Kaushik, Prabha, Padma and Kingo had completed 5 years in their respective workplace and were recollecting their first day at work and how the nicely structured induction programs helped them settle down quickly in the organization. Over the last 5 years all of them had moved from freshers to middle management positions. Kaushik asked a […]
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Prabha was not looking well, and everyone enquired if she was OK. She muttered, “I am having a headache. I attended a seminar on artificial intelligence, and it was full of so many complicated terms that I could not follow anything. Maybe it was too advanced for me”. This comment led to a discussion on
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Since all four of them were working on Information Technology projects, Project Management was one of their pet subjects. All except Kingo had passed the PMP certification exam and it was an oft-discussed subject. Kaushik, as always led the discussion to Bridge. If we treat each contract as a project with a certain amount resource,
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It was teacher’s day, and everyone was reminiscing their teachers who taught them various subjects in schools and colleges. While respect to all teachers continued, the discussion veered into what is the relevance of all subjects that we learnt in school and college. None of them are relevant to their current jobs. While the debate
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Prabha was at her nervous best as she announced that she will be getting married in a couple of months, but she has full support from her fiancée to continue playing Bridge. She said she will be extremely busy preparing for the event over the next two months and all are requested to keep the
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Padma was undergoing training on Managing people in her company and was thrilled and spoke with excitement. “My company truly believes that each one of us must get training on job related skills or soft skills for two weeks every year. This course I am undergoing is exciting, great faculty and full of experiential games.”
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For a change, it was Kaushik who started the discussion. He had come pre-decided about the topic and started off by giving some data saying, “Business partnership break-ups in the first 4 years of operations is in excess of 50 percent, Marriage break-ups in developed world is in excess of 40 percent and we have
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Padma had been attending a seminar titled “From Good to Great”. She wanted to share her key learning with her bridge friends. She was panting as she wanted to get it off her chest, “It is one thing to become the best in your field of competence. Bu the more important is remaining there takes
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It was the cricket season and India was having a great time defeating all teams on home turf. It was Kingo who initiated conversation this time saying, “Our team is really a great team. Not showing any nerves at all and winning match after match.” It was Kaushik who interrupted Kingo and said, “Why should
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Prabha and Padma were over the moon as their organization was awarded software development maturity level 4 (Managed) and they had made significant contributions towards that effort. Kingo never paid attention to quality aspects as he was a marketing guy and asked, “What does it mean”. Padma loved to explain this aspect. There are 5
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