I have been working remotely with my office colleagues in the same timezone but 2,500kms away for about 2 years now. I work from Delhi and my office is in Bangalore. I have been visiting Bangalore no more frequently than once every 8 weeks for a week or two. Its tough. But there are quite a … Continue reading »
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Turn off that fancy “Push” mail
With being “connected” becoming so easy we tend to get addicted to checking our emails on the phone as soon as a new mail arrives or every few mins to every hour (or in that order) even when we are not “at work”. At a restaurant while having lunch with friends / family (or even … Continue reading »
Email Writing and Management Tips
Email Writing Tips Write your email in points so that the other person can respond to each one of them, this helps quick clarification and leaves no scope for the reader to miss out an important question / point. In-cases of timezone separated remote audiences, make sure you send all questions at the end of … Continue reading »
10 More Productivity Booster Tips (For IT users)
This is in continuation to my last post on the productivity tips. 11. Quick Launch/ Single click application launch – (Not using Desktop at all). This is specific to windows users. Right click on the taskbar and add a toolbar – “Quick Launch”- If you use windows XP / “desktop” if you use windows 7. This … Continue reading »
10 Productivity Booster Tips (For IT Users)
1. Bookmark aggressive & sync across devices, browsers. I create bookmark folders on my bookmark bar(below the address bar) for the different roles I play + different use-cases within the same role. Also, I use xmarks for the sync – its magical. 2. Direct Search from browser address bar. This is true-ly magical. If you havent tried … Continue reading »
Acheiving goals in a world of fools(including yourself)
I always keep talking about this with my friends. About how I deal with the world and keep what assumptions in mind and how it has helped me avoid surprises. There are two ways to look at the world (2 extremes) : 1) Assume everyone is innately good, everyone will give you expected results / … Continue reading »
Effective brainstorming:Five tips to tune your thought process
Hello Again ! Like all other posts of mine, this is no step to step guide to do anything, but a few tips that might prove useful or might bring a new perspective to look at the same thing. Here I am going to write about how you should tune your thinking in a brainstorming … Continue reading »
