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From the monthly archives:

January 2009

A Formula for Success by Prof. M.S. Pillai

January 27, 2009

What is it that I’m referring about? Yes, the old wine. Success – from an another very effective context, of course. Tens of thousands of information is out there on this subject. Selling ideas on “How To Get Success” have made many authors successful in their professional lives. So the question is what are the [...]

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How To Be ‘Cool’ Even In The Situations Full Of Stress

January 21, 2009

Think of this scenario: You’re in your workplace or at home or out for holidays (read “Wherever you’re” here) Economy does not sound very exciting. You’re wondering (read ‘dreading’ here) how to meet targets, no one wants to buy what you have to sell! You’re fearing that the recent appraisal won’t turn into handsome increment. [...]

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Five Better Communication Thoughts To Get The Success You Always Wanted

January 8, 2009

Listen: Listen to the fact and not from the past. If the person you are listening to says that Computer Mouse she is using is Elephant and not the Computer Mouse, it is Elephant! Confused? Let me explain… In her specific context computer mouse might have been something else (e.g. Elephant in the example) and [...]

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Five Steps To Turn An Organization Into A Learning Machine

January 2, 2009

Identify top seven key learning areas for the employees. Identify and invite Coaches to teach on specific learning areas, no matter if the coaches are found in-house or externally hired. Break the participants in groups based on the data of their interest, learning need metrics and allocate each group to specific learning area for a [...]

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What Can Be Termed As A “World Class” Organization?

January 2, 2009

World Class Organization means: “The recognition of an organization as a Benchmark by its industry sector and, for some aspects, by other industry sectors.” Again, characteristics are definable depending on your business sector. For e.g. if primary business of the organization is ‘Software Development’ then we need to define characteristics based on Benchmark-able Software Development [...]

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