Personal Leadership – It shines in difficult times
March 26th, 2009 // 5:06 am @ Tanmay // 5 Comments
Jack was a “do-as-directed” professional. He used to tell his colleagues, “I am paid to do the work and my manager is paid to think about what I should be doing”. He would never own up anything more than his own tasks and would refrain from even thinking about the overall project. Times were good [...]
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Being a Great Presenter
March 25th, 2009 // 6:29 am @ Tanmay // No Comments
Lets accept it – doing a good presentation is difficult. You stick to your powerpoint slides and you fail to impress. You do it without a powerpoint and you might loose the track. You take more time than scheduled and you loose respect. You speak a little more on same topic and you sound repititive. [...]
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Do you “Matter”?
March 18th, 2009 // 9:39 am @ Tanmay // No Comments
You were born to lead. Build a team. Create community. Guide an enterprise. Inspire by example. Have big shoulders. Make those around you better. Matter. This was so inspiring that I did not feel like writing anything more. Hat Tip to Blog Post titled “Matter” at “The Business Brickyard” blog.
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Importance of Professional Value and a Great Story About Charles Steinmetz
March 6th, 2009 // 6:23 am @ Tanmay // 2 Comments
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 [...]
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Attributes of a Professional – Great List
March 3rd, 2009 // 3:21 pm @ Tanmay // 5 Comments
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 [...]
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10 Personal Commandments for Management & Leadership
March 2nd, 2009 // 1:45 pm @ Tanmay // 2 Comments
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 [...]
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Have Fun: Maths Genius
February 28th, 2009 // 5:42 am @ Tanmay // No Comments
A student was asked to find the length represented by “x” and here is what he replied! And we thought teacher’s job was easy!! Hilarious! (via an email forward) Have a wonderful weekend!
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