Category: Ideas

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Book review: REWORK – Simple and complex at the same time

Today, I completed reading the book Rework by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson. These guys are the founders of 37Signals. First things first. This is an easy book to read. I was able to finish reading the book, cover-to-cover in about 3 days. The book is written as if it is a collection of blogs. One can read the book as I did, cover-to-cover or pick a topic of interest and read it. Though the book is easy and simple to read, the content of the book is equally difficult to practice. They prescribe an approach to business that […]

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Belief

This is the single most important emotion for a salesperson to transform himself from an average sales person to an amazing sales person. – Belief in himself– Belief that his product or service is beneficial to his customerAll other skills that a sales person needs can be acquired by attending trainings. You can not teach someone to believe. Belief comes from within. It brings along so much energy, passion and enthusiasm along. All these in combination add up to a lot.

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Denial Vs Progress

I came across a picture by Jessica on her very unusual but great blog, I could not resist but sharing the same as well. I cannot agree more with Jessica on the thought. It is a good question to ask ourselves everytime we hit a wall: Are we in the denial mode or are we progressing?  I have taken a print of the picture and have it placed in my room where it is always visible to me to keep reminding me to ask this question about denial vs progress…  This is an attitude to life that I would like […]

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5 Things you could be doing instead of browsing internet at work

I read an interesting blog on the 10 different things you could do instead of watching TV. I really liked the simplicity of thought. Inspired by the blog, I have tried to compile a list of 5 things you could be doing instead of browsing the internet in office. Here we go: Talk to colleagues you do not know: One of the biggest challenges in big organizations is the inability to work across different teams. Walking around your office and talking to different colleagues who work on different teams and topics, can provide the opportunity for cross-team collaboration. Worst case, […]