tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20315940137557215972023-11-15T07:16:07.115-08:00Abraham DanielAll men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.
– T.E. LawrenceAbraham Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11471451104570333751noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2031594013755721597.post-77380252497228302512012-01-18T05:20:00.000-08:002012-01-18T05:21:47.947-08:00Nine Things Successful People Do Differently<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); text-align: -webkit-auto; "><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; ">1. Get specific</strong><br />When you set yourself a goal, try to be as specific as possible. “Lose 5 pounds” is a better goal than “lose some weight,” because it gives you a clear idea of what success looks like. Knowing exactly what you want to achieve keeps you motivated until you get there. Also, think about the specific actions that need to be taken to reach your goal. Just promising you’ll “eat less” or “sleep more” is too vague — be clear and precise. “I’ll be in bed by 10pm on weeknights” leaves no room for doubt about what you need to do, and whether or not you’ve actually done it.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); text-align: -webkit-auto; "><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; ">2. Seize the moment to act on your goals</strong><br />Given how busy most of us are, and how many goals we are juggling at once, it’s not surprising that we routinely miss opportunities to act on a goal because we simply fail to notice them. Did you really have no time to work out today? No chance at any point to return that phone call? Achieving your goal means grabbing hold of these opportunities before they slip through your fingers.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); text-align: -webkit-auto; ">To seize the moment, decide when and where you will take each action you want to take, in advance. Again, be as specific as possible (e.g., “If it’s Monday, Wednesday, or Friday, I’ll work out for 30 minutes before work.”) Studies show that this kind of planning will help your brain to detect and seize the opportunity when it arises, increasing your chances of success by roughly 300%.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); text-align: -webkit-auto; "><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; ">3. Know exactly how far you have left to go</strong><br />Achieving any goal also requires honest and regular monitoring of your progress — if not by others, then by you yourself. If you don’t know how well you are doing, you can’t adjust your behavior or your strategies accordingly. Check your progress frequently — weekly, or even daily, depending on the goal.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); text-align: -webkit-auto; "><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; ">4. Be a realistic optimist</strong><br />When you are setting a goal, by all means engage in lots of positive thinking about how likely you are to achieve it. Believing in your ability to succeed is enormously helpful for creating and sustaining your motivation. But whatever you do, don’t underestimate how difficult it will be to reach your goal. Most goals worth achieving require time, planning, effort, and persistence. Studies show that thinking things will come to you easily and effortlessly leaves you ill-prepared for the journey ahead, and significantly increases the odds of failure.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); text-align: -webkit-auto; "><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; ">5. Focus on getting better, rather than being good</strong><br />Believing you have the ability to reach your goals is important, but so is believing you can get the ability. Many of us believe that our intelligence, our personality, and our physical aptitudes are fixed — that no matter what we do, we won’t improve. As a result, we focus on goals that are all about proving ourselves, rather than developing and acquiring new skills.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); text-align: -webkit-auto; ">Fortunately, decades of research suggest that the belief in fixed ability is completely wrong — abilities of all kinds are profoundly malleable. Embracing the fact that you can change will allow you to make better choices, and reach your fullest potential. People whose goals are about getting better, rather than being good, take difficulty in stride, and appreciate the journey as much as the destination.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); text-align: -webkit-auto; "><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; ">6. Have grit</strong><br />Grit is a willingness to commit to long-term goals, and to persist in the face of difficulty. Studies show that gritty people obtain more education in their lifetime, and earn higher college GPAs. Grit predicts which cadets will stick out their first grueling year at West Point. In fact, grit even predicts which round contestants will make it to at the Scripps National Spelling Bee.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); text-align: -webkit-auto; ">The good news is, if you aren’t particularly gritty now, there is something you can do about it. People who lack grit more often than not believe that they just don’t have the innate abilities successful people have. If that describes your own thinking …. well, there’s no way to put this nicely: you are wrong. As I mentioned earlier, effort, planning, persistence, and good strategies are what it really takes to succeed. Embracing this knowledge will not only help you see yourself and your goals more accurately, but also do wonders for your grit.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); text-align: -webkit-auto; "><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; ">7. Build your willpower muscle</strong><br />Your self-control “muscle” is just like the other muscles in your body — when it doesn’t get much exercise, it becomes weaker over time. But when you give it regular workouts by putting it to good use, it will grow stronger and stronger, and better able to help you successfully reach your goals.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); text-align: -webkit-auto; ">To build willpower, take on a challenge that requires you to do something you’d honestly rather not do. Give up high-fat snacks, do 100 sit-ups a day, stand up straight when you catch yourself slouching, try to learn a new skill. When you find yourself wanting to give in, give up, or just not bother — don’t. Start with just one activity, and make a plan for how you will deal with troubles when they occur (“If I have a craving for a snack, I will eat one piece of fresh or three pieces of dried fruit.”) It will be hard in the beginning, but it will get easier, and that’s the whole point. As your strength grows, you can take on more challenges and step-up your self-control workout.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); text-align: -webkit-auto; "><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; ">8. Don’t tempt fate</strong><br />No matter how strong your willpower muscle becomes, it’s important to always respect the fact that it is limited, and if you overtax it you will temporarily run out of steam. Don’t try to take on two challenging tasks at once, if you can help it (like quitting smoking and dieting at the same time). And don’t put yourself in harm’s way — many people are overly-confident in their ability to resist temptation, and as a result they put themselves in situations where temptations abound. Successful people know not to make reaching a goal harder than it already is.