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Delegate, Appreciate and Rule!! Often, its best to leave some jobs to others for one of the following reasons: 1. They do the job well. 2. They are trained in the job. 3. They need to focus on just that one job. 4. They are employed to do the job. So, Good Managers, know to delegate the right job to the right person. With delegation, comes the expectation about appreciation for a job well done. It is very important for your subordinate or colleague who has accepted an assignment from you to know how much you appreciate the work or favor.. Often it is a favor adorning the helmet of Work, in most cases. Good Managers appreciate all the best points about the job and then talk about the improvement suggestions  on the same. When you know to delegate the right job to the right person, and use the right word to appreciate and give feedback, you naturally get to have employees who listen to you and accept your way of working; which means you get to Rule. A Good Manager g...

Just came across this line somewhere : When there is life, there is Hope.. How interesting and how true!!! If you are lucky to be alive the next minute, then there is a chance for something nice, something better, something that you expected, to happen .. If not this time, there is always another time to wait for, hope for simply because you are alive and as long as you live there are going to be chances to hope and so why despair?? Nice read, I wanted to share.

"Bite only what you can chew" is a quote I have heard somewhere.. Many times people elder to me have told me. Never really took much interest until this morning.I was feeding my daughter. It takes quite a bit of time and lots of my patience topped with loads of fun to feed her at meal times. In the midst of the usual fun times we were having I noticed that she takes very little of the very little I feed her at a time.. What I think is little is too much for her to chew.. So she takes in just about what she can chew from the spoon at a time.. And she eats only as much as she can. I am sure all of us as babies would have eaten only as much as we can chew at a time.. Nice lesson and a very early one too.. Right? Its a lesson that we forgot as we grew up when we were faced with many situations where we overworked ourselves.. How often we really do or handle only as much as we can? Or is it because we think we are faced with no other option than to put up with loads? Lets t...

The future is uncertain, so why worry about it?.. - I read somewhere.. Thought it is perfect sense. Then I recalled: Prevention is better than cure. Which means, worry about what may happen in the future and try to avert the issue. Nutshell: All thoughts are correct based on the writer's situation and the reader's experience or frame of mind to accept or criticize.

Yes, that is an adapted quote: A quote from the cover pages of one of the student hand book that I bought last year said: We will either find a way or make one. Very inspiring!!! I recently moved out of corporate and presently looking for freelance assignments online. Never been a freelancer before so was fiddling with the mouse, clicking some links on the Google search results.. I am amazed at the multitude of job openings available in the market from individuals, small scale business owners and large scale companies. Some of the jobs are too surprising!!! Like, write a thank you card and you get paid!!! This one made me click the link.. not to consider taking up the job but to see why someone wants to employ people to write thanks.. It means the employer is so keen on sending thanks and that there are too many thanks cards to be written and so is willing to employ someone. The link indeed had this job description!!.. Then there are a lot of other assignments that offer jobs for peopl...

There is a neat little school by the river; Where the palm trees keep swaying in summer; Where birds keep chirping the whole live long day.... That's how our School Song began. We used to sing this song every Monday morning. I wanted to meet some of my school teachers yesterday. Set out to the school that has contributed significantly to my overall development. There was a familiar wave of excitement that I have felt the last time I stepped inside the portals of the school. I felt at least ten years younger... Note the at least!!!! :) I don't know if a land surveyor or a supervisor would have looked around the place with such an interest... My eyes automatically scanned the school ground from one corner to another. My school has three grounds and while I was in school, it seemed very long stretch to cover and we used to feel very lazy to walk the entire stretch to attend classes. Yesterday, I had to roam the entire school stretch at least three times and I never felt the stretc...

Yes, I am out of my mind.. Will be back in five minutes. - From a T-shirt I read recently in the bus stop. This quote made me smile and I hope it brought a smile on your face too. The next time you want to yell at someone with " Are you out of your mind??", just be prepared for one such response.

Its been a crazy schedule at work.. I was headed to work a little earlier than my usual relaxed hour, only to find that the entire crowd in Bangalore was at the bus stop with me. The whole point of me leaving early was to beat the traffic and the crowd, and it is not easy to take that long wait at the bus stop, the lap top getting heavier on my shoulders and the work loads getting bulkier on my mind... I was just thinking, This is not my kind of approach and I was sure that it was not bad at all and that I am going to be able to do it.. and I was working hard on my positive energy levels for the day, but somehow it just did not seem to work well... When I was looking around for particularly nothing ( when you know you have to reach somewhere and cannot do anything much, but wait for the transport at a crowded bus stop, the best thing to do is 'Nothing' ), I saw this college student wearing an attractive T-shirt with about seven colored boxes painted on it and this line written...

