August Writing Challenge — 100% work from home. Recent mandates on compulsory hybrid office schedule. Inter-generation colleagues. GenZ entering the workforce. The last 5 years have dramatically changed the landscape of work and subsequently, the leadership skills needed to rise to the top. …

Using Kaizen methods for Personal Career Acceleration — This had been my goal for last year but life through so many changes that I could not follow through. So here am I again in 2023, committed to a full year of experiments to become a more effective and powerful leader. This project takes inspiration from 2 main sources: …

Making Productivity Joyful As a working mom, productivity is a topic very close to my heart. Most content on this topic treat it solely as a motivation or prioritization problem. But for working parents, life always has two priorities on the number one spot — kids and work! …

Monday Musings Have you ever come away from a conversation feeling unheard and frustrated? When people seem to 100% ignore or disregard your opinions, sometimes after asking you to provide one! If you are a writer here on Medium too, perhaps you produced a brilliant post, but all you heard were… crickets…

Life with labels Too Career focused. Lazy Housewife. Blogger. Cool cat Aunt. Pimply youth. Innovator. Disorganized Mom. These are just some of the labels thrown at me by folks. Some were strangers, some were family, some were passing acquaintances who used a mix of stereotypes and snap judgements. All are true, but only…

Leadership Lab Lessons This post is a roundup of insights from the book "Loonshots" by Safi Bahcall that explores the dynamics of innovation within organizations. Many of these principles can be applied to our personal life for career and money management. Phase transitions are critical. First what are “Loonshots”? These are radical, risky…

Wednesday Writer Roundup Hello again, today is another post highlighting interesting articles from the Medium universe. Lots of “Ps” in the list for today. Profits — The first will help you improve the profitability of your career. Parenting — Two more on parenting, worth reading even for those without kids! Perspectives — Fire…

Human vs AI contest As part of my leadership lab experiments, I pitted ChatGPT against myself for a creativity challenge. This post is an analysis of the outcome. I will also detail the question, the methodology and rationale, results, the comparison, and my verdict. Methodology As part of an interview, I was asked a question…

Monday Motivation Kindle recently reminded me that I have a reading streak that is 120 weeks long! That is more than 2 years straight of reading at least one day a week on Kindle. Why is this Monday Motivation? Reading everyday is no big deal for many, but doing it consistently for years is! My 2 years…