145 Tips to Professionals

1. • Tips to Professionals in the Industry in the light of my Industry experience: (Tips are not necessarily in
the order of importance.)
1) Do not loose your independence.
2) Keep safe distance from the boss & colleagues.
3) Motivate your staff. Follow the attitude ‘we need each other.’
4) Make your staff dispensable.
5) Do not indulge in politics.
6) Do not gossip. Follow three filter test prescribed by Socrates. (Truth, Goodness, & Usefulness)
7) Give justice to your salary.
8) Do your work sincerely and with involvement.
9) Enjoy the work. Try to get optimum job satisfaction. Money will follow.
10) Select the job which will provide opportunity to use your knowledge.
11) Pay attention to few observations made by ‘Abraham Lincoln’ many years ago namely:
• You can not bring about prosperity by discouraging Thrift.
• You can not keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.
• You can not establish sound security on borrowed money.
12) Saving should be the first charge on Income.
13) Pursue some hobbies.
14) Take care of Health. Do some exercise regularly.
15) Take healthy diet.
16) Spend enough time with family members and parents.
17) Exercise control over ‘Hurry’ ‘Worry’ and ‘Curry’
18) You should constantly look for every opportunity to learn.
19) You should not carry any complex either inferior or superior. You should carry equality complex.
20) You should ‘mean’ what you say but you may not ‘say’ what you mean unless called for.
21) You should honour every person’s ideas and skills.
22) You should constantly exchange information and knowledge and keep optimum amount of transparencyin your
dealings.

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23) You should not ignore signals.(Take macro meaning)
24) Happiness lies in MIND.
25) You should do retrospection at periodic intervals.
26) You should believe that you owe some obligations to society.
27) You should always do PLANNING before taking any action, decision etc. (Take macro meaning)
28) You should measure the success by not what you have achieved but by what you had to leave to achieve the
same.
29) You should either don’t carry EGO or try to keep the EGO under control.
30) Do not change the jobs frequently. Do not compromise on designation for a higher salary. Both should go hand
in hand.
31) You should love what you get as you may not get what you want/love.
32) Your success in life depends on realization of one’s limitations.