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Rethink Imposter Syndrome: Build confidence, beat self-doubt and succeed

Rethink Imposter Syndrome: Build confidence, beat self-doubt and succeed

Embrace feelings of self-doubt, incompetence, and inadequacy to lead with courage and conviction.

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May 30, 2023

How To Develop Your Strategic Thinking Skills and Stay Ahead

Cross the boundary of your comfort zone to think about an idea to its extreme without mental guardrails to put it down.

How To Develop Your Strategic Thinking Skills and Stay Ahead

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Apr 3, 2023

How to Build Credibility at Work

Building credibility requires more than just competence and knowledge.

What erodes credibility at work and what builds it? Most employees don’t think about credibility consciously which prevents them from taking the right steps to build it. They think that if they keep their heads down and keep doing the good work, someone will take notice and good opportunities will land their way. But workplaces aren’t designed to lift people with good intentions and good skills.

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Sep 18, 2023

How To Disagree With Someone More Powerful Than You

Disagreements can save time and energy by preventing critical mistakes and course correcting before it’s too late

What do you do when you disagree with your manager or someone senior to you? Do you voice your opinion or do you choose to keep quiet? Speaking truth to power is a rare skill. Telling someone above you that they’re wrong requires courage and confidence. Holding your tongue and staying silent or nodding your head in agreement even when you disagree definitely feels safe. It doesn’t require fighting your fears or going against your instinct.

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Nov 28, 2022

4 Thinking Traps of Ineffective Leaders

Thinking errors are a common part of being a human. Let’s understand the traps to watch out for and learn how to avoid them

Leaders are ordinary human beings who make mistakes from time to time. While some mistakes are insignificant or have minor negative consequences, others might be potentially harmful and damaging to the organization and its people. Most of these mistakes are unintentional — they stem from thinking errors, applying shortcuts and not using the right mental models.

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Aug 2, 2022

Want to Communicate Effectively at Work? Eliminate these 5 Cognitive Distortions

Occasional errors in thinking make us form an inaccurate view of reality and stick with it thereby impacting our behaviors and actions

cognitive distortions. Heaven’s reward fallacy — I must be rewarded for my hard work and sacrifice. curse of knowledge — why can’t others understand such simple ideas? fundamental attribution error — this who they are. fallacy of change — circle of influence, circle of concern that others need to change. bike shedding which has four quadrants trivial, easy, important, and hard. bike shedding is in the easy and trivial quadrant

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Psychology of Workplaces

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Challenges Faced By Leaders and How to Overcome Them

Leadership takes work. It takes time and energy. The effects are not always easily measured and they are not always immediate.

Challenges Faced By Leaders and How to Overcome Them

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Code Like A Girl

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6d ago

When Your Leadership Style No Longer Fits the Organization

What made you excellent and effective once can now become the very thing that limits you.

When Your Leadership Style No Longer Fits the Organization

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Code Like A Girl

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Jun 24

Signs Your Leadership Role Has Become Unsustainable

Have you drifted from being challenged and stretched to becoming strained and unsustainable?

Signs Your Leadership Role Has Become Unsustainable

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Code Like A Girl

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Jun 17

The Subtle Ways In Which Ego Shows Up at Work

Your ego is running the show and it’s costing you more than you think.

The Subtle Ways In Which Ego Shows Up at Work

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Code Like A Girl

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Jun 3

9 Signs You’re Stagnating at Work

It doesn’t feel like failure. It just feels like another ordinary day. That’s exactly what makes career stagnation so easy to miss.

9 Signs You’re Stagnating at Work

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Author: Books on Mindset, Imposter Syndrome. Scaling products ￫ Scaling thinking (⊙_⊙) Former AVP Engineering, Swiggy. I write about work, progress and success.

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