By Deepa
As a trainer, one is always looking at ways to make “learning” fun while forgetting that much learning can take place while having fun. I was watching “Her Majesty, Mrs Brown” recently on my lap-top. It is about Queen Victoria’s friendship with John Brown, soon after the death of her husband, Prince Albert. While watching […]
By Deepa
This article from Fortune makes good reading on how Apple succeeded: The following includes extracts (in italics) from the article: Compare the sales figures per square foot for the last 12 months of leading retailers (Source: Sanford C. Bernstein): Saks: $362 Best Buy: $930 Tiffany & Co: $2,666 Apple: $4,032 How then did Apple, a […]
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Carl Lewis, an athlete I admire was in Singapore recently. He was quoted in the Straits Times: ?I was speaking to some coaches about how to train, and they told me: ‘Oh, that’s not how we train here’. I got mad because there shouldn’t be a way ‘we train’ or ‘they train.’ There’s only the […]
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Business Week has some articles on how organizations respond to failures and what successful people learnt from failures: This one is from Jeffrey R. Immelt, Chairman and CEO, General Electric “In 1992, I was running all the commercial operations for the plastics business at GE. We had a product called Nuvel, which was a sheet […]
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According to the wikipedia , the term “cognition (Latin: cognoscere, ‘to know’) is used in several loosely-related ways to refer to a facility for the human like processing of information, applying knowledge and changing preferences.” Here are some interesting links that you might like to explore: You can view some of the experiments carried out […]
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From our current issue of HR News and Views: It is based on Paul Dolan’s book “True to Our Roots: Fermenting a Business Revolution” and my conversation with Paul Dolan. The book is about his incredible journey which reaffirms the highest values that all sustainable businesses can and should embody. Paul Dolan’s journey of change […]
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From this month’s issue of HR News and Views Part II: Future Trends at the workplace Split careers With careers spanning from 20 to 70, organizations will see two distinct groups at the workplace, namely those below 50 and those over 50. Peter Drucker believes that longevity will be one of the reasons for the […]
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From this month’s HR News and Views: Part I: The knowledge worker of today; the new capitalist! The biggest challenge for knowledge workers; a word first coined by Peter Drucker is to stay relevant. Knowledge, unlike skills makes itself obsolete and changes very rapidly. The knowledge we start with when starting our careers is not […]
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This month?s HR News and Views on Seven ways to stay updated: An essential aspect of your Professional Life Being current with the latest information in our area of work is a necessity rather than a luxury in today’s workplace. Yet, with the information deluge, we often don’t seem to have the time to read […]
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Excerpts from Robert Fritz’s Interview that he graciously agreed to do with me. Deepa: Could you share with the readers the work you have been doing at Blue Shields, where you have enabled a well motivated change and helped change the underlying structures? Robert Fritz: We?ve been working with Blue Shields for last four years. […]