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Folding a T-Shirt in 1.5 Seconds!
by Teoh Poh Yew
Here is an example of T-shirt folding that I use when I want to demonstrate the point that “creativity is about making tasks/things faster/better”. The traditional way of folding a T-shirt takes about 15 seconds.
A few years ago I received a v... |
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What happens to your fist when you open your hand?
by PS Wasu
There’s not much you can do with a closed fist. But you can do a whole lot of things when you open your hand. And doing all those things requires less effort than keeping a fist a fist. Zen does to you what the opening of the hand does to your fist... |
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Winners vs. Losers
by Chitra Jha
Who is a winner? To me a person, who decides to do something and then does it, is a winner. At the same time someone who decides not to do something and doesn’t do it, is equally a winner. A loser on the other hand decides to do something and doesn... |
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Backpedaling to Blissful Life
by Anil Bhatnagar
We humans often have unreasonable expectations from others.
Our own good intentions are often hidden so deep that we are sometimes not even consciously aware of them. And our reactions are usually so deeply ingrained and spontaneous that we seem t... |
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Is curiosity a cousin of creativity?
by Shalu Wasu
Curiosity is made up of an open mind, acute sensing abilities and an urge to seek and find. As a child, you had natural curiosity and a sense of wonder. Hungry for novelty, you were always on your toes to welcome the next moment... |
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Are Good Listeners Almost Extinct?
by Pawan Sarda
The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and to be understood.The best way to understand people is to listen to them. Listening is by far the simplest process a human body undergoes. But most of us have yet to learn the art of list... |
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Avoiding the Slipping Point
by Derek Cheshire
Most readers will be familiar with, or have heard of Malcolm Gladwell's best selling business book 'The Tipping Point'. The author suggests that there is a point at which you need apply only a small effort to create an effect. This is rather li... |
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Tweet Nothings
by Abhijit bhaduri
The Wall Street Journal sent out a memo to its staffers some time back outlining rules around the use of social media like Facebook, Twitter etc. For instance the journalists now need to take approval of editors before "friending" a confidential source on Facebook or Twitter. These ground rules should guide all news employees' actions online, whether on official sites or in social-networking, e-mail, personal blogs, or other sites outside. This has thrown up a debate among bloggers and social media enthusiasts who are divided on two sides of the argument. If the employee were to spread positive stories about the employer on their social network is that OK? What if the employee were to spread stories about a bad manager or blow the whistle about a wrongdoing in case of a publicly held company? Is it wrong if the employee does the social media thingy during office hours and using the company's network and laptop to generally vent to the world at large? |
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Goddess Saraswati: rocking the creativity
by Danielle LaPorte
Saraswati, by Pieter Welteverde www.sanatansociety.com
Saraswati is my #1 Goddess. She rules what I dig most. I'm surprised she's not up there with Kali and Aphrodite in mass popularity. Saraswati is regarded as the Goddess of knowledge and the ar... |
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How to Manage Short Term Asignments
by Abhijit bhaduri
You are the rising star of the corporation. You are working at building a resume that will qualify you for the corner office in the next few years. You want to set the world record for being the youngest head of the corporation. In anticipation, you have started looking up models of corporate jets you could buy and the power suits you will need to order for the swearing in ceremony. In the midst of all this comes the email on the blackberry that your manager wants to know if you would be interested in a short term assignment to New Widgetovia, the country where your company has struck gold. You would need to be there for three months... maybe six... ummm ... a little bit more perhaps but hopefully not. |
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Managing Exits: how it’s done best?
by D Muralidharan
While loads of care is taken by organizations in engaging employees when they are with an organization, the same care and attention is somehow given a go, when aan employee decides to part ways with the company for personal/professional reasons, what... |
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Rethinking: Fools and Mad Men
by Pawan Sarda
A fool is known by six things: anger without cause; speech without profit; change without progress; inquiry without object; putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends. Arabian Proverb
I think a foolish person (fool) is the one who... |
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The Myth Of Time Management
by Rajesh
One tends to see a lot of stressed out people around nowadays, across gender and age group. Most seem to be running against time to complete a task or several of them. First, I am never able to understand the context of 'running against' time. Time i... |
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"Oops!"
by Eric Garner
I'm often asked by would-be trainers how they can connect better with their audiences, particularly those who are not too keen on being on the training |
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What can we substitute for love?
