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Author: Manish Mohan

Driving Divergent Thinking in Our Children

May 18, 2011
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| Categories: Children, Divergent thinking, Parenthood, Reform in School System, Reforms, School system

I came across this interesting video presentation talk by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA's Benjamin Franklin award. In the video he talks about what’s wrong with public education and why paradigm change is required. While the talk and the statistics are primarily USA centric, I think the state of affairs and the arguments he states are quite valid even in India, and perhaps most of the world.I feel that divergent thinking, while reduces as we grow up and get "educated", can increases…

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Clients From Hell… and Heaven!

April 30, 2011
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| Categories: Clients, Guest Post, Learning, Partners, Results, The Big Picture, Types of Clients, Value

This is a guest post By Puja AnandRecently, I saw a website titled Clients from Hell that had funny anecdotes from web designers about unreasonable or uninformed clients with strange requirements. It got me thinking about the clients I have interacted with in the last 10-12 years. Who among them would qualify as clients from hell? Are they the clients who ask us to reduce our prices, even as the expenses go up? Are they the ones who expect work to be delivered two weeks earlier than our proposed tight…

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Lies While Quitting

March 4, 2011
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| Categories: HR, Jobs, Lies While Quitting, people management, Work, Workplace

@sidin posed a question on Twitter about lies we give while quitting a job. I am sure there’s a full article out with a lot more research. Over the years, I have heard many reasons that people give while quitting. These reasons are not necessarily lies in all cases. These are just a collection of some reasons that I figured were lies after the person had left the organization."I want to do something different" (when the will continue in the same industry doing the same thing)"I am getting a better…

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It’s Not This Or That, It’s This AND That

January 27, 2011
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| Categories: coaching, Reflection, thoughts

Came across a tweet by a respected TV journalist today:r day should be a celebration of creative genius of india, not of armed forces might. fewer tanks, more music. gnightI have heard people cribbing and providing their alternatives in the past also. “We should not spend money on games, the same could be used for the poor”, “why do film stars get awards, they should be given to intellectuals” and so on.Mostly we rant about why we shouldn’t do the things that are happening and why we should shift our…

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Delivery Led or Sales Led

January 26, 2011
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| Categories: business, Leadership, Management, Ponder, Question

I have been wondering about this for a while now. What’s better for a business – to be delivery focused or to be sales focused?  Who’s a better business leader – a delivery focused leader or a sales focused leader? I know of companies bracketed as being sales focused or delivery focused. Sales led/focused companies are known for their aggressive attitude towards grabbing business, at any cost, at any promise, irrespective of its delivery capabilities. Deliver led/focused companies are known to be more focused on selling only what they can…

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2010 Redux

January 1, 2011
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| Categories: Lists, Redux, Top posts of 2010

2010 was a rather quiet year for my blog. My blog didn’t see much of me this year, only 24 posts this year. As for my other social media presence, it’s been mostly quiet all across. My RSS reader missed me, on many occasions I would mark 1000s of unread items as read and try to start again. Tweeting also took back seat. Tweetstats tells me I posted only 854 tweets in 2010 against more than 2000 the previous year. And still, sometime during this year, this blog completed three…

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Career Paths for Trainers

December 20, 2010
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| Categories: Career, career paths, Jobs, Learning, Management, people management, trainers, Training, Work, Workplace

Someone asked a question on the career growth paths for trainers on one of our internal forums. And about the same time I came across this interesting blog post which talks about not worrying about career path and living your career story, written by Jason Seiden. It is from Dan McCarthy’s list of 20 Best Leadership Blog Posts of 2010. Just loved the way Jason explains the need to dump career paths and focus on building your career stories. . So, what could be a Trainer's career stories? While it…

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Collaboration: It’s Not About Technology, It’s About the Culture

November 21, 2010
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| Categories: Collaboration, Employee portals, Google Docs, Micro-blogging, micro-messaging, Salesforce, Sharepoint, Socialcast, Socialtext, Technology, Tools, Webex, Windows Live SkyDrive, Workplace, Yammer, Zoho

I got a chance to talk about how companies can use technology internally to collaborate and share more effectively. I started with examining what’s currently in use in organizations.Email is the most commonly used collaborative tool. Unfortunately it is also perhaps the worst tool for open collaboration in an organization. You can only collaborate with people you send the email to. And the information is then trapped in email inboxes of people who were communicating with each other, with no access to others. The information isn’t shared beyond the people…

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Would You Get Your Boss Promoted?

November 10, 2010
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| Categories: Boss, Leadership, Promotion

I have never come across a post that talks about getting your boss promoted. So this post by Dan McCarthy is a refreshing change. We don’t seem to like our bosses, managers are always complete nincompoops, idiots who seem to have gotten where they are because of anything but competence. Everyone rushes to the ‘rescue’ of the poor worker from the clutches of the incompetent ‘manager’.So why would you even want to think about getting your boss promoted? Dan provides useful insight. He says:I’ll bet when you worked for a…

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How to Become a Thought Leader – Part 2

November 10, 2010
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| Categories: Brand management, Branding, Leadership, Management, Thought Leader

Sometime back I had written about how to become a thought leader in three easy steps. Dorie Clark takes it a step further in detailing it out. She provides some useful tips on how you can share your thoughts and be publicly recognized as a thought leader. She recommends following the six steps to jump-start your thought leadership:Create a robust online presenceFlaunt high-quality affiliationsGive public speechesAppear on TVWin some awardsPublish a bookRead her full post on HBR Blogs.

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