Education in India

Imagine for a moment several mobile computing scenarios that might be pulled out of the news websites of tomorrow:

Scenario 1: A field cable technician picks up her cell phone at her house, opens an application to review her job orders for the day, then leaves the house and puts her phone in its cradle in [...]

After considerable reflection, I recently and reluctantly purchased a copy of Who Moved My Cheese? It is a best-seller, authored by Spencer Johnson, M.D., who, along with Ken Blanchard, co-authored another best-seller, The [...]

Tom Davenport has done us all a big favor by writing this book.  He has clarified what it takes to “get better performance and results from knowledge workers.”  As his book makes clear, this is a large, complex, multi-faceted and probably long-term  – but doable – task.  Although it won’t happen [...]

Geary Rummler’s new book, Serious Performance Consulting (according to Rummler, of course) is a valuable addition to any serious consultant’s library.  It is packed with useful schematics, templates, checklists and, most important, the “mental models” that guide Rummler’s own consulting practice.  Indeed, the book is worth reading just for the insights [...]

If you buy only one book this year it should be Making Sense of Behavior by William T. Powers. Powers’ book is subtitled The Meaning of Control and in it he presents, in plain and persuasive language, his view of human beings and [...]

Fred Taylor’s life and work have finally received fair treatment. Robert Kanigel’s study of Taylor and scientific management is balanced and thorough. Taylor deserves some of the criticism that is regularly leveled against him, but as much or more of it is unjust. [...]

What does a sales job entail? While of course jobs will differ from employer to employer, the general role will still remain and generally in short a sales job entails; selling, simple as that. Its how you sell that differs, this may include; telesales, cold calling, shop floor sales, door to door sales and many [...]

Are you looking to acquire your first job in many years – or your first job ever – and have heard that without experience you have no chance of finding employment? Well rest assured that this couldn’t be more wrong.
Employers understand that good employees are not solely created from skills gained on previous jobs; they [...]

Why do employers always ask the “greatest weakness” interview question? It seems like they are trying to throw you off. I mean, you rehearse the answer to every possible question that you can think of, and then they ask, “What do you think your greatest weakness is?”Job interviews are stressful even if you don’t have [...]

Network security is increasingly important in today’s world, but what IT person hasn’t caught an employee blithely sharing his password with the entire office staff? Many of today’s security breaches can be blamed on an over-reliance on passwords.
Even Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), Privilege Management Infrastructure (PMI) and Single Sign-On (550) components cannot provide conclusive user [...]