MANAGING A SELFISH BOSS

1. A selfish boss always talks about himself.

2. For coping with him, concentrate on departmental work without disturbing him.

3. For a winning strategy, help him in his side business.

MANAGING A CORRUPT BOSS

1. A corrupt boss tends to make money from all sources.

2. He also lectures on integrity frequently.

3. For coping with him, be careful while signing important papers having financial implications.

4. Take casual leave, also called convenient leave, when such papers are due for signature.

5. For a winning strategy, lose money when playing bridge with him.

MANAGING A WORKAHOLIC BOSS

1. A workaholic boss burns the midnight oil on a regular basis.

2. He is highly comfortable with paperwork.

3. For coping with him, refer all decision-making to him, including granting of leave to your own peon.

4. For a winning strategy, flood him with all sorts of papers, relevant or irrelevant.

5. Acquire excellent skills in written communication, and have a minimum of two sevretaries to churn out report after report for the boss.

MANAGING A KNOW-ALL BOSS

1. A know-all boss can talk on any subject under the sun - from biotechnology to supply-side economics.

2. For coping with him, lsten attentively to all his crap.

3. For a winning strategy, listen and praise the profundity of all his statements and opinions.

EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP

1. Delegate authority

2. Make definite assignments

3. Supervise by results.

4. Minimize detaled ordering

5. Use low pressure.

6. Train subordinates.

7. Spend your time on long-range problems

FIRST IMPRESSION IS THE BEST IMPRESSION

1. Dress the way society expects you to dress.
2. Take care of your dental and personal hygiene.
3. Make a serious effort both to listen well and speak well.
4. Communicate through intelligent vocabulary.
5. Know your strengths and weaknesses.
6. Set your personal goals within an achievable time frame.

HOW NOT TO ANNOY YOUR BOSS

1. Don't show up for work sometime between breakfast and lunch.
2. Don't try to outshine your boss's outside activities.
3. Don't try to update your boss's absolute store of knowledge.
4. Don't invite the boss home for dinner till he invites you to your own home.
5. Don't throw your voice where it doesn't belong.
6. Don't put words into your boss's mouth or finish his sentences for him.
7. Don't blurt out whatever comes to mind in front of your boss.
8. Don't remind your boss about your technical knowledge if he has not.

HOW TO FACE UP TO YOUR SUPERIORS

1. Think fast.
2. Avoid confrontation.
3. Handle pressure by being up to date.
4. Be concise while talking, writing and presenting.
5. Be articulate.
6. Be polite but not loose.

HOW TO EASE PRESSURE IN A JOB

1. Don't over-react to crises.
2. Don't take things personally.
3. Don't worry about things beyond your control.
4. Don't over-organize your job time.
5. Learn to recognize your own tension symptoms.
6. Rotate the tyres of your mind by changing the nature and pattern of your work rhythm.
7. Tackle someone else's problems occassionally.
8. Give your mind a rest by putting your body to work.

COMMON KEY FACTORS IN SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE

COMMON KEY FACTORS IN SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE

1. Initiative
2. Enthusiasm
3. Energy
4. Self-confidence
5. Communication
6. Credibility
7. Reliability
8. Honesty
9. Trust worthiness
10. Efficiency
11. Motivation

HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE

1. Don't criticise, condemn or complain.
2. Give honest, sincere appreciation.
3. Arouse an eager want in the other person.
4. Become genuinely interested in other people.
5. Make the other person feel important and do it sincerely.
6. Show respect for the other person's opinions.
7. Never tell a person he is wrong.
8. Begin in a friendly way.
9. Get the other person saying "yes, yes" immediately.
10. Let the other person feel that the idea is his.
11. Appeal to the nobler motives of the person.
12. Call attention to people's mistakes politely and promptly.
13. Talk about your own mistakes before commenting on the other person.
14. Ask questions instead of giving direct orders.
15. Let the other person save his face.

HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING

1. Don't imitate others, find yourself and be yourself.
2. Clear your desk of all papers except those relating to the immediate problem at hand.
3. Do things in the order of their importance.
4. When you face a problem, solve it then and there if you have the facts necessary to make a decision.
5. Learn to organize, deputize and supervise.
6. Learn to relax at your work.
7. Put enthusiasm into your work.
8. Count your blessings - not your troubles.
9. Remember that unjust criticism is often a disguised complement.
10. Do the very best you can.

EFFECTIVE READING

1. Draw, arrest and hold attention.
2. Communicate with yourself first.
3. Set your work atmosphere for congenial reading.
4. Read to remember.
5. Identify your area on what to read.
6. Do precis-making mentally simultaneously.
7. Don't pretend to read.
8. Do mental filing of what you read for a deferred use.
9. Don't read your own meanings in the text.
10. While reading, lift, sort and discrimminate reading materials of the text.
11. Reading well keeps you unruffled.
12. Don't have pre-conceived notions while reading.
13. Allow a second reading to yourself if your comprehension of the subject goes down.
14. Identify lead-words and guide-phrases.
15. Don't overindulge in reading.

EFFECTIVE SPEAKING

1. Pay attention to your opening remarks, which should produce curiosity about the subject in your audience.
2. Pay attention to the contents and quality of your speech.
3. Pay attention to your language, fluency, speed and proper modulation of your speech.
4. Pay attention to your postures, gestures, actions, movements and your contact with the audience, which should all be congruent, and conveying self-confidence.
5. Pay attention to your closing remarks, which should project conclusion about the subject.
6. Pay attention to the length of your speech, keeping the time allotted in your mind.
7. Cultivate a long and good breath while speaking, creating your own natural pauses for fresh intake of breath.

RESPONSE

1. Life is 10% what really happens; 90% is how you react.
2. We are free to choose our response in any given situation, but are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.
3. Our actions that are governed by right principles bring positive results, but when we go against the right principles and act, then comes negative results.
4. Dishonesty in dealing can bring social consequences, depending on whether or not we are found out, and also our natural consequences fix result of our actions (Karma).
5. That means our choice of response, in a way, is our choice of consequence(s).
6. The important and decisive factor in life is not what happens to us, but the attitude we take towards what happens.