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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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Interview Questions for HR Applicants
by Abhijit bhaduri
Many moons back when I started off my career as a HR person, I had a chance to attend a training program. All the HR folks used to have this once a year get together and just bond. I was briefed by my boss that, being the lowest in the food chain, I had to just take the opportunity to get to know the big fish in HR. Being a really obedient kind of person I took that advice to heart. I spent the next tea break running around that huge hall like a headless chicken collecting names and faces. I will tell you upfront that I have difficulty remembering zillions of names with matching faces. Within fifteen minutes of this maniacal pursuit of perfection, I discovered that the names and faces were all a big jumbled up noodle soup. I gave up. |
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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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What is Your Charisma Quotient?
by Betty Kan
Many people think that Charisma is inborn, an innate quality that you naturally possess or you don’t. If you don’t, you lack a competitive edge to influence others as compared to those who do. |
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Success is just like riding a bicycle
by Keith A. Shaw
Let’s take a look at success. For many people, success or being successful is just as scary as the first time they rode a bicycle. Naturally, many people want to be successful. However, there are few that truly have the motivation to put forward the needed effort and action, and make the necessary sacrifices to get what they want. |
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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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Staying Motivated
by Chitra Jha
Sometimes when I try to explain my dream to my family and friends, I get blank stares. My enthusiasm does not find an eager audience. Most of the times, I try and avoid this situation by just keeping quiet about my dreams, but there are times when I can’t contain my excitement. I do understand that everyone operates from their belief system, just as I do. But how come the belief systems are different in the very same family in which we grow up? |
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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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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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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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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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Was Jesus Really God?
by Ashima CL Sharma
“May those who have eyes, see; and those who have ears, hear.” Jesus may have forgotten to include, “May those who can reason, have the courage to accept their wrongs.” Being seen and heard as 'different' became the reason for Jesus of Naza... |
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Retrenched Or Facing A Professional Crisis?
by Jessica See
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt
In recent weeks, I have been getting calls from clients who... |
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The Credit Crunch: Why it happened?
by Peter A. Hunter
We have all been witness to some pretty incredible events over the last couple of months that appear to have generated a new phrase in our language, “the credit crunch”.
We can see the effect in the failures of our financial and retail institu... |
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Moralists and That Monkey Business
by PS Wasu
In any age, there are moralists, crusaders and reformers who take upon themselves the task of weeding out the evils of the world. They condemn evil and propagate goodness. This line of thought gives rise to all sorts of values, rules and laws in the society. |
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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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Is being constantly offended and irritated a strategy?
by PK
This quote popped out to me like a shot. And it put into beautiful words something that I was trying to understand. Everything became clear in a flash. Edward R Murrow says: Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone. |
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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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Marriage Is A Rude Awakening
by Smita Bhattacharjee
One fine Sunday morning, I was sipping my tea as usual and enjoying the newspaper when my dear friend happened to drop by for a visit. We talked about college days, those good old days when people looked at our figures and said, "WOW!" Today today wh... |
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How Solitude Renews Us
by Pallavi Rao
Language has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone. Paul J Tillich, The Eternal Now
In today's fast paced life we all seek peace and happ... |
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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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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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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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5 Reasons Why I Got Off My Tail And Found A New Passion!
by
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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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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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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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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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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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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