There are some things that you cannot miss or cannot escape your eyes. A black T-shirt with white letters scribbled across is definitely one such 'You-must-read-this' invite. Not that I need an invitation to read T-shirts.[ Bad habit?? I admit, don't tell me about it!!!! I think they write on T-shirts only so someone reads. I love to read T-shirt thoughts and I attribute this to my college times when I was volunteered into the T-shirt designing group. We had a day's time to come up with a design and thought on the class T-shirt. It was not accepted is a different story altogether, but I did enjoy every bit of the night out we spent sketching and re-sketching, writing and re-writing; hated every second of clearing up the paper-strewn floor the next morning...] That was a nostalgic thought that came to my head as I started this post. At the bus stop yesterday, I read this Black T-shirt : I'm the guy your mom warned you about!!! Super-cool presence of mind, I must sa...

Yesterday afternoon, I was walking past a cubicle and saw this quote written on the whiteboard: Plant If and When; And Nothing grew. How true!!!!! Any decision, commitment, statement, promise reads much better without these two words and the phrase that follows these intelligent words. Put an 'If phrase' in your statement; then you can clearly say that the probability of the instance is very less. If possible, I will return the book today. ( Meaning, I am not even attempting!!!!, but I am being nice to keep you informed of the same, hoping you'll take the hint.) If this is not serious enough, try substituting the word 'money' for book.. It should read better.... Put a 'When phrase' in your statement; then you can as well clearly say it wont happen. When I find time, I'll look at it. ( Meaning, I will not be able to put in the kind of time that your work demands. Just that, this is my way of saying I may or may not be able to do what you are asking..) ...

This is something I can never imagine... May be it is true, because, everywhere, everyone seems to agree with this point, except a few like me, who think 'Talking is a gift that is to be cherished and used to its fullest potential'. I may not completely agree with the 'Talk less' word any day, but I must say that the T-shirt quote I read recently made me think : The T- Shirt said : Talk less than what you know. I had to walk a good fifteen minutes to reach my destination, and this quote clung on to my head. I liked it because, it didn't stop at Talk less. It says, Talk less than you know.. This way, you can get a chance to listen to what others might have to say about the same point, you may not been seen as a person with a 'Know all' attitude, you will have a chance to weigh the other person's mood or response before you make it good or worse and you can take time to take calculated risk with words. There is a popular quote saying : Words and eggs are ...

Trust in God, Trustworthy friend - We have heard of these time and again. I would rephrase it as Learn to trust like a little child. Last month, I was visiting my friend. She has a one and a half year old, baby girl. I had bought my first chocolate ( Cadbury Diary milk) for the little girl. I don't usually buy chocolate for kids till I know they have been introduced to chocolates. The little girl wanted to eat the chocolate. Her mom ( that's my friend) asked her to give it to auntie ( that's me ) to open the wrapper. Without a minute's hesitation the child gave me the chocolate. And she looked at it with such eagerness and so much trust that I WILL surely open it for her. Now, that's what is TRUST. She never once thought that I may not open it, may eat the chocolate myself, or may not give it to her at all. She believed her Mom, and so listened to her and gave me the chocolate. It was a total trust. When there is total trust, you don't have a choice but to keep ...

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. - Samuel Johnson =================================================================== I came across this quotation one fine morning when I logged on to one of the servers at work. The thread of thoughts that followed, as the meaning of the statement began to unfold : When you have an exam tomorrow, you are all focussed and determined to get the content of the entire thousand page book into your head. Amazing, it is possible over night, when you could not do the same over six long months or a semester as they call in college... When you have a project deadline tomorrow, you are all glued to desk and bent upon getting that code work right. Amazing, it is possible over night, when you could not manage it in the last one week you had for the same task... We have known of "w...

"You either do it, or your don't. 'Try' doesn't make sense.". This is the quote I have on my white board today... No reason to have put this up, but just thought about 'Do or Die' and remembered the corporate lecture I attended one year ago. "Do or Die" is all, most of us have heard. There could be different versions to the reason behind the saying. One thing I can say for sure, however , is that 'to die' cannot be a solution to anything at all in life.. I recall from one of the corporate lectures that I chanced to attend last year, "You either do it, or your don't. 'Try' doesn't make sense.". My version:" Do or Don't. Never say Try". Coming to think of it.... This is kind of true. When you DO, often, you are acknowledged. When you DON'T , always, you are noticed. When you TRY, seldom, your efforts are recognized . Another way to look at it is when you 'Try' something, you are alread...

If we can see the positive side then we are better off ........... This was a thought caught from a conversation with a friend... :) True... I realized that I could see the positive side of things.. Recently had a ligament tear and gained a lot of insight on things that I have not ever thought of.. Every one should listen to biology teacher... :) - I really didnt when i was taught on bones. Never occurred that ankle means a lot.. Every time you see a puddle of water on a polished floor you should take the time to arrange to have it cleaned dry. -I really didnt care too much till I got a ligament tear. It is okay to be patient. -After this ligament tear my patience has improved tremendously.. Wait at the doctors, wait for the auto, wait for the crowd to cross so u don't trip and fall...has taught me lessons on patience... You need not hurry up at all for things in life... -Well, I realised that I could not do things I want to do faster, because, my ankle did'nt permit me to.. an...