You might have not heard that phrase bundled with an individual pronoun in a sentence. In other words, you might not have come across a situation where value proposition of a person is considered; all the cases you have come across are companies. image: actioncoach.com Value proposition is almost like the mission statement of a regular company. It details what will make the company ...
Yesterday I visited an old friend who now runs a Forex trading and training business. His story was so convincing I opened a Forex trading account before leaving his office. It's remarkably easy to open and fund. He wanted me to start with a demo account but I said I preferred learning with real cash. So I funded the account with a very small amount, $10. It's almost ridiculous ...
I have few iPhone Apps because I installed only the apps I need and use. Notice that I have 89,695 unread emails. Whenever I come across people who say they maintain zero unread emails by reading the important mails and deleting the unimportant ones, I tell myself that it's because they don't get many mails per day or else they would have given up. I get mails every 2 to 5 ...
Two months ago I sold 95% of my shares in the stock market. I didn't sell them because I suddenly went bearish on the stock market or because I found something wrong with the companies whose stock I held. I didn't sell them to open a Forex trading account. I didn't sell them to buy treasury bills. I didn't sell them to invest in bonds. I didn't sell them to fund my money market fund nor ...
Yesterday I helped a friend install the Windows 10 Technical Preview on his laptop, side by side his Windows 7. Now he chooses which to use and has all his files and software intact. He's been so happy he now sees his laptop as almost new. And I finally decided to help, via this post, as many people who are desirous of the joy of being the early users of Windows 10. I have detailed ...
Last week I came across a white paper by a Senior Instructor for Global Knowledge. It is a survey backed analysis of the IT skills that are no longer in demand and the ones with rising demand. You can get the original white paper here. And I have pasted below almost the entire document. The striking part is that one of the dying skills was what my last job role was based on: the PSTN and ...
Yes. You need to get yourself a BAG: a big audacious goal. image: mattschlientz.com Don't just think big, also aim big. Dream big. Have a big audacious goal. A goal that lies outside the circle of your capability. A goal that you are not 100% sure you can achieve but will give your best attempt at, nonetheless. A goal that is like nothing you've ever done before and comparable ...
I bet you weren't surprised to see this post emailed to you at about 8:00am. It's obvious that writing is one of my strengths. (If you didn't get any mail from me, then click here to subscribe to my blog). We all have our strengths and weaknesses. And some of us have a weird combination of the two: what comes easy to regular people is difficult for us and what is ...
And I mean all types of intelligence: soft, hard, EQ, IQ, geek and sleek. Malcolm Gladwell is a little right when he says there is no self-made man. Every man is a product of his parents' genes and some panel beating. image: flickr.com But more genes than panel beating. Yes. And way more than we like to believe or claim. I could start my explanations with the research that tracked ...
Growing up I used to feel the students who weren't doing well academically were simply lazy. Though I knew that the education system was broken and not a scale to weigh people on, but I also felt that there was no way anyone would put some effort in and not get some decent results. I used to look critically at the lifestyle of my school mates who weren't doing well academically and would ...
Today, I saw a T-shirt on a man with the following words on it, "A rolling stone gathers no moss." image: growpk.com There are many ways to interpret the proverb but my preferred interpretation is that living an active life lets no worries stick to you for long. When you are constantly facing new worries everyday nothing will trouble you for long. You are constantly shaking ...
I believe that hard skills are more important. image: novaconnection.com Your soft skills are your people skills. How well you handle difficult situations at work. How well you get along with people at work. How well you work in a team. How well you manage people. And how well you manage your life. So they, obviously, are very important. Your hard skills are those skills you ...
Yesterday was a problem day for me. While rushing for a Toastmasters meeting early in the morning and just when I was almost at the meeting venue I hit the car in front of me. And what looked like a small issue of me fixing his bumper became a 3 days issue of having to fix it on Monday. It was a company car and they wouldn't let me fix it without involving their official vehicle maintenance ...
I love reading the classics. Only great books make it past 100 years. It's almost impossible to find a crappy book among them. It saves me the stress of trying to ensure that I'm not buying a book that has just a great title but no value inside. I also love reading history. And one thing I find amazing is that if you go 100 years back the people you will find relevant and can refer ...
