Category: Educational

  • When your taste is for Success, why your recipe is for Failure?

    Everyone wants to be successful at work, career, professional or personal life; but few get it and others not, despite their best intentions and efforts. Often, we relate success and failure to stroke of luck or destiny. We have innumerable examples of many CEOs or top managers riding high and then gliding down. We tend…

  • Presence of Paradoxes – A Bane or Blessing?

    In previous Post of 28-June-2012, we have seen how glaring paradoxes in our life are. Let us look at some more to gain deeper insight. Everything that we observe, including ourselves, has been created by nature out of Nothing! Science has developed devices to receive and relate signals from billions of miles away; but has…

  • Our Life is full of Paradoxes! Why is that?

    Look at your life closely and you would be amazed to find plethora of paradoxes and clusters of contradictions, which you might have come across. But, wonder how much you have noticed; so please ponder the following: Nature has given right things in the wrong hands or places and wrong things in the right hands…

  • Is it Difficult to manage Difficult Boss (or People)?

    Yes, if you believe it is difficult, it would be. And if you can learn to manage, you would find it simple! Difficult people, bosses included, are all around the globe and there is definite reason, why the class of bosses is often like that. What I am sharing below applies to both, who is…

  • Nothing can be as rewarding as Managing Conflicts!

    You are getting late to leave home for an urgent appointment and get a call from your close friend in distress. Your team member has a serious difference of opinion with you on how to solve some problems in a project in hands. Due to eroding bottom line, company management has declared lower than expected…

  • Beauty beneath Managing Conflicts

    Managing conflicts external to you Have a Heart, not hammer to manage. If a conflict shows up, do not shoot it down or resist; but accept. Use restrain and not reaction. Analyze and understand genesis of conflicts, with no biases and prejudices. Work to extinguish emotions behind conflict. Open line of communication with all, listen…

  • Measures to improve quality of students

    There was quite a media buzz after Infosys chairman emeritus N.R. Narayana Murthy’s recent observation on the quality of IIT students. One of main reasons cited for the downslide in quality is the shortage of faculty. Such a qualitative downslide over the years has been experienced by the industry even in colleges, which did nor…