Your Sorting Hat: Being Number 1, converting opportunities and roots of insecurity
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Apr 04, 2023)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"45% of sales at Flipkart and Amazon come from one category - Mobile phones.
Your highest impact at work comes from one or two critical tasks.
What are they? Monitor them daily."
II.
"Be Number 1 in your field. The rewards and respect are disproportionately high.
Success creates a positive impression that extends beyond your achievement.
This is also known as the Halo Effect."
III.
"Always remember that your workplace is a Team and not a Family.
The Team is there for you and wants you to succeed. Like a Family.
But your performance is non-negotiable. Unlike a Family."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Joseph Nguyen, author, offers solutions to self sabotage, in his bestseller - Don't Believe Everything You Think: Why Your Thinking Is The Beginning & End Of Suffering :
"The thoughts in our minds are not facts...
...The only time we can really be in a state of non-thinking is in the present moment. We can only see reality in the present moment and when we are actively thinking, it means we are either in the past or future (which don’t exist)."
Source: Book: Don't Believe Everything by Joseph Nguyen
II.
Peter Drucker, management guru, classifies problem solving as a secondary skill, in his widely acclaimed management classic - The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done : -
"It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem - which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday."
Source: Book: The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker
1 Question
Where are you feeling insecure? Are you trying to look better or smarter than you think you really are?
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Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times
One or two critical areas to be monitored. In fact, Jeff Bezos also said that the senior management is expected to take very few but high impact decisions.