by Guest Tickler
Think that's a strange concept? Think you're exempt? Have you ever heard of "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also?" Your treasure is what you concentrate most of your daily thoughts on. Are you engrossed in repeated, driving ... |
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My Better 1/2
by Pallavi Rao
I am off for a well deserved vacation. During the last 6 months I have been a gracious host to lots of relatives and friends so it was about time I perched my ample butt somewhere comfortable and sipped something cool while I did NOTHING. So this ... |
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Life as a Trainer
by Guest Tickler
Most employees view training as medicine or worse, as punishment. As an outside trainer, I work with hundreds of groups in a wide variety of industries and most people enter the training room as if they are going to the gas chamber. |
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What happiness means to Me!
by Shyleswari M Rao
Happiness does exist. Truly our very being is happy. When I say “I am happy!” it’s a mood, a feeling which I can savor or experience for a span of time, then when I move I am something else. |
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Priming the pump of life
by Ada Porat
Did the past year deliver what you wanted? Did you attract the outcomes you really desired? If life did not meet your expectations, perhaps it is time to prime the pump first! Let me explain. |
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Divided, They Bloom!
by PS Wasu
Some time ago, Mukesh Ambani and Anil Ambani broke up and the Reliance group was split between the two of them.
There is a tendency to criticize the two brothers for their inability to work together. The general perception is that they were not being good brothers and they did injustice to their deceased father who had built the industrial conglomerate from scratch. |
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Set No Wake-Up Calls in 2010
by Rachana Sharma
The countdown for the New Year has started. Immature persons are thinking hard to decide on a remarkable New Year resolution which can transform their life in a night and experienced persons like us, who are guilty-ridden about breaking their resolutions every year, are working seriously on the reasons of failure and finding a failure-proof resolution. |
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Unwritten Rules of Bollywood
by Pramod Joshi
See if you get tickled by some of the rules that govern movie-making in India’s tinsel town. You can also spend some quality time with your family adding or modifying to this potentially endless list. Enjoy! |
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Understanding and Overcoming Procrastination
by Guest Tickler
There are several reasons why people procrastinate. Oftentimes, it is innate to an individual or it could be lack of self discipline. However, it is important to point out the reason for this unhealthy habit so as to know how to deal with it. |
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Texting Too Loud to Hear
by Guest Tickler
Don't make the mistake of assuming your employees are good communicators. Just because you trained them on what to say doesn't mean they know how to say it. There's a mighty fine line between efficient and rude. Caring is what people want. |
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Why your new-year resolutions would not stick
by Guest Tickler
Some people won't even make New Year's resolutions anymore. Not because they don't want to improve their lives, but because they've tried and failed so many times, they've given up. It's not the resolution maker who's the failure, it's the methodology we've been using to try and bring about radical change in our lives. |
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Losing and gaining are two sides of the same coin
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If I live to be a hundred, I’ll still remember Friday, January 28, 1983. It was a bright sunny day, and I blissfully sang “I’m on the top of the world!” off-key as I dressed for work. The day before, the company physician had confirmed what... |
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The gratitude attitude
by Eric Garner
Gratitude is one of the most powerful forces in the universe. It may not look as good as money, a big car, a palatial house, or the latest makeover – in fact, you can’t see it at all – but, as I’m going to show you, gratitude has more power t... |
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What Happiness Means to Me! - Chitra Jha
by Chitra Jha
What does happiness mean to a free spirit like me?
Josh Billings said, “Don't mistake pleasures for happiness. They are a different breed of dog.” I completely agree with him. So, let’s first get clear what we mean by ‘happiness’ tha... |
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Teaching the teacher
by Dexter J Valles
The arbiter of knowledge and skills, the teacher, is a revered figure around the world. In India, the teacher is known as the guru, the wise one who can be trusted to lead the knowledge-blind and shine the light of competence and skills in the darkne... |
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How to Handle Control Freaks
by PK
Control freaks are always in a hurry and in their hurry end up destroying quite a lot of things around them that they themselves have built up. The trick is to let them rant but keep the control of the final action and pacing in one’s own hands |
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16 habits of highly creative people
by Shalu Wasu
Many people believe that creativity is inborn and only a chosen few are creative. While it is true that creativity is inborn, it is not true that only a chosen few are creative. |
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Think Money And Grow Rich!
by Ann Ronnan Ph.D.
The way you think and the beliefs you hold are reflected in how successful you are (success defined as YOU would like it!) and how much money comes into your life.
These are not new ideas. In 1937, in the midst of the Great Depression, Napoleon H... |
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Why Not Legalise Corruption?
by K R Ravi
The CEO of a large company asked me to meet with his HR manager to discuss the possibility of conducting workshops on Lateral Thinking for his colleagues. I sought an appointment with the HR manager only to find the man was not interested in meeting me. I suspected that he did not like the idea of being told whom to meet. |
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5 Reasons Why I Got Off My Tail And Found A New Passion!
