We all have the same amount of time that is 24 hours a day, but the value we extract from it is not equal. The way we utilize our time would decide the value time will grant us. While you cannot buy time with money, you can make money by managing time well.
If you study the habits of most successful people, you will discover one common quality — all of them have managed their time well and have infused discipline into their regime. The techniques of time management prevent procrastination and sets you on a path of self-discipline which…
Nature strives towards productivity. A fruit as common as a coconut has a high efficiency quotient because every part of the coconut has a use either as a tree, a fruit or a shell. And perhaps nature is the genesis of the pursuit of efficiency. It is believed that earth has the perfect conditions for life to evolve and if that is true then how do you explain the extinction of species due to natural evolution.
It is widely believed by scientist that when any species tries to get very efficient it descends down the path of extinction. Thus…
I have always been an active advocate of wellness and a healthy lifestyle to maintain our overall wellbeing. The line between work life and personal life continues to blur in a tech-embedded world and many employees report being stressed out. Small doses of stress can elevate our growth, on the other hand, chronic stress can affect our work progress. It is critical to keep an eye for signs of stress and work on solutions to keep stress levels in check.
An interesting article on ‘Ways to prevent teams from burning out’ by Jen Fisher, Deloitte’s Chief Well-being Officer, sheds lights…
We’ve all heard the phrase — it’s not what you know, it’s who you know and how well you know them. Ironically, most of us dedicate our time towards building knowledge and very few of us work towards building social relationships. Job demands and personal commitments may not permit enough time for nurturing relationships at work.
I stumbled across an interesting article ‘7 Effortless ways to develop work allies’ by Gorick Ng, the Author of The Unspoken Rules: Secrets to Starting Your Career Off Right. …
In my span of leadership, I have noticed employees willingly consent to be managed by a genuine human being who is honest and lives by one’s values. A fancy job title bestows upon you the organizational power to lead, but this does not mean your employees have consented to be led by you.
The award-winning HBR article ‘Why should anyone be led by you’ explains the traits that exceptional leaders possess. The authors after an in-depth research learnt that great leaders share interesting qualities which can be honed by those willing to discover their true selves. …
An effective manager gets the best out of his people and steers his team towards attainment of organizational goals. Managing is no more lashing out at people for doing wrong things, rather it is redirecting, catching people doing a good job and sharing in their success.
In the pursuit of our future goals and ambitions in life, we may forget to pause and enjoy the experiences of the present. Apparently during these uncertain times the philosophy of ‘Living in the Now’ has gained momentum as most of us worry about the future that we miss out on relishing the present moments.
A very interesting talk by Saahil Mehta at a recent CorporateConnections™ meeting brought back focus habits that we must ingrain in our psyche to max our potential.
Someone described success not as what you achieved in the absolute terms, but something relative to your potential. And since we keep discovering ourselves as we mature, does it mean that achieving success is more of a journey than a destination?
Saahil outlines some very simple and practical ways in which we can achieve strategic decluttering in 4 key dimensions of life- mind, body, relationships and home to experience joy, abundance, peace and…
Each of us have significantly evolved from the phase of teenager to adulthood. We tend to believe that we have changed quite bit in the past, and the identity we gain will remain. As the rate of our personal changes have slowed down, we are unlikely to change much in the future.
Hardcore preconceived beliefs quickly turn into false notions and we get comfortable with the person we have grown into. We unknowingly develop blind spots about our shortcomings, and our view towards difficult situations.
I came across an interesting article by McKinsey titled ‘Understanding the Leader’s Identity Mindtrap’, that…
We are reading now more than ever. Business communications, personal email, chats are replacing direct telephonic and face-to-face conversations. The asynchronous mode of communication is preferred over the more direct as it allows each party to work at their own pace. This however has raised the spectre of miscommunication and misunderstanding to an altogether high level that needs our immediate attention.
The lack of body language cues (eye contact, tone of voice) can lead to misinterpretation of written messages. The emotions and gestures of face-to-face communications are hard to represent in written text and this problem is well articulated in…
Chirantan Joshi
Chirantan Joshi is the co-founder of the E-Movers group based in Dubai and is an avid proponent of business networking. Corporate Connections UAE is his act.
