2026 has somehow shown up at the doorstep, uninvited and suspiciously early. I am still nowhere close to halfway through my 2025 goals, yet the avalanche of “wrapped” messages and year-end posts has made it abundantly clear that the year is officially done and dusted, and that it is, apparently, time to put my feet … Continue reading 2025 World of Work Wrapped
It has been seven years since, inspired by a YouTube video, I began setting a ‘word of the year’. I want to say I’ve been true to the words but much like with the monthly challenges, there lies great scope for improvement. However, that is no reason to break tradition. As 2023 drew to a … Continue reading 2024 Word of the year – Positivity
If you’ve interacted with me over the past few weeks, you may have noticed a departure from my usual calm, sensible and balanced demeanor. Instead, you came face to face with an angry young woman who’d snap at you at the slightest provocation. It isn’t that I haven’t identified the change in my approach but … Continue reading Respond; not react
What does December represent to you: a month of celebration, a month of reflection, a month to catch up with everything while the world rotates a little slower or are you an overachiever who wants to do all of the above? If you are anything like me, you’ll try to bundle it all into December … Continue reading Rejoice: We survived (almost thrived) yet another year
Mid way through this year, my manager sat us (the team) down to share a bunch of documents and lessons he’d picked up from a recent leadership offsite. As I was cleaning out my office desk last week, I found the documents and scribbled in corners were my top takeaways from the day. I sat … Continue reading Five things; from one professional to another
Long before LinkedIn opened its feed allowing everyone to post, a set of LinkedIn influencers would publish their Big Idea for the year. In 2014, they also came together to publish a series on ‘If I were 22’. Back in those days, I would spend hours crawling through these pieces waiting for the next. As … Continue reading Predictions 2023: Abstractions
They say that for every decision we take, there lies an alternate universe where we decide differently. I don’t know if that is true but I do know that every decision comes with consequences. And as Emily learnt in Season 3, not taking a decision is also a decision. 2020, 21 and 22 were three … Continue reading Word of the year 2023: Recovery
To say 2022 has been an eventful year is an understatement. While many touted this to be the year when we’d finally see some calm and stability, reality clearly thought otherwise. Every time I felt that I had my head wrapped around current world (and personal) events, the next thing came bounding along. I am … Continue reading Year in Review: 2022
There are four months left in the year and, as incredulous as it feels, it is time to think of what work would look like in 2022. As organizations continue planning to ‘return to work’ for what’s likely the 13th month running, the evidence on burnout is overwhelming. A study by the University of Chicago … Continue reading The case for eliminating (most) meetings & how
The world changed in 2020. I am not a prophet and cannot determine whether the changes are for better or worse. What I do know is that the change is irreversible and we will never go back to exactly where we came from. With all the events that took place over the last 12 months, … Continue reading Events that changed the world of work in 2020
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