Use annual appraisals to motivate and promote a meritocracy
What is the difference between men and boys? The cost of their toys. If one is observant and sensitive, learning can come from...
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Jun 26, 20232 min read
Annual appraisals can cause lots of demotivation
The measure of good management is to constantly increase productivity and quality whilst reducing the amount of discord and unhappiness...
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What is not audited, is not done.
Long running successful organisations and even families that become great are, to put it simply 'well organised'. One of the most...
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To be Somebody and yet a Nobody
A sure sign of megalomania and approaching insanity is to believe that one's work is so important that the world will stop functioning...
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Lessons from making 'Stone Soup'
The rains were late and the land was parched. The people in the village were struggling to make ends meet. Afraid that their families...
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Naughty is good
One crucial factor that usually differentiates successful people from unsuccessful people is their energy levels. Low energy is a trait...
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Convert vandals and trouble makers into stars
Engaging with troublesome youth - The Vin Diesel example Mark Sinclair (b 1967) popularly known as Vin Diesel, is an American producer,...
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Reading enhances leadership
Leadership is forged by learning, practice and opportunity. Reading plays a great role in learning. It widens and deepens perspective...
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Days eat up our life
Our individual and collective existence can be broken into two parts, the material world and the spiritual world. The material world is...
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Friendship, not love is the magic ingredient.
Thanks to misplaced notions of romance spread by poets, authors, television and movies, many a potentially great bond between a man and a...
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We create our own 'realities'.
During the war in 1948, American ambassador to the U.N. Warren Austin called upon the Arabs and Jews to settle their differences 'like...
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Avoid Toxicity to be Peaceful and Happy
To protect our bodies we do not eat or drink toxic things, we also do not permit poisonous creatures and things to come near our body....
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We can daily meet the Divine
If we examine our modern and urban lives, we discover that we are surrounded by artificiality. Almost everything we use, consume or...
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Is the 'problem', my problem?
"I have a problem", that is how many people often approach colleagues and bosses. We humans are fascinated by the problems of others...
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Why does familiarity usually lead to contempt?
When we get together with friends and family we let down the masks we wear and drop the persona we adopt in front of the world, and...
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Fundamental questions to answer to achieve goals.
We humans are constantly chasing something or the other, endeavouring to achieve goals. It is just our nature. Yet many, fail most of the...
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The difference between Success and Happiness
It is easy to get confused between success and happiness, often mistaking them be similar. 'Success' is getting what we want. 'Happiness'...
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Death by Social Media?
Probably the most valuable thing we possess in equal measure is the time each one of us is given, 24 hours, that is 86,400 seconds a...
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Failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.
To continuously seek improvement is an intrinsic human quality. To be able to do is however altogether another matter. So man can only...
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I watch my mind more than I do my possessions
Since ancient times, Indians have called humans as 'Manav' or 'Manas' (Sanskrit for 'the being with a mind'). The powerful conscious and...
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