1. Visibility over actual completion of work (presentations, sessions, etc.,)
2. Communication (mainly over email! because email is used as a golden truth when there is a conflict between individuals or teams)
3. Getting to know other members/teams (you don't know when you will end up collaborating with them)
4. Being thorough with reviews (be it code or ideas)
5. Proactively participate in meetings (1. to grab the opportunity 2. refuse to take up the work which is not actually yours)
6. 1x1s - if the manager/management doesn't see your name often you end up in the list (you know what list)
7. Before asking questions in the Slack channel or meetings or an email (do the groundwork, a basic question from a senior will cost a lot)
8. OOO - religiously setting out-of-office saves you lot of troubles
9. Collaboration is only on paper, actually you should put a border around your team and work to guard what's rightfully yours, otherwise the other team will showcase it as theirs!
10. Don't respond on weekends, even if it will break the company. Once you set the bar, you will be expected to live within that bar.
11. There is nothing like "this is critical", what's critical will always have some buffer, tell the truth and ask for extension.
12. Don't go harsh on anyone in a corporate environment, because you will end up working with that person.
13. Attend org wide presentations, you get to know something new or you get to know whom to reach out for what or you get to know what shouldn't be presented
Created an extension, for browser/email client, to quickly open web pages with selected text as input to save lots of time in copying and pasting. Initially intended to save my time in work, after making it generic now I'm happy to see others also finding it useful. https://quickowl.app
I too feel overwhelmed by this sudden rush towards *GPT. The content generated by AI is slowly erasing the line between the creative content and computer generated content. I remember last year when so many people earning or trying to earn by creating art forms to sell as NFT. Once Dall-E landed, then the originality quotient of any creative content is lost. Likewise, ChatGPT is going to erase the originality in text content. Once internet is mixed with AI generated content, then there is no going back. We can't find what's real work, what's AI generated.
As an Indian I'm proud of what Zoho has achieved. Mainly the founder Sridhar Vembu is down to earth & thinks for the well being of employees and society along with keeping customers in prime seat. Breaking conventional wisdom Zoho opened offices in tier 2 & tier 3 cities of India. Which made it possible for smaller cities to see growth induced by high earning employees of Zoho.
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