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); text-align: -webkit-auto; "><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; ">9. Focus on what you will do, not what you won’t do</strong><br />Do you want to successfully lose weight, quit smoking, or put a lid on your bad temper? Then plan how you will replace bad habits with good ones, rather than focusing only on the bad habits themselves. Research on thought suppression (e.g., “Don’t think about white bears!”) has shown that trying to avoid a thought makes it even more active in your mind. The same holds true when it comes to behavior — by trying not to engage in a bad habit, our habits get strengthened rather than broken.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); text-align: -webkit-auto; ">If you want to change your ways, ask yourself, What will I do instead? For example, if you are trying to gain control of your temper and stop flying off the handle, you might make a plan like “If I am starting to feel angry, then I will take three deep breaths to calm down.” By using deep breathing as a replacement for giving in to your anger, your bad habit will get worn away over time until it disappears completely.</p>Abraham Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11471451104570333751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2031594013755721597.post-62420856479028413132012-01-18T04:47:00.000-08:002012-01-18T04:49:51.328-08:00Employee Retention – Causes and Remedies<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RN1VV-SbL1w/Txa_6iEHTsI/AAAAAAAAAMs/owmPzzshUDI/s1600/office.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 138px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RN1VV-SbL1w/Txa_6iEHTsI/AAAAAAAAAMs/owmPzzshUDI/s320/office.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698953390781320898" /></a><br /><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); text-align: -webkit-auto; "><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; ">WHAT MAKES EMPLOYEES LEAVE</strong>?<br />Employees do not leave an organization without any significant reason. There are certain circumstances that lead to their leaving the organization. The most common reasons can be:</p><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 21px; ">Job is not what the employee expected to be: Sometimes the job responsibilities don’t come out to be same as expected by the candidates. Unexpected job responsibilities lead to job dissatisfaction.</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 21px; ">Job and person mismatch: A candidate may be fit to do a certain type of job which matches his personality. If he is given a job which mismatches his personality, then he won’t be able to perform it well and will try to find out reasons to leave the job.</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 21px; ">No growth opportunities: No or less learning and growth opportunities in the current job will make candidate’s job and career stagnant.</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 21px; ">Lack of appreciation: If the work is not appreciated by the supervisor, the employee feels de-motivated and loses interest in job.</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 21px; ">Lack of trust and support in co-workers, seniors and management: Trust is the most important factor that is required for an individual to stay in the job. Non-supportive co-workers, seniors and management can make office environment unfriendly and difficult to work in.</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 21px; ">Stress from overwork and work life imbalance: Job stress can lead to work life imbalance which ultimately many times lead to employee leaving the organization.</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 21px; ">Compensation: Better compensation packages being offered by other companies may attract employees towards themselves.</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 21px; ">New job offer: An attractive job offer which an employee thinks is good for him with respect to job responsibility, compensation, growth and learning etc. can lead an employee to leave the organization.</li><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); text-align: -webkit-auto; "><br /><br /><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; ">STRATEGIES FOR EMPLOYEE RETENTION</strong><br />The basic practices which should be kept in mind in the employee retention strategies are:</p><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 21px; ">Hire the right people in the first place.</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 21px; ">Empower the employees: Give the employees the authority to get things done.</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 21px; ">Make employees realize that they are the most valuable asset of the organization.</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 21px; ">Have faith in them, trust them and respect them.</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 21px; ">Provide them information and knowledge.</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 21px; ">Keep providing them feedback on their performance.</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 21px; ">Recognize and appreciate their achievements.</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 21px; ">Keep their morale high.</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 21px; ">Create an environment where the employees want to work and have fun.</li><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); text-align: -webkit-auto; "><br /><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; ">HOW TO INCREASE EMPLOYEE RETENTION</strong><br />1. Open Communication: A culture of open communication enforces loyalty among employees. Open communication tends to keep employees informed on key issues. Most importantly, they need to know that their opinions matter and that management is 100% interested in<br />their input.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); text-align: -webkit-auto; ">2. Employee Reward Program: A positive recognition for work boosts the motivational levels of employees. Recognition can be made explicit by providing awards like best employee of the month or punctuality award. Project based recognition also has great significance. The award can be in terms of gifts or money.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); text-align: -webkit-auto; ">3. Career Development Program: Every individual is worried about his/her career. He is always keen to know his career path in the company. Organizations can offer various technical certification courses which will help employee in enhancing his knowledge.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); text-align: -webkit-auto; "><a href="http://dannysweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Diverse-Hiring-Tips.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[112]" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(43, 160, 158); "><img src="http://dannysweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Diverse-Hiring-Tips.jpg" alt="" title="Diverse-Hiring-Tips" width="425" height="282" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-114" style="border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; float: left !important; padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 7px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 0px; display: inline; " /></a>4. Performance Based Bonus: A provision of performance linked bonus can be made wherein an employee is able to relate his performance with the company profits and hence will work hard. This bonus should strictly be productivity based.