Seven deadly sins at the workplace
You have survived the last downsizing, but working this way is worse than you thought. Your morale is low and you are tired of doing the work of the people who have left. Every day is a new struggle to overcome the seven deadly workplace sins. And if you are trapped in your job, […]
Tips to concentrate and stay in focus
‘I simply can’t concentrate, not with so many distractions around’. This is one of the common complaints you hear in office corridors. Concentration is the ability to direct one’s thinking in whatever direction one intends. Many of us concentrate for hours together when we are engrossed with our favourite tasks. Yet at other times, we […]
Attract winners and retain them too!
“Our business needs a massive transfusion of talent. And talent, I believe, is most likely to be found among non-conformists, dissenters and rebels.”—David Ogilvy
You are a manager, interviewing a prospective employee. One of the applicants has long hair, plays the guitar in a rock band called The Ugly Rumours, is frequently in trouble and was […]
Fired and hired
It’s a scene out there! Even as you are being hired there is a niggling fear of being laid off or your services being terminated by the company and you are back in the rat race. Getting laid off is a big setback, professionally and psychologically. But do not take it as the end […]
Games People Play
When you join the corporate world, there will be times when you might feel that you are a marionette, being manipulated. In all possibility you are. Welcome to the world of the various games that are played out in corporate offices across the world.
Clever persuasion
Persuasion of all kinds is the main ball game. You […]
Smile makes your customers happy
Being an irate customer is pretty easy. It is difficult to be a satisfied one. And customer satisfaction is one of the key aspects that every organisation is concerned with. Most have learnt the hard way that if they don’t take care of their customers, their competition will (whoever said the customer is the king […]
Power of appreciation
The Commander In Chief (C-in-C) and his wife were coming to the station for their annual visit. The flying squadrons, the signals units and the various lodger units were all deputed tasks so that everything could go off smoothly. That was for the officers; the wives were briefed to take care of the activities […]
Living with Priorities
For the better part of my life I have had to live with my family’s not-so-thinly-veiled accusation that I didn’t know the first thing about setting priorities; or, more exactly, setting them correctly! My priorities were all skewed; I didn’t know the first thing about what should be important to me, either personally or […]
The Curse of Creativity
The problem with creative people is they like to do creative things. Throughout history, they have tormented mankind with the prolific use of their brain cells. They began by creating guns and then went on to make nuclear missiles. And as if that wasn’t enough destruction, they invented domestic appliances.
There is a reason why […]
Being aggressive is critical for success
AGGRESSION pays and it pays big. Recent studies have shown that companies grow bigger and stronger not by taking lugubrious baby steps but by making radical changes. Bill Gates did not become Bill Gates by inching towards his island villa, his gobs of green were a result of a fanatical devotion to the art of […]
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