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I have been an avid consumer of podcasts and always in search of the good ones. Like books, good podcasts helps in shaping one's opinions and perspectives. Unlike books, podcasts often spread knowledge in a conversation mode between two or more achievers. A few years back, I got hooked on to podcasts as a source of learning driven by urge to use my commute time. Bangalore is notorious for it's pace of traffic and the commute times tends to be longer. But podcasts and audio books are the perfect allies in longer lonely commutes. I often wonder why there's hasn't been many business models to help people do high value activities during commute. Well, let's keep that discussion for a different day. One of the podcast series that I am hooked on to, of late, is called " Play to Potential" by Deepak Jayaraman. A part of his intro from the podcast page reads - 'Deepak is a certified CEO Coach and is an alumnus of IIT Madras, IIM Ahmedabad and London Business...

Recently came across this wonderful podcast between Ravi Venkatesan (former CEO of Microsoft India) and Pankaj Mishra (CEO of factordaily.com). This conversation revolved primarily around how careers of future will evolve. Summary of conversation: Rebooting the Core Career Principles: New world requires core career principles to be rebooted. What are the new principles?     1.        The reason we were born on earth is not to have a job; most of us are searching for the reason as to why we were put on the earth. The job is only a means to that bigger end.     2.        The biggest obstacle to your success is you. Learn to get out of your own way.     3.        Be the CEO of your own career.   You better take charge of your career because nobody else will.     4.        Don't get fooled into thinking that you have a lifelong ...