By Deepa
How Full Is Your Bucket? Positive Strategies for Work and Life , a book brought out by Gallup press uses simple metaphor of a dipper and a bucket, to enable you to increase the positive moments in your work and your life while reducing the negative. According to the book: Each of us has an […]
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It is difficult to visualize how meetings got conducted before the age of PowerPoint. Whether we love it or hate it, we can?t seem to do without it. Here are a couple of resources from people who can help you maximise the potential of the medium and could almost make you enjoy it, if not […]
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From the the two days at The Global Brand Forum Queen Victoria who allowed Benjamin Disraeli, the only commoner to shake her hand. This is what she had to say of Disraeli and his contemporary, Gladstone. ?When I am talking with Gladstone, I feel he is addressing the public media and when I am with […]
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From the the two days at The Global Brand Forum ?Most managers search for success in the wrong place. Let?s say you want to be rich;Do what they did before they became rich, not after!? Al Ries, the Guru of Branding for those wishing to study successful people. ?Being number one does not mean we […]
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Consider the following statements: “For the first time in history, we have youth knowing more than adults about something central to society, and that’s technology”, said Dennis Harper, who founded Generation www.Y, a national student computer training program, with a grant from the U.S. Department of Education. “Recently, I was with a young researcher, albeit […]
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If you get inspiration by reading history and biographies, you will enjoy reading about the 40 enterprising women who helped shape the landscape of American business. ?At the opening of the 21st century, American women own more than 7.7 million firms and represent 40 percent of businesses operating in the United States. Enterprising Women tells […]
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“It is tough to go against the wave, but at least you reach where nobody else can.” Dr. Kiran Bedi Before starting to write about her, I googled her name (the de rigueur) and was pleasantly surprised to see that she had a website. So I will not go into the details of her numerous […]
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The Global Brand Forum is around the corner again (August 16 and 17, 2004 in Singapore) and brings another stellar line-up of speakers. While the name would seem to indicate that the forum is about ?Building Global Brands?, there is an equal emphasis on Leadership with this year’s theme being ‘Redefining Leadership in Brands and […]
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There are so many things That you should know. And that?s why I?m bothering to tell you so. -Oh Say Can You Say? Young Cat! If you keep your eyes open enough, Oh, the stuff you will learn! The most wonderful stuff! -I can read with My Eyes Shut!! On Micromanagement Oh, the jobs people […]
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David Gurteen shares the results of a recent survey on email at the workplace. It offers interesting insights on the prevalent email culture at the workplace today. The study is useful to HR practitioners who wish to understand how email is having an impact on work and as a source of stress. Some findings: Average […]