CEDP - M7: Project Management | International Training Centre: "THERE IS NO KNOWLEDGE ADVANTAGE .............
Unless your firm also has an action advantage.
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Knowing what you should do is not enough. In fact, too much knowledge can be a detriment to the right projects getting done at all - never mind on time or on budget.
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The key to success is planning in action.
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Get the right people on board
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Cut through the hot air, criticisms, and complexities (the 'small-talk trap')
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Close the gap between strategy and action (the 'knowing-doing' gap)
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Create a plan that produces real results.
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And do it FAST!"
Monday, September 29, 2008
What McCain's Books Tell Us About Him | Newsweek Politics: Campaign 2008 | Newsweek.com
What McCain's Books Tell Us About Him | Newsweek Politics: Campaign 2008 | Newsweek.com: "Profound change doesn't always require consensus. Sometimes it is achieved when just a few people see the way ahead and decide to set in motion events that will overtake resistance, change the unsatisfactory status quo, and leave something better in its place."
What McCain's Books Tell Us About Him | Newsweek Politics: Campaign 2008 | Newsweek.com
What McCain's Books Tell Us About Him | Newsweek Politics: Campaign 2008 | Newsweek.com: "They quote Wayne Gretzky: 'I skate where the puck is going to be, not where it's been.'"
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Business Articles and Books, Business Management Resources - Harvard Business Online
Business Articles and Books, Business Management Resources - Harvard Business Online: "Leadership Content
How to Change the World
by Howard H. Stevenson
This fictional case study probes a dilemma facing many ambitious young professionals: How to do well while also doing good.
Climate Business/Business Climate
by Michael E. Porter et al.
Climate change will affect everything businesses do, as government efforts to mitigate carbon emissions cause their prices to rise steeply. This special edition of HBR's Forethought takes a hard-nosed look at the risks and opportunities of climate change.
Building the Green Way
by Auden Schendler
Just five or six years ago, the term 'green building' evoked visions of barefoot, tie-dyed, granola-munching denizens. There's been a large shift in perception.
Where's the Green in Green Business?
by Auden Schendler
Anyone who argues that 'green' business makes economic sense is bending the truth, says the director of environmental affairs at Aspen Skiing Co. Sustainable business can't occur without a company mandate springing from ethics, not economics."
How to Change the World
by Howard H. Stevenson
This fictional case study probes a dilemma facing many ambitious young professionals: How to do well while also doing good.
Climate Business/Business Climate
by Michael E. Porter et al.
Climate change will affect everything businesses do, as government efforts to mitigate carbon emissions cause their prices to rise steeply. This special edition of HBR's Forethought takes a hard-nosed look at the risks and opportunities of climate change.
Building the Green Way
by Auden Schendler
Just five or six years ago, the term 'green building' evoked visions of barefoot, tie-dyed, granola-munching denizens. There's been a large shift in perception.
Where's the Green in Green Business?
by Auden Schendler
Anyone who argues that 'green' business makes economic sense is bending the truth, says the director of environmental affairs at Aspen Skiing Co. Sustainable business can't occur without a company mandate springing from ethics, not economics."
Op-Ed Columnist - Sound, but No Fury - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
Op-Ed Columnist - Sound, but No Fury - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com: "Given the past week, the debate should have been a cinch for Obama. But, just as in the primaries, he willfully refuses to accept what debates are about. It’s not a lecture hall; it’s a joust. It’s not how cerebral you are. It’s how visceral you are. You need memorable, sharp, forceful and witty lines."
McCain’s Suspension Bridge to Nowhere - Readers' Comments - The New York Times
BODY LANGUAGE
McCain’s Suspension Bridge to Nowhere - Readers' Comments - The New York Times: "Talk about body language--McCain's most powerful mode of communication in the debate was non-verbal. By failing to make eye-contact with Obama, or even to look at him, he was using my elitist grandmother's language translated into body-language. My grandmother, who regarded herself as upper class, would state that she 'did not notice' people who were below her caste. These included tradesmen, blacks, Italians and Irish immigrants, servants and Jews.
