Your Pain is Mine

I have had a journey. I am still in transit. If I look back, I could have done many things better in my early part of professional life. However let me not forget that (I was lucky) my bosses were nice, down to earth and were fun. (Sorry if you had horrible ones). The colleagues and peers were always great and inspiring.

What I never understood during my early career days was how I was not aware of my projects goals, mission, how I could have contributed more, how I could have felt and shared the management pains etc. I remember the fun times, the parties, the events but I didn't remember anything about the other side of the coin.

I was contributing nonetheless. I was there during the day, late nights, on weekends because I was expected to be there, because I was told so. However, I now understand it more clearly that I was not making the difference as much as I should have had even when I was there, with them. I also understand my bosses were aware of this. But those were old days and there were old ways perhaps of how such situation was dealt with.

How can we solve such a situation today? Very keen to know and understand from the experience of others.

Happy Diwali !!!
(I published the original article in LinkedIn on 11-Nov-2015)