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); text-align: -webkit-auto; ">5. Recreation facilities: Recreational facilities help in keeping employees away from stress factors. Various recreational programs should be arranged. They may include taking employees to trips annually or bi-annually, celebrating anniversaries, sports activities, et al.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); text-align: -webkit-auto; ">6. Gifts at Some Occasions: Giving out some gifts at the time of one or two festivals to the employees making them feel good and understand that the management is concerned about them.</p>Abraham Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11471451104570333751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2031594013755721597.post-73882048517124376412011-06-12T09:10:00.000-07:002011-06-12T09:19:52.993-07:00Coders Who Can’t Design And Designers Who Can’t Code<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wIB-uKE2Eyw/TfTmGFMqvnI/AAAAAAAAAKk/wfbLXfHTFOs/s1600/are-you-a-designer-a-coder-or-a-bit-of-both-256x171.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 256px; height: 171px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wIB-uKE2Eyw/TfTmGFMqvnI/AAAAAAAAAKk/wfbLXfHTFOs/s320/are-you-a-designer-a-coder-or-a-bit-of-both-256x171.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5617367627386764914" /></span></a><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 25px; " >You’ve probably encountered these two endangered species in the wild before. The developer who “has no eye for color”, “does not understand typography”, and “absolutely cannot design”. Or the designer who “sucked at math even in primary school”, is a “left-brained person”, or “doesn’t want to mess up the code”…</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 25px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><span id="more-497" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "></span>To help you stear clear of these dangerous specimens, here are some distinctive signs to identify them:</p><h3 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1; ">Coders who can’t design…</h3><ul style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3.333em; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-type: disc; "><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">Need a Photoshop mockup for every single screen, including the “I forgot my password” dialog and the Terms of Use page</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">Assign different values at random to every margins and paddings</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">Think 11px is the perfect size for body copy (and 14px is great for headlines)</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">Ask you to export a background image even for a 1px black line</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">Do not understand the concept of aligning things together</li></ul><h3 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1; ">Designers who can’t code…</h3><ul style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3.333em; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-type: disc; "><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">Never think about what the site will look like past the dimensions of their PSD</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">Have been using web fonts since 1998: they just export all text as JPEGs</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">Design a site in <span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: line-through; ">Illustrator</span> Indesign</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">Think they can set an image’s blending mode to “overlay” in CSS</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">Actually use Photoshop’s HTML “generate HTML from slices” feature</li></ul><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UdFl1u6aAW0/TfTmbUNxOUI/AAAAAAAAAKs/-QGi1JprVj4/s320/INFOGRAPHIC-Web-Designers-vs-Web-Developers-Screenshot-Zoom.png" style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 206px; height: 320px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5617367992195168578" />To be clear, I’m not saying you should try to do everything yourself. For example, when I work for clients I only provide a PSD or sliced images, I don’t code sites. But at least I know enough about coding to communicate with any developer.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">What’s more, people often use their ignorance (real or feigned) as a way to avoid extra work and extra effort. And when each person is trying to do as little as they can, project are rarely successful.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">Reaching out to the other side and learning a bit more than the absolute minimum will not only make you produce better work, it also goes a long way towards smoothing the wrinkles in the designer-developer relationship.</p></span></span>Abraham Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11471451104570333751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2031594013755721597.post-86333520906118831612011-04-20T11:40:00.000-07:002011-04-20T11:49:50.040-07:00“Leadership” and “Followership”<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; " ><p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.25em; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 1px; "><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">“You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.” – Sam Rayburn</span></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.25em; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 1px; "><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><img align="right" height="200" width="200" src="http://www.womenpr.com/site/images/stories/leadership.jpg" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-box-shadow: rgb(224, 224, 224) 2px 2px 3px; border-top-color: rgb(185, 185, 185); border-right-color: rgb(185, 185, 185); border-bottom-color: rgb(185, 185, 185); border-left-color: rgb(185, 185, 185); border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-left-radius: 3px 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px 3px; box-shadow: rgb(224, 224, 224) 2px 2px 3px; max-width: 488px; " /></span>One of the most basic human instincts, a quality that every person is born with, is</span><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "> the act of imitating another person. Children often imitate behaviors as seen from their parents, friends, or the media. These influences determine the character that this particular child develops. As time progresses, imitation gives way to reasoning, opening the door for this person to start influencing others. The contrast between followership and leadership is analogous to this; once an individual is established as a follower, he or she can become a leader.</span></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.25em; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 1px; "><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">Followership is defined as “the act or instance of accepting the guidance and command of someone who leads or guides” (dictionary.com). In the Civil Air Patrol, a younger, inexperienced cadet is a prime example of a follower. Having little knowledge about the program, the cadet is unable to make important decisions affecting a group of people nor teach others by example. The cadet is only able to accept the lessons and duties imposed upon him by his ordinates. The follower will imitate the leader’s behavior and actions, gaining self-discipline, motivation, ideas, and responsibility from those experiences, if the leader exhibited those qualities as well. These acquired qualities are quintessential for the cadet’s development as a follower, and eventually, a leader.