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How do you ask good questions?
I love Tyler Cowen’s work, even though I’m not that into Economics. But Tyler has a knack for simplifying concepts and asking questions that make everything he writes easy to understand. You should check out his daily (sometimes several times a day) blog for fresh insights on culture, economics, and beyond. Today, one of his…
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The Mad Men’s guide to writing stellar copy (part 1)
I’ve been developing my swipe file collection of some of the most incredible ads and copywriters. While researching for great fodder, I bumped into this fantastic post by the good folks at CopyHackers.com. If you’ve been looking for “rules” for writing compelling copy that gets read, shared, and converted, look no further. This might be…
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Oops… she did it again!
Ages back, my best friend disclosed his secret crush on Britney Spears, who was the hottest thing on planet earth, at least as per the press, media, and teenagers. Every person in my class was either singing her songs or raving about her personality and popularity. Hell, they even switched to Pepsi because Britney was…
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Life rules accordingly to The Kominsky Method
Last evening, I wrapped up the third (and final, I think) season of the Netflix dramedy, The Kominsky Method. I loved the series for its ingenuity, class, and a whole lot of heart that pours through each of the 22 episodes that I’ve watched over the past three weeks. It’s been fun. As I’ve been…
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How constantly reacting can screw your time and energy management
This quarter I’m researching COVID-19’s impact on time management at the workplace, and I bumped into this quote by Jeff Weiner, Executive Chairman at LinkedIn. Part of the key to time management is carving out time to think instead of constantly reacting. And during that thinking time, you’re not only thinking strategically, thinking proactively, thinking…
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Building a personal knowledge management system
For the longest time, I’ve known myself to be curious and always search for answers. So, deciding to be an independent researcher was a natural extension of what I had been doing all my life. And while a layperson might think of our modern times as the age of information, I think of it more…
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The difference between Organizational Design and Organizational Development
As an organizational consultant and a student of organizational behaviour, one of the most common questions I often get asked is the difference between organizational design and organizational development. People often confuse the two terms, thinking they’re either the same or worse, assuming that organizational development should fall under the learning & development initiatives within…
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The best way to kick start your day
You know I’m big on processes. And that’s got less to do with my project management background but more to do with my experience of getting the biggest, baddest, and seemingly impossible (at the outset) things done. Having a project management lens has helped me get a lot of personal projects off the ground. Processes…
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If you thought you were important you don’t know about the pale blue dot
I’ll start with a hat-tip to Rohit from ALearningADay.com for posting a part of this quote on his site, which led me to investigate the Pale Blue Dot (PBD). As per Wikipedia, the PBD is a photograph of planet Earth taken in 1990 by the Voyager 1 space probe from about 6 billion kilometres as…