Author Archive for D Muralidharan

This is in continuation of my earlier post ‘Stay happy’… I continue to think of how the beginning of the day is so important to set the pace and mood for all that follows; till the day ends… But, most of us are in an awful mood in the precious morning hours. Lets break that jinx, here and now.

Whether stress kills or not, the talk of stress is so dominant in our lives, at home and work… be it a professional, a homemaker, or a school going child, ‘stress’ seems to the most hated, but most spoken word…

Most of us are familiar, and in all probability be party to Monday con calls – on rather anyday con calls, just that as much as we know, most of them are done on Mondays; most organizations think that this is the most potent tool they have to enhance the performance of the team, and [...]

Find yourself hating your job? It doesn’t have to be that way. Here are some steps to start enjoying work.

(Thanks to Subroto Bagchi, for bringing “The Professional” to the world, and to my loving son Janardhan for getting me lay hands on “The Professional” last evening) Mahadeva came to cosmopolitan Bangalore, as his dear mother walked out of her native village and her own family in a huff. Mother and the child Mahadeva took [...]

Life is all about making the best of what we could do, in this moment; the sum such a zillion moments make the journey of life, and we owe it to our very existence to make all these moments filled with joy, happiness and fulfillment. That MUST be the basic tenet of life, and for [...]

In all of our facets in life, the most ‘taken for granted’ side is our relationship with those in the family.

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 be it. Even worse, the process in mismanaged, for want of time and a [...]

Think about this… how much have you wanted to achieve, or have achieved, and how much of the same language does the brand you speak? If the answer if not as much as what is reality, then, there is lot of work to do on your ME brand-speak! What’s the ME brand? Each of our [...]

I have been reading a handful of blogs, and happen to click most of them related to happiness at work, and being happy. And from my gleanings, and as a HR professional decide to ponder about hiring for happiness. We have read and written volumes about hiring the right person with the best skills and [...]

Most of us go through phases in life –in the multiple facets of life : be it studies, career, family, society and so on – where there is so much time filled and enervating action; but, despite all this, there is a sense of void. And this sense of void turns into frustration and anger, [...]

Allow me to help you WIN… and WIN in every single thing you do…  Come; let’s make winning a habit; a very easy habit; a habit that calls for constant and persistent practice of the mind… Most of us are made to believe that winning is something complicated…  BUT THE TRUTH is otherwise…. Winning is [...]

All of us keep seeing body tattoos on the youth icons of the day, and also many youngsters seeking to convey a message or even trivia….  Body tattoos are in vogue and indeed a fashion statement all over the globe… But what we tattoo on any part of the body for others to see is [...]

Well I can’t resist writing again and again about this favourite life and success topic…persistence. Persistence could communicate different meanings to different people, depending upon how it is interpreted, imaged and communicated – but by far it is the most singular differentiator and determinant for success in any endeavour. Just pick up any literature in [...]

All of us hope to succeed in our endeavours. All of us do wish that hope to get real. For the hope to get real, let us first know what the phrase ‘Nothing succeeds like success’ means. It means that nothing succeeds like ‘having successes in the mind’. And once you have the ideation or [...]

Most of us have been taught to work on our weaknesses, and overcome them assiduously! Here is a contrarian thought. Ignore your inherent weaknesses, and spend all the time and resources in honing your inherent strengths. You will do a lot of good to you, your life, and work.  Many contemporary leadership lessons speak of [...]

On January 15th, 2009, Captain Chesley Sullenberger made an emergency landing of his 50-ton passenger aircraft, US Airlines Flight 1549 – softly gliding it onto the Hudson River in New York City, saving the lives of all 155 people on board. What he did was not only a feat, but also a testimony to his [...]

In this wonderful journey of Life, there are lessons to learn from anyone whom we all come across…lessons from sportsmen, businessmen, CEO’s and cheerleaders. Cheerleaders are said to be a small crowd across the globe, and it makes them very special and unique for what they do – fly across continents to be at sports [...]

Teamwork is not rocket science, and mostly a matter of common sense. Here are 50 simple but powerful ways you could make teamwork work. 1.    Act with integrity; this is one quality that will make a great team. 2.    Credibility as a team-leader is mostly as good as only it is perceived. So display credibility [...]

Did you think that vision statements or credos are only for organizations and not for you and me? It’s time for a reality check. The most important driving force of any successful and contended individual is his or her ‘vision statement’. And this statement can be made by the person at any point in life, [...]

All of our achievements and accomplishments – on the personal, family or career front – not necessarily in that order though – are completely connected to our ability/habit to set goals with deadlines, write them down on paper and review the progress regularly and with rigour. This progress towards achievement of our goals is made [...]

Jack Welch said this on performance management (ranking): “Ranking has been portrayed as a cruel system.  The cruel system is the one that doesn’t let anyone know where they stand.” And where they stand can be only clear, when each engaged employee/partner is communicated of how his contribution to the organizational goals and revenues will [...]

Most of us have been told, as we grow up, that knowledge and learning are the most important requisites to attain success and win. No doubt knowledge and skills are important; but there is one singular differential that makes winners stand apart: Perseverance with a capital P. If there is one quality that makes people [...]

If there is a singular thought you must equip you with, when faced with a pink-slip, it  is to reiterate to yourself that what happened is owing to extraneous factors – the event per se is no reflection of your own professional or personal capabilities. Embedding this deep down in your mind will keep you [...]

Talent acquisition, however organizations view & strategize about it, is indeed the biggest challenge facing the industry in the country today. This is more relevant and has turned to be a critical factor that haunts the ITES/BPO industry. As large and branded players move ahead in the race for talent, by using compensation and benefits [...]