22 days ago by Arun Manansingh

Here are some blog postings that I found interesting this month: Managing Tough Times in 2009 – Grinding it out by Lui Sieh Risk in IT by Mark Brewer Conventional wisdom that fails for IT by Peter Kretzman Good Service vs. Bad Service–A Lesson for IT by Don Lewis Poisonous Snakes, Sharp Knives, And ...

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49 days ago by Arun Manansingh

com mu ni cate |kəˈmyoōnəˌkāt| verb [ intrans. ] share or exchange information, news, or ideas : the prisoner was forbidden to communicate with his family. • [ trans. ] impart or pass on (information, news, or ideas) : he communicated his findings to the inspector. • [ trans. ] convey or transmit (a ...

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50 days ago by Donald Sears

Many senior vice presidents are being handed the responsibilities of chief operating officers as cost-cutting has chopped rungs from the corporate ladder, says the Wall Street Journal. “The CEO wants to be closer to the action,” says Tom Kolder, president of Crist|Kolder Associates, a Hinsdale, Ill. ...

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55 days ago by Arun Manansingh

In today’s dismal job market, where layoffs are a frequent occurrence and employees are doing more with less, everyone seems to be in survival mode. Today’s workforce has been wounded and suffers from severe battle fatigue. How is a manager supposed to keep his/her staff motivated and engaged in tod ...

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61 days ago by Arun Manansingh

What goes around comes around! I wrote a post last week about my friend who tried to do the right thing in her firm by complaining about an inept manager but got slapped around due to internal corporate politics. It seems that management has seen the light and will speak to this “zombie manager” to ...

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63 days ago by Arun Manansingh

www.lumaxart.com Here are some blog posting that I found interesting this month: Cultural challenges and challenging cultures by A Pai Mei Guy e-Skills: Beyond Buzzword Bingo by Ade McCormack I am not Google – an email rant by Will Weider 4 CIO Priorities for 2010 (slideshow) by Chris Curran When ar ...

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68 days ago by Arun Manansingh

I recently wrote a post about politics in the corporate office ( Politico-CIO). I stated that politics was a game with high stakes. Well, in ever game there is a winner and a looser. A recent event involving a friend reiterated to me that loosing a political game is a bitter pill to swallow. It beco ...

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73 days ago by Webb Administrative Guide

I equate the Executive Assistant role with the cool kids' table because that was my perception of assistants that I saw when I got my first job. There were several executive assistants that all sat together at lunch in the staff lunchroom. They worked together too. And they had a "look" which I had ...

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76 days ago by Arun Manansingh

From success to failure is one step; from failure to success is a long road. -Yiddish Proverb One of the most difficult things that I’ve had to learn over the years was how to embrace failure. Failure is the thing most of us spend the most amount of energy trying to avoid. It is hard to accept, and ...

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83 days ago by Arun Manansingh

The Cowardly Lion in the Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum believes that his fear makes him inadequate. He did not understand that courage means acting in the face of fear. Some background. My family knows a chief surgeon. This surgeon pack up his family and moved from the West Coast to the East Coast t ...

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