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Archive for September, 2007

What is work-life balance?

Posted by Hitesh Kapadia on September 14, 2007

In the simplest explanation, balance in life means ‘time for everything’. Work-life balance means you undertake and enjoy the responsibilities and workloads of both, your work and your family life. Balance doesn’t necessarily mean having more free time. But it does mean that you utilize every moment in a way that is as pleasant and productive for your own living.

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Restore the rhythm of your life

Posted by Hitesh Kapadia on September 14, 2007

Tips to balance your WORK and LIFE

Life is more than a series of meetings- emails and presentations. But when you get a job in one of your dream companies, when you start working, when responsibilities haunt you from behind, you tend to miss life somewhere under a pile of tensions and deadlines.

Since no steps are taken to bring back that LIFE into your life, by the time small tensions grow up to big diseases and deadlines broaden to your lifetime.

Absence of a work-life balance is commonest in today’s professional lives. Responsibilities are the criminals here. When your work demands more responsibility from you, the other side of your life starts struggling. When life, importantly personal or family life, calls for more attention from your side, your professional focus sinks. This kind of an aimless, unbalanced life-flow offers you tensions and stress lavishly and you fall as an easy victim to the diseases every time. No wonder, very strange and rare diseases befall, as you struggle from all the spheres of your being, the physical, psychological as well as the spiritual being.

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steps to winning the war for talent

Posted by Hitesh Kapadia on September 13, 2007

Accountancy firms and other professional service firms have long been competing in what has become known as the ‘war for talent’.

The only alternative one hears (the ‘battle for talent’) also sounds as if it belongs in a bygone era and is more relevant to the armed forces than to those providing professional services to their clients.

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Bhagdavad Gita and management

Posted by Hitesh Kapadia on September 13, 2007

Mind is very restless, forceful and strong,O Krishna, it is more difficult
to control the mind than to control the wind”
Arjuna to Sri Krishna

ARTICLE FROM M.P.BHATTATHIRY AGED 60 ( RETD. CHIEF TECHNICAL EXAMINER TO THE GOVT.
OF KERALA), RADHANIVAS, THALIYAL, KARAMANA, TRIVANDRUM. 695002. KERALA,INDIA

 

Introduction

India’s one of the greatest contributions to the world is Holy Gita.

Arjuna got mentally depressed when he saw his relatives with whom he has to
fight. The Bhagavad Gita is preached in the battle field Kurukshetra by Lord
Krishna to Arjuna as a counselling to do his duty. It has got all the
management tactics to achieve the mental equilibrium..

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Managing Interpersonal Conflicts

Posted by Hitesh Kapadia on September 12, 2007

Interpersonal conflicts occur from time to time in every organization. If left unresolved, they can result in lower productivity, employee turnover, morale problems and sometimes lawsuits. Early intervention and clear communication are two key factors in addressing interpersonal conflicts. It is also important to acknowledge emotional issues surrounding the conflict and to ensure that the way work duties are organized is not contributing to the problem.  

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