QAspire

MARCH 10, 2020

Too much of social involvement can stress us out. There are some key rules I have learned about being social and they apply to being social – online as well as offline. Be social, but protect your boundaries. Do the work first, signal later.

Learning-by-Doing 253

Learning-by-Doing Influence Metrics Conference 253

QAspire

JANUARY 13, 2020

In less than 200 pages, the authors try to cover many things like ageing, food, yoga, tai chi, stress management, concept of flow state, stories about centenarians from Okinawa in Japan, resilience, meditation and antifragility. My Review of the Book. I feel that while the book covers a lot of good content, it lacks depth.

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Review Books Kaizen Deming 254

QAspire

MARCH 28, 2017

Every NO contains a YES (NO to the gym is YES to more stress)”. Nicholas Bate once sent me a bunch of inspiring cards made with lot of love. One of those cards read, “ Every YES contains a NO (YES to staying late is NO to Lego with your daughter)”. If we don’t focus, how will we think, plan, execute, review and align?

Stress 70

Stress Creativity Review Planning 70

QAspire

JANUARY 8, 2014

The difference between tension and stress. Stress is knowing that you’re not where you’re supposed to be, and not knowing what to do about it. Strategy development is an opportunity to set direction, and develop people. Technical reviews are a chance to manage both innovation and risk, and…develop people.

Management 171

Management Blanchard Benchmarking Blog 171

QAspire

APRIL 23, 2013

Work like this for a few months and you will be indifferent, uninspired and if you are ambitious, stressed. Downed by things like organizational hierarchy, our fear of failure, lack of trust with superiors, micromanagement and poor management, we often treat our work as a transaction. I do this and I get this.

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Quality Micromanagement Career Stress 153

QAspire

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

A majority of people at workplace today seem to be struggling to cope with severe stress resulting from conflicting work priorities, hyper-connectedness, onslaught of notifications and information overload. How do we cope up with this stress?

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Open-book Stress Training Download 70

QAspire

JULY 22, 2014

I just need to be extra careful with my back, do exercises and manage the stress well. Recently, I had my first MRI scan to diagnose a herniated disc in my lower back area. Not a great thing to have, but fortunately , not very severe either.

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Self-aware Bottom-up Workshop Sports 147