She greeted me with the same positive, glowing smile she always does but had an inquisitive look on her face today. “Hey Bob!!! What are you doing home during the week? Did your house get flooded with the hurricane? All ok?”, Elma asked as I walked into her dry cleaning store today to drop off my shirts. I explained that I’m home this week because I’m on vacation and was attempting to spend some quality time with the kids before […]
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My 6 year old daughter went on her first roller coaster on Saturday at Hershey Park in Pennsylvania. It’s called “The Comet” and it was perfect for her height and age. She went on it with her mom and it was our last ride of the day just before the park was closing. I asked her if she was sure she wanted to go and like a typical over confident 6 year old she said, “Yea!!!”. OK – sorry I […]
Read moreI had been thinking and thinking for a long time about whether or not I should pursue something new at work. I thought long and hard and weighed the pros and cons of this path for a while now. Pursuing it would mean a small change in my career. But I wasn’t sure about making that change especially given uncertainty around every corner of business today. There were a lot of questions that I wanted clarity around, such as: Will […]
Read moreI’ve never heard anyone say, “I’m glad things are more simple now than 5 years ago”. We just don’t say that. In fact, we talk of how simple things “used to be”. In my research on a new book, I came across an interesting concept called Entropy or the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics. There’s a lot of science behind it but essentially it says that: Things get more complex not less. We go from simplicity to complexity. We go from […]
Read moreThere is so much chaos at work these days. People are living with so much stress and anxiety due to uncertainty at work. Based on my own personal experience of living with chaos at work, I’ve come up with 3 ways to Embrace the Chaos at work: 1. Accept [Rule#1] that organizational change will happen more often and be more drastic. People will move, leave, come in and evolve. Products, businesses, services will launch, grow market share, spin-off, be acquired […]
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