I am humbled to have been referred by Nicholas Bate – who is the author of 8 management books and a blog “Business of Life + Life of Business“. He points to this blog by referring it as “A great management and leadership blog” – very inspiring. Blogging has given me so many great friends […]
I wrote earlier about the explicit and tacit value that an individual brings to the organization. But how do you do value-addition? According to me, one can add value to the organization by 1) Doing things the way they should be done and finding better ways of doing it 2) Solving critical business problems (technical […]
I read a quote long back which said that a professionals do what’s necessary, even when they don’t feel like doing it. That was the best articulation of professionalism so far for me. But that’s just one. Want to know 101 attributes of a real professional? Then jump on to Nicholas Bate’s blog title “Business […]
Most of my thinking on management/leadership is reflected in different posts of this blog. It was when I read a post on Don Fred’s blog “Lead Quietly” that I was inspired to frame 10 personal commandments of management/leadership. I have written separate posts on each one of these earlier and I continue to believe strongly […]
Last week, I wrote on my experiences and learning on respecting people. Here is a snippet from a post “Money Isn’t Everything, RESPECT Is” from T&D Blog that just adds to the subject. A new AchieveGlobal study finds that employees value respect in the workplace, even more than money and learning and development. And that […]
Here’s a story I read from archives of Frank Patrick’s FocusedPerformance Blog – An old man and a young boy were traveling through their village with their donkey. The boy rode on the donkey and the old man walked. As they went along they passed some people who remarked it was a shame the old […]
Here is an interesting experience I had some time back. I went to one of my colleague’s desk to discuss an important point with a prior intimation. As I was speaking, his eyeballs kept focusing on his laptop screen and then back on me. His attention span to what I was saying was very limited. […]
“Forgiveness is the fragrance that a violet sheds on the heel that crushed it.” – Mark Twain. At workplace and in our lives, how often do we forgive each other? Now that’s an important question to ask yourself if you are stressed. Because most of the times, stress is a result of holding a grudge […]