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We are looking for mystery shoppers

By Deepa

Jigyasa is looking for mystery shoppers in Singapore. Mystery shoppers go as customers to retail locations to measure and gather feedback on service standards. It requires about 45 mins to an hour of an individual’s time. You do not need any prior experience of mystery shopping. However, you do need to be able good observation […]

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Making Virtual Distance Work in the Digital Age

By Deepa

Via David Goldstein’s blog Virtual teams are here to stay. Some teams work well while others seem to fumble or fail. Dr. Karen Lojeski and Dr. Richard R. Reilly provide a useful framework to identify factors that could determine the success virtual teams. They define “Virtual Distance as the perceived distance between two or more […]

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Manage Stress and Fear

By Deepa

Learned helplessness is a condition of a human being or an animal in which it has learned to behave helplessly, even when the opportunity is restored for it to help itself by avoiding an unpleasant or harmful circumstance to which it has been subjected. You can read more about the experiment done on animals here. […]

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Selection: developing your personal check-list

By Deepa

Two separate conversations with different senior leaders’ triggered this post. One asked whether there was a single test to help identify the right person for the right job. The other felt that the probation period could help determine the suitability as a short interview was not sufficient to know whether a candidate was the right […]

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Dr. Randy Pausch

By Deepa

Few in recent times, have been a force of inspiration as Dr.Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Professor who passed away on July 25, 2008. A man who in his dying days inspired the rest of us on how to live! (Not just through his talk but also on how he handled his terminal illness) Be sure […]

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Anupam Jalote

By Deepa

It is with great pleasure that I welcome Anupam Jalote, a good friend and now a business partner on board Jigyasa. His previous position as a Chief Process Officer involved heading service strategy for Bharti Airtel Limited, a $5 billion full service telecom service provider. You can read about him here. What stands out, apart […]

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Creative Generalist

By Deepa

If you’ve ever questioned the importance of generalists in your team or if you are a generalist and want to see how your role should be, then check out this well researched and thought out article by Steve Hardy on Creative Generalists. Some core traits identified by him are: Wander & Wonder – finding possibility […]

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What have you changed your mind about? Why?

By Deepa

This was The Edge Annual Question – 2008 When thinking changes your mind, that’s philosophy. When God changes your mind, that’s faith. When facts change your mind, that’s science. Read how some of the finest of intellectuals responded to this question on subjects close to them. Extracts from some of my personal favourites amongst many […]

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New ways of connecting and doing business

By Deepa

Pfizer is partnering with a social networking site for physicians, in order to reach out to doctors more efficiently. Sermo is a networking site for physicians that allows them to use the collective wisdom of the group to discuss, share and exchange and take away new insights. According to this article, “Pfizer-affiliated doctors will be […]

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A great graphic of “The World is flat”

By Deepa

If you’ve read Thomas Friedman’s “The World is Flat”, you’ll realize how beautifully Brandy Agerbeck summarizes the book through this single picture. She shares how she created this work here

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