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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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5 Steers To Make Your Thoughts Well-Received

August 17, 2010

I’ve seen a number of unhappy-at-work individuals complaining about close-mindedness of their management who is not ready to listen to their thoughts. “Why’s that, why would a reasonable management would not be interested in a good thought?” I’d ask. “May be they don’t have enough intellect to understand ‘my’ thoughts, you know!” would be the [...]

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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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Mini Saga – Doing Rather Than Being

June 17, 2010

Even today, many companies focus on looking-good kind of practices than actually being good.  For example,  read this mini-saga. Doing Rather Than Being Tactically lionized Steve joined a company as a VP, Sales and was on his first sales call. He had to win over an old client to initiate a crowning deal. The client was [...]

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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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