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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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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.

10 min readMay 30, 2023

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How to Build Credibility at Work

Building credibility requires more than just competence and knowledge.

8 min readApr 3, 2023

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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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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

9 min readSep 18, 2023

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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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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

8 min readNov 28, 2022

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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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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

10 min readAug 2, 2022

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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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Code Like A Girl

Great Leaders Deal With Ambiguity Using These 7 Practices

Do you find ambiguity exhilarating or exhausting?

9 min readJust now

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Great Leaders Deal With Ambiguity Using These 7 Practices

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Code Like A Girl

Workplace Stress Is Costing You. Here Are 5 Strategies To Reduce It

Lack of control over how you get to spend your time is one of the hidden sources of stress and anxiety at work.

9 min readApr 8, 2024

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Workplace Stress Is Costing You. Here Are 5 Strategies To Reduce It

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ILLUMINATION-Curated

Stuck on the Hedonic Treadmill? Here’s How to Escape It

Always wanting more than we have, we run and run and run, like hamsters on a wheel.

7 min readApr 1, 2024

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Stuck on the Hedonic Treadmill? Here’s How to Escape It

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Code Like A Girl

Six Rules of Effective Communication in Difficult Conversations

Instead of engaging in healthy dialogue when it matters most, we often engage in our worst behaviour.

9 min readMar 27, 2024

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Six Rules of Effective Communication in Difficult Conversations

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Good Managers Don’t Make These Mistakes

To break unhealthy patterns of thinking and acting, managers need to pay special attention to how they communicate, collaborate and get…

10 min readMar 20, 2024

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Good Managers Don’t Make These Mistakes

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Vinita

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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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