Articles by Iyer Subramanian
Learn or decay -
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Iyer Subramanian
Learn or Decay There is a cure for aging, sickness, boredom, routine which no one talks about. It is called learning. As long as we are alive, we need to learn something new each day, stretch our personal frontiers and improve the way we think....
Jobs vs. Burden -
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Iyer Subramanian
Jobs vs. Burden Like a donkey most of us dread our jobs, seeing it as a routine / mundane, meaningless and without a purpose. To the donkey, the salt was a burden. To the merchant, however, the salt could have given his family sufficient income...
Talent Retention -
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Iyer Subramanian
Talent Retention Retaining talented people is the one of the most important priority of employers today. The cost of employee turnover is from 50% to 100% of an employee's annual salary, when we consider productivity, recruiting costs, reduced efficiency in transition & time. Workers shortage...
Lead Well (Unexpected discoveries, defining and evaulating real leadership, vision & values, creating culture, delveloping leaders etc) -
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Iyer Subramanian
Lead Well Lou Holtz in one of the Conference speaks to the people on leading your organization well. He has enumerated few key points which I have tried to put it in my own words for people who dream to leaders. These are...
How to demonstrate respect at work -
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Iyer Subramanian
How to demonstrate respect at work Ask any employee in your workplace what is the kind of treatment they would want at their place of work. Without much of hesitation they will likely to come out with a desire to be treated with dignity and...
Stay focused on what's important -
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Iyer Subramanian
Stay focused on what's Important A LONG-RANGE FOCUS CREATES A STRAIGHT FURROW. Most of the people including me have the trouble of staying focused on the important issues, because too many other things are happening around them which demand little or more attention. What is...
View your job in three dimensions -
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Iyer Subramanian
View your job in three dimensions EXAMINING YOUR JOB FROM ….. THREE PERSPECTIVES CAN PROVIDE VALUABLE INSIGHT FOR IMPROVING ONE'S PERFORMANCE WHICH IN TURN INCREASES PRODUCTIVITY. There are three ways to look at every job which one has. First, there is your perceived...
Six Steps for Improving Work Flow -
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Iyer Subramanian
Six Steps for Improving Work Flow The noted management consultant & management guru Peter Drucker once wrote ‘So mucof what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to work.' This is all the more true as organizations reorganize or downsize. With adequate...
Promotion Parameters -
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Iyer Subramanian
PROMOTION PROMOTING A PERSON TOO LATE DISHEARTENS HIM, PROMOTING HIM TOO EARLY DISHEARTENS OTHERS. One of the most difficult problems a Human Resource department faces is promotion. Even today the criteria of 'seniority' superseding 'merit' still weighs high in the Indian Employees' mind. They tend...
Go from Good HR to Great HR Leaders -
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Iyer Subramanian
Go from Good HR to Great HR Leaders You can accomplish anything in life, provided that you do not mind who gets the credit. – Harry S. Truman I was inspired to a great extent when I read the best selling business book, Good to...
Give up all your excuses -
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Iyer Subramanian
Give up all your excuses 99% of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses. If you really want to create a purposeful life, then you are going to have to take 100% responsibility for your life as well. This means...
Your days define your life -
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Iyer Subramanian
Your Days Define Your Life AS YOU LIVE YOUR DAYS, SO YOU CRAFT YOUR LIFE – ROBIN SHARMA Your days are your life in miniature. As you live your hours, so you create your years. As you live your days, so you craft your life....
Your days define your life -
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Iyer Subramanian
Your Days Define Your Life AS YOU LIVE YOUR DAYS, SO YOU CRAFT YOUR LIFE – ROBIN SHARMA Your days are your life in miniature. As you live your hours, so you create your years. As you live your days, so you craft your life....
Your days define your life -
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Iyer Subramanian
Your Days Define Your Life AS YOU LIVE YOUR DAYS, SO YOU CRAFT YOUR LIFE – ROBIN SHARMA Your days are your life in miniature. As you live your hours, so you create your years. As you live your days, so you craft your life....
Prepare to Lead -
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Iyer Subramanian
Prepare to Lead YOU CAN GIVE PEOPLE TITLES . . . . AND PRIVILEGES . . . . BUT YOU CAN’T GIVE THEM LEADERSHIP. It’s true that leadership is not constant, it ebbs and flows. It shrinks or grows. Leadership depends on action. You...
Angels of fruition -
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Iyer Subramanian
Angels of fruition Idea comes to all of us and what we do with the idea which comes to our mind determines what we are. We all have heard it on a number of occasions, but the more we get exposed to a good idea,...
Stop the excuses -
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Iyer Subramanian
STOP THE EXCUSES Dr. Wayne W. Dyer is one of the most famous and respected self-help teachers in the world. In his recent book STOP THE EXCUSES he examines closely how our thoughts, feelings and behaviours cause us to act as we do and...
Steps for better delegation -
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Iyer Subramanian
Steps for Better Delegation “If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself.” Everywhere you go, people are having difficulty with delegation. Delegating means granting someone authority within a specific area of responsibility and them accountable. Authority is the right to act...
Measure Your Own Effectiveness -
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Iyer Subramanian
Measure Your Own Effectiveness You may own (or control) all of the assets. You may be personally liable for all of the debts. You may be the only one who can sign checks or contracts. But if you are to grow as a leader, you...
Leverage your abilities -
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Iyer Subramanian
Leverage Your Abilities MORE FAILURE RESULTS FROM INDECISION THAN WRONG CHOICES. Almost everyone without an exception at one time or the other has felt a need to change directions. May be they believe they have reached their limit where they are. May be a...
