Introduction Starting a new job does not only mean learning a new role. It also means entering an existing team with its own relationships, habits, expectations, and ways of working. This is where many new employees struggle. They focus so much on proving their individual skills that they overlook something equally important: understanding how the team actually functions. Every team has a rhythm. Some people speak up quickly in meetings while others prefer to think before responding. Some decisions happen formally, while others are shaped through informal conversations. Some teammates want frequent updates, while others prefer to work independently. Your ability to succeed depends partly on how well you recognize these dynamics. Every Team Has an Existing History When you join a team, you are entering a story that started before you arrived. People may already have established relationships, shared experiences, disagreements, and trust. They may have developed certain ways o...
Introduction “I am the wisest man on earth because I know one thing that I know nothing”. These mindful words are of Socrates. He is one of the most popular philosophers of all time. He sacrificed his life for humanity without even thinking twice. Socrates had not written his biography but we can know about him by reading books of his student, Plato. He was from a very poor family and his father was a sculptor. He fought for his nation as a young army man. Many times during the war he used to go to a lonely place and think for several hours. When he didn’t like army and sculptor work then he opened his own school where young students used to ask a wide variety of questions from him. Socrates was a very open-minded person but at that time people of Athens used to follow dogmatic rules. Due to his revolutionary ideas, he gained the attention of many other philosophers but few of them became his enemies. Death of Socrates The people of Athens were very conservative and there was great tur...