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I've taken some time this month to clean out my Gmail inbox, the main goal being to have a completely empty inbox. I went through each email one by one, until I got to the very last entry. It was labeled "journal" and dated 12/14/06. I knew it was ... |
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Sex and the Lonely Woman
by Guest Tickler
I was in Dumaguete, a city in the South of Manila, when I celebrated my 44th birthday last November 2008. I was not alone. I was with a group from the office, managing a multi-million peso event that was to crown all our achievements for the year. I was the team leader and I owned the project. |
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Avoiding Death by PowerPoint!
by Shalu Wasu
I must say that I am equally fed up of the numerous ‘rules for making presentations’ that we stumble across every few days either in a presentation or on the net. When you google ‘rules for making presentations’, you get more than 8 million results! Most of them are standard clichés that irk me no end. So I have created my own set of presentation rules. I follow my rules to the last detail and I have rarely been disappointed. I implore you, urge you and beg you to follow my rules as well. |
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15 elephant tethers that stop you from being creative!
by Shalu Wasu
As you grow up and gain experience, you absorb assumptions which then drive your life and limit your choices. You can break away from them with a simple tug if you want to but you don’t. As you acquire more and more experience, your repertoire of blind assumptions grows too, correspondingly limiting your choices. Your experience becomes a hindrance in your being creative. |
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The Facebook Addiction
by Anoma Damle
am not against using Facebook. I believe it’s the best networking site (I am a Facebook user as well). But I am amazed to see the outrageous Facebook fad taking control of so many lives among people of all ages. |
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16 habits of highly creative people
by Shalu Wasu
Many people believe that creativity is inborn and only a chosen few are creative. While it is true that creativity is inborn, it is not true that only a chosen few are creative. |
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Avoiding Death by PowerPoint!
by Shalu Wasu
I must say that I am equally fed up of the numerous ‘rules for making presentations’ that we stumble across every few days either in a presentation or on the net. When you google ‘rules for making presentations’, you get more than 8 million results! Most of them are standard clichés that irk me no end. So I have created my own set of presentation rules. I follow my rules to the last detail and I have rarely been disappointed. I implore you, urge you and beg you to follow my rules as well. |
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PowerPoint is my slave!
by Shalu Wasu
My earlier article ‘Avoiding Death by PowerPoint’ was about the art of making interesting presentations. This one is about using easy but powerful tricks that can dramatically improve the quality of your presentations and also bring that extra oo... |
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The Power of Unlearning
by Praveen Amancharla
We get conditioned to react to the world in a specific way based on this knowledge. This conditioning becomes a barrier in learning new things, a hindrance to look at the world with an open mind, and dealing with the ever changing world. |
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Say NO and feel great!
by Shalu Wasu
Saying no is perhaps the most important productivity tool that exists. Saying no is an art. It is also perhaps the most difficult thing to do for most people. I used to dread the occasions where I knew I will have to say no and I used to prepare for ... |
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Past Life Regression Therapy
by Chitra Jha
As eternal beings, we carry all our thoughts, impressions, emotions, and feelings from time immemorial into our present being. Hence, most of our so-called ills have their roots in some of these thoughts, impressions, feelings, and emotions. |
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Should your spouse live four houses away?
by Rachana Sharma
In my college days my favorite professor used to say that spouse should live three-four houses away. “It is so nice to meet him or her, now and then and spend calm evenings together as the best of the best friends. Then say bye to each other with p... |
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3 myths related to training and learning
by Shalu Wasu
Myths have a way of perpetuating themselves. There are quite a few related to training and learning too. Everyone seems to believe in them. So much so that they have become sacrosanct and no one even bothers to question them. |
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Do Nice Mothers-In-Law Really Exist?
by Guest Tickler
Why does she feel the need to dominate our relationship? Why does she hold on emotionally to her son instead of allowing him to evolve into a mature and self-realized man and husband? Why should I be expected to prove myself to her? Surely my obvious respect and devotion to the family should be the measure of my worth as a daughter-in-law and wife? Why must so much of my time and energy be focused on my mother-in-law and not my son and husband? |
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The other side of Slumdog Millionaire
by K R Ravi
The film Slumdog Millionaire has aroused strong emotions in both India and the U.S.
Let me start with India.
Amitabh started it all with his blog in which he despaired at the film showing the dark underbelly of India, a tradition that goes ba... |
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Robin Hood is Ba(ra)ck!
by Sundararaman Viswanathan
Is Barack Obama the Robin Hood of our times? Look at this man, stuck in a world of capitalists, but doing his best to get the wealth distributed.
Sustainability is his mantra! Not because he is pitching for clean energy via wind turbines, solar pa... |
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