Crisis and Management

Of course I’m the center of the universe. I still believe the Earth is flat. How about that?
It takes raw courage to change one’s perspective, cuz one is so ‘wrapped up, rolled up’ as Liz Strauss puts it. And to look outside, one needs help and should be willing, rather than able, to identify and [...]

When he landed at the Bombay International Airport, he felt like a destitute. He didn’t belong here. He was from another world.
And his luggage was lost. The airlines told him they lost track of it at the Gatwick airport on his transit flight from Houston. Not that he cared. There was nothing to lose [...]

Robin is a good pal of mine. He’s never done me a favour in his entire life, neither have I done any for him, we argue and quarrel, but we still can’t get rid of each other. But thankfully this story is not about Robin. It’s about Ethel, Robin’s girl friend, and her ‘window cat’, [...]

Yes, I have signed up for PayPerPost (PPP), and I’m loving the experience (and the money!)
Simply put, PPP is a self-service marketplace that allows bloggers the choice and the luxury of choosing what they love to blog about. The attractive website provides regsistered bloggers with an extremely user-friendly interface for presenting what options they have, [...]

It was a routine maintenance job which Rajan, the plumber, finished in less than ten minutes this morning. I then offered him coffee, but he preferred fruit juice and we lit cigarettes and talked about the traffic congestion in Bahrain. This city is so dead that getting stuck in traffic makes headlines and hot discussion [...]

Perhaps the most endearing and simplest form of reducing stress is to take a vacation — removing yourself from the source of it all. Don’t deny it — we all need that break just to ‘get out of ourselves’ once in a while!
If you’ve been toying with the idea of a holiday this summer, tourism [...]

Every little thing counts in a crisis. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889-1964, Indian Prime Minister
Typically, a ‘crisis’ involves chaos and confusion, and misrepresentation of facts and figures. Of course, today I’m referring to the communication on many levels in an organization. The hard fact is you never know with who and how you may have [...]