How to Extract the Best, out of the Worst

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An Interesting article, highlighting a real life example, explains: How, fostering a positive belief system can help us extracting the best results out of the worst life developments.

"Your beliefs are causing you to assign meaning to events that are happening. If you hold a set of empowering beliefs, you will probably assign empowering meaning to the events of your life."

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A True Story of Successful Innovation

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An amazing story of unleashing the power of innovations, through employee empowerment, for multiplying business deliverables.

"By empowering employees to develop their own customer relationship breakthroughs, the Ritz-Carlton has earned two Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Awards and demonstrated how the killer app of trust fuels the sustainable competitive advantage of behavioral innovation."

Via: Business Week

5 Successful Leadership Styles

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Art Gould explains: Recipes for Success: 5 Different Leadership Styles That All Work!

There's more than one way to skin a cat. Nowhere is this saying more true than in today's corporate world. The best way to find out what makes a company successful is to look at the top. And when you do, what you quickly see is that today's top executives are much more than bean counters. They are the founders and daily drivers of their company's corporate cultures. Of particular interest are those who have achieveda measure of prominence due to their accomplishments. The singular characteristic that they all share is their company's success. But when you look more closely and study their leadership styles, you tend to notice more differences than similarities. Here are examples of five different leadership styles that have all proven successful in various ways:

Via: CEO Blog

War over Failures may Begin at Any Age

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If, while looking back into your past during an intense introspection, what you notice is a dark cloud of failures -- there would be a natural compulsion to accept and give up, because you know you can't change your past.

Unfortunately you can't change your past but, can't you change our present for shaping up a better future?

Yes, you can, but the task is mammoth and requires a continuous flow of sustainable determination and hard-work being directed at repairing the evil consequences of wasted time.

Never Surrender to A Haunting Past

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Nothing is more dangerous, in life, than a haunting image of self that you lived decades ago: Good, or bad!

Believe me, even a successful past could also be equally haunting if your current state of affairs is not so comparable.

Let me tell you, why I think so:

Business Mistakes I Committed, but You Don't

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A few days ago CEO of a company told me the same thing what HR head of another company said today: Abhijit, are you adding any values to your core business? Don't you think, you're focusing too much on other activities which are not generating sufficient return?

Are You Using Opera Mini Mobile Browser?

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Opera Mini is one of best mobile browsers I have experienced so far. If you're still not using it, then you are surely missing a lot of web-actions on your smart-phone!

I Won't Give Up!

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Very soon, I shall complete 2 years of blogging. But, looking back, I fail to see any accomplishments, except, may be, learning - to some extent - the art of writing sort of what you may call articles.

How A Small Issue Can Negatively Affect Relationships

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Since morning I've called him up several times on his mobile, and every time he would disconnect.

No, no, I'm not offended, because I've learned to "control my expectations without affecting the actions,' but this incident is a startling reminder of -- how casually we treat our relationships: Be it personal, or professional.

Is HR Losing Its Relevance, In A Competitive Market?

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The heading of this post is a difficult question to answer.

However, let me share with you, what I feel about the role of HR as far as the current competitive recruitment scenario is concerned -- highlighting a few  real-life examples!

Sorry, I'm Not A Consultant -- But, A Recruiter!

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"Sorry, I'm not a consultant!" I politely told a prospect after he finished a marathon lecture on how a recruitment agency must act and deliver.

Consultant, as such, is a prestigious title that we recruiters don't deserve since our scope of work is limited to -- and  far below that.

What we do, is, to identify the best available talents for our clients and convince those candidates to take up the assignments with them.

No way we ever extend any consultancy services to our clients or to our candidates, but for some strange reasons we are bestowed upon with the title: Consultant -- with a crooked smile.

Well, recruitment, in my opinion, is predominantly a marketing job that involves selling brand equity of the clients - whatever, it is - to potential candidates, through highlighting a few genuine USPs.  And, there's no space for any consultancy services, whatsoever!

Then, where the hell, from, is emerging this title: Consultant?

Hey corporates, please stop calling us consultants -- and, let us remain marketing professionals.

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Your Children: Why You Must improve Your Present

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History repeats itself, but when that history is dark and full of sufferings it brings along a powerful tornado, capable of destroying much more than what it did earlier.

Watching, Painfully, My Mother Dying

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Is she my mother? I asked myself, while looking at her after a gap of more than a year and half.

The most powerful personality I've ever noticed and experienced so far, without prejudice, is lying on the bed -- helpless!

Reduced to half of her original size, and suffering from Dementia, she appears to be a skeleton of her illustrious past.

I don't know what would be her future; however, I'd would try my best to make her penultimate days as painless as possible.

But, watching her helplessness, did trigger the volcanic eruption of an emotional outburst, since, without her efforts I wouldn't have been there where I stand today.

The stories of devoted mothers, from across all the living species, are the same -- not in terms of making their own life better but that of their children.

However, watching your mother dying a painful death, is perhaps the worst experience for you, as you know and admit the limitations of being the puppet of destiny.