Rajen Garabadu

Have you quit your job when pushed to do something alien to your nature? Ten months into my first job, I faced this when my boss asked me to make cold calls to prospective clients offering…

How would you feel if people you know wrote nice things about you but you couldn’t identify who wrote what? This is precisely how I felt 12 years ago and again last week. Before moving to…

Believe-it-or-not, my previous workplace had no Human Resources Division for 17 years. I joined the company eight years after it was founded when it had less than a thousand employees.…

Imagine becoming a father and your colleagues don't know till the child is born.  No one in my office, not even my boss, knew my wife and I were expecting a baby. A team member first read…

“God, please help me see through this dark period. If I survive, I won’t ask for anything more. I will always be grateful and remain contented.” Have you experienced such feelings? Okay,…

Have you ever found yourself lost in the enchanting world of a book while someone else breezes through it in one sitting? I have both examples at my home. ‘Papa takes forever to finish a…

Ever been there? The odds are overwhelmingly against you. Your competitor enjoys a head start that seems impossible to catch up to. So, how do you play when the deck is stacked against…

Convinced your life sucks? Stuck in a seemingly endless pit of despair? There’s no light at the end of the tunnel for you. Or so you think. You feel it’s pointless continuing. You are…

It works wonders. I began using it in my early days as a producer. I’d benchmark my daily work output as per this yardstick. I rate it as the best work evaluation technique that boosts…

Very few know this. I have written much about my current workplace, the experiences, and the learnings I've gathered in 18+ years. But few know I almost did not join here. I thought it…