We use email very frequently. It is our most commonly used medium of communication. Everyone has an email id to boast of! My grandmother asks me to “just email” my family photos!! At work, it...
This article marks the beginning of our forthcoming series called ’Five tips for the professional’. In this series we will cover topics ranging from job interviews to PowerPoint presentations each week and each article will...
Last week, we discussed B.E.E.Ring it up in life. I don’t mean getting intoxicated or becoming a ‘beeraholic’ but keeping in mind the life lessons from B.E.E.R. While all the four lessons are important, the...
Life is a journey we undertake with treasures to pick along the way. Some treasures happen to be gems and others just stones. The treasures are not as important as the experience we have along...
We all want everything to be perfect. This includes, the car or the house we buy, the life partner we choose, and of course our jobs. We are never satisfied with good enough. Are we?...
A leader in any context, whether political, organizational or a school prefect, leads, guides and supports us to perform and be successful. As a follower we have an image of the leader as someone who...
We know the director Ang Lee for his Academy awards and accomplished direction, the most recent being Life of Pi. He gets the best people together, displays their acting skills to the world at large...
Organizations have mission statements. These mission statements that describe reasons for an organization’s existence are made visible to employees and visitors. They are plastered on walls and displayed with great pleasure, referred to by a...
There is no escaping ‘stress’ today. Stress comes from all areas of life…work, home, relationships, loan companies, traffic jams and the list goes on…!!! The ill effects of bad stress are known to all. Being...
A manager’s toolkit must include the skill of ‘delegation’. Delegation requires a manager to be self-aware, be cognizant of the team members’ skill/capability both of which are vital to achieving the client/business needs. Delegation is...
One has to agree that work life has changed over the past decade with the advent of outsourcing for costs and skills and that of new technology. Work life has changed dramatically over the last...
“If we fail to weed out the streaks of intolerance in our midst, we do so at our own peril” Writing about the strands of radicalism in crises-ridden, post-Versailles Germany, Erich Koch-Weser, the leader of...
