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Strategy @swiggy_in. Purveyor of Tech, Consumer of Sports, Attemptor of Humour. Opinions personal. This is no time for caution.
May 26, 2020 19 tweets 3 min read
A longish thread on
"Career progression in white-collar jobs || Competencies to tick off to get promoted at different career stages"

given the recently concluded appraisal / promotion season.

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While organizations end up having many grades / levels (have seen companies with as little as 6 and as high as 15), at the fundamental level there are 6

1. Analyst (IC)
2. Associate (IC)
3. Manager
4. Initiative Head
5. Functional Head
6. CXO

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Mar 11, 2020 16 tweets 3 min read
As I was speaking to a friend on the coronavirus "pandemic", we recalled a very interesting incident from an online multiplayer game (Word of Warcraft) which effectively simulated human reaction in pandemics due to a bug in gameplay called "the corrupted blood incident"

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For those not in the know World of Warcraft is an MMORPG - effectively an online lan game where people control their online avatars and indulge in fighting other characters, completing quests and in general exploring the world of Warcraft.

Read more: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_of_…

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