When hiring you are given 2 hard choices - choosing experience or potential. Do you choose someone who has done it before? Or do you choose someone who has little or no direct experience but shows high potential to do the job. Hiring someone who has done this it before might work better for things like jobs that require practice to perform e.g., plumbing, surgery. We dont ...
Career
From Engineer to Manager : Benefits of transition
(Photo courtesy: Victor1558 CC-BY 2.0) Most of us get presented with the opportunity at some point in our career to take on people management responsibilities aka Manager. In the IT/software industry I have sensed a hesitation or sometimes even aversion to becoming a people manager. Often engineers look down upon managers as folks who are not technical and this is tends to be ...
Taking a new vector
The average person in our generation is expected to change careers about 5 times in his lifetime. This means we are now taking new vectors more often than any other previous generation. The internet has enabled ease of discovering information, getting exposed to new ideas & has raised our awareness of the possibilities. ...
Simulate your worst fears and gain clarity on what’s REALLY important
Wrong priorities, false assumptions, layers of fears are what prevent us from gaining clarity & getting to that which is REALLY important to us in our life. Often we hear stories of people who had a near death experience or serious life event that enabled them see through this and gain clarity on what's 'really' important. How can we get to that which is really important, ...
Relationships a key to being Happy @ Work
I have been pondering & studying a lot lately on what makes us happy at work. One of the key elements that I have come to strongly believe is that "relationships" with our co-workers is a key ingredient to being happy at work.It is a known fact that man is a social animal and research has shown that depth and extent of relationships is a key factor in long-term ...