The Hindu Business Line : Monday, May 29, 2006

EMPLOYMENT
B-school hiring goes deeper
The country's second layer of B-schools, nearly 800 of them, are slowly coming into their own. Branded as catering more to the marriage market than the job market, these B-schools had to fight to get companies to visit them for campus hiring. And ... More

MANAGEMENT
Value and performance
Events on the stock markets show that value is almost mythical More

Why groups make bad decisions
Here's a look at the pros and cons of group decision-making. More

Leader Speak
Leadership is apparently a relatively easy attribute to recognise, but how do we go about defining it? Today, an acceptable definition of corporate leaders is "people who leave their footprints in their areas of passion." I believe the ... More

EDUCATION
In demand — specialised management courses
Courses that focus on a specific industry are growing in popularity More

INTERVIEW
`One is never too old to learn soft skills'
Meet Sarvesh Gulati, the chief of New Delhi-based Softspan (India) Pvt Ltd, and the author of Corporate Softskills. Soft skills, also known as `people skills', deal with many things. They include "communicating, listening, engaging in ... More

WORK LIFE
WORKPLACE HUMOUR
The name board
Working in the inspection department is normally considered monotonous with no scope for laughter and entertainment. But there are moments that are hilarious and relieve stress. Almost ten years ago, an inspection team of a bank from South India ... More

BOOKS
Questions wake people up
In Much Ado About Nothing, Beatrice insists, "We must follow the leaders." But what makes leaders so special that we must follow them? They find "the right questions by knowing what to ask," says Michael Marquardt in Leading with ... More