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Seth Godin

Often, we're hesitant to identify a problem out of fear we can't solve it. Knowing that we have to live with something that we're unable to alter gives us a good reason to avoid verbalizing it--highlighting it just makes
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Ron Kaufman

2011 was an extraordinary year. There were more revolutions around the world, violent and otherwise, than we’ve seen in many years. These dominated local and global news channels, political and business conversations, and the attention of people everywhere. Even Time magazine acknowledged the Protester as the Person of the Year.
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Balaji Pasumarthy

As the New Year Approaches we like to make resolutions and what we would like to do during the Brand New Year. How about making a Stop Doing List Instead.
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Pradeep

The 3rd in a series of articles which deal with the basics of quality management & Six Sigma.   Six Sigma is defined as a process improvement methodology based on statistical thinking. But what is Statistical Thinking? Well it is not essentially the way a statistician thinks, nor does it have anything to do with complex formulae and visualizing graphs in our minds.
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Manoj Sethu

First things first – what is Project Management? A project by definition is a temporary organisation or an actionable team that function with a defined beginning and marked ending, functioning within constraints such as scope, time and budget.
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G Nagaraj

Hello Folks, Let me start with the what one of the senior SCM Professional has to say abt the certificationsCertification of CSCP OR CSCM. From a long time consultant and trainer who has earned both, here is my comment. These are very similar in nature and each has strong points. CSCP has more diagnostic tools which are very helpful in your preparation for the exam.
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Balaji Pasumarthy

Quality is a result of much more than implementing quality improvement programs, here are is a very interesting interview where Dr.
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Seth Godin

Manu's funny brilliance aside, this collection of org charts might help you think hard about why your organization is structured the way it is. Is it because it was built when geography mattered more than it does now? Is it... 
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Anand Deshpande

Tomoo Sugiyama , Director at Yamaha Motor company defined a new approach to improvement activity. He called it Problem-free Engineering. Sociological research proves that any idea can be popularized by  presenting it in the form of  a buzz word.
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Pradeep

If you take a flight around mid day in a domestic airline in India, you are almost sure of getting a good meal.  I wonder how they keep the enthusiasm levels of the hosts in the aircraft so high Even on a half an hour flight, they give you something to eat and drink and they wear that broad simile on the face.  It's like running a hundred meters sprint, while serving the guests

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