Your Sorting Hat: Leader as bottleneck, catching green lights and learning from others
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Jul 12, 2022)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Where do you invest your money? If say a fixed deposit returns 5%,
A mutual fund returns 10% and learning a new skill returns 40%.
Invest money and time in yourself and your skills to succeed faster."
II.
"How you work when no one is watching -
Defines your ownership and thus its rewards."
III.
"As a leader, you are also the team bottleneck - for decisions and solutions.
Take time to create clear simple decision frameworks for your team to use."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Matthew McConaughey, Academy Award winning actor, talks about his life's learnings in his memoir - Greenlights - (referring to green traffic signals) :
"We can catch more greenlights by simply identifying where the red lights are in our life, and then change course to hit fewer of them...
...The sooner we become less impressed with our life, our accomplishments, our career, our relationships, the prospects in front of us—the sooner we become less impressed and more involved with these things—the sooner we get better at them. We must be more than just happy to be here"
Source: Book: Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
II.
Anne Bogel, author and podcaster, offers a solution to breaking the endless cycle of what-ifs and the fear of failing, in her book - Don't Overthink It: Make Easier Decisions, Stop Second-Guessing, and Bring More Joy to Your Life:
"Ritual—any ritual—establishes a certain kind of mindset; perhaps this is why rituals benefit even those who claim they’re not important.
When a routine works for us, we don’t have to pay attention to it, but a ritual calls us to fully participate in what we’re doing—even if it’s as simple as savoring a cup of tea. The specific action doesn’t matter, but its rhythm, regularity, and meaning do."
Source: Book: Don't Overthink It by Anne Bogel
1 Question
What can you learn from your best boss? From your worst?
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Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times
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