</span></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.25em; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 1px; "><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">Leadership is essentially the converse of followership. Leadership is defined as “the art of influencing and directing people in such a way that will win their obedience, confidence, respect, and loyal cooperation in achieving a common objective” (Leadership 2000 & Beyond, Vol. 1). A cadet leader may have responsibilities such as a command position, a teaching position, or a representative position (cadet advisory council, for example). These leaders have the necessary experience, skill, and motivation to bear responsibilities that a follower might not be capable of handling. The qualities that have been developed through a cadet’s career must be maintained, as well. As mentioned previously, a follower imitates the behavior imposed upon him or her by his or her leader. The leader must act properly as a role model for the follower, evincing self-discipline, motivation, and responsibility to teach the correct procedure or behavior to the follower.</span></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.25em; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 1px; "><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">The leader must also act as a follower towards his or her superiors. There is always a level ordinate to a leader. Even the President is a follower; he is a follower of the will of the people of the United States. This is, in fact, the basis for the chain of command. Leaders receive feedback from their subordinates, or followers, and relay this information to the next-higher authority. Theoretically, this chain may continue indefinitely. Cooperation between the leader and his or her subordinate is crucial, or the chain will not function effectively. Therefore, a leader is concurrently a follower.</span></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.25em; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 1px; "><img height="177" width="300" align="right" src="http://innsbruck.aiesec.at/uploads/images/Photo%20Albums/Vienna/LC/Leadership.jpg" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-box-shadow: rgb(224, 224, 224) 2px 2px 3px; border-top-color: rgb(185, 185, 185); border-right-color: rgb(185, 185, 185); border-bottom-color: rgb(185, 185, 185); border-left-color: rgb(185, 185, 185); border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-left-radius: 3px 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px 3px; box-shadow: rgb(224, 224, 224) 2px 2px 3px; max-width: 488px; " /></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.25em; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 1px; "><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">The differences between leadership and followership, then, are a process of learning and the time needed to gain experience in assigned responsibilities. Once a follower has demonstrated mastery of self-discipline, motivation, responsibility, and other important traits, he or she has the competence to become a successful leader and pass this wisdom on to future generations.</span></p></span>Abraham Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11471451104570333751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2031594013755721597.post-47461939824954654722011-04-20T11:39:00.001-07:002011-04-20T11:39:31.547-07:00Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(46, 43, 30); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><p><b>What does it take to create an innovative breakthrough product? It is not an insignificant question because business innovators typically invest a lot of time and money getting their big idea to market. For those who make it, the rewards— financial and otherwise—can be incredible. The so-called “first mover’s advantage” is real and means the successful innovator just may dictate the terms in a whole-new field. Consider:</b></p><ul><li>Amazon.com was the first big e-commerce company. It is still No. 1.</li><li>Starbucks was the first company to popularize gourmet coffee.</li><li>eBay was the first online auction site.</li></ul><p>But for every eBay and Starbucks there are hundreds of other companies that never did break out. So what’s the difference? A look at some business innovations—some serious and some fun—sheds some light.</p><p><b>Envisioning a Market</b><br />During the World War II rubber shortage, the U.S. government put out a call for industry to invent a synthetic rubber. General Electric created a substance it called “gupp.” It was interesting, for sure—it could stretch and bounce, for instance—but artificial rubber it was not.</p><p>Yet, because the stuff was so interesting, GE sent samples to scientists and academics the world over, asking for ideas on what to do with it. Surely someone could come up with a valid scientific use for the strange substance.</p><div style="float: right; width: 300px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; "><p style="font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; color: rgb(187, 160, 87); ">“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”<br />—Steve Jobs</p></div><p>No one had any idea. And then it happened—<i>the eureka moment</i>. After the war, an unemployed marketer named Peter Hodgson saw toy store owner Ruth Fallgatter pulling and playing with the stuff, and they both thought it would make a great toy. A year later, Hodgson borrowed some money, paid GE $147 for the patent rights and many pounds of the stuff, and got to work.</p><p>He gave gupp a new funny name, packaged it in a unique way, and actually got it into a few more toy stores and bookshops. But no one bought it… until a writer for <i>The New Yorker</i> bought some, played with it, loved it and wrote about it in the next issue of the magazine.</p><p>Peter Hodgson never had to worry about money again. He received 250,000 orders for his Silly Putty over the next three days, and when he passed away in 1976, Hodgson was worth $140 million.</p><p>The moral of the story is that sometimes nothing beats some good old-fashioned PR when trying to spread the word about a new product.</p><p><b>Mistake-Proof Ingenuity</b><br />In the 1950s, Bette Nesmith Graham was a single mom who worked at a bank as a secretary. Although she was not a great secretary, and made a lot of typos, she did happen to be a very good artist. So every year, the bank had her paint the Christmas scene for the bank’s windows.</p><p>One year, she made a mistake while painting the holiday scene, painted right over it and thought to herself: “I wish I could do that when I am typing.”</p><p>So Graham took some tempera paint to work and began to paint over her typos. She soon realized this was a great idea that could make a great business. Working from home after work, Graham began to experiment with paint.</p><p>After considerable effort she came up with the concoction that eventually became Liquid Paper. But unlike Peter Hodgson, Graham’s innovation was no overnight success. She continued to work at the bank and make batches of then-named “Mistake Out” in her kitchen, selling a hundred bottles a month.</p><div style="float: right; width: 300px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; "><p style="font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; color: rgb(187, 160, 87); ">“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”<br />—Martin Luther King Jr.</p></div><p>The challenge was that because the product was so innovative, few people even understood why they might need it. But as people learned about the product, the business slowly started to grow. Yet, it was still a full 18 years after creating the product before Liquid Paper hit $1 million in annual sales. Five years later, it was $25 million a year.