Posted by: Hadi uz Zaman on: May 6, 2009
When Marty Kotis looked at his company’s monthly wireless bill, he found a stunning charge — for 2,500 text messages on a single staffer’s phone. There was more: Another staffer had 800, and a third, 700. But Kotis, who owns a real estate development firm in Greensboro, NC, didn’t reprimand his employees, although many of [...]
Posted by: Hadi uz Zaman on: January 29, 2009
The proposed new Google GDrive could kill off the personal computer, experts have warned. The Google Drive service, which will reportedly launch later this year, allows users to store information online on Google’s own servers rather than on the hard drive. The process has been dubbed ‘cloud computing’ and is being seen as ‘the most [...]
Posted by: Hadi uz Zaman on: January 27, 2009
Suppose every utterance and facial expression at a meeting were routinely captured and archived in high-definition digital video recordings – searchable and available in perpetuity. Would this be a godsend or a nightmare? The answer is probably HBR List 2009 logoboth, but we’re about to findout for sure. Within a few years, a synthesis of [...]
Posted by: Hadi uz Zaman on: January 26, 2009
Well, it is totally out of track. But those who are spending corporate lives like me are likely to develop a nice belly by now. So lets check what this article wants to say about fitness. CARL FOSTER, an exercise physiologist at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, was amused by ads for a popular [...]
Posted by: Hadi uz Zaman on: January 19, 2009
Well, don’t get too excited about the title. There might be many other quotes of the great man that you like. But still it might be worth reading…. #10. On Management My job is to not be easy on people. My job is to make them better. My job is to pull things together from [...]
Posted by: Hadi uz Zaman on: January 6, 2009
Columnist David Brooks, commenting in the Dec. 16th New York Times about Malcolm Gladwell’s latest book called “Outliers,” made a statement as profound as it was accurate: “Control of attention is the ultimate individual power,” he wrote. “People who can do that are not prisoners of the stimuli around them.” But why is that truer [...]
Posted by: Hadi uz Zaman on: December 31, 2008
Hiring the right people is not as simple as it sounds! Millions of managers ask themselves this same question every day. I asked my friends Geoff Smart and Randy Street (HBS ’97), co-authors of the instant New York Times bestseller Who: The A Method for Hiring, if they would answer this question. Following is their [...]
Posted by: Hadi uz Zaman on: November 15, 2008
As the world wide recession is taking place all over, Bangladesh will not be out of its effect. So here is the list of 150 recession proof jobs according to Time. Mine is not I can tell you cheerfully, let’s see whose is: http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1858773,00.html?xid=rss-business
Posted by: Hadi uz Zaman on: November 15, 2008
Organizational conflict occurs in every company. It destroys morale and affects operating performance. And when it’s targeted at support functions like HR, IT or finance, it’s disruptive and counterproductive to any organization, big or small. Contrary to what you might think, there’s nothing normal or inevitable about this sort of thing. It’s dysfunctional organizational behavior, [...]
Posted by: Hadi uz Zaman on: October 18, 2008
I don’t know why but since the beginning of the current financial crisis, I am trying to find out the reason behind the crisis. At last found a good BANGLA article in web…..
