Your Sorting Hat: Trust matters, power of solitude and prioritising

Career Tuesday

Careers, Life and Questions (Mar 21, 2023)

Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!  

3 Career Ideas

I.

"Can your LinkedIn picture really reflect your skills and abilities?

Likewise, can a Job Description truly describe the ground reality and outcomes?

When you ignore the Job Description and deliver what the role actually needs, you succeed faster."

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II.

"When building your  team, look for both performance and trust.

Without performance, there is no team.

And no amount of performance matters, if you cannot trust your team."

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III.

"Make time for doing nothing and for getting bored. 

What you lose in productivity, you gain more through creativity."

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  2 Life Quotes from Books

I.

Sudha Murthy, author and philanthropist, promotes self reflection, in her story collection  - How I Taught My Grandmother to Read: And Other Stories - 

"There is a difference between loneliness and solitude. Loneliness is boring, whereas in solitude you can inspect and examine your deeds and your thoughts.”

Source: Book: How I Taught by Sudha Murthy

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II.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, essayist and former trader, believes in taking advice from those who play the game and not from the commentators, in his bestseller - Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life : - 

"Those who talk should do and only those who do should talk."

Source: Book: Skin in The Game by Nassim Taleb

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1 Question

What is your top most priority at work? In life? Is it scheduled in your daily calendar? 

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Until next week,

Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times