Intek Vision 2100

Vol 6, Issue No. 2
February 2007

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Mergers and Acquisitions
Managerial Skills
Decision Making

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Book of the Month
Motivational Quotes
Intek's Q&A Forum
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Training Calendar
2007

Training Workshops in UAE, Saudi Arabia and Singapore



Book of the Month




Monthly Quote
“Little minds . . . are subdued by misfortune . . . Great minds rise above them”
Washington Irving, writer



Motivational Quotes



Corporate Humor



 
Stress Management

1. Don’t forget to take a lunch break. Try to get away from your desk or work area in body and mind, even if its just for 15 or 20 minutes.

2. Forget about counting to 10. Count to 1,000 before doing something or saying anything that could make matters worse.

3. Have a forgiving view of events and people. Accept the fact that we live in an imperfect world.



February Birthdays

Wishing all our Participants a very
Happy Birthday
"Do we know your Birthday?"



 

 


Health Tips








Intek understands the importance and growing demand of IT Professionals in the world. Therefore, looking at the interest and bright future of the society, and the high costs demanded by various IT institutes,  Intek proudly offers 'Free IT Training' for 'Deserving Individuals'.




Get your questions solved from Intek's Q & A Forum
 


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Dear Friends

Thank you for all the encouraging emails you sent to me, in response to my new television show. Your kind words of appreciation have truly moved me.

In retrospect, I am thinking of myself, only as a channel to reach millions who are struggling night and day to overcome the challenges in their lives, whether physical, mental or emotional. Life holds for us many ups and downs, but we should keep in mind that everything is transitional; Pain is transitory, Joy is transitory. Look around yourself, there are changes going on all around. Days, seasons, global factors, political situations, our moods, our depressions, our emotions. The world/ reality around us is as alive as the world inside us and usually there has to be a balance of the two, sometimes due to our own misery, we see the world crumbling around us. Doesn’t that mean though that we can reverse our misfortunes any time we put our minds to it.

Once we put our minds to it that life is continually evolving and we have to go through various phases of highs and lows to grow, the journey becomes a little lighter. The key to it is, not staying down in the snake pit, but picking up our pieces and starting afresh.

"If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down." — Mary Pickford (1893-1979)

The difference between losers and successful people is the amount of time, they spend brooding in their misery. Every plateau in our lives is an opportunity for us to assess our situation and make changes accordingly. Changing the course of our journey as and when required. It is a delicate balance between flexibility and persistence, self-discipline and creativity. Self-discipline to stick with the direction we have set, or to purposefully change it, allows us to persist every day on our journey. Note that purposefully changing our course, is perfectly okay. Drifting away is not.

Even as I write this , I find myself questioning whether I am practicing what I am recommending. So, consider the pursuit of happiness and success in work and life - a journey involving ‘learning, unlearning and relearning’ (Alan Toffler)

Always look forward to your suggestions / feedback which helps the Intek team to continually improve this Ezine.

Zaufyshan Haseeb
and The Intek Family
 


 

Idea of the month

Goal Driven Reasoning

Are you focused on what you want to reach? Or rather on what you don't want? The power of "positive thinking" consists in finding a positively stated goal. Bill Gates gives a nice example in his book "Business @ the speed of thought": "The goal of IT is making money! Do NOT concentrate on keeping IT costs low, BUT evaluate the expenses in terms of effectivity: how much do you gain?"

The same goes for whatever other expense you make. Some EQ warning: evaluate in terms of money, AND also whether the purchase gives you a good feeling. Ask yourself the question: "Suppose I made the expense, and it's in place, so that I can fully profit from its effects. Do I really enjoy this effect, or do I conclude that after all it wasn't as nice as I expected? (in NeuroLinguistics, this second step is called a "Future pace")

 

 

Case of the month

Improve your perception about vision

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 ...


click here to read more

 

Mergers and Acquisitions

Post Merger Organization Design

Under the best of circumstances, designing a new organization is a complex assignment, difficult to get right. And mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions rarely offer the best of circumstances. While they present certain opportunities for one-stroke organizational transformation, the offsetting pressure, stakes and potential strategic pitfalls are extremely high.

Nevertheless, designing a new organization under M&A conditions can be done, and when it is, the returns can be substantial. Postmerger organization design can tangibly help M&A transactions deliver on their original strategic propositions.

Traditionally regarded as a "soft" discipline (if it was recognized at all), post merger organization design has matured enough in concept and execution technique to drive sustained high performance, as measured in "hard" metrics. In an era when two out of every three mergers underperform, this is no small matter.

A Matured Discipline
The basic conceptual assumptions of post-merger organization design are straightforward. First, ...


click here to read more


 

 

Managerial Skills

The Art of Skillful Delegation

Delegation is a skill of which we have all heard - but which few understand. It can be used either as an excuse for dumping failure onto the shoulders of subordinates, or as a dynamic tool for motivating and training your team to realize their full potential.


"I delegate myne auctorite" (Palsgrave 1530)

Everyone knows about delegation. Most managers hear about it in the cradle as mother talks earnestly to the baby-sitter: "just enjoy the television ... this is what you do if ... if there is any trouble call me at ..."; people have been writing about it for nearly half a millennium; yet few actually understand it.

Delegation underpins a style of management which allows your staff to use and develop their skills and knowledge to the full potential. Without delegation, you lose their full value.

As the ancient quotation above suggests, delegation is primarily about entrusting your authority to others. This means that they can act and initiate independently; and that they assume responsibility with you for certain tasks. If something goes wrong, you remain responsible since you are the manager; the trick is to delegate in such a way that things get done but do not go (badly) wrong.....
 

click here to read more

 

Decision Making

Psychology & Behavioural Finance

Much of economic and