- 11 ways to be an ideal air traveller: in short, be nice to others
When you lock up so many people in a confined space for considerable amounts of time, things happen - people loose their emotions on the smallest of things. Here's what we learnt about how to be a great air traveller fro…
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- Study: 'Don't use smartphones while driving' is the new 'don't drink and drive'
A test in U.K. shows that using smartphones makes you a bad driver, more than alcohol does. Using smartphones while driving makes reaction times 37.6 percent slower. In fact, Smartphone innovations such as voice-enabled…
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- How living alone might not be a healthy idea: Makes us eat bad
The NYT reports that 1 in every 4 American household is occupied by just one person. This might be a good idea if you are a genius in hiding, the next Hemingway (he was a pretty social man) or someone, but it might not b…
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- Why we are not made to work in large teams: We feel like faceless cogs in a heartless machine
Faceless cogs in a giant machine - that's what a study on teamwork discovered. The study found that workers in larger teams perform badly they think they will have less recognition and support from others - complex comma…
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- When to ditch your financial planner: If all he does is sell various insurance schemes and home loans
When all your financial planner does is to sell various insurance schemes (mostly the evil ULIP types) and home loans, then you know he is more interested in making his commissions from the financial companies than in yo…
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- Let's just say it: there is no right age to start a company
Take all those fluff stories about young Silicon Valley entrepeneurs for what they - habitual media glorification that helps sell papers and magazines, and nothing else. Truth is: There is no right age to start a company…
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- Most women actually don't know they have gained 5 pounds extra weight
Women aren't as weight-conscious as we thought them to be. Researchers from the University of Texas Medical Branch did a study and found that one-third of 466 women of various ethnicities they observed over a period of …
Topic: Health, Obesity, Study | Read more
- The rise and rise of young life coaches, who haven't really lived
Did you know that more than 30 American universities have introduced coaching programs, including Harvard UniversityThat's not all, life coaching is not at all about elderly people like the Dalai Lama dishing out pithy q…
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- Three ways to answer 'what is your biggest weakness': Answer bullshit with bullshit, give cliched answers
Most interview questions are useless, perhaps meant to gauge whether you can bullshit your way out of all kinds of situation more than anything else - modern business reality is a virtual breakfast of bullshitting champi…
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- Five ways how to deal with uncomfortable job interview questions: Without lying, say what the interviewer wants to hear
The idea is to deal with uncomfortable questions without having to lie and telling the interviewer 'what he wants to hear'. The idea is also to 'Think Ahead, Answer Professionally, and Admit When You Don't Know.'
1. B…
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- How to handle your exit interview: Be honest, but don't burn your bridges, move on with dignity
You are entitled to give honest answers in your exit interviews, but do so without burning your bridges - relationships with boss and co-workers. For example, in my only exit interview so far, I said I had no growth pros…
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- Six subjects to be careful about in your next job interview: Start with not dissing your past employer
1. Don't ever say negative things about previous employers - the interviewer will then think his company will be the next target.
2. Talk positive things about previous employers - things you learnt.
3. Avoid talking a…
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- How to turn your job firing to your benefit: Ask the boss for a candid feedback
Instead of sulking away and feeling hopelessly dejected after being fired from a job, just go to your boss, and ask for his honest (and private) feedback about your performance. This way, you will learn why you were fire…
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- Interval training: The '20 minutes a day' fitness regime
What interval training involves: Basically, you run, jog, or skip ropes (or, mix it up) at a high intensity level (meaning: pushing your heart rate to 80-90% capacity) for 1 minute, then resting for minute, and then doi…
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- How Mills and Boon style romance novel help women: By being field guides to real-life difficulties
The least 'stuck-up' books in the world, Mills and Boon style romance novels are field-guide to real-life difficulties of women - family, love, marriage, place in society, dreams for the future. In this wonderful post at…
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- Don't take any lessons from Rap musicians
Rap music, the ironic business of selling a lifestyle of money, status, women and cocaine to impressionable, which has made successful businessmen out of people like Jay-Z, P. DIddy and others, has often been used as an …
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- Start of the end for the India growth story? Rising salaries, slowing growth rate, plateuing demographic dividend
How long can a country keep growing, fueled by an aspirational demographic dividendSalaries are rising all the time, making IT-outsourcing firms and others make lesser profits. Prices of everything keep rising. People ar…
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- How to change business education in India: Bhavya Sahni says make internships compulsory for MBA students
If there is at least one original thing the 'always-copying-the-Americans' Indian Business schools can do to churn out better prepared students, is to make interning with startups compulsory. Bhavya Sahni explains the be…
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- Can American style party primaries democratize our dynastic system?
Why is that people like Robert Vadra, Priyanka or whoever gets to speak with freedom on any issue related to their party when they have never held any political officePerhaps American-style party primaries can help check…
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- Why it is foolish to spend money on virtual goods (and cloud computing), redux: The Sony horror story
Recently, Sony announced that it would be shutting down the servers for an online collectible card game called Star Chamber: The Harbinger Saga, which SOny had bought some years back. This effectively renders all the gam…
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