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Get Physical – Spark Innovation and Unleash Creativity

Yahoo! created a buzz when their memo “Lets get physical” reached its employees. “Speed and quality are often sacrificed when we work from home,” reads the memo to employees from HR head Jackie Reses. “We need to be one Yahoo!, and that starts with physically being together.” Soon all over the internet, journalists and bloggers […]

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Don’t aim for Work Life balance, try Stress Peace balance instead

There are many books, articles and blogs on the topic of work life balance and suggestions to strike the right balance. In today’s highly connected world, is it really possible to have this distinction? The boundaries of work and life blurred long back with the advance of technology. It’s common to carry work home and

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Meditation – 20 Minutes to a Smiling and Efficient You

There have been few articles in HBR recently on the aspects of meditation and its positive influence at the workplace and overall well-being (Mindfulness helps you a become better leader and If You’re Too Busy to Meditate, Read This). Firstly it’s heartening to see prestigious, widely read and respected magazines like the HBR talk about

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Bending Reality – The Secret Of Leaders Who Do The Impossible

In  a recent HBR article – The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson puts forward an interesting characteristic of Jobs as being fundamental to his success – bending reality. To quote in his own words, this is what he says “Jobs’s (in)famous ability to push people to do the impossible was dubbed by

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Freedom from Tyranny of the Urgent – Let the journey begin

Have you ever wished for a thirty-hour day? Charles E. Hummel’s classic 1967 essay “Tyranny of the urgent” starts with this fundamental question. As project managers all of us have been through times when the 24 hours in the day don’t seem enough. We wish for a few more hours to finish all the tasks,

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