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Dear Friends
 Vacation time is drawing near
and we look at the pile of files on our desks and offer a silent
prayer, requesting the divine powers to grant us exceptional
strength to overcome this Herculean task.
Do not feel guilty at looking forward to the holiday, as we all
will be working really hard to recharge our batteries, pump up
the creative stores and release all the trapped negative energy
which coerces us to lash out at our team members or family
members throughout the year.
 It is the same destructive chi which keeps building stores
underneath a calm subterfuge of a very professional person of
the corporate world, yet malevolently transforms us to be ace
politicians, safe players with minimal risk taking, weak
decision makers and insecure with our livelihoods. A pretty
bleak picture of our daily lives. Well! Now the time has come to
remedy that…..
To empty our minds of this ceaseless chatter we need to go away
from the concrete jungles into an actual green forest. The
further away from the city life it is, the more beneficial it
will be. When we go deep into the forests on a trail, the forest
out there becomes the very essence of our existence and the
trail itself becomes a part of self-discovery; with the backdrop
of nature, all our senses are in complete harmony, giving way to
divine wisdom to encircle our physical plane
 bringing about
profound changes in our lives.
All the negative domination gives way to purified and cleansed
soul, providing the right perspective for our life ahead.
Wishing all our friends a happy, relaxing and rejuvenating
holiday. May you find the answers to all your queries amidst all
the elements of nature.
As always look forward to your
suggestions / feedback
which helps the Intek team to continually improve this Ezine.
Zaufyshan
Haseeb
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Idea of the month
Associating Ideas
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 In The
Society of Mind, Marvin Minsky writes:
"An idea with a single sense can lead you along only one track.
Then, if anything goes wrong, it just gets stuck- a thought that sits in
your mind with nowhere to go."
Connect any idea you have to other things you know, see to what this
inspires you. Not only will this give you different ways to go (so if
the first solution doesn't work, you can solve the problem another way),
but it may lead to other ideas, even richer than the first you can up
with.
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Case
of the month
Improving your vision about perception
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 Most
people with university degrees wear glasses. It seems to be a fact of
live. The more you use your eyes, the worse they get. Now, is this
really so? Some compelling evidence that the truth may offer other
options promoted this subject to "case of the month".
Factors decreasing "good sight"
The theory above that your eyes get worse as you grow older dates from
more than 200 years ago. The "official line" is that you can't do
anything about it, except wear glasses, lenses or laser treatment. At
the turn of the century William H. Bates, a Medical Doctor, began to
question this "official line". Finding out
...
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Self Development
9 Strategies For Regaining Your Work Life Balance
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 I like working with
independent professionals and artists because of the way the work life
balance shows itself in our lives - for us, life, work, and business exist
in a nexus from which we cannot easily extract our ways of loving, relating,
and making meaning. The challenges we face in business inform our personal
lives and personal challenges affect our businesses.
Rich as it is, the relationship between personal and professional life can
be rocky and maintaining the work life balance is often a tricky issue. I
experienced this recently when, within a few weeks of declaring some
audacious goals for my business, a routine mammogram turned up some
abnormalities. In the following weeks I had additional mammography, a
biopsy, and surgery, with the happy outcome that the abnormalities were
benign. I wanted to put the experience behind me and get back to work, full
speed ahead.
The problem was that ...
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Leadership
Role Modeling for Employees
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10 Tips For Taking Yourself
Seriously, So Your Employees Do, Too
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 Be on time every day.
It's your business. Lead by example.
Don't make a habit of leaving early. Your employees will resent you
if you walk out the door at three and call them from the gym at
five-thirty to check in.
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Don't go drinking with
your assistant. Or swap stories. Again, you're the adult now.
You need to set the example. What you do in your private time away
from the office should remain fodder for your peers, not your
subordinates.
Even when you're dying to tell someone about last night's disastrous
date, resist the urge.
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Don't ask them to do
anything that is not work-related. It's rude and fosters
resentment. This includes walking your dog, picking up your dry
cleaning, and buying your personal holiday presents, unless, of
course, the job is personal assistant.
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Don't let them...
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Managerial Skills
How to Set Boundaries with Problem Employees
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I'm Not your Mom, your Buddy, or your Shrink
 You’ve worked with them. The employee who plagues you with chronic
personal problems. The manager who constantly expects you to wave your
magic wand and make all his “people” problems disappear. The worker who
suddenly starts coming in late, making mistakes, and missing deadlines.
In short, the twenty percent of your employees who take up 80 percent of
your time.
Among the many hats human resource professionals are asked to wear,
unofficial company “shrink” is often one of them. This is both a
blessing and a curse. On the one hand, human resource professionals who
are empathic and available are much more likely to earn the trust of
their managers and employees – and to save their company millions of
dollars by resolving interpersonal complaints that could easily wind up
in a courtroom. On the other hand, it can be tough to know how to draw
the line between being empathic and enabling, not to mention carving out
enough time and emotional energy to get your other tasks done.
Believe me, I know how hard it is to set boundaries. Before I found a
way to ....
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