Careers, Life and Questions (May 16, 2023)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"A better wood saw does not help - if you are not a carpenter, While a good carpenter may double his output. Likewise with ChatGPT and AI tools - Master your job to gain the most."
II.
"When you do only what everyone else is doing, You get close to the average outcomes. For non-average results, you do more and different things."
III.
"Change the environment to change the results. Both stars and under performers change, when the leader is changed."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Peter Drucker, management guru, on why you need to change your behaviour, in his compilation - The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management :
"Success always makes obsolete the very behavior that achieved it. It always creates new realities. It always creates, above all, its own and different problems. Only the fairy tale ends, “They lived happily ever after."
Source: Book: The Essential Drucker by Peter Drucker
II.
J K Rowling, British author of the Harry Potter series, seems to share the secret to becoming a good interviewer in the second Harry Potter book - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets : -
"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. - Albus Dumbledore"
Source: Book: Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling
1 Question
What can you add or change to make tomorrow a fun day?
If you enjoyed that, please share this email with others.
Sign up here to receive this email every week or read longer career articles here.
Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times