Yes.. 2009 goes off... Today as on 31st December we all would release 2009 to get into a mode of retrospection and planning for the next year. A quick review on this blog for the prime time actions of 2009...1. Depression : The biggest ever economic crisis continued all through the year almost, trying to get its head up the economy was altogether a platform to inspiring leaders. Those of apples and...
Thursday, 31 December 2009
Tuesday, 29 December 2009
We all Suck at Feedbacks - Part 1 / 4 How to take it?
A few weeks ago it was my time to throw back some feedback to the Team, some of the Team members and of course myself. We as a Team always believed in constructive feedback. A feedback that will help Team members improve. Ideally feedback is meant to be given to improve, but the intention is usually...
Monday, 28 December 2009
Tharoor needs to normalize
Shashi Tharoor is in news again, yet again over the tweets he sent over the Visa norms that the Government of India has put up conditioning the security. As we all know Shashi Tharoor was a diplomat in his past and is now stepped in to his new role as a Minister of State for External Affairs. The switch is big enough to get him into the arena of complex political scenario. The last tweet about “cattle...
Sunday, 27 December 2009
The Christmas Gift exchange
The first time we did this as a Team was 4 years ago, my first year in the current company, our Stress Busters team organized this event. Since then every year we have being doing this, and every time we do it we love it more. To me this was new, but kind of amazing. I cover you the event we did on...
Don’t just be a “bargain” Guy?
We all bargain something or other, somewhere or else... we have learnt bargaining from our mothers, sisters, grandma’s, teachers, Bosses, colleagues and everyone else who we deal with on a day to day basis. You want your kid to wake up early for school he would ask for a toy, you bargain for a cheaper one. You drop him to school to study the teachers bargain for studies. You want him to be admitted...
Saturday, 26 December 2009
That 1 thing
Well we always crib about that one thing... When in school you say that 1 Grade that got me off second, that 1 chance I did not get to make the football team, that 1 thing I lacked the other guy had and got the girl I had a huge crush on, that I failed negotiation that got you in the wrong job, 1 bad deal that took your promotion off, 1 delayed release that got sales loose confidence in you... We...
Friday, 25 December 2009
Be Capable, Success will follow - Raju Hirani in 3 Idiots
Second time in the row I saw this movie today 3 IDIOTS a bollywood masala movie from the maker of Munnabhai MBBS and Lage Raho Munnabhai, Raju Hirani, from the producer of 1942 a Love story , MunnaBhai series, based on Chetan Bhagat's 5 point someone and with the lead played by Aamir Khan. This movie...
Wednesday, 23 December 2009
What is your most innovative thought, One that we cant find on Google
If the answer in your mind is "I dont know" Or "not yet" then its time for you to get your innovation cells activated and do some serious thinking. Yes... Today I had a chat with a graduate student from the University campus session I did last week. He asked me on how he can find a job that would keep him inspiring.. I asked "What do you think would inspire you?"He said "New Challenges and New things...
Tuesday, 22 December 2009
Successful Manager : How not to messup Delegating
Do you delegate? Do you believe in delegation? Do you just delegate or you are involved? Are you a chicken or pig in our story? Well all these questions sometime shine in your minds, rest of the times you ask yourself. If not more, some of your seniors bring this to you when you start taking more and...
Monday, 21 December 2009
5 reasons why not to link twitter with your linkedin and Facebook accounts
A few days ago linkedin had twitter integrated, when I logged into my profile I saw a whole bunch of friends linking tweets with linkedin. Whoa... isnt that the first thing you do when something gets hyped or over hyped? Facebook with twitter , linkedin with twitter , product portfolios with twitter and so on..... Eventually not only linkedin, everything thing that has status are now linked with twitter.Eventually...
Nandan Nilekani's first day in Parliament - Of Culture's and Dress Code
I read this today after some of my friends tweeted around it that said Nandan Nilekani's first day in parliament... For those of you who are unaware of who this person is and why he is on my post please refer here , here and here...The whole post is nice for some reasons and not very inspiring to me for others.. A Technocrat when travels to be a Cabinet Minister it inspires me on my way to get into...
Saturday, 19 December 2009
Are Cultural issues killing your Business ??? - Part 2
We discussed in yesterdays post What Are some of the Cultural Issues that can kill your Teams today we speak about how to be prepared to handle these issues.. A lot of time we are unaware of cultural issues others we ignore them.. in spite of having global teams and knowing the global impact we intend to intentionally or unintentionally ignore or avoid handling this issue.. A Cultural Quotient in...
Friday, 18 December 2009
Are Cultural Issues Killing your Business?
You may have being involved in Cross cultural teams, as a part of your Software Teams or your company outsourcing your Business or Knowledge processes. Every time you dealt with teams out of your region you might have faced challenges... if you say that you never faced any issues then in Swami's language...
Wednesday, 16 December 2009
21 Habits of Winners none of Sinners
We started the series together, you and me for the Winning Habits and More Winning Habits , We left the path way half way... and this definitely is not a winners habit... so we come back to cover what we left behind.. Yes.. what are those habits of winners that really make them winner.. what are those...
