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Working with Frenemies

In a blog post on BBC.com, David Robson writes that frenemies at work can be the most anxiety-provoking because we have an “ambivalent” relationship w...
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Be responsible in a responsible way

Being responsible means we are accountable for what we do or what we were asked to do. Right or wrong, whatever the outcome is, we should own the resu...
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Righting Career Setbacks

Career setbacks can impact anyone, across rungs and industries, regardless of your skills and abilities. Often, they feel unfair and unjust. Though it...
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Why 9 ish or 10 ish doesn’t cut it

When I arrived on time, I was told I had to wait for five minutes. However, the five minutes stretched to ten and then twenty minutes. When I asked th...
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Learn to Listen and Listen to Learn

We being very busy these days do not find time to just sit for a conversation, be it casual or otherwise. If we are put in a position with no other op...
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What If Someone Called You An Orange?

Being triggered does not only mean feeling angry or unhappy. It's as if your emotions are on overdrive and you can't seem to control them. You may fin...
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Ten Mindsets for the Workplace

Given how supply chains are dispersed across the globe, a glitch or a problem in one country can have a ripple effect across many others. Both the pan...
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Mental Health at Workplace

Addressing mental health in the workplace is paramount, not only due to its profound impact on individual employees but also its implications for orga...
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Credit rating - Finance matters

Financial ratios are not an ‘end’ by themselves but a ‘means’ to understand the fundamentals of an entity. The basic set of numbers that the analyst l...
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Dealing with Difficult People

It is quite obvious that dealing with them successfully can make a world of positive changes in our lives. More careers in organizations have been abr...
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The Power of Small Wins

Today, those who encounter me find it challenging to believe that I was once on the heavier side. This personal triumph stands as a testament to the t...
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The 70-Hour Work Week Debate: A Closer Look

By having efficient meetings, we can save time and energy for more important tasks. By leveraging technology, we can automate, eliminate, or enhance o...
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Teacher and Technology in the Digital World

Technology facilitates collaboration among teachers across the world, allowing for sharing of resources and teaching pedagogies. With the use of onlin...
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Enhancing Cognitive Abilities

Skills are more than just tools for finding work; they are the keys to unlocking our minds' potential and supporting personal growth and enrichment....
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The Key to Leadership Excellence: Self-Regulation

Self-regulation helps leaders cope with stress and prevent burnout by employing healthy coping mechanisms and maintaining a work-life balance....
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SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OF A NETIZEN

Being socially responsible online involves ensuring the safety of oneself and others in the digital realm....
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The Social Responsibility of Netizens

Netizens have a responsibility to promote positive and respectful online behavior. Just as we strive to be good citizens in our physical communities, ...
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Future-Ready Engineer

Remember, being a "Future Ready Engineer" is an ongoing journey. Embrace change, be adaptable, and actively seek opportunities to enhance your skills ...
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HOW TO BECOME FUTURE READY

In today's world, it's more important than ever for girls to become future-ready. The future is constantly evolving, and it's essential to develop the...
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Guiding you through the process

Reach out to mentors, teachers, and professionals to guide you through the process. They can provide valuable insights additionally; this will help yo...
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Search for the Diamonds

Diamond is a strong, sharp, shining, and priceless substance but appears ordinary in an unpolished state. We are all, each one of us is a diamond. We ...
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Friends are Valuable than Money

Money if lost can be earned back but if trust in a friendship is broken it is difficult to regain it, which means friends are more valuable than money...
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Experience Collaborative Parenting

Why “acceptance” is hard for us? Yes, we have a lot of expectations on our children. When they are IN LINE with our expectations, we are happy about t...
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Capabilities of a Good Leader

Be willing to listen and learn from your team, just as they learn from you. Every person has strengths and weaknesses. Each individual has an opportun...
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The good and bad social media

Today, our social life is highly influenced by social media. It has many positive effects and negative effects as well on the society. Felt like readi...
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Creating an Awareness on PoSH Act 2013

Let us not forget that everyone has the right to complement each other. However, accepting the complement is in the individual’s hand. At the same tim...
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Till Energy Equals Opportunity

We strongly believe that the private sector has a huge role in furthering the efforts for mitigating climate change. This does not entail curbing foss...
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7 Mistakes to avoid while taking Loans

A loan is a financial commitment. Be it a personal loan or credit card loan, you have to manage your debt diligently to avoid any future unpleasantnes...
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When Unicorns Blow Unique Horns

Most companies do not disclose the compensation details when they advertise. This is another major factor that make the right candidates scroll away f...
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Weight Loss - It takes both mind and body

