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Are your friends making you fat

September 17, 2009

For most of us, within three degrees we are connected to more than 1,000 people — all of whom we can theoretically help make healthier, fitter and happier just by our contagious example. “If someone tells you that you can influence 1,000 people,” Fowler said, “it changes your way of seeing the world.” Visit the NY Times Article

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Kraft Food Transformation

September 13, 2009

One of the intersting challenge of transformation was to move from a centralized decision making process to a decntralized structure where you placed the right man at the righ job and then got out of the way.

One of the big challenges of this transformation was to ensure that the decentralized units collaborated and to reinforce that ethic throughout the organization. Read the strategy+business article

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The Neuro Science Approach to Managing Performance

September 13, 2009

An interesting article in strategy + business discusses the fact that the employee experiences workplace first & foremost as a social system. The brain equates the social needs of the employee, equal to the survival needs (unlike the Maslow's hierarchy). Social and physical pain produce similar pain responses.

Neuroscience has proved that the response to threat is far more lang lasting /potent , than is the response to reward. And threats bring down the productivity dramatically.

The other si...
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Competency Mapping, Assessment & Mapping with a Few Tools

May 3, 2009

Competency Management With Few Tools

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Tourism - Characteristics of a Place Product & Segmentation on Basis of Place Product

April 26, 2009

Tourism is an important component of the big business of leisure that sells a destination or a place product. The characteristics of a place product are:

· Spatial scale: a place is inevitably one component in the hierarchy of spatial scale, a characteristic unique to the place product. The potential holidaymaker buying Goa may be simultaneously purchasing other levels of hierarchy - the hotel, India, east etc. A different structured hierarchy may create a different product.

· Multi sold: The...

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