 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
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... |
 |
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? |
 |
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. |
 |
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... |
 |
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. |
 |
Power Packed Ways To Boost Networking!
by Ann Ronnan Ph.D.
Many of the women who work with me are shy. And so was I when I first left my “job job” and began networking. When I worked in the university setting, the only networking I did was at conferences where we’d share our curriculum and research findings with others and it didn’t feel like "selling.” |
 |
Counting Losses
by Rajesh
Amidst conflicting news of the downturn having bottomed out, while yet another company is sacking employees and the more optimistic of the lot talking about leveraging the turnaround - one point seems to be falling between the tables. |
 |
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”! |
 |
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’. |
 |
Yes Bharat!
by K R Ravi
Do we value knowledge and learning? Do we accept charity with grace? Do we have our priorities straight?
These questions flashed in my mind when at a party in Washington DC, an NRI who is a reputed medical practitioner told me this story.
He hap... |
 |
Globalization: Threats and lessons
by Mario Luis Tavares Ferreira
Since the end of last century we are seeing global changes never seen in recent or old history. The iron wall collapsing and the Soviet Union breaking in pieces are unique events in history because never a large empire disappeared so smoothly. Co... |
|
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’. |
 |
Why strategic planning is important?
by Mario Luis Tavares Ferreira
When we talk about strategic planning sometimes we associate with paperwork, theories, old school works, a boring and endless task, and so on.
But actually planning is a natural and embedded activity that we practice everyday. We plan the best rou... |
 |
Use the Hero Myth to create your leadership journey!
by Santhosh Babu
Many of us many a time might have realized that leadership is not about a position but an attitude. It is all about making a difference to one’s own self and others. It is an inner shift, a calling, an urge, a pull, a realization and a cause that kick starts the leadership or changes journey for many. |
 |
Laddership is Leadership!
by S. Deenadayalan
In the last three decades of my work in the behavioral arena, I have met eminent personalities at the highest echelons of society as well as the unsung heroes at the grass-roots. In the process, my conviction has become stronger that leadership means being a ladder for others to rise. |
 |
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... |
 |
Staff roles - a bane or boon
by Anitha Jebaraj
A staff role in an organization helps in accelerating, helping, or rejuvenating line activities. If a general manager - customer support is in a line role, then the training manager has a staff role. If a marketing manager is in a line role, then the... |
 |
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... |
 |
Leading with a light and gentle touch
by Eric Garner
There is a paradox at the heart of facilitation as there is at the heart of all people management; and that is, that to get people to do great things, we, the group leaders, need to allow things to happen, not by doing a lot but by doing as little as... |
 |
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 |
 |
Learn To Let Go
by Eric Garner
One of the key differences between managers who manage up close and those that let go is how they react when their staff run into difficulties, whether over a piece of work that they can't get right, a relationship in the team that isn't quite working, or indeed something outside work that is affecting them. |
 |
The PAT
by Dr. Ritu Arora
When was the last time someone patted your back? When was the last time you gave someone a pat on the back? If you’re reading this article give yourself a PAT on the back. Come to think of it we are overjoyed when someone gives us a PAT on the back... |
 |
A new way to handle complaints. Or is it?
by Peter A. Hunter
What a lot of money we have been wasting on dealing with customer complaints.
Instead of dealing with them and attempting to satisfy the customer we should be creating a process that makes complaining more difficult.
Then when customers complai... |
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
From our sister site: theAsianparent Singapore
Loading ...
Twitter 
Facebook
Subscribe