Weight Loss - It takes both mind and body

Well begun is half done, nothing can beat the single-minded motivation of the human mind. Motivation is one of the biggest weapons on your mission of ...
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Employee Relations Make or Break

Employee Relations Make or Break

Employee relations has a straight connect with employee performance. Hence, heading through a robust employee relations could be the path to achieving...
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Innovative Science Fictions – Beyond 2030

Innovative Science Fictions – Beyond 2030

Technology would make the work easy for two professionals who want to communicate but they don’t know any mutual language to communicate. What do you ...
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India’s Long-term Energy Priorities

India’s Long-term Energy Priorities

India’s economic growth is closely linked to using more energy. We need increasing amounts of energy to power economic growth. Higher output in indust...
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Diversity

Diversity

In fact, recruitment of a women candidate in an organization is colloquially referred to as a “diversity candidate”, for the simple reason that the or...
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Track your Expenses

Track your Expenses

If you are serious about your financial growth, then you must start tracking your expenses. It will help you to know where your hard-earned money goes...
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Union Budget 2022 Vs Your Home Budget 2022

Union Budget 2022 Vs Your Home Budget 2022

As Budget is for the whole country and many at times it may not be as expected by everyone. There can be many viewpoints for this and am here providin...
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Grey shades of Gen-next Shopping

Grey shades of Gen-next Shopping

On one end, you have the advantage of choosing what you want from multiple shops without even leaving your place. But on the other hand, aren’t you ac...
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3 Best Tools for Root Cause Analysis

3 Best Tools for Root Cause Analysis

This method is one of the basic quality tools within Six Sigma, which is a set of techniques for process improvement that has saved companies billions...
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3 Ways to Think Outside the Box when Hiring

3 Ways to Think Outside the Box when Hiring

Pick one area and focus on creating and systems and processes around it, including a balanced scorecard to measure effectiveness. Be bold and make the...
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ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS

ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS

If you’ve ever tried solving a problem, but it shows up again and again, you’re probably not treating the root cause....
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Facebook Goes Down Temporarily

Facebook Goes Down Temporarily

It was a blessing in disguise that the mentioned social media platforms and messenger tool were absent from our lives at least for a short while. We c...
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Biases

Biases

Cognition; it is a broader term than just perceiving. It encompasses mental processes involved in gaining knowledge, comprehension explained as knowin...
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Do people love to work with you?

Do people love to work with you?

We assume that they all want more money, bigger roles, and promotions. Do reflect on what is their motivation - is money their biggest motivation?...
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Teachers are the guiding lights

Teachers are the guiding lights

Teachers selflessly share their knowledge and experiences with their students and count their students’ successes as their own, take pride in their ac...
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Reflections: A journey of unlearning

Reflections: A journey of unlearning

To walk with technology, adapting to new skill sets, and being open to learning helps broaden our own horizons and make us more fit for workplaces....
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Career Counselling – Leveraging Parents

Career Counselling – Leveraging Parents

Many researchers have commented on reduced focus on SLAP – Sociology, Linguistics, Art and Philosophy which can create a long-term adverse impact on t...
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A Showtime for Electrical Vehicles in India!

A Showtime for Electrical Vehicles in India!

India stands to gain on many fronts by transitioning to EVs: it has a relative surplus of clean energy resources and professional talent in the infras...
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NDDN PROJECT - NDMC Digital Door Number

NDDN PROJECT - NDMC Digital Door Number

NDMC (New Delhi Municipal Council) is the first city to have integrated the property level data across the utility like water, electricity and Propert...
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We, the Entitled

We, the Entitled

Solutions emerge only when the status-quo is questioned. The consistent want to improve is the sole fuel of invention....
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Learning from the COVID experience

Learning from the COVID experience

With the experience of the lockdown and its inevitable repercussions, it is a time for corporate to evaluate and formulate a very strong push towards ...
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Reduce Social Distancing

Reduce Social Distancing

While Covid-19 calls for conscious and strict social distancing, we have to remind ourselves it is only physically....
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Hospitality, guests, and hosts

Hospitality, guests, and hosts

Hospitality is considered as one of the soft skills, which is now used by business people to further their interests....
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GET HIGH

GET HIGH

Knowing your purpose makes you feel more determined and, thereby, propels you forward....
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The Invisible Guerrilla

The Invisible Guerrilla

How selective attention blinds people and impacts the marketing and innovation strategy...
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Make a Positive Ripple

Make a Positive Ripple

When we make a difference in others’ life, their hope and certainty towards future move forward. Their standard of living increases and they serve as ...
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5 Dos to be productive in WFH

