Tag: Work

Joy-To-Stuff

One of my favourite blogs – 43Folders – points me to an interesting neologism cited by WordSpy…What a wonderful perspective on chasing that elusive pot-of-gold!

A New Lexicon

This August, I completed a year of working for the organization I spend most of my waking hours in. And, it occurred to me that, over the past 12 months or so, I seem to have picked up a bit of its “vocabulary”! Here’s a glimpse…

Survival, Not Mandatory

I have always prided myself on my openness to embrace change. So it came as a bit of a surprise to me to see my own reaction when faced with an organizational change of considerable span and significance.

It’s Not Just The Money, Honey

My work involves designing and executing ‘Reward and Recognition’ programs for the 1000-strong sales force (and key partners) of an Insurance major.
In my quest to find out what’s being discussed on this subject, across the globe, I chanced upon an excellent article published by the Harvard Business School…

Provocans Ad Volandum

On the occassion of Teacher’s Day, I just wanted to take this opportunity to say a big Thank You to all the teachers who have helped shape my life.

Size Does Matter

Most of my working life (six-odd years till date), I have spent working with small-medium outfits. Almost all of these were agencies of some form or another. But today, I have chosen to go down a new route. I have decided to become “the client”!

Think Purple !

A free e-book distributed by Seth Godin contains a summary of his other great book – The Purple Cow : Remarkable, isn’t it?

Google : No Clone

Once again, I link to Mahesh Murthy’s column in Business World and this time it’s on Google’s unusual IPO listing : Now, I am not advocating that we all go out and subscribe to this stock. All I’m trying to say is that here’s a company that operates in the same space as conventional (multi-billion dollar) organizations do, but has the courage to do things its own way.

Out of the Box

And on my walk I was thinking how it is some people end up on one street with the big house and some other people end up on the not so nice alley with the little shack and what the assumptions were when we were all growing up…

Cialdini on Influence

When Robert Cialdini set out on a journey to find the answer to this question, he may not have known that his quest would end with him authoring a powerful book called “Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion”. In a candid interview posted online, he shares with us the distillation of his extensive research into six “universals of influence”, and explains how they can be used by us in various life-work situations…

Making Life Choices

George Monbiot offers some excellent career advice in an essay called “Choose Life”. Many of the examples pertain to journalism, but I think it has a lot to offer for any one searching for a direction in life (or work)…

The XBox Story

Some weeks ago, I bought a book that goes by the name of “Love is the Killer App”. It was written by Tim Sanders – a bigwig at Yahoo! – and the title, of course, intrigued me. As I started reading the book, I also looked up Sanders on the Internet and found that he has an egroup (on Yahoo!) which sends out periodic updates on the subject his book covers. The email update I got today, contains a very interesting story that I wanted to share with you. I am reproducing it here in entirety.

Slow Dance

Working in a project-based environment is an inevitable fact of my life. And, ever so often, there are days when I start out with a 20-point to-do list, but “urgent” things keep coming up and not one of those 20 items gets done ! HBS Working Knowledge offers a solution…

For Better or Worse

Starting a business with a partner (or partners) is very different than starting one alone. The closest analogy I can come up with is that it’s like marrying someone, and the business you build is your child… Having run my own business for over one and half years with a college friend as a partner, I completely agree with the above. At the end of the day, its about matching idealogies and merging interests, and working towards a common goal. And in spite of that, the “marriage” may not last as long as you’d expect it to.

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