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Quotes to Energize Your Monday!

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Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Quotes to Energize Your Monday! Once in a month, I spend some good time reading books at Crossword. It is not only an opportunity to read/buy some great books, but also to spend some quality time with myself thinking about what I read there. The ambience at Crossword is so good for reading, I have to push myself out.

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Top 10 Project Management Mistakes You Should Avoid

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Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Top 10 Project Management Mistakes You Should Avoid I was recently studying the anatomy of failed/troubled projects and following came out as a learning. Here are top 10 project management mistakes that should be avoided: Estimating project tasks based on poor inputs on scope and too many assumptions. Starting project without 102% clarity (100% clarity on scope/technology and 2% knowledge of how you can add value).

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Invisible Cost of “Toxic” Leadership

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Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Invisible Cost of “Toxic” Leadership Many organizations today are plagued by so-called leaders who don’t carry a leadership mindset. Their title may read “Project Leader” and they may be managing a few people, but that does not make them real leaders. We all know that leadership is a mindset, a way of thinking and attitude.

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Happy Diwali 2009

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Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Happy Diwali 2009 It’s that time of the year when our hearts are filled with love and warmth – I wish all readers of this blog, a “VERY HAPPY DIWALI”. Literally, Diwali means an “array of lights” and it reminds us to light a lamp of love in our hearts, of compassion to serve others and of knowledge to drive out the darkness of ignorance.

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Monday Thoughts (Thanks to Paul Schwend)

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Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Monday Thoughts (Thanks to Paul Schwend) Paul Schwend is a wonderful friend who lives in Florida and is referred to as an ‘ Insurance Man’. Paul made my weekend by sending me a wonderful book titled “ Soul Happy ” – a brilliant compilation (by Kobi Yamada) of soulful thoughts on some of the core facets of life.

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QAspire Blog 2009 – Essential Posts Redux

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Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer QAspire Blog 2009 – Essential Posts Redux When the year ends, we tend to retrospect. Look back and see what worked and what not. Here is a collection of some of the chosen posts, some essential lessons from each month of 2009 (our of total 93 posts written in Y09): January 2009: Explicit versus Tacit - Content versus Process This post talks about explicit and implicit value that an individual generates for an organization and how important is i

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Seth Godin's “What Matters Now” and a Few More Gems

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Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Seth Godin’s “What Matters Now” and a Few More Gems Seth Godin recently released a free eBook titled “What Matters Now” – it is a collaborative effort of 70 great thinkers who have presented brilliant ideas that will truly shake you up to think deep and wide as we approach 2010. I read it and found it to be truly REMARKABLE with short and profound insights.

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