Experts opine that those who deliver most without or with little supervision are sure to thrive across industries post lockdown....
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Anthem-of-Indian-Souls

Anthem of Indian Souls

India is a fabric of cultures that is vibrant in its spiritual essence. The nation and its people have been inseparable by spirit and patriotism. Ever...
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In-Dependence-to-Independence

In Dependence to Independence

Ages back, the role of assistants was to be by the side and serve when beckoned (as long it was a human assistant) and they never attempted to “autoco...
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5-Key-Steps-to-Professional-Success

5 Key Steps to Professional Success

Various studies point to a falling global productivity index from 45-40% especially in IT based companies. A research presents a data that it takes 15...
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The-Math-Wizard

The Math Wizard

The demise of John Horton Conway is a terrible loss to global mathematical community and cannot be filled at least in the near future...
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Break-the-Infection-Chain

Break the Infection Chain

Considering the outbreak of Covid-19, the Government has been advising to break the chain of infection transmission, doing which the infection cannot ...
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Green Plates for e-Vehicles

The Indian government has approved green license plates e-vehicles. These vehicles are bound to enjoy preferential treatment in parking, free entry in...
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“Aiyo”-T

“Aiyo”-T

He woke up to a nightmare, yet it was not over. Yes, it was Monday! It was a job of his passion, (instigated and influenced to pick it by so many rela...
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Teasing-Vs-Bullying

Teasing Vs Bullying

Teasing strengthens relationships as long as the intention is not to hurt someone. It is also a handy tool to express disturbance or irritation due to...
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World Film Festivals

The origin of film festivals can be traced to the rise of film societies and cine-clubs, which sprang up in various countries during the 1920s. ...
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ICT Academy Youth Talk 2019

ICT Academy Youth Talk is a massive talkathon for students to express their ideas and exhibit leadership skills through powerful...
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Youth Talk - Educational Trip

Great leaders are always considered as first-class communicators, they have a clear set of values and they always believe in promoting and inculcating...
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A Few Good Men

ICT Academy, presents A Few Good Men, capturing the bio-sketch of nine leaders from different walks of life: manufacturing, service, movies, corporate...
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ICT Academy Youtube Channel

ICT Academy that augments the nation building through its various initiatives has been creating avenues that cater to quench the knowledge quest of it...
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Grey_Matters

Grey Matters

we explore how much of the brain a person uses. We also bust some widely held myths and reveal some interesting facts about the brain....
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To-Read-or-Not-to-Read

To Read or Not to Read

If you Google “Reading,” it will throw over 1,830,000,000 results. If you rephrase your search to “Is it good to...
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FUTURE OF WORK

ICT Academy has continuously endeavored to provide appropriate inputs to faculty members and academia...
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Interview with Dr. Bakar

As teachers, we should accept the fact that we do not know everything in this world. If a teacher does not learn constantly, he will not be in a posit...
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A-Toast-to-Israel

A Toast to Israel

Israel is a country with just one-fifth the size of Tamil Nadu but ranks 3rd in Asia in terms of the standard of living. It’s one of the countries tha...
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Beyond-Infinity

Beyond Infinity

I am an Associate Professor of Mathematics, working at D. G. Vaishnav College, Chennai. I Founded Pie Mathematics Association in 2007, and am indulged...
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My Madras - Rafting through the memory

My fascination for Madras dates back from my childhood seventy years ago. In 1935, as a boy of seven living with my grandparents in Ariyalur, then a s...
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Rukmini Devi - The Ace Dancer

People take the art form for a career. In her case, the Indian classical art form “Bharatnatyam” took form in the ace dancer Rukmini Devi who dedicate...
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The Bright 5

There is much ado about 2016, a usual effervescence that evolves every New Year in which every field on earth ponders about something, expects somethi...
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The Outcry – YES ENGLISH NO ENGLISH

The intriguing question ‘Why English’ is equally engaging as its sibling’s more optimistic version “Why not English?”...
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Technology-in-"Growth"

Technology in "Growth"

Wonder how plants grow?! Yes, through germination. Believe! Inventions grow through imagination. Got a nursery, but hate messing up with changing the ...
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Handling Pressure in a Mahi Style

Is it really worth so much that we stress & strain and lose our health and mind for something that has a diminishing value?...
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Keeping a Tab on Cab

In a country with 1.3 billion populace only 2% own cars. Since owning a sedan in India could cost you around Rs. 40,000 a month....
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Facts-on-Tsunami

Facts on Tsunami

A tsunami is a series of sea waves caused by an underwater earthquake, landslide, or volcanic eruption. More rarely, a tsunami can be generated by a g...
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