Shifting office – today and tomorrow.

We’d be shifting the office today. The furniture would go tomorrow – but the files/stationary/cartons and other smaller items go today.  I am tele-supervising the move from my corner on the sofa at home. The underlings are busy packing and moving the stuff – when everything has been moved to the new office, and when [...]

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Salary Negotiations & Employment Contract

Mr. Wall and the Huskies raised an important question. In fact, I wouldn’t have bothered with a contract at all had Mr. Wall not reminded me of it. But after reading his comment, I decided to talk to these two.
(Note: Before you read this post, I recommend that you read the comments section of [...]

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Functions of Management – A Canine Perspective – The Management Guru Speaks!

Henri Fayol, the twentieth century French Industrialist, said that management comprises five primary functions:

Planning
Organizing
Commanding
Coordinating
Controlling

In the more politically correct world of today, humans have humanized this taxonomy by merging “Commanding” and “Coordinating” to form “Leading.” (Sounds better – though it means the same.) So the modern managers plan, organize, lead, and control. Thus, the four new [...]

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Yes We Can -The Canine Action Plan!

This morning, CNN mentioned that recession may be on its way to becoming depression. They also said that depression is so rare that there isn’t any real definition of this phenomenon. Though most of us weren’t even born then, the images that the term depression conjures up in our minds are that of the Great [...]

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Oorvi – The Canine Motivation Guru, Speaks!

My job as a Marketing Guru consists of many tasks, including some that make me wonder if this job is worth what it pays me. Added to this, are my responsibilities as the Motivation Guru!
Let me explain the highlights of this function of mine.
To list a few of my Key Performance Areas; I need to [...]

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Depress the Depression – Canine Clues for Beating the Blues!

The KFC Pup…yes…that’s me! For me, the year 2008 has been tolerable. They’ve brought home three KFC buckets and I know that the next one is due on February 15…on my bark-day! I’ve seen them worry…they sit huddled in discussions figuring out what they should be doing next…I guess they are worried just the way [...]

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Ambition and Complacency – The Story of Mr. Mouse! – Part II

Read Part I of the story here…
Gradually Mr. Mouse’s routine changed. He’d come into the kitchen, select his choicest food, eat, relax, then eat some more, hum a nice little song, take a nap, and then eat some more again! Until one night, when the overworked human in the house decided that she needed some [...]

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Ambition and Complacency – The Story of Mr. Mouse! – Part I

Mr. Mouse lived in the cupboard on the terrace. His well-furnished pad was in the left corner of the cupboard, right behind the generator. Mr. Mouse was a bachelor. Bachelors, as you know, are not really bothered about making their place nice and cozy…but this wasn’t true of Mr. Mouse.
You see, after a heady but [...]

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Are you a Good Manager?

A good manager…hmmm!
An ideal manager is someone who motivates others to do their best. Someone who commands respect and who can exercise authority without leaping out of his (or her) comfortable chair on every little pretext! Someone who can enjoy a quiet, peaceful nap without a care in the world…knowing that the job would be [...]

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Wolves, Dogs, and Humans! (SWOT Analysis Works!)

Have you heard people (of the human kind, of course) say that humans have trained us, the dogs, to do their bidding? I did…and it started a chain of thoughts in my mind. The first thought was the usual one… “Those poor misguided souls, what do they know?” But then I realized that it isn’t [...]

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