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• How to avoid Office Politics

  by Prashant Shrivastava If you love to get indulged into Office politics, day is not far when you will fall prey to it. Call it natural phenomena or anything else, bad deeds do return with worse effects. But, on most of the occasions you don’t realize that you have got addicted to politics. If you love to get indulged into Office politics, day is not far when you will fall prey to it. Call it natural phenomena or anything else, bad deeds do return with worse effects. But, on most of the occasions you don’t realize that you have got addicted to politics. And when it gets too late, you realize but no one comes to your rescue as you have been a reason of their crisis without even knowing. So, here are 5 tips that you should follow in order to keep things easy and stress free at office. Take a check and keep away from such entangling circle. Do not criticize anyone on their back Be it boss or colleague, you criticism does reach to the person concerned by this way or that. You open your mouth in front of your trusted mates and they in return open [...]

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• Office ethics

  Office ethics Here are few best practices that I have observed and jotted down in my career so far. I follow each of these ethics and touch wood, I am happy at work. You don’t need to be a bad person or a cunning employee to face the axe. Even lack of some ethics and smartness would lead you to trouble. So better safe than sorry. Listed below are some paperless office best practices that you should keep in mind all the time. Always be on time and properly dressed. Keep your work desk clean and organized. Start your day with a broad planning and note down all the important tasks to be done that day. Make good use of communication mediums and clear all doubts before taking any action. Once you’re done with the current assignment, take a break of five minutes and now look at your work critically. Make changes. Always use formal and respectful language while communicating whether the recipient is senior or junior, male or female. Avoid indulging into any kind of office critical discussions. Every office has issues. Behave like a gentleman to female mates in particular. Avoid any sexual or embarrassing comments about their [...]

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• Bhupen Hazarika died

  Prashant Shrivastava Kind of artists that we are losing these days is not the full stop to a person or his style but that’s a dead end to an era where Music was nutured with lot of dedication, each note was created after hard work of hours, and each word emanated from the last bottom of heart. We lost Bhupen Hazarika today. He was 86 and was suffering from from respiratory and kidney failure. He was admitted in a Mumbai based hospital. Image credit: http://www.dreamstime.com/stock-images-music-concept-rimagefree2371524-resi3378709

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• When to Quit

  Don’t quit till you succeed is the adage to be used carefully. Especially in today’s context when life is short and full of options. You want to do many things in a short span of time and if you stay stuck with one thing for longer for you couldn’t succeed hitherto, consider shifting to another idea or concept rather than staying stuck to one and ruin your entire life. I know a couple who after 6 years of struggle could merry each other. Meanwhile many a times they fought badly, had family problems, and lastly I learnt that they wanted to merry just for the sake of knowing each other. The love had vanished. Now their life is not even okay. Sometimes success brings more sorrow than failure. A success can only be useful if it only opens gate of new way. If your success is a solid destination from where you cannot go any where further, it hurts and you begin to hate what you achieved because you reminisce all the pain you scored during the struggle. But other way round if you got a success from where you can explore new avenues, you feel good about the pain [...]

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• Jagjeet Singh’ demise – end of an era

  Media, channels, papers, blogs, and magazines are abuzz with the sorrow of sad demise of veteran Gazal singer Jagjeet Singh who took his last breathe on Monday October 10, 2011. This day has not just made us devoid of a golden and soulful voice that created emotions and which has been an integral part of many struggles of life and love. Although the genre of Gazals still is limited to those who understand it, this man extended it’s sphere wider and ensured that not just experienced and old people but youngsters also listen to this. This way he not only gave new heights to Gazals and Rubaayee but also sprinkled life in poetry that has been missing from Indian Music for decades. The young generation when felt sad, these Ghazals sung by Jagjeet gave them shoulders to cry, became a companion when in isolation, and ensured that the burden of sorrow and loneliness was shared so that lost people could find the path back. Like a normal teenager even I hated the Gazals when my Dad played it. But as i grew up soon I fell into love with poetry and when I looked towards Bollywood for soulful voices and [...]

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