Isn’t Leadership a Little Too Overrated?
Almost in every MBA program, there is a module for teaching us leadership skills. A quick search on Amazon for the keyword “leadership” brin...Read More
Showing posts with label Management. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Management. Show all posts
Don't be that boring conference speaker
Recently I’ve attended some conferences and workshops happened in Colombo, and I thought of sharing some observations I made about ...Read More
Why people go job hopping?
“Don’t stay stuck in a job that you hate, just quit and find another job!” This is one of the best carrier advice I endorse, and I stro...Read More
Should Companies Restrict Employees Use of Social Media?
I recently met a university batch mate of mine, who is now in the field of HR. While discussing where we are and what we do now, eventual...Read More
Dashboard and Windscreen
There's a close similarity between running a business and driving a car. You should strike a balance between the time you spend on keepi...Read More
The Tataki-dai Principle
Have heard a lot about Japanese management principles like 5S and Kaizen, but I came across for the first time with this simple principle c...Read More
Eight Ways to Build Collaborative Teams
We are analyzing this great HBR article published by Lynda Gratton and Tamara J. Erickson in 2007, to evaluate it’s applicability to Sri La...Read More
Do nothing. Do the wrong thing. Do the right thing partially. What is the most harmful thing to do?
When it comes to strategic decision making based on market insights; the easy mistake to make is not usually to “do nothing” or to “do the w...Read More
Type A Organizations and Type B Organizations
Last few days, I was busy gathering some background information for yet another term paper (on the topic “Organizational Culture and Product...Read More
Why People Leave? What managers Believe Vs The Reality
Does this sound familliar and/or alarming to you? Then you must read this book by Leigh Branham This diagram is from the book, and I guess...Read More
Balancing Creativity and Conformance in Decision Making
Creativity and conformance can be seen as uncomfortable bedfellows, given the fact that these two concepts moves towards opposite direction...Read More
How Paradigms are Created?
“That’s how things are done around here!” Does this sound familiar to you? But you never dared to ask “why are the things always done li...Read More
How Can Advertisers face the new Paradigm Shift in Marketing?
I left this comment on one of my ex-work colleague’s blog this morning, and interestingly enough the topic discussed in one of my MBA sessi...Read More
Task Oriented Managers and Social Oriented Managers
These two styles of management can be seen as directly derived from the concept of “masculinity & femininity in management”, even though...Read More
Top 10 Creativity Killers
Brainstorming is one of those English words, which is excessively being misused by most of us. Many of us think brainstorming is synonymous ...Read More
Procrastination Syndrome
Most of us, are suffering from this evil syndrome called “Procrastination” in our day to day life. It refers to the practice of always dela...Read More
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