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The Rules of Management – Rule #39: Set the Standard & Rule #40: Enjoy Yourself
🎄🎅 Merry Christmas, everyone 🎅🎄 If you haven’t already, you can check out my first post about this book, The Rules of Management. That’s where my journey with these reflections began. Today, I’d like to share my thoughts on two more rules from the book that stood out to me. Rule #39: Set the Standard“Everyone…
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The Rules of Management – Rule #38 Work Hard
I bought this book at the airport when I was a new manager, navigating the challenges of balancing company benefits with my personal values. The book is divided into three parts: Back then, I focused solely on the first part, “Managing Your Team,” as it aligned with my responsibilities. However, my career path has since…
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“Never Stop Learning!”
After almost two weeks of traveling, I have a Friday night to reflect and write. One thought that came to mind is about a short training session I was interested in. However, I need to gather at least eight participants with similar interests to start the training. So, I began asking around, and a colleague…
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My Journey in Social Entrepreneurship and ED&I (to be continued)
Over the next months, I will be joining the #Dela Programme to work with Ryan Gersava and Virtualahan Inc. to support them enhance their systems change strategies and scale their #impact. #Dela is a global accelerator programme co-created by @Ashoka and #IKEASocialEntrepreneurship https://bit.ly/3DxdMkN #systemschange #socialinnovation #Delaprogramme I will begin documenting my journey by capturing new…
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Common Patterns of Leaders and Managers
We completed the Talent Green House Program* six months ago, and I’ve taken some time to reflect on the experience. I am immensely grateful to have been selected for the program, even though I hadn’t officially started with the company yet. There were three of us participating, each receiving different forms of support. We began…
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“Only while sleeping one makes no mistakes”
We had our second module online with our Business Developer Master Class. In a breakout room, we kept our stories very open and transparent. One topic we discussed was related to failure: “How much can you accept failure?” To be honest, I used to be afraid of failure my whole life, both personally and professionally.…
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A Path Finder Who Loves Handwriting
Path Finder This is a lovely name – “path finder” – which my manager, J., gave me a few weeks ago during our celebration after getting our new supplier’s approval after almost 1.5 years. Another colleague received the “pioneer” award. We both are happy with the new names given to us. This was an assignment…
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