Vikram Karve

Most of us resort to corrective ethics and react after an unethical act is commited. How about a bit of preventive ethics as exemplified in this story.

Most of us seem too self-conscious about our weaknesses and spend too much energy and resources in the process of trying to correct our imperfections and hence neglect our strengths. Why not forget our weaknesses, our imperfections, and focus all our resources on improving our strong points…? That is what great persons do…they just ignore their frailties and concentrate all their efforts on enhancing and bettering their strong points, their forte, achieve great heights, that's the way to success

Effective implementation overcomes the gaps between intention and promise, aspirations, achievement and performance, and prescription and reality. Implementation comprises the ability to achieve specified ends by chosen means.

There may be occasions on which you will be asked to give a speech. You may be invited to deliver a formal address (for which you can prepare and rehearse well) or you may be unexpectedly asked to give an impromptu speech on the spur-of-the-moment. Here are some Do's and Don't's for speechmaking.

In a nutshell, before you deliver your next lecture, keep these basic four principles in mind (message, naturalness, sincerity, enthusiasm) and you will deliver a great lecture – you can take my word for it.

Anandibai Karve unfolds the story of her social work and family life in such a lucid precise down-to-earth manner, sans pontification, and her riveting narration keeps the reader engrossed till the very end.

The aim of value based induction training is to reinforce mutually desirable instrumental values and instil appropriate terminal values to strengthen the harmony between individual and organizational values in order to facilitate seamless integration of the new employee into the organization. Induction training will also help the trainee and the trainer identify rare cases where there exists an irreconcilable disconnect between organizational values and personal instrumental values of a trainee

There is no better stress buster, health tonic and joyful activity than playing with your dog. Here are a few games I play with my pet girl Sherry. Sherry is not a cute cuddly indoor lapdog, nor is she merely an excitable watch dog who only barks at intruders – she is a superb guard dog, strong, fast, active and ferocious. Whenever Sherry wants to play, she invites me to play by adopting the "playful pose" – her front legs lowered, her butt raised up in the air, her tail wagging high vigorously

When I was a small boy, if you fell ill you called your family doctor home and he checked you up. Every family had their own family doctor, a General Practitioner (GP), who was like a member of the family. He knew all about your medical and family history and you had total faith in your family doctor and your family doctor and you had a mutually rewarding relationship. After a thorough physical examination to diagnose what was wrong, your family doctor either gave you medicines and treated you