Your Sorting Hat: On better teams, better leadership and living your belief
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Apr 25, 2023)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"At work, all that you signed up for - will change.
The role and the rules, the teams and the systems.
When you expect 'change', you find it easier to adapt faster."
II.
"When in doubt, choose action over inaction.
More failures come from inaction while a bias for action usually self corrects."
III.
"Picking a better team beats
Being the best in the wrong one."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Daniel Kaheneman, psychologist and economist, puts a pause in our thinking, in his book on rationality and irrationality - Thinking, Fast and Slow :
"Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it...
...Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance."
Source: Book: Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
II.
Simon Sinek, author and inspirational speaker, talks about leadership, in his TED talk based bestseller - Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action : -
"Leading is not the same as being the leader. Being the leader means you hold the highest rank, either by earning it, good fortune or navigating internal politics. Leading, however, means that others willingly follow you—not because they have to, not because they are paid to, but because they want to...
...We are drawn to leaders and organizations that are good at communicating what they believe. Their ability to make us feel like we belong, to make us feel special, safe and not alone is part of what gives them the ability to inspire us."
Source: Book: Start With Why by Simon Sinek
1 Question
Does your job reflect what you believe? How would your life be, if it did?
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Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times