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Annual Management Improvement Carnival: Edition 1
It is always a great privilege to participate in Annual Management Improvement Carnival organized by John Hunter. I am thrilled to play the host at QAspire and I will be featuring my “four favorite” blogs in two editions. From time to time, these blogs educate me, stir up my thinking, change/challenge me and help me […]
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Giving Up On Need To Be ‘Rational Always’
As we grow, our belief system firms up with notions of what is right and what is wrong. What works and what not. At work, our beliefs further solidify according to the context we work in. Understanding of data, facts and trends is important because it make us “rational”. The problem starts however, when we […]
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Productivity Reminders…
… For Managers In knowledge world, productivity is hard to quantify. If you try to adopt old “command and control” style of management to drive knowledge workers, they get even less productive. Don’t command, empower. Don’t control, but lead them instead. Understand that knowledge workers cannot always be productive between 9 to 5. They have […]
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Effective Management: 5 Critical Skill Areas
Managing effectively is not just one skill, but a mix of different skills. It is a combination of different kinds of intelligence we have as human beings, which makes it an art and a craft. Have you seen a manager who is highly skilled in technical areas but lacks empathy for others? Or the one […]
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On Personal Mastery and Commitment to Learning
In corporate setting, a lot of people depend a great deal on their employers for their own growth. When it comes to consolidating the skill-set or acquiring a new skill in their area of work, they wait for someone to come and train (read ‘spoonfeed’) them. During a recent interview I conducted, I asked the […]
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Passion in Work: What’s Your Ice-Cream?
Bringing our energy to work is not optional anymore. It pains to see people at workplace who seem to be dragging themselves with work assigned to them. They do it because they get a paycheck at the end of month and they do it only when someone asks them to do it. Work, for them, […]
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Lifelong Learning – 20 Lessons
I wrote earlier about leadership and creating a learning organization. Further thinking revealed that a learning organization is not possible without learning individuals. Here are my top 20 lessons to cultivate lifelong learning: As professionals, ability (and drive) to learn constantly is a competitive advantage. Learning is not a one time event, but a lifelong […]
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Improvement, Change and Strength of Belief In Outcomes
We all find it difficult to stick to our new year resolutions beyond a few months. A lot of people wish to focus on their health and start exercising. Many people I know want to quit smoking. We have a lot of “wishes” on improvement, but we often fail to take some real actions. Why? […]