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Date Archives → January 2006
Ways to distinguish yourself – #93 Be comfortable contradicting yourself, sometimes!
The other way of saying this is that if you are TOTALLY wrong, just admit it! You won’t be right every single time. I ask people that if they would be careful in the new year whether all their decisions that they make in this new year would be 100% right. Until now nobody has… Continue reading
Ways to distinguish yourself – #92 Watch with whom you spend most of your time
I had the good fortune of meeting with Dr.Tom Hill of Eagle Institute recently. Quick background on Tom: Tom is 70 years old and was in the academic field until he was 50 years old. At age 50, Tom started a business career selling Re/Max franchises. In the next ten years built businesses that together… Continue reading
Beyond Code reviewed at Genuine Curiosity
Ways to distinguish yourself – #91 Be comfortable to say "I don't know"
There is a problem if you regularly say “I don’t know” and there is a problem if you never say “I don’t know.” Both are extremes. In the first case, it is a skills and competence issue and most of the time in the second case, it is an “ego” issue. I want to focus… Continue reading
Quotes worth recording – Ben Franklin
Ways to distinguish yourself – #90 Question the question
Yesterday, I was at a group meeting of one of the mastermind groups that I am a part of. We were discussing a lot of things and the topic moved towards the works of Deepak Chopra. My friend Mukundan recounted watching Deepak Chopra’s interview with Larry King. I believe one of the questions was “How… Continue reading
2006 Question
Ways to distinguish yourself – #89 Avoid the SEABE trap!
SEABE stands for “SEArching for the Best Excuse.” A few years ago, there was a member in our team (we will call him “Joe”) who was an expert in SEABE. When the boss asked him to do something more than what he was doing, he would immediately come up with an excuse as to why… Continue reading
Movie watching and story telling
I might have mentioned this before but let me say it again anyways. Kavitha (my wife) and I watch a lot of movies. We watch them in five different languages. Being a storyteller I like movies with powerful stories. If the story and direction are good, I sometimes get so engrossed that I forget myself…. Continue reading