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One of those interesting slide shows from Forbes - How To Get People To Trust You

It is not easy to be comfortable with things that are unfamiliar and not within the realm of our experiences and background. So what do we m...

During each interview I have conducted I have always wondered how I knew if the candidate across from me would fit and thrive in the culture...

Interesting Fools post - Career Education CEO Expelled The article talks about the stock leap of 14.4% with the CEO's sudden departure....

Creativity is more important than just scale and size. - Article from the Media Dailty News

It is so interesting to note that we (The people of the United States) celebrate the day our founding fathers signed and published the decla...

It is so interesting to note that we (The people of the United States) celebrate the day our founding fathers signed and published the decla...

More than just a spin... Advertising Ecosystem from MediaPost, interesting article.

I was thinking about all those occasions when I have either driven me or depressed me? The one and only thing I thought was common between t...

One my most favorite poem is William Shakespeare’s “To thine own self be true” from Hamlet. Polonius speaks to his son Laertes before his tr...

CREATIVE RISK TAKING People Development Understanding Risk/Taking Risk/Rewarding Behavior Direction/Strategizing

Gone are those days when people believed “don’t fix it if it ain’t broke”, I often challenge myself and my teams to “Think different!”. That...

This is new to me too but I liked what I read, who knows you may see the value too? Kalivo.com - Show Fads or Smart Marketing?

Oscar Wilde was responsible for the original form of the quote but I am not sure where I heard the following one... nonetheless I love it. ...

Much like gravity, nothing can stand up there for perpetuity. All that goes up or even grows up there like Newton discovered will some day c...

Administration is an elegant word for the corporate sludge and politics we all have to put up with. There is more to administrator then the ...

I was ruminating over what is the most expensive investment a business or an individual makes? My thought process got as little philosophica...

Be happy now from FC

During my recent trip to India I noticed some thing quite interesting and may be even unique in its own right. People seemed to be in a rush...

The India top 11 The Good The Bad o Open to new ideas! Open to change! o Confl...

Couple interesting posting on FastCompany, Business Week, etc. Putting a price on customer opinion - FC If size really mattered... - BW It...

ANA Marketing Maestros: Top CEOs. Top business leaders. The Who's Who list of CEOs.

ANA Marketing Maestros: How to Be a Better CMO very interesting read!

It is funny when friends write to you about the reclusive Russian who declined the Field medal. Reminds you that no matter what you do today...

That's Wife

Google wants people to stop googling from CNET News.com

CUSTOMER-MADE! Institute of the Future

Fast Company Now : Innovation Start With the Customer!

Interesting article about Gen Y ladies: Girls Just Want to Be Plugged In -- to Everything from the Los Angeles Times.

Fancy Games - Fast Company Now from who else but Google.

Interesting article from - Economist.com The alliance against Google

The latest issue of http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/ has some fantastic articles and books - must reads for the summer. Sustainability -...

Interesting read... Is it privacy or the economics? from Market Watch

Tasseomancy is the ancient art of reading tea leaves. The practice of drinking tea was associated with meditation in the East and the config...

I think hiring is by far the most difficult task in ones career? In my personal experience I have found it to be more difficult than making ...

From the FastCompany briefing on biotech in batteries. A virus with a charge Harnessing the power of genetically modified viruses. http://re...

As a marketer and strategist I often look at elasticities of my brands. In order to time events for the greatest impact, and improve my ROI,...

Only from FastCompany Leading Ideas: The gift of risk Interesting article.

Interesting article on the wisdom of crowds. Workers, place your bets from Business Week. If you remember my posting "Some of my inter...

I have always tried hard & practiced treating others the way I wish to be treated by them. Only recently I noticed something strange whe...

Who else by John McCain - Some of these reprinted FastCompany articles are amazing! In Search of Courage : "John McCain"

Fast Company Now : "New-Media Power List"

I have always believed sound organizations need - internal discipline; resulting in strong brands, great people and social responsibility ...

Jim Collins is great! - Built to Flip : "author of 'Built to Last: Success"

This month's ANA had a full page ad and I could not resist but blog it. A little extreme but effective career/personal espionage. That G...

Fastinating blog and an equally interesting podcast! Manager Tools

I learn more from talking to people then from anything else. Last weekend I met some one; he asked me what I did for a living. I blurted “Ma...

The power is in name - from Business week The World's Top Brands

There is a lot of hoopla about change management and leadership, NO denying ANY organization would not exist let alone succeed in absence of...

Yesterday was a hectic day... I woke up on time but with all the little things I had to complete I was late for my train, lucky me I still m...

Posted on The Donald Trump blog - My Candidates to Replace the MBA I am not a fan of Mr. Trump's blog but this is an interesting article...

Knowledge@Wharton - Waking Up on the Wrong Side of the Desk: The Effect of Mood on Work Performance

Interesting reseasrch from: Knowledge@Wharton - Promises, Lies and Apologies: Is It Possible to Restore Trust? "Trust is critical for o...

