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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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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Ensuring a motivated team is a project manager’s first and foremost job. A highly motivated team will deliver wonders regardless of the challenges that may be faced. The dynamics of team motivation though are not so straightforward. Its never 1 + 1 = 2. It is more of an art than a science. Every project
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Regardless of the size and complexity of the projects , people are always at the center of everything. Having skilled resources on the project contributes to a top critical factor for project success. Not always there will be full choice around it, but the closer you can build a team which you are comfortable with,
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Project management as a profession has been around for many years now. Organizations take so much effort and spend a lot in project manager certifications and training. Still there are few things that cannot be taught in a training room. Either you have them naturally or learn it in the school of hard knocks. Below
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In Outliers: The story of success, Malcolm Gladwell examines the factors that contribute to high levels of success using examples from Canadian ice hockey players to Bill Gates and the Beatles. Throughout this book, he claims that the key to success in any field, is to a large extent, a matter of practicing a specific
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In the Web 2.0 world, the traditional concepts of the workplace are changing. For some, jobs are still 9-5 but not for all. For many of us, connected via the blackberry and the IPhone , we carry work everywhere we go. A lot of thought process is going on recently if employees can be allowed
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We live in an era where globalization has been deeply entrenched in all aspects of life – let alone the workspace. Corporations have become truly global and need to have presence in local markets across the globe to sell their products across geographies. Talent is spread across the world and its needed to go global
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