In one of my previous articles, i wrote about 5 most important attributes of a great leader. The attributes listed there are essential to rise up to the level of a great leader and differentiate a great leader from a good leader, but what does it really take to sustain it? If you ask successful leaders, most of them would agree it requires equal or far more effort to sustain their position when compared to the effort spent to reach there. So what would the most essential attributes of sustenance be? Read on…
Staying ahead of the game
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Dec 102009
Dealing with failure
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Oct 212009
Failure to anyone is extremely painful. When we take up a task we all want to complete it successfully and emerge as a winner. Nobody wants to be a failure in this world. But, everyone of us would have experienced the pain of failure in someway or other. Be it a loss in the family or losing a competition, it is simply unbearable. Though we all have different ways of reacting to failures, we all feel the same inside. So, what are the reasons behind failures? Is there a way to avoid any in future? And, how do we really cope with failure in life?
Marketing is an extremely important tool in today’s world. Not being able to market directly translates to failure. There are various types of marketing available nowadays and every type of product – be it physical, intellectual, creative, service or consulting has many proven types of marketing strategies. Most of the big brands in this world carry a very strong marketing campaign. Coco-cola when launched managed to sell just 14 drinks a day, but look at their sales today- it is in millions. With advent of the Internet and television, marketing around the world is very simple yet very effective.
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Sep 242009
Why do we get stressed?
Stress nowadays is as common as air and water. We are surrounded by stress in everyday life – be it at work or at home and the stress levels nowadays are definitely much higher than what existed a 100 years ago. We all live most of our life either in the past or in the future and very less time in the present.Of the three states in time, present is very tiny to make one get stressed. Apart from us, none of the animals live either in the past or the future and the amount of stress they take is very less.
We have all seen deer gazing the grass after a hard chase from a tiger. If we were chased by a tiger instead of a deer, we would want to first tell our friends and family about our narrow escape and then moan why does this happen to me and after that think deeply and plan what can be done to avoid this situation totally the next time.This attribute of us living in the past and future makes us come up with a variety of feelings – feelings like loneliness, pain, loss, peer pressure, money, relationship issues and many more. And, all of these feelings invariably end up creating or increasing stress levels.
We see so many marriages fail nowadays and the divorce rate in the US is close to an astonishing average of 50%. Yes, almost 1 in 2 married couple will fight for a divorce in future. Divorce as it may sound is not the end to an existing problem. Instead, divorce leads to severe mental and financial stress among many couple. So why do marriages fail? What are the main aspects for a successful married life? Is there a list of things that one needs to consider if they want to lead a happy married life? The answer is definitely ‘Yes’ and here are some of the most important aspects to lead a successful married life.
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Sep 082009
As science and technology improved in the past 50 years many old beliefs turned irrational in our opinion. That included the concept of fasting or in general terms abstinence from food. But surprisingly there has been shift in the past decade or so – one reason could be the interest of weight loss programs to promote controlled fasting to their customers. But, people in general are getting more aware of what fasting is and are more interested in understanding how it helps them lead a healthy life. There have been many studies funded to understand the effects of fasting on human body and most of them have provided very promising results.
Sep 022009
There are a number of ways out there to earn, save and invest money. It only requires interest and perseverance to do so. If you are determined enough then your mind automatically tunes in towards opportunities that are available around you. This is what i have observed with myself in the past. When i had more money to spend, i have never bothered about other options that existed. But when there came a time when the money inflow reduced significantly, i started looking around for opportunities. I am not a millionaire now, but i think i now know of a few ways of becoming one.