In Washington DC, at a Metro Station, on a cold January morning in 2007, this man with a violin played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, approximately 2,000 people went through the station, most of them on their way to work. After about 3 minutes, a middle-aged man noticed that there [...]
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Work Is What You Make Of It
Posted in Business on October 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Work and mentally renounce the fruits achieved thereafter. Don’t let the shadow of personal prejudice affect how you perceive work. This is the essence of karma yoga. The wise work for common benefit whereas the ignorant work only for themselves or their near and dear ones. A farmer has control over how he [...]
What is your salary per Minute……
Posted in Business on August 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Shah Rukh Khan What: Actor How much: Rs 255 per minute The King Khan, who started off modestly as a ‘Fauji’, made about Rs 13 crore last year. This included his endorsement deals for Pepsi, Hyundai Santro – and of course, wetting himself in a bathtub, surrounded by women for HLL’s Lux. How [...]
7 ways to organize your email in Outlook
Posted in Business on August 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
With meetings and the general chaos of a normal work day, your email Inbox can quickly get cluttered. An unorganized mailbox can make it difficult to find the email you need and know where to get started. This messy situation can be remedied. Microsoft Outlook offers great tools that help you organize your messages in [...]
How to Tell When Someone is Lying
Posted in Business, Wit and Wisdom on August 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Watching body language in addition to what is spoken might just save you from being a victim of fraud, or it could help you figure out when somebody’s being genuine. The police do this during an interrogation. You have to learn the little facial and body expressions that can help you distinguish a lie from [...]
How to make a Wi-Fi connection more secured
Posted in Business on August 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Wireless hotspots are changing the way people work. These wireless local area networks (LANs) provide high speed Internet connection in public locations as well as at home and need nothing more than a mobile PC such as a laptop or notebook computer equipped with a wireless card. In fact, hotspots are an everyday connection method for travelers [...]
The 10 Biggest Mistakes People Make Managing Organisational Performance !!
Posted in Business on July 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Mistake #1: rely just on financial statements Profit and loss, revenue and expenses these are measures of important things to a business. But they are information that is too little and too late. Too little in the sense that other results matter too, such as customer satisfaction, customer loyalty, customer advocacy. Too late in the [...]
