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“Top down” leadership is the most common, easiest and traditional. I work for a company where it is most prevalent and I always thought it to be the most efficient form of leadership. Lately, I started realizing that there is even more effective form of leadership that can produce the best environment for everyone – The Servant Leadership. A leadership that emphasizes trust, empathy, collaboration and the ethical use of power. Till date, I am searching for a true servant…

San Francisco’s hot startup – Twitter just celebrated its third B’day and people have started discussing if it is ready for buyout? Well the answer probably depends on whom you go and ask. I am a firm believer that everything has a price and has a buyer. So Twitter shouldn’t be an exception. Even though the company has not started generating meaningful revenue but it is extremely popular with roughly 8 million unique US users monthly. Though number of unique…

A successful leader is the one who believes in his people and makes every attempt to groom them so that they can reach their potential. Here are some of the guru mantras that have helped me groom my team: Believe in your folks before they succeed: If you want your team to reach their potential, you need to believe in them before they become successful and sometimes before you can persuade them to believe in themselves. Though it is much…

In most situations in life you need to sell yourself (a.k.a employ your talent). If you are one of those who will raise eyebrows hearing the word ‘sell’ then you will have tough time going-ahead in life. Marketing yourself is not a luxury, it’s has become a necessity now and you better learn this art. Have you ever noticed that experienced salesman always sells himself and the company first. Then he will discuss the product and finally you will hear…

Leadership doesn’t always come easily to project managers because they have little clout. The nature of their work, often as temporary engagements, means project managers have limited authority over their team. They often don’t perform formal reviews of the team so they have to figure out a way to lead and guide people to satisfy customer needs. Consultative leadership can do that. You can help educate others, help guide and direct them, but you must let them have a say…

Today I had some mushroom in my fridge and was looking for a different mushroom recipe. I usually cook dry mushroom with peas. I found this cool and really easy recipe and the mushrooms were cooked and all ready in just a few minutes … So here I am sharing my pictures and the recipe . This one is a mushroom lover’s delight! Tossed with garlic and soya sauce, these mushrooms are sure to tickle anyone’s taste buds. Loaded with…

Hi there! Have you ever thought how do you build wealth? I am sure this thought must have cropped in your mind many times. Well you are not the only one, who wants to be wealthy. Believe me every other human being thinks the same way. One of my well wishers told me that there are four roads to wealth You can marry it: Well some do that but I passed this stage 3 years back!! You can inherit it:…

Person-to-Person (P2P) lending is an innovative solution for credit worthy buyers who need money and lenders who have extra cash at hand. When US economy is in doldrums due to credit-market crisis, P2P lending business model is helping individuals who need small loans. Given the success of this consumer lending model, large financial institutions need to watch carefully the development in this space. One of the leaders in P2P lending is Prosper. How Prosper works? Lender registers at Prosper and…

Geotagging can help users find a wide variety of location-specific information. For instance, one can find images taken near a given location by entering latitude and longitude coordinates into a Geotagging enabled image search engine. Geotagging enabled information services can also potentially be used to find location-based news, websites, or other resources. By zooming in on the map, one can not only see a satellite image of the place but also the landscape of where one wants to go. Thus…

Being in an IT services company, I envy product vendor’s sales reps job. Whenever they bring any new product to their customers, the promises they make are just too big to believe and the jargons they use are just too confusing to the customers (like the subject of this discussion). One of my clients who made 6 digit investments in buying all the hardware, security suites and BPM packages to implement one-off BPM programs using SOA principles was given the…