Home Away From Home

As I wrote my first come back to my blog after a long time whilst I was trying not to fall asleep in class (which happens a lot), I realized how much I missed writing. My “desk mate” looked at me inquiringly and asked what was it that I was writing, and I just ended up replying “you know what, I really love writing”. Well, readers of this post could truly say: ”oh really, I can’t tell!”. As I got home, prepared not to leave my thoughts half way through this time (as I did the last two times I wrote something that I never published) I got an email complaint. Bruno really is having too much time off as an analyst in banking and likes to get entertained with my brain leakages but went to my blog to find out that I had not been there for a while. And he attacked me bluntly. First, he went on as how I should not ever have started a blog if I was not a geek, because the ability to keep it going required me to be a geek and as such I was not up to the task. But he just did not leave it t...

The last classes in Leadership try hard to make you think and figure out what to do about yourself. So we talked about our best self, not just about what it is but more of when it happens. We had to ask a couple of former colleagues, friends and family to give us three examples of when we were at our best. The point is not to skyrocket your ego, don’t worry. It is about understanding what are the environments that make your strengths come out. Because if you know what they are, then you will look to pursue a future that exhibits these characteristics. A “what brings the good in you” kind of thing. It was interesting to get that feedback. More than interesting, it was insightful. It was amazingly consistent throughout and it was curious to see the examples that people remember about you. I do recommend to anyone in need to find a bit more of where they should go. The thing about the examples is that they do have something in common, whether they came from people I worked with recently o...