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Are You Heading Towards Ending-up At A Known Exit Point?

August 28, 2010

To live a richer, more meaningful life, you need to become a source of thoughts and actions which provide meaning to your life. You cannot take control of your life just by following others. Instead, you need to play your own game. Perhaps most of us know that, but in practice it’s not commonly seen.  [...]

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Want To Get Promoted? Do You Know How To Navigate Without A Map?

July 29, 2010

When the performance appraisal happens and one colleague is promoted,  many of his co-workers don’t feel good. They compare themselves with him and conclude that their boss favors only who flatters her. Always, that may not be the case. For example, read the below story called Navigate Without a Map. Photo Credit: David Masters’ Flickr photostream [...]

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7 Things I Wish I Was Enlightened Of When I Was A Kid

July 9, 2010

Unexpressed goal of any life is self-actualization and learning is the key tool which helps you reach there. Learning involves the process of learning, unlearning and relearning. This obviously invites an encounter with a specific form of result called failures and its consequences also. While learning from our own failure is one thing we should [...]

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More Thoughts On Tale Of Two Managers and Relationships of QAspire

June 23, 2010

Tanmay has written an interesting post at QAspire blog today called, “Focus on Relationships and Tale of Two Leaders”. Here’s its quick summary followed by some of my thoughts on the same. Story of Peter In his quest to achieve his sales targets, Peter was overly focused on “closing the sale“. When in front of [...]

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How To Caffeinate Your Leadership Repertoire?

June 15, 2010

Recently Google announced of their new search index called Caffeine. A significant improvement over their traditional indexing system. Google’s old indexing system had several layers which used to take significant time to get updated with newer information – like social media status updates – to serve the world. Leadership is no different. Like Google search, you [...]

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