The podcasts at the University of Chicago are fascinating. Here is from Steven Levitt. Steven Levitt , Alvin H. Baum Professor in Economics ...

Ever had one of those days when you thought you worked on a presentation for a role model and intended to impress only to be pointed juvenil...

No One Knows What They're Doing - interesting read Fast Company suggests trying: 1. Practice admitting when you're stuck or don...

Every time I listen to the news these I am amazed at the similarity between guerrilla wars (particularly the from the fundamentalist organiz...

Had the opportunity to read Patrick Lencioni’s Five Dysfunctions of a team . Pat starts with the first dysfunction, “Absence of Trust”, I fe...

By the time I had read Jim Collins ’ Built to last, I had worked for one. The experience and the philosophies he shared seemed to hit at hom...

When our founding fathers wrote our constitution they were influenced by their perspectives and experiences they had in Europe. They strived...

Funny when it comes from the big guy... Indecency Law Tripped Up By Bush Slip-Up

This is much like business continuity The Fools call it portfolio management. Bird Flu Planning Isn't for the Birds

From Fast Company: What happens when the CEO of a fortune 50 company bounces a check? CEO's public persona Bouncing a $2000 check Challe...

Great article from Business Week: Mass customization but micro segmentation & targeting. Your Attention Please

Pick up any good book and you will transcend time and space. I have written about ‘A’ Level education in the western world and how much I ha...

Read the article in MediaPost

The 'Hot Topics' list from the Jackson Library at the Stanford GSB is a fascinating collection. Check out the Hot Topic: Work/Life B...

    5. The entire team needs to be on board 4. Patience is a virtue 3. Keep your eye on the prize and work hard 2. Training is tough 1. The ...

I have quoted Drucker before, “What gets measured gets done”. In fact I have even challenged part of this quote and introduced an accountabi...

I have never liked Matrixed organization. I believe in simplicity and try my very best to keep things simple, I believe a Matrix organizatio...

As a fan of the magazine and a long time subscriber... I felt it necessary to share - Fast Company's Greatest Hits : Ten Years of the Mo...

Social Responsibility Gone Bad Interesting article from Fast Company.

What They don't Teach You about in B-school

Heard the term Emergent literacy yesterday from my Muse and liked it! The term sounds so progressive. I searched the web to learn more about...

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." - Malcolm Forbes

Most engineers and scientists have at one point in time or another explained a behavior using the principle - Occam’s Razor [lex parsimonia...

The soccer World Cup Finals yesterday in Germany provided a rare opportunity to experience a leader express himself! In the most unlikely wa...

Is Your Boss Killing You? - Fast Company Can one really complain about this situation in today's take charge world!

ONLY from Fast Company - Interview with a Headhunter Summary: 8. Got an offer? Interview the company. 7. To win an offer, do the job. 6. It...

from the desk of Barbara Kellerman - Forbes.com

Was at the sweetest place in New York City, over the weekend. Simple, sweet message and on target.

insignificant thoughts » Cancelling AOL CHEERS TO VINCENT!!!

Zaha Hadid - Check out images of her work Google Image Search . Just saw her show at the Guggenheim in New York City.

So Much Fanfare, So Few Hits I bet Business Week knows it all boils down to a 'numbers game', even Edison tried hundreds of ideas be...

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the abil...

I was recently thinking about ‘Job’? Job enlargement vs. Job enhancement? Is one a scope issue vs. a quality issue? I decided to explore and...

Fast Company Now : "Why We Hate HR--Counterpoint" 1) Companies hire inexperienced and unqualified people to handle HR, but expect ...

Why do we need strategy, I wonder? In my list of the most abused business words, STRATEGY is at the very top, it’s the “Shame Spot”. I have ...

The Motley Fool: Talk About a Competitive Advantage! Just imagine the marketing possibilities for these companies, owned 100% by Berkshire H...

Forbes.com Article : "Get Ready For Stagflation" The first time I heard Stagflation I thought... Oxymoron? Stagnation + Inflation,...

I don’t know of one individual who likes bureaucracy? If you do drop me a note I would be interested… in any case what is it about bureaucra...

In 1998 Daniel Goleman wrote an article in the Harvard Business Review (Nov/Dec98, Vol. 76 Issue 6, p93-102, 10p, 1 chart, 2c; (AN 1246794))...

Fast Company Now - Refrences the WSJ article why management trends quickly fade away (online subcription needed). FC has summarized the poi...

Attitude Adjustment from the Fast Company Stint abroad is a résumé requirement - some advice on bridging cultural divides.

ANA Marketing Maestros: How Can You Become a Smarter Marketer? : "It will require that we innovate, think differently, think like our c...

Managing Change in a World of Excessive Change: Counterbalancing Creative Destruction and Creative Recombination Eric Abrahamson is profess...

Some intersting articles from Columbia Business School Columbia Business School: Ideas At Work

One of the first things I always ask from every new organization I visit/join is an organization chart. Call it by any other name (ORGANIGRA...

Some have called it the GE model, I have not seen it to confirm... in anycase I think this is a hybrid of what I come to know. The top 15% p...