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The MBA degree is the most sought after degree in India.  Every year, hundreds of thousands of students apply to the Indian Institutes of Management, and only hundreds are selected for the course. The standards of education in each of the...

English is a truly global language that has conquered around seventy percent of the entire world.  It is growing from strength to strength and its importance can never be questioned. In fact, it is no more a foreign language.  It is...

Today's youngsters are far better informed, they have huge social connections, they have very good attitudes, and they are also quite smart at work, and they are very much alive to the kind of opportunities available to them. Yet, many of them...

The service sector has evolved in India.  There are a huge number of services that are now available, and the upwardly mobile young generation is all set to make a killing in this market.  The market itself has evolved, and we need to...

What does it take to make people to think very highly of us, to come back to us for advise or help or whatever they do?  What sets up apart? There have been tonnes of books on leadership.  Most of them point out some quality or the...

Indian families are known the world over for caring and sharing and bonding.  For bringing together happiness and proving to the world that money is not everything in life.  For maintaining a decorum in even the worst of times, and taking...

Stephen Covey, the much celebrated author of "Seven habits of highly effective people" had talked about the circle of influence concept. In our lives, we can also enlarge our own circle of influence, through meaningful action.  Let us examine...

As human beings we are always bundles of thoughts and emotions and feelings.  However, it is somewhat true that our thoughts literally rule us.  If we allow bad thoughts to overwhelm us, we are sure to enter the path of ruin.  Such...

Whenever we are in big doubt about anything, we normally tend to delay things.  Worse, we also try to consult any number of friends or relatives and this leads us to even more confusion.  We are also stumped for any firm course of action,...

They are conspicuous by their presence.  They are potentially very dangerous to the health of any organization, but carry tremendous clout in the organization, irrespective of their formal position or authority.  They can make or mar any...