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Why this kolaveri - A practical guide to anger management at workplace

Pardon my urge get SEO brownie points with the title.  I wanted to blog about fear for sometime, had conversations with colleagues on anger, rage, fear etc and finally the blog materialized in my mind and the title came from Dhanush. I have heard the phrase, "mortally scared" in a few inappropriate contexts.  Once someone used the term to express  her reservation to travel by MTC bus, another person used it to describe the relationship with a business partner.  I'd brush them aside as the effect of Americanized exaggeration.  But coming back to fear, you'd be mortally scared when you are physically in danger.  This is one category of fear to protect you from getting yourself killed. And there is a psychological fear, the fear of losing your job, position, status in the society etc. At workplace, either of the two may be used to enhance productivity or simply to get the job done.  In jobs involving pure physical labor, the laborers were...