</p><p>The rest, indeed, is history, and ultimately Graham’s fame would be eclipsed by her son’s; Mike Nesmith became a member of the ’60s group The Monkees, as well as a movie and video producer.</p><p>There are many routes to innovation success. The instant home run is nice, but far more often it’s persistence that pays off. And it’s not hard to understand why. Creating an innovative product like Liquid Paper often means having to teach consumers why they need it.</p><p>Just ask the folks at the Coca-Cola Company about the challenges and hazards of doing that.</p><p><b>Innovative Blunder</b><br />In the history of bad business decisions, maybe the worst of all time was the decision by the Coca-Cola Company to scrap Coke for New Coke. As they found out, if you are going to toss out “old” Coke, you might as well ban mom and outlaw apple pie.</p><p>The decision came in the mid-1980s amid a battle waged by Pepsi against Coca-Cola. The “Pepsi Challenge” was a television ad campaign that had consumers taking a blind taste test and then saying how Pepsi tasted better.</p><p>As a result, nervous executives at Coke began to secretly experiment with new formulations, until they found one that beat Pepsi in taste tests. Convinced they had a winner, Coca-Cola triumphantly rolled out “New Coke.”</p><div style="float: right; width: 300px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; "><p style="font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; color: rgb(187, 160, 87); ">“I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they’ve been.”<br />—Sam Walton</p></div><p>Maybe never before has a new product been received so poorly. Late-night comedians had a field day; people boycotted the new stuff and even began to horde old Coke. New Coke was off the shelves within six months.</p><p>So what went wrong? Somehow the marketing wizards at Coca- Cola never took batches of New Coke and test-marketed them in stores in, say, Des Moines, Iowa. They also never warned folks that New Coke meant no old Coke. It was all too secret.</p><p>The lesson should be clear: Innovation is great, but innovation in and of itself is not enough. The truly great innovative product is not only new; it fulfills an unmet market need. There simply was no clamoring for something to replace good ol’ Coca-Cola.</p><p>Creating the Next Big Thing is no easy matter. It takes a great idea, perfect execution, a market need and more than a little luck. But boy, put those together, and you can change the world.</p></span>Abraham Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11471451104570333751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2031594013755721597.post-72957093694401144642010-12-02T02:01:00.000-08:002010-12-02T02:07:51.613-08:00Awesome iPhone APPs for this Festival Season<span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >Wonderful App for NEW YEAR!</span></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://newyearexpressapp.com/"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 450px; height: 284px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wsSSBFHXyVE/TPdujo9C6BI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/_o_KkT6O0ZU/s320/newyearwebsite.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546023024697993234" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: 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No one can be blamed for this, because people need to find means to adopt themselves to the modern lifestyle. Being unemployed don’t help at all, being employed in a firm would help and being employed in more than one firm should definitely help… In the past, people find time atleast for the holidays at Christmas and New Year to spend quality time with their family and friends. Now its tough.</span></p> <p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b style=""><span style="line-height: 115%;">E-Cards to the rescue:</span></b></span></p> <p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">With the increase of the availability of free e-cards online, the sales of traditional cards have declined. Sending an e-card can be a best way to greet someone because they offer many features. 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It’s wide range of features helps in creating wonderfully animated cards. But we have a PROBLEM! Apple, one of the world’s leading technology companies, is against it. I don’t blame them; yeah Flash eats up your bandwidth and your battery, which is bad, really bad for mobile devices. Well, if I have to charge by mobile every hour, then there ain’t a point in saying that it’s ‘MOBILE’, right?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wsSSBFHXyVE/TPdscgoVV4I/AAAAAAAAAJg/KioDFcAh8G0/s1600/tree.png"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 15px; cursor: pointer; width: 275px; height: 165px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wsSSBFHXyVE/TPdscgoVV4I/AAAAAAAAAJg/KioDFcAh8G0/s320/tree.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546020703181297538" border="0" /></a></span></p> <p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">Well, you don’t have to worry… People in the Silicon Valley has found</span><span style=";font-size:85%;" > </span><span style="font-size:85%;">a solution for not using Flash, yet creating beautifully animated cards that work for the iPHONE.</span></p> <p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">Yeah, that’s right, now you can send Beautifully Animated and Hand Crafted Cards to your loved ones, family, colleagues etc.., <b style="">FROM YOUR IPHONE! </b><i style=""><br /></i></span></p><p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><i style=""><span style="font-size:130%;">To know the details visit</span>: </i><i style=""><span style="line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://northpoleexpressapp.com">NORTH POLE EXPRESS</a> or <a href="http://newyearexpressapp.com">NEW YE</a></span></i><a href="http://newyearexpressapp.com"><i style=""><span style="line-height: 115%;">AR EXPRESS</span></i></a></span></p> <p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">Well, thanks to the guys at <a href="http://touchwebag.com">TouchWeb</a>, we can know celebrate this festival season by letting our loved ones know how much we care and remember them. </span></p> <p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">Happy Holidays everyone and do try the APP out.</span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://northpoleexpressapp.com"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 113px; height: 113px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wsSSBFHXyVE/TPdsrg9XIII/AAAAAAAAAJw/5H6fY--Tbm8/s320/iTunesArtwork%2B-%2BKopie.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546020960967532674" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://newyearexpressapp.com"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 115px; height: 115px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wsSSBFHXyVE/TPdsk_V2isI/AAAAAAAAAJo/QmwkvCawh88/s320/iTunesArtwork.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546020848864234178" border="0" /></a></span></p>Abraham Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11471451104570333751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2031594013755721597.post-15644950349202975762010-09-30T08:35:00.000-07:002010-09-30T08:39:20.330-07:00The StartUp An Employee’s Passion or Nightmare<h2><span style="line-height: 115%; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">The StartUp – An Employee’s Passion or Nightmare</span><o:p></o:p></span></h2> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:1.