One of the biggest challenges all managers face is in separating the performance from the person behind the performance. To think about it managing the performance and performer are two separate things and needs to be treated differently. One of the primary reasons why we find it difficult to segregate the two is because of

Have you ever wondered why we get induced to make some random and impulse purchases even when we had never planned for any such shopping? Or why we feel comfortable watching some advertisements or some movies again and again. Sometimes we feel comfortable in the company of certain people though both of us are so

There is a regular pattern which happens after each review. As soon as the review is over or during review breaks most managers call up their teams on the areas where they found their teams to be lacking and immediately give a set of instructions to take performance measurement numbers from x to y. Some

The other day while I was watching TV there was this news story about how lot of people were duped by a financial institution which had collected lot of money from various investors by promising exuberantly high returns. After paying the promised high returns for a few years the said institution suddenly folded up disappearing

We use the term greatness very frequently in our day-to-day life. We call some fine work done by someone as great work, we refer to companies that are doing well as great companies, we watch nice movies and see fantastic acting and respond as great actors, we watch live sports and get drawn to some

There are two things which happened recently which have influenced the thought for this article. The first the sudden demise of legendary leg spinner Sharne Warne. A true wizard in his art of leg spin he mesmerized us with many unbelievable bowling spells and unimaginable deliveries which were a treat to watch. I spent some

We have heard of several small instances which bring about a drastic change in a person and sets about bringing out skill sets in the person which probably even he or she never knew existed within them. The best example that comes to mind is the incident in Gandhiji’s life in South Africa where while

We all would have worked with different kinds of leaders…with people who are analytical…with people who are indecisive…with people who keep on upward delegating… with people who try to build consensuses…with people who are extremely authoritative…with people who micromanage…with people who develop their teams …with people who are extremely aggressive with targets…and so on and

Being a sports fan, I do keep a track of the various sporting actions and events related to sporting personalities. Happened to read a few days back how India’s earlier ace long jumper was awarded a prestigious award. Was also watching the series called match point in Zee5 which covers about 2 of India’s greatest

This is a continuation of my article published on 30th November about brain fitness link to which is as below…Is your #Brain as fit as your # Body? Build # Mental #Alertness | LinkedIn and on my website Is your Brain as Fit as your Body? Build Mental Alertness – Rejo Francis As we already