Monday, January 30, 2012

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Interview

"The best interviews -- like the best biographies -- should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race." - Barber, Lynn

TOPIC OF THE DAY

The Interview Question You Should Always Expect

Whether you are a new middle manager or a new President-elect, the common wisdom is that you have three months to make an impact in your new role. And yet when preparing for job interviews, candidates make the mistake of believing that most questions will be about their past experience, not what they plan to do once hired.

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Boomerang: The Meltdown Tour by Michael Lewis

Sunday, January 29, 2012

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Beauty and Happiness

"Beauty might bring happiness, but happiness always brings beauty." - Narayan Veeraraghavachar

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Social Media Analytics

SAS Social Media Analytics is an enterprise-hosted, on-demand solution that integrates, archives, analyzes and enables organizations to act on intelligence gleaned from online conversations on professional and consumer-generated media sites. It enables you to attribute online conversations to specific parts of your business, allowing accelerated responses to marketplace shifts.

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Boomerang: The Meltdown Tour by Michael Lewis

Saturday, January 28, 2012

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Inspiration

“Change your thoughts and you change your world. ” - Norman Vincent Peale

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Internal Marketing - A Review

Feasibility studies aim to objectively and rationally uncover the strengths and weaknesses of the existing business or proposed venture, opportunities and threats as presented by the environment, the resources required to carry through, and ultimately the prospects for success.

It is commonly believed that the sole role of marketing is to sell products and services outwardly to customers. In fact, the first and most urgent job of marketing is often to sell inwardly toward a company's people. For, it is only when the people of the company fully understand and are committed to the value proposition of the organization and its brands that external marketing can reach its full potential.

Marketing and the marketing philosophy came into prominence in the 1960's, yet it was not until the 1980's that it became widely accepted, practiced and seen by most organizations as indispensable. Similarly, participative management gained wide acceptance in the 1980s, and the 1990s saw the emergence of the strategic approach to HRM. The need to align human resources to the organizational strategy is widely accepted and, more recently, the need to focus organizational resources towards customer and market orientation has gained ground in the emergence of market-focused management.

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Strategic management / Michael A. Hitt

Friday, January 27, 2012

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Challenge

"There is no Challenge more challenging than the challenge to improve yourself." - Michael F. Staley

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Put Your Best People On Your Most Boring Challenges

At a recent not-for-attribution dinner with several (exceptionally) successful internet entrepreneurs, the conversation quickly turned to talent. How do you get the best value from your best people over time? The majority insisted that top talent's time should focus on the highest value-added problems and opportunities.

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C.V. Raman: A Biography by Uma Parameswaran

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Work

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas Edison

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Get Ready for Your Next Assignment

When Bruce Wilkinson, an executive in World Vision Inter­national’s Zambia operation, learned that he was going to be promoted to regional director for southern Africa, he immediately started reading performance reviews of key staff members and talking to his peers, other national officers in the $2.6 billion organization.

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Boomerang: The Meltdown Tour by Michael Lewis

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Perfection

"When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target." - George Fisher

TOPIC OF THE DAY

How to Give Feedback to a Perfectionist

Having a perfectionist on your team can be an asset. Perfectionists are driven to succeed, work hard to avoid mistakes, and are always striving to improve. Yet it can be a challenge to manage someone who needs everything to be perfect.

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Boomerang: The Meltdown Tour by Michael Lewis

Monday, January 23, 2012

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Performance

"Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking." - Daisetz T. Suzuki

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Delivering an Effective Performance Review

It's performance review season, and you know the drill. Drag each of your direct reports into a conference room for a one-on-one, hand them an official-looking document, and then start in with the same, tired conversation. Say some positive things about what the employee is good at, then some unpleasant things about what he's not good at, and end — wearing your most solicitous grin — with some more strokes of his ego. The result: a mixed message that leaves even your best employees feeling disappointed. But if you take the right approach, appraisals are an excellent opportunity to reinforce solid performers and redirect the poor ones.

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Boomerang: The Meltdown Tour by Michael Lewis