McCain was using body language to talk in code to white voters who feel that Obama's candidacy is a threat to their entitlements. McCain did not 'notice' Obama but did disdainfully let him babble on for a while, while sneering. I'm sure some slave owners behaved similarly."
McCain’s Suspension Bridge to Nowhere - Readers' Comments - The New York Times: "Talk about body language--McCain's most powerful mode of communication in the debate was non-verbal. By failing to make eye-contact with Obama, or even to look at him, he was using my elitist grandmother's language translated into body-language. My grandmother, who regarded herself as upper class, would state that she 'did not notice' people who were below her caste. These included tradesmen, blacks, Italians and Irish immigrants, servants and Jews.
McCain was using body language to talk in code to white voters who feel that Obama's candidacy is a threat to their entitlements. McCain did not 'notice' Obama but did disdainfully let him babble on for a while, while sneering. I'm sure some slave owners behaved similarly."
Leadership
“To my mind, a great leader thinks the future backwards rather than the present forward.”- Adi Godrej
Friday, September 26, 2008
Gmail - Morgan Stanley next? - shekharkashyap@gmail.com
Gmail - Morgan Stanley next? - shekharkashyap@gmail.com: "'To achieve satisfactory investment results is easier than most people realize; to achieve superior results is harder than it looks' - Benjamin Graham"
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
iGoogle
iGoogle: "A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
- George Bernard Shaw
No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
- Judge Gideon J. Tucker
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
- Ambrose Bierce"
- George Bernard Shaw
No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
- Judge Gideon J. Tucker
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
- Ambrose Bierce"
Monday, September 22, 2008
Gmail - Death of investment banking & more... - shekharkashyap@gmail.com
Gmail - Death of investment banking & more... - shekharkashyap@gmail.com: "'Our favourite holding period is forever.' - Warren Buffett"
Friday, September 19, 2008
Gmail - The game called 'Infosys' - shekharkashyap@gmail.com
Gmail - The game called 'Infosys' - shekharkashyap@gmail.com: "'People always want a formula – but it doesn’t work that way – you have to estimate total cash generated from now to eternity, and discount it back to today. Yardsticks such as P/Es are not enough by themselves.' – Warren Buffett"
recommended reads - When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long Term Capital Management
recommended reads - When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long Term Capital Management: "It gives you the sort of entertainment you get from watching a car wreck, as the banks scrabble round to find a way of protecting themselves - without doing too much for each other. Certainly there's an element of black comedy as one participant comments: ''They had a different view of the world ... they're completely self-interested.' Suddenly these paragons of individual enterprise seethed with communitarian fervor.'!"
recommended reads - When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long Term Capital Management
recommended reads - When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long Term Capital Management: "'Neither the Nobel prize nor all the degrees mattered now; the professors were rolling the dice.'"
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Op-Ed Contributor - For Wall Street, Greed Wasn’t Good Enough - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
Op-Ed Contributor - For Wall Street, Greed Wasn’t Good Enough - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com: ". Whether markets are efficient or not I don’t know for sure, but I do know that if there’s a way for someone to make money at another’s expense, he will. In spades. I want out."
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Monday, September 15, 2008
Wise thoughts in unwise times... - Views on News from Equitymaster
Wise thoughts in unwise times... - Views on News from Equitymaster: "'What can be left to later, usually is - and then, alas, it's too late.'"
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Gmail - FBL | Quote of the Day | September 11, 2008 - shekharkashyap@gmail.com
Gmail - FBL | Quote of the Day | September 11, 2008 - shekharkashyap@gmail.com: "The Foundation for a Better Life
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Online Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus. Free access.
Online Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus. Free access.: "Quotation of the Day ▼X?
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If you want to be happy, be.
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)"
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If you want to be happy, be.
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)"
Friday, September 5, 2008
John Steinbeck Quotes
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I know three things will never be believed - the true, the probable, and the logical.
John Steinbeck, 02/27/1902 - 12/20/1968
US novelist and Nobel Prize Laureate
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I know three things will never be believed - the true, the probable, and the logical.
John Steinbeck, 02/27/1902 - 12/20/1968
US novelist and Nobel Prize Laureate
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