It was meant to be normal hectic day at work where I would go about managing my responsibilities in distribution and inventory management , working mostly on demands coming from seven retail locations and corporate orders for information technology products.
However, as I walked through the main entrance of the modern building with nice big glass doors, something looked different. Local police…
I have known Sam ( not his real name ) for a decade now. He is a good friend. In many of our conversations, I have tried to allure him to work for me. He is that good!
Last year for family reasons Sam took a year off. He is now in the process of looking for a new job. He is…
Notification, you are added to a WhatsApp Group.
WhatsApp groups have become a common way for teams to communicate. And being added to a WhatsApp group often gives us a sense of belonging. It fulfills one of the strongest human desires, to belong.
However, a group can never be a team because quiet often it overlooks inclusion.And when inclusion is ignored, you…
In an uncertain world, we seek for certainty. When managing business profitability, cost saving strategy brings that certainty and as result we latch on to it. And then we build tactics around the strategy of cost saving.
Here are some tactics of a 5 Star Hotel to live the cost saving strategy:
Remove coffee and tea urns and replace them with sachets…
I am sure I do not need to justify why reading is a great habit but just reading alone rarely works for me.
I have been reading for a while now but what I have noticed is that in about 6 months time the book I have already read becomes new to me.
What does that mean?
That means I have forgotten…
Last week I published a blog titled Storytelling : I had dinner and I read a report. Soon after I published it I had a chat to one of our regular blog reader who said, ” You make mention of Tacit Knowledge in your blog but you don’t explain what it is “. My response was,” but I had a Wiki…
In my corporate life whenever we finished a project we were damn happy. To celebrate the completion of the project, the team would have a celebratory dinner.
And what formed majority of our dinner conversations was all the joys and sorrows that came along with the execution of the project. Having worked together on a project for a while, the team had…
When it comes to Enterprise Social Networking (ESN) which promises to increase an enterprise’s productivity, my experience has been pretty bad. As a result, I didn’t believe they added value but Elena Luk’yanenko who is a Customer Success Manager, APAC,Microsoft,Productivity Cloud Solutions proves me wrong in this cafe chat.
Before we begin.. What is Enterprise Social Network (ESN)?
“ESN, is like any…
My last blog featured Knowledge Sharing story of Marty Davis from NASA. Now, you may wonder WHAT IS THE ROI of knowledge sharing ?
My answer is in another story from NASA…
After Marty Davis’s Story got published in the Ask Magazine, a supervisor from a different centre of NASA read it and took the article to Sue Mortil who had experienced…
On 6th Oct this year I wrote a blog titled Storytelling: If NASA can, you can which highlights how a credible organisation like NASA uses storytelling as a Knowledge Sharing tool. Soon after publishing the post, I shared it on LinkedIn. Within a few mins got a comment from a reader, ” So, what are the stories told at NASA for Knowledge …