Archive for October, 2009

Communicate Like A Genius

Your ability to communicate well is your impression in the outer world. No matter how strong your goals and your success foundation are, the essence of your ability to communicate cannot be under-estimated. Here are some of the most common things that uncommonly good communicators do:

Tell stories and paint pictures through the words.
Be interesting and [...]

When You Feel Good About Life 7

Clear road ahead: You are clear about your fundamental goal and you exactly know which target you are chasing.
Executable plan: You believe that accomplishments depend on 20% of planning and 80% of execution based on the plan which you have ready.
Motivation from within: You love what you do and you are excited about what you love. [...]

Four Causes Of Poor Performance (And What You Can Do About Some Of Those)

As a manager you must have dealt with poor-performance. To do that you need to essentially identify the problem and the causes which created the problem, decide on a solution and make the solution work.
Poor performance can be a result of one or more of the following:

Faulty management
Unsupportive organization culture
Inadequate work-systems and processes
Individual’s incapabilities

Faulty management [...]

Do You Manage Your Offshore Software Solutions Business This Way?

One of my good friends runs a small 40 people Offshore Software Solutions Agency based in India. The below is a conversation he had with his employees a few days ago.  It is regarding Diwali 2009 leaves:

How many do you need?
Why do you need?
Please cancel it.
At least cancel half of it.
But sir I haven’t taken [...]