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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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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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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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Is Luck Within Our Control?
by Nithya Shanti
I've been meaning to share with you my thoughts about "Affirmations" for some time now. I have written this piece over several days and I am sure you will enjoy it. |
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Why Most Success Formulas Fail
by Rajesh
I am amazed at the various self help and self development books that are currently on the best sellers' lists. This clearly indicates that many people are looking for a road map to develop and succeed in their life quests. Most seem to be newer edits or versions of age old truths which are just written differently using new jargon and acronyms. |
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Learn political will from children
by Sundararaman Viswanathan
I have come across two kinds of people. First kind are the ones who want to get something done and they get it done no matter what (read as beg, borrow or steal). The second kind are those who eventually get things done by playing the game of “war of attrition”! |
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Super Cop gives tips for getting in alignment with your goals!
by Joginder Singh
If we want to get more out of our life, we need to become more conscious of how we spend our time and be more attentive to it. We also need to asses the activities we engage in and see whether they add value to our life or just drain away our energy. It is equally important to be conscious of the kind of people we spend our time with, the conversations we engage in and the social or official programmes we attend. |
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Clothes Can Make or Mar You
by June Tan
We all know that when a speaker gives an address on stage, his or her choice of clothing is not whatever that was pulled out instantly from the wardrobe. In today’s business arena, image is everything and what a speaker wears is crucial to that image. |
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The Power of NO
by K R Ravi
An oft repeated fault in many organisations, is to automatically attribute success to the brilliance of the manager concerned or the team. Failure conversely is attributed rather automatically to incompetence. This is a serious flaw. In the above instance the CEO could have requested the ‘star’ performer to make a presentation to all the sales staff and share his insights into the strategy and tactics that in fact led to his grand ‘success’. |
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The Power of NO
by K R Ravi
An oft repeated fault in many organisations, is to automatically attribute success to the brilliance of the manager concerned or the team. Failure conversely is attributed rather automatically to incompetence. This is a serious flaw. In the above instance the CEO could have requested the ‘star’ performer to make a presentation to all the sales staff and share his insights into the strategy and tactics that in fact led to his grand ‘success’. |
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49 weeks to Nirvana!
by Shalu Wasu
I have decided to incorporate a new habit/attitude every week for the next 49 weeks. Every week, I will try to add on/inculcate a new habit or attitude. All these 49 may not be for you. Do pick up the ones that resonate with you and add some of your ... |
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Time In A Bottle
by Anoma Damle
Man has always perceived time in diverse ways and it has always been his intention to solve the its mystery. How can we define time? There are hundreds of definitions but as far as I have understood, time is irreversible. Since we are a part of ... |
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How to get more done in less time
by Drew Stevens
Owning a business is an audacious task. There are numerous things that need to be completed in a day. It gets so frustrating that owners and fitness professionals question how all will get accomplished. The crux of the issue lies not in the amount of... |
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Evidence Based Thinking
by K R Ravi
A few of us were drinking beer and discussing movies when the conversation veered round to Bollywood screen villains. Milind, a film fanatic felt that yesteryear villain Pran, was the finest bad man ever. His evidence? AFTER PRAN’S ADVENT NO PAR... |
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Polish your gold, don’t clean your copper
by D Muralidharan
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 ... |
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Beat the pink slip
by D Muralidharan
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 capabil... |
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Short Term, Long Term Or Right Term?
by Suresh Subramaniam
Looking at the pink papers for the past 9 months have left me depressed. The saving grace however is the economists and financial gurus are now seeing bamboo shoots of recovery. The focus of this article is not about why or how it happened; there a... |
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Manage your time
by Mario Luis Tavares Ferreira
It is easy to say, difficult to practice. Most small entrepreneurs have problems to control their time. It is fundamental to organize your tasks and schedule.
There are also plenty of articles, books and talking about the subject. Why?
Let’s ... |
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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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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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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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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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My Journey with Mind Maps!
by Betty Kan
Everything begins with the way we think, leading to the way we act and behave. By changing the way we think, we can find new ways to do things better and be better in every aspect of our lives. Mind Maps are a profound tool for effective thinking... |
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The Fine Art of Persuasive Communication!
by Jessica See
There are many areas to look at in communication: a message is communicated through visual, vocal and verbal means. From that, comes the importance of body language, how we present ourselves, and so on. The visual and vocal elements are indeed very... |
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The Broken Window
by K R Ravi
The editor of a Delhi based newspaper wrote an article bemoaning the fall in standards of the Indian Foreign Service. It was but natural that this article would be followed by a barrage of letters from readers, some agreeing with him and some not amu... |
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Design the Life You Want!
by Patrick Lim
There’s an old German saying that goes, “You have to take life as it happens, but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it.” Are you planning to just let life “happen” to you or do you plan to play an active part in designing the life you want? |
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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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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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Reinventing Yourself
by Ann Ronnan Ph.D.
You are a beautiful essence expressing your own unique genius. Yes, I said genius. And no, I don’t mean like Albert Einstein. We each have something that delights us, that we enjoy doing and most times a yearning to share that with others in some... |
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How To Prosper In A World Without Jobs
by Ann Ronnan Ph.D.
In his brilliant book titled Job-Shift: How to Prosper in a World Without Jobs, William Bridges says we are living in a jobless society. What you ask? There are no jobs? Let me explain. In the US, the concept that we have of jobs has only been in... |
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Changing the DNA of HR people
by S. Deenadayalan
Research indicates interesting facts about HR professional’s career span – less than 1.5 years at the junior level, less than three years at the middle level and up to 5 years at the senior level. Few organizations can boast of HR longevity. Is that a boon or a curse? |
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On Being a Trainer
by Jessica See
I don’t know about you but I’ve never heard a child who’s asked what he or she would like to be when they grow up, answer “Trainer.” They may say: doctor, lawyer or even astronaut but “trainer”? No, never! One is then tempted to engage in a lengthy discussion if a “trainer” is indeed a professional, as well as what exactly qualifies one to be a trainer. |
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The Art of Making Choices
by Patrick Lim
Choice of career, choice of spouse, choice of investment, the list goes on. Is it by instinct or “gut feeling” or do we actually analyse the important decisions we make in life? |
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5 Keys to Achieving Your Goals!
by Nikhil Desai
It was Conrad Hilton the founder of the world famous Hilton chain of hotels who said, “Success is made to order.” He was right – for an achievement is a sum total of many things – talent, aptitude, knowledge and desire. If we analyze each of ... |
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