The movie is an excellent attempt at bringing out the conflict of 'what I want to do with my life' and 'what I am expected to do with my life' - the 'social pressure' to conform to career stereotypes, and the trick it plays on your psyche.
Category: career leadership
Social Networking Lessons – A class and a movie
I am pursuing a mini-MBA program from UW, and one of the classes we had recently was about social networks and how important they are for career growth and getting things done. One of the most basic lesson was that you should have open-ended network (networks where your people in your network do not know …
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Are all communication problems same?
This is the article I published in The Smart Techie magazine in Nov '06, you can find the original article here. Following is a slightly modified version that I had in my draft that I submitted: As managers in multinational companies we have to communicate with teams across different geographies. I present two instances of …
Trust at workplace
I came across an interesting post on this on Cheri Baker's blog: Trust in the workplace. It is a good read if you are interested in discussing how trust plays a role in workplace when you go talk to HR about some issues and HR has to take it up with your manager. My experience has …
Reading and thoughts on world-class teams – III
Finally I am done reading the book! Very long reading indeed, usually I spend very little time in reading, and skim through most of the content, but this one I thought was time well spent, and I was right. Here is what I got out of the book: 1. Performance is the single most important …
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Reading and thoughts on world-class teams – II
(Reposted from my anandoned blog) Read some more, and found some parts very interesting. For example, the author contends that a working group is way more productive and useful to the organization than a pseudo-team. According to the definitions used by the authors, a working group is when each of the members work on their …
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Reading and thoughts on world-class teams – I
(Reposted from my abandoned blog) This is a great book: The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization by J. R. Katzenbach, Douglas K. Smith I have read only first couple of chapters and stories, but I am already getting a feeling that I am going to like every single word here! Basically the book talks …
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Where has business ethics gone?
I was travelling to India for a week (by flying on the weekends and working on the week), and among other reasons to travel was a very important reason: we were hiring my peer in India organization and I wanted to make sure I am there when he joins so that we can sync up …
Diary of an opinionated Indian 