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 18px; ">There is one thing that is a sure bet for employees that join a startup. In employment and non-employment related discussions with friends and family members, they will hear the dreary and almost ear numbing warning, that STARTUPS ARE RISKY.</span></p> <img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wsSSBFHXyVE/TKSuzO7aVtI/AAAAAAAAAIg/ofd4jY7-8TQ/s320/InspireMe.jpg" style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5522731238266918610" /><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%; color: black; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Money and a high class lifestyle is what most people dream of, while looking for a job. Status and reputation in the economy is what employees struggle to achieve. So, is RISK out of the question? Yeah, obviously for almost everyone, risk is what they are not willing to take. They ask themselves, would Risk bring me Money and Reputation? N</span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%; color: black; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">o! is the overwhelming answer they get. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%; color: black; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">How would I get money if I join a startup and it suddenly closes? Is my job secure? My colleagues earn almost double of what I get in a Startup and they don’t even have to go through half of the struggle and pain that I endure. Would a startup add up to my reputation among others, or would Google, Yahoo, IBM or Microsoft give me a better image? And Oh, I am gonna get married, so, wouldn’t I get a better proposal if I have a safe and non-risky job at a major MNC? The answers to all these questions inside your mind leads to one simple answer DON’T JOIN A STARTUP. Simple as ever, right?<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%; color: black; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Well, there is a small group among the common man though, who most people initially think are arrogant with a "bring it on" bravado</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">. I would say that they are people who think beyond what a normal person thinks. They are tired of corporate jobs and just wanna get away from cubicle lives that seem too confining and boring</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">. Are you one of them?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%; color: black; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Well, I don’t blame people who have got talent but are from developing countries like mine, India, for instance. Parents who dream of getting their child well educated and reach pinnacles that they could only dream of during their lifetime, tend to somehow spend money so tha</span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%; color: black; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">t their kids can afford to go to expensive institutions and universities. By the time the highly expensive education is over, their pockets have dried up. Okay, so now we need to find you a job as soon as possible, and that too a good job in a reputed MNC, because I don’t want my neighbors and relatives booing me behind my back. These are the messages that parents start conveying into the minds of their just-out-of-college kids. What are the kids supposed to do? They look for a highly lucrative, safe, non-risky, 9 to 6 behind the desk jobs. Do they really want that? I don’t know you have to answer that question.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%; color: rgb(54, 54, 54); "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“Awakening Your Inner Creativity</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">”, oh yeah, everyone has a little inside themselves, but doesn’t realize it, or should I say they do not want to realize it purposefully. Oh, what can I do, I am just a normal person. There are lots of brilliant guys out there and I don’t want to be a fool among them. Thoughts</span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%; color: black; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> keep raveling in everyone’s mind. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%; color: black; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">When will you stand up for yourself? When will you </span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%; color: rgb(54, 54, 54); "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">listen to your gut instinct</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">? When will you try something new</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> and different? </span></span><span style="color:#333333"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">What you should</span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 115%; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="color:#333333"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">have is a vision for your ideal personal and professional life. Instead of focusing on what you couldn’t do to make it happen, focus on what you can</span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 115%; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="line-height: 115%; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">do</span></span></span><span style="color:#333333"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">. You may get knocked down, discouraged, and even doubt your own san</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#333333"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">ity at times (many times), but that’s natural. At the end of the day…</span></span></span><strong><span style="line-height: 115%; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">It’s not how many times you get knocked down that count; it’s how many times you get up that matter.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></strong></p> <img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wsSSBFHXyVE/TKSu7sPeQRI/AAAAAAAAAIo/W7sLVKwHIIo/s320/risk.jpg" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 284px; height: 289px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5522731383574642962" /><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">So what does all this really mean? Does passion pay? I say YES. Our passions might not always</span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> pay dividends to our bank accounts, but they will</span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 115%; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></span><em><span style="line-height: 115%; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">always</span></span></span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="line-height: 115%; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></i></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">pay dividends to our heart and soul.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> People who stood up no matter what the world said, Steve Jobs (CEO of Apple Inc), people who</span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> thought out of the box, Mark Zuckerberg (Founder of Facebook), people who knew that life is about taking risks, </span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%; color: black; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Sergey Brin and Larry Page (Founders of Google and people of who believed life and work is about passion, Jack Dorsey (Founder of Twitter), never thought that they would get recognized, famous and rich as they are now, but they stood for one thing and one thing only, what does their heart say.