Management and Leadership

Using A Boomerang In Your Next Presentation!

By Asad Zaidi Remember the last time the guy from the web development company came to do a presentation for you and showed you all those wonderful slides about: -Company profile -Products and services -Pricing packages -Reference customers -After-sales support and you had to suffer through his impassioned presentation wondering how many more Powerpoint slides [...]


Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Conflict Management

At the broadest level, we define our identity by two things: -Who we are – our personality, our beliefs, values etc. -What we do – our actions, behavior, etc. We want others to accept us the way we are and to accept the way we do things. When either of these expectations is challenged, there [...]


Motivation – The Good, the Bad and the Confused

Why do we need to understand motivation? The fundamental reason is that it is the only way to create spontaneous and unexpected improvement in performance. Of course, performance can be improved through re-structuring of processes, by training and coaching staff better and any number of other good things in organizations that create incremental, linear improvement. [...]


You and (not) Your Ego

In our personal lives and at work, many of us feel sometime that we have been our own worst enemies. When this happens, we can be sure that this shadow beside us that makes us do these things we regret later is none other than our own ego. It constantly gets in our way, putting [...]


5 Big Insights for Personal and Management Change

Here are some insights presented by Dr. Wayne Dyer, a world-famous motivational expert, in his various books and talks. These can help us to change both at the personal level and as managers/professionals working in organizations. Some of of these concepts are known to have been originally articulated in management theory, in philosophy and in [...]


A Conversation on Management in the Public Sector

A web article based on remarks by William A. Eaton Assistant US Secretary of State for Administration (2001-2005) with some useful ideas about management for everyone particularly public sector and development sector folks Good morning, everyone.  I want to talk to you today about reframing the conversation on management in the State Department. Let me [...]


Six Realities of Change Management

There are lot’s of things to take care of when introducing change in an organization – and there are lot’s of myths and hype as well about what works and what doesn’t. Change management is as complex as human beings are – so there aren’t any easy answers or recipes for success. But here’s a [...]