`Mentoring’ is a word which is traced back to its roots from Greek literature, illustrated in the Greek epic, The Odyssey. Odysseus son’s teacher donned the dual role of a coach/mentor to his son and the role of friend to Odysseus. His character as a mentor served as a teacher, advisor and the role model [...]
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Attitudes Determine One’s Altitude
Attitude plays a major role in bringing the best performance in organizations. Most often, attitudes are acquired through one’s own experiences in life, be it good or bad. The question is whether the emphasis is on skill building or attitude building. If more people knew what it fetches, if they develop and maintain a positive [...]
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Introduction
The atmosphere at the workplace has changed due to globalization and technological advancement. This can have a great impact on the lives of the employees. Modern jobs are knowledge-based and demand more from employees, which create many challenges in an employee’s life, thus causing stress. The reasons can be: pressure from superiors, target-oriented approach, relationship [...]
Music as the therapy for the soul
Music therapy is the recommended use of music and musical interference to reinstate, uphold, and improve emotional, physical, physiological, and spiritual health and well-being. Music becomes a part of our life since the time we are born. The mother sings lullabies to make the child fall asleep. From the starting of the school days, basics [...]
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Introduction
Risk is omnipresent and corporate world is no exception. Companies face a wide range of risks. This article allows the readers to get access to the entire risk management mechanism at the Microsoft. The article also presents a conceptual note on VaR (Value at Risk), a risk measurement mechanism used by Microsoft. The article also [...]
Outsourcing: The New Waves in the Sea of Business
The trend of outsourcing began in the 1980s in the US in various aspects of business organization as a way to cut costs. One of the assumptions was that outside service providers were in a good position to hire workers with low wages and to deliver economics of certain tasks. That way outsourcing got a [...]
Read the rest of this entry »The Creativity Core in Modern Organizations
Knowledge, Creativity and Innovation are very critical for business effectiveness, but firms generally struggle in realizing it in their business and translating it into everyday life. The possible reason for this is that top management does not have a clear, well-developed framework of what it looks like as an organizational capability. And since they don’t [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Vision and Mission: Keeping the corporate at heights
Present corporate life is abuzz with goal-setting in order to gain better and finer results. At the same time, goal setting is diverse from targets and vision. Vision is at a phenomenal octave, as compared to the targets of the company. Today’s work culture is buzzing with words like teams and team spirit. Getting employees [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Jack Welch: A Tough Boss and A Thought Leader
Jack Welch was born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1935. His mother, Grace Welch, according to him, was his first and greatest teacher of leadership. His mother taught him how to take defeat in his stride, and see things as they are. Jack said “If I have any leadership style, a way of getting the best [...]
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