THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Work

"Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. "

- Horace


TOPIC OF THE DAY

Skills management

Skills Management is the practice of understanding, developing and deploying people and their skills. Well-implemented skills management should identify the skills that job roles require, the skills of individual employees, and any gap between the two.


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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Age

"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."

- Mark Twain


TOPIC OF THE DAY

India - Business Protocol

India is officially called Republic of India (Hindi Bharat), is located in southern Asia and is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. India consists geographically of the entire Indian Peninsula and portions of the Asian mainland. To its north lies Afghanistan, China, Nepal, and Bhutan; to its east is Bangladesh, Myanmar (formerly known as Burma), and the Bay of Bengal; Palk Strait and the Gulf of Mannar (which separate it from Sri Lanka) and the Indian Ocean are to the south; and on the west is the Arabian Sea and Pakistan.


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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Agreement

"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."

- Oscar Wilde


TOPIC OF THE DAY

Face-to-face communication

Emotional detachment makes people cruel. It's easy to turn people into caricatures when you don't really know or care about them....


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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Society

"In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning."

- Carl Sandburg


TOPIC OF THE DAY

Auditing Leadership

Formal assessment processes are widely used to audit leadership talent. Accurate measurement of strengths and development needs helps you get a better return from your training budget. But should you assess personality or the ability to behave in line with a leadership competency profile? If you assess personality traits you need to make inferences from them to your leadership competency profile. Behavioral assessment explores how participants actually behave on the job, thereby assessing competencies directly. Which approach should you use to audit leadership talent?


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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Cowards

"Cowards die many times before their actual deaths."

- Julius Caesar

TOPIC OF THE DAY

R. Venkataraman

Ramaswamy Venkataraman(Tamil: ராமசுவாமி வெங்கட்ராமன்) (December 4, 1910 – January 27, 2009[1]) was an Indian lawyer, freedom-fighter and politician who served as a Union minister and as the 8th President of India.

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Life

Don't go through life, grow through life.

- Eric Butterworth

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Rajendra Prasad

Dr. Rajendra Prasad (December 3, 1884 – February 28, 1963) was the first President of the Republic of India.

He was an independence activist and, as a leader of the Congress Party, played a prominent role in the Indian Independence Movement. He served as President of the Constituent Assembly that drafted the constitution of the Republic from 1948 to 1950. He had also served as a Cabinet Minister briefly in the first Government of Independent India.

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Mind

"Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people."

- Eleanor Roosevelt


TOPIC OF THE DAY

Management information system

A management information system (MIS) is a subset of the overall internal controls of a business covering the application of people, documents, technologies, and procedures by management accountants to solve business problems such as costing a product, service or a business-wide strategy. Management information systems are distinct from regular information systems in that they are used to analyze other information systems applied in operational activities in the organization. Academically, the term is commonly used to refer to the group of information management methods tied to the automation or support of human decision making, e.g. Decision Support Systems, Expert systems, and Executive information systems.


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