframe any day as a fresh beginning, you can make significant progress towards achieving your goals. So the real magic does not lie in waiting for the new year to start on your goal. It can any day - even today. And especially today. All that it needs is a reframing in your mind to say that you are making a new beginning.
The legendary musician KC Dey was the first musical guru for SD Burman. He also learned from Bhishmadev Chattopadhyay and Ustad Allauddin Khan. SD Burman was a very successful composer and singer in Bengali cinema when he decided to move to Bombay to try his luck as a composer for Hindi films - a language he barely knew. He brought in the sound of folk music of the East to Bollywood. Today I want to showcase 5 gems from SD which are raga based.
Creating low end jobs is not going to be sustainable. Machines will outperform us every time. It may be hard to build the capability at scale to build techies with deep expertise in Artificial Intelligence. As machines take over from humans, all that is left is creativity and the ability to manage human relationships. That is what India excels at. Instead, India needs to leverage the strengths that it has. It is a culture where relations matter. This is not to take away from the need to build deep tech skills, but to supplement it with something that we may have an advantage in. How do we handle the impact of the 3 factors? Read on...
