Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Learning in the last year and a half

The last 19 months have been a kinda of a roll-a-coaster ride! Mostly troughs and a few peaks.

What have I learnt:

1. How to wear a tie - precisely how to tie a tie knot

2. What it means to put on weight!! ;-) What it means to be of normal weight when compared to being underweight!

3. How it is to deal with difficult bosses. Though have not fully figured out the solution, but am much better than before

4. How not make a suckers choice! Help from HR came handy Read this wonderful book, which made me realize the suckers choice which I keep often making Crucial Conversations

5. How does it feel to fall from a position of power or from a successful career to a not so good one :-(

6. How not to fight with friends for the wrong reason

7. How much little of MS Excel I knew and how much more there is to learn

8. Work at times as an individual contributor

9. How to travel 4 hrs each day to work by public transport and what it means!