Once upon a time an old man spread rumors that his neighbor was a thief. As a result, the young man was arrested. Days later the young man was proven innocent. After been released he sued the old man for wrongly accusing him. In court, the old man told the Judge: ‘They were just comments,…
How many of us rate peace as a first value of our life? How many of us sincerely avoid war, conflict and fight in our day to day life with the people working together with us? We try to avoid stressful life in a day to day life. How many of us end the day…
On walking into the factory, the Managing Director of the Company noticed a young guy leaning against the wall and doing nothing. He approached the young man and calmly said to him, “How much do you earn?” The young man was quite amazed that he was asked such a personal question, he replied, “None the…
Australian positive psychologist Timothy Sharp otherwise known as ‘Dr. Happy’ asked 50 people just a simple question: “What do you consider to be the top three contributors to happiness at work?” Their answers provide food for thought to managers and employees alike. For the last six years, I am running the Happiness Institute in…
India is likely to get a large amount of offshore HR work in the next three years. According to a study by Everest Group, a global consulting and research firm, some 111 global HRO (human resources outsourcing) contracts worth $6 billion are nearing term end in 2010-12 and 75-85 percent of these engagements are likely…
Sandeep Bachhe is an autorickshaw driver in Mumbai. More of him later, but first let me take you through his wonderful autorickshaw. It has a television set tuned to good old Doordarshan which incidentally is celebrating 50 years of transmission in India. Then there is also a board with the day’s price of gold, silver,…
Philip Kiracofe believes what goes around comes around. He just doesn’t want to wait around. Kiracofe is running what may be the world’s first “Karma auction” to inspire people to help others. He’s selling computers worth hundreds of dollars, but he’s not accepting money – the only bids accepted are acts of kindness. “Every single…
Jack Borden has found the fountain of youth. It’s in his office. Borden has been practicing law for more than seven decades. At 101, he was recently honored as America’s “Outstanding Oldest Worker” by the nonprofit group Experience Works. Will Miles Clark, D.D.S., on the other hand, is a spry 105-year-old who has gladly spent…
Leaders gain trust and teach people what’s important to them by telling stories. But, these days there’s so much to attend to — now! —coming at us so fast. You might be tempted to let slide your soft skills, like how to tell a useful story. Just get to the point and move on to the next thing on…
When I was a little bitty kiddy about five my Dad began a process… anytime somebody came and said something to us, my dad would say, “You remember what he said, honey girl?” I would tell my father what the person said until I got so good at it that I could repeat verbatim even long…
