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In writing a business plan, defining what a business plan is and what it contains is important. A business plan is a written collection of goals for the business along with the research and strategies to help achieve them. A business plan should include a business description, management...

Since the beginning of time starting with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, humanity has known conflict. Most people, especially the male species of which the author is a member; attempts to avoid, accommodate, compete, collaborate, or compromise conflict. Many sincere well intentional people...

"Very often, people confuse simple with simplistic. The nuance is lost on most." - Clement Mok, Chief Creative Officer, Sapient We've all heard THIS acronym, K.I.S.S. ? Keep it Simple, Stupid! While I prefer, Keep it Splendidly Simple; the point is the same. Make it simple! All of us have heard...

Lynn was tapped to head up the project team for a major company restructuring. She began her first team meeting by delegating steps and due dates to the various department heads. That's when she noticed that one member, Bob, wasn't writing anything down. Lynn knew Bob was a competent guy. Yet...

You know the drill - the ridiculous deadlines, the relentless barrage of email, voicemail, phone calls, all those "got a minute" interruptions, the constant worrying that one of those many balls you're juggling is going to unexpectedly drop. When you're on total overload, all you want is relief...

Are general managers born? Are they made by developing in the process? Is there a winning stereotype? Do all general managers have the same chances to succeed? Understand the type of manager you are. You will adapt quicker to situations, distinguish yourself from the pack, lead compellingly...

Teams have amazing potential to do great things. You can probably think of teams that you have been involved in that were highly effective. It might have been a business team but it could have easily been a sports team, a community team or a team related to a hobby or interest. So what...

The role of an executive is highly demanding. When you are further down the hierarchy it can seem like life as an executive is all about visioning, leading and lunches. Yet in truth the best executives are highly effective. If you are already an executive are you already employing the 5 habits...

The decision by the State Consumer Commission in New Delhi to fine ICICI Bank Rs 55 lakh as damages in a loan recovery case should act as a major wake-up call to banks and other financial institutions in India, if earlier strictures and the ensuing bad publicity have not. This particular case...

In the old joke, a man comes across a boy looking resentfully at a half-eaten watermelon. "What's the matter, son?", asks the man. "Too much watermelon?" To which the boy replies crossly, "No, not enough boy". If we substitute the world for watermelon then today India is in many ways like that...

The Indian economic renaissance has been shaped by the youthful character of its workforce. An overwhelming majority of its population is under the age of 35. But its politicians are largely a gerontocracy. When Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asserts from time to time that the best is yet to...

As if the first U-turn that President Pervez Musharraf did on October 12, 1999 by staging a coup was not bad enough, he has done it again, eight years later, taking the nation back to square one. Strangely enough this time around it is not a coup against a ‘corrupt' civilian government but one...

As Saawariya takes on Om Shanti Om this Friday, we will see the Bollywood juggernaut at its most calculated and brutal. There will be no recourse, no escape, no prisoners, Two monster movies are releasing this Friday, with ‘HIT’ in large purple neon signs written all over them. The quality...

The 1990s saw democracy take one of the biggest leaps forward all over the world — to be precise, in the Communist-ruled part of the world. One of the few exceptions was China, where Communists survived the challenge of student demonstrations at Tiananmen Square in 1989, thanks to a brutal...

Is Prakash Karat, the CPM’s cerebral general-secretary, opposing the Indo-US nuclear deal at China’s behest? The insinuation is nonsensical. And dangerous too. True, dogmatic anti-Americanism has been the bane of the Left, just as its blind anti-BJPism is. But to suggest, as is being done...

India won freedom 60 years ago, but the Indian kisan has now become a slave in his own country.” Harsh words. They were spoken by Nagi Reddy, a sugarcane grower from Mumbojipalli in Medak district in Andhra Pradesh. “Every other producer of a commodity determines its selling price. The only...

http://img.timeinc.net/time/asia/magazine/2007/1112/a_india_protest_1112.jpg India, for Richer or Poorer India, they like to say, is a nation of contrasts, and boy, was that ever true in the past week, with contradictions constantly tugging at the soul of the nation. CEOs of some of the...

MAN+AGE+MEN+T (TODAY): Analysis & Perspective Management a dynamic concept has to deal with this changing scenario of the equally dynamic world. There are umpteen theories about its fundamentals. One ingredient of, however which is ever necessary & which also forms the very core of management...

MAN+AGE+MEN+T (TODAY): Analysis & Perspective Management a dynamic concept has to deal with this changing scenario of the equally dynamic world. There are umpteen theories about its fundamentals. One ingredient of, however which is ever necessary & which also forms the very core of management...

Advertising has many connotations, simply put it means notifying or informing persons of things by using mass media-external communications. To attract the attention the plain message is couched in such imaginative moulds that it becomes an art form needing creative instincts of an artist to...