I recently got engaged in a dialogue with one of my colleagues who is into sales. As we know, sales and marketing is extremely target oriented. People who get overwhelmed by sales targets seldom succeed. He shared one of the advices he got from his boss long back – “Persistence is the key here – […]
India Knowledge @ Wharton’s “Business and Change” section has published an interesting interview of ICICI’s CFO and Jt. Managing Director Chanda Kochhar. She joined ICICI as a management trainee and the interview focuses on leadership challenges she faced as a banker over last two decades. One of the key messages here is that a leader has to be adaptable. […]
Organizations re-align and re-organize every new year. Each new year brings with it some fresh thinking and some great ideas. Then the year ends and we see that while some of those plans did take off and succeed, some of them never saw light of the day and a few ones failed. So what does it take to […]
I love stories for they pass simple messages with examples. I received one such simple and profound story in an email forward today. The essence? Read on.. One day the employees reached their office to find a big notice on the door on which was written: ‘Yesterday, the person who has been hindering your growth […]
Here I am – blogging again, after a break of almost 2 months. I would like to resume blogging with a fantastic quote that I read at “Chief Happiness Officer” blog. The quote says: Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should […]
I am back from a hiatus – could not blog for a first few days after I came back – thanks to piles of emails to be read/responded and lot of accumulated tasks. I am slowly getting over them. It is very important for a leader to play to people’s stengths. I have a junior […]
We, in India, are looking forward to Diwali 2007 – a time for fireworks, lights, flowers, sharing sweets and worshipping. For me, Diwali this year means a much needed break from work and being closer to family and self – time to charge my batteries! I would be away (from work and blogging) for next […]
I have written a number of posts earlier on importance of communications for successful management of teams and projects. I keep on reading different posts around the blogosphere related to communications and one such post was “The Process of Interpersonal Communication: 4 Ways to Overcome Interpersonal Communication Barriers” at John Reiling’s blog PMCrunch. Here are […]
Robin Sharma doesn’t fail to inspire me time and again with his thoughtful posts on his blog. He writes a post “The Paradox of Happiness” where he says: “Too many amongst us think that by getting, we will find happiness and fulfillment – at work and at home. But I believe happiness and fulfillment come […]