</span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%; color: rgb(54, 54, 54); "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">When you feel stuck you have to give your creativity a metaphorical shake of the shoulders</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">. It is important to stop and replenish your stores of creativity. And you’ll do that by expanding your view, not by narrowing your focus.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> Then will you be able to jump back in. As Bob Parson, the Founder of GoDaddy said, “when you think you are ready to quit, just know that you are closer to success than you think”. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%; color: rgb(54, 54, 54); "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">You may not find immediate results while pursing your dreams, may be you wouldn’t be respected or recognized for what you do, but one day all your life’s efforts will pay off. May be you would have to wait for a lifetime to see the end-results, but atleast I would say that you can lie peacefully in your bed, even if it is the last day you would see of this world, and know inside that you have left your footprints in history.</span></span></span></span></p>Abraham Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11471451104570333751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2031594013755721597.post-47543560985457089632010-07-05T13:38:00.000-07:002010-07-05T13:39:13.420-07:00Be careful, while being online!In this new age of Social Networking, most people have a very robust online social life, while their offline lives are gloomy. People just accept friend requests, email invitations, online community invites etc..., without having a clue of what and whom they are dealing with. This is how many people have been molested, defrauded, and even killed by people they meet on the internet.<br /><br />Do you keep your sensitive personal information, private?<br />Do you have a clue about the privacy policies and settings?<br />Do you approach email links/invites, regardless of what they are?<br /><br />Careless usage, could lead to outbreaks that can damage computer systems and might even steal sensitive information from your home/company.<br /><br />Last week, I overheard one of my colleagues at office bragging about having 2000 friends on FaceBook. What? He hardly talks to anyone in the office and believe me NO ONE LIKES HIM AT ALL!<br /><br />How many of us are careful while we are online? How many of us are careful with the friends we choose, or rather should I say, with what we share with unknown friends?<br /> <br />People ought to be careful while updating their whereabouts on their social networking sites, especially when they hardly know most of the friends that they have on these social networks. The danger is publicly telling others (who you don’t know) where you are.<br /><br />Be cautious when you receive links in messages from your friends (especially when you don’t know who the friend is) on your social networking sites.<br /><br />Be particularly cautious when you accept a person as a friend on a social network. Thieves and spammers with fake identity would lure you into traps and snatch away vital information. This is also called social engineering.<br /><br />Following are certain tips that people ought to follow while dealing with Social Networks:<br />http://bit.ly/10BQF8<br />http://bit.ly/abmVo<br /><br />Carelessly posting jokes, insults, or even pictures on social networks, could cost you your JOB. <br /><br />View the video below to know the truth about employers and how they secretly track your social network behaviorism:<br />http://youtu.be/eRaG9A9syHI<br /><br />So be careful and stay safe.....Abraham Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11471451104570333751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2031594013755721597.post-77115589324965944972010-03-08T06:21:00.000-08:002010-03-08T06:32:33.363-08:00Newspaper and the Internet<a style="font-family: verdana;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wsSSBFHXyVE/S5UJNMs_CII/AAAAAAAAAEc/A5U1gGCDI8c/s1600-h/printing-press.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 245px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wsSSBFHXyVE/S5UJNMs_CII/AAAAAAAAAEc/A5U1gGCDI8c/s320/printing-press.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446269446727338114" border="0" /></a>
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Just think of the printed newspaper as a re-cap of the day's hottest topics and most relevant issues. The possibilities are infinite; the online news model is a source for user-generated content and feedback, which builds on the social networking aspect.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-family: verdana;" class="MsoNormal">News travels faster over the Internet than print media. It has no constraints or boundaries and travels around the world in a few seconds. Newspapers have to start taking advantage of the vast opportunities that are out there in the world of Internet.</p> <p style="font-family: verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Newspaper and the Internet:</span> </span>What the newspaper industry has to be doing is to adopt ways that could help them improvise in the digital era. Some of the potential ways are:
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</o:p></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in; font-family: verdana;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=""><span style="">1)<span style=";font-size:7pt;" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Enhance social networking features- Building a huge network of friends, sharing news amongst themselves, commenting and raising debates on topics or current affairs etc… would really drive users to be more interested in News online rather than news on paper.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in; font-family: verdana;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=""><span style="">2)<span style=";font-size:7pt;" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Customize news – Letting a user decide what he/she would see in their own news dashboard, with the options of customizing them further would potentially increase the flow of users towards online news.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in; font-family: 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<br /></p>Abraham Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11471451104570333751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2031594013755721597.post-61475686387076872822010-02-06T06:56:00.000-08:002010-02-06T07:08:55.060-08:00Today State of Newspapers<span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family: verdana;">In the rich world newspapers are now an endangered species. The business of selling words to readers and selling readers to advertisers, which has sustained their role in society, is falling apart. Of all the “old” media, newspapers have the most to lose from the internet.</span> </span> <p style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">Circulation has been falling in America, Western Europe, Latin America, Australia and New Zeal</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wsSSBFHXyVE/S22DhcVA0tI/AAAAAAAAAC4/98t-lEUQmgA/s1600-h/Untitled-5.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 280px; height: 280px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wsSSBFHXyVE/S22DhcVA0tI/AAAAAAAAAC4/98t-lEUQmgA/s320/Untitled-5.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435144935869305554" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:85%;">and for decades (elsewhere, sales are rising). But in the past few years the web has hastened the decline. In his book “The Vanishing Newspaper”, Philip Meyer calculates that the first quarter of 2043 will be the moment when newsprint dies in America as the last exhausted reader tosses aside the last crumpled edition. That sort of extrapolation would have produced a harrumph from a Beaverbrook or a Hearst, but even the most cynical news baron could not dismiss the way that ever more young people are getting their news online. Britons aged between 15 and 24 say they spend almost 30% less time</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> reading national newspapers once they start using the web.</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">Advertising is following readers out of the door. The rush is almost unseemly, largely because the internet is a seductive medium that supposedly matches buyers with sellers and proves to advertisers that their mon</span><span style="font-size:85%;">ey is well spent. Classified ads, in particular, are quickly shifting online. Rupert Murdoch, the Beaverbrook of our age, once described them as the industry's rivers of gold—but, as he said last year, “Sometimes Rivers dry up.” In Switzerland and the Netherlands newspapers have lost half their classified advertising to the internet. </span></p> <p style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">Newspapers have not yet started to shut down in large numbers, but it is only a matter of time. Over the next few decades half the rich world's general papers may fold. Jobs are already disappearing. According to the Newspaper Association of America, the number of people employed in the industry fell by 18% between 1990 and 2004. Tumbling shares of listed newspaper firms have prompted fury from investors. In 2005 a group of shareholders in Knight Ridder, the owner of several big American dailies, got the firm to sell its papers and thus end a 114-year history. This year Morgan Stanley, an investment bank, attacked the New York Times Company, the most august journalistic institution of all, because its share price had fallen by nearly half in four years. </span></p> <input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div style="font-family: arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);" id="refHTML"></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div>Abraham Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11471451104570333751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2031594013755721597.post-25542014840088542452010-01-13T22:00:00.000-08:002010-01-13T22:00:16.678-08:00AddThis - Service Directory<a href="http://www.addthis.com/services?sms_ss=blogger">AddThis - Service Directory</a>Abraham Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11471451104570333751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2031594013755721597.post-26158312134013451902009-06-14T06:05:00.000-07:002009-06-14T06:14:06.055-07:00TouchWeb works on PAPERNOW - The Next Generation E-Paper Portal<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wsSSBFHXyVE/SjT2lWH-k0I/AAAAAAAAACM/LEYkHeZkX4I/s1600-h/papernow+pic.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 249px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wsSSBFHXyVE/SjT2lWH-k0I/AAAAAAAAACM/LEYkHeZkX4I/s320/papernow+pic.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347169779050255170" border="0" /></a><br /><p style="font-family: verdana; font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);" class="MsoNoSpacing" align="justify"><span style="font-size:85%;">Papernow<sup>™</sup> is a next generation e-paper portal, offering newspapers, magazines, documents, blogs and books as dynamic online content and downloadable e-papers. Suppliers of professional media content can submit and import content through a supplier-platform of papernow<sup>™</sup>, which supports a number of formats of commonly used publishing software. Additionally content can be edited and enhanced with photos, audio and video directly on the papernow<sup>™</sup> supplier-platform.<br /></span></p><p style="font-family: verdana; font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);" class="MsoNoSpacing" align="justify"><span style="font-size:85%;">For users, papernow<sup>™</sup> has the advantage that a broad range of publications can be accessed through an easy-t<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wsSSBFHXyVE/SjT25AptyVI/AAAAAAAAACU/LTVSdVlqiWg/s1600-h/papernow+green.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 270px; height: 210px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wsSSBFHXyVE/SjT25AptyVI/AAAAAAAAACU/LTVSdVlqiWg/s320/papernow+green.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347170116883564882" border="0" /></a>o-use, fast and effective web portal. Papernow<sup>™</sup> also allows organizing and managing content easily and in particular to subscribe for publications. Because papernow<sup>™</sup> is fully Web 2.0 enabled portal users can rate, comment and discuss content and even generate and share their own content with other users.</span></p><p style="font-family: verdana; font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);" class="MsoNoSpacing" align="justify"><span style="font-size:85%;">In January 2010, papernow is going to be available in USA, Germany and the UK. In February 2010, papernow<sup>™ </sup>is going to available in Switzerland and perhaps in France.</span></p><p style="font-family: verdana; font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);" class="MsoNoSpacing" align="justify"><span style="font-size:85%;">For more details and to subscribe for our Newsleters and News Alerts, please visit:</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="justify"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.touchwebag.ch/"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:verdana;" >www.touchwebag.ch</span></a></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span></p>Abraham Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11471451104570333751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2031594013755721597.post-49865730769880160682009-06-14T05:58:00.000-07:002010-12-02T01:39:33.255-08:00TouchWeb found and to be located in Bangalore<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wsSSBFHXyVE/TPdpCl0AVMI/AAAAAAAAAJM/oQL21eV2_aw/s1600/touchwe_logo_hover.png"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 141px; height: 115px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wsSSBFHXyVE/TPdpCl0AVMI/AAAAAAAAAJM/oQL21eV2_aw/s320/touchwe_logo_hover.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546016959360947394" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><span>TouchWeb Technologies (India) Pvt Ltd has been registered at the Commerci</span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><span>a</span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><span>l Registe</span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><span>r of the State of Karnataka as a subsidiary of TouchWeb AG Switzerland. Abraham Daniel has</span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><span> been appointed</span><span> managing director o</span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><span>f To</span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><span>uch Web’s Indian subsidiary by the board of director</span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><span>s of the </span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><span>T</span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><span>ouchWeb AG.</span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">TouchWeb <span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Technologies (India) Pvt. Ltd. India has based its office in Banaswadi, a prime company location in Bangalore the major IT-hub of India.</span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" > </span></span>Abraham Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11471451104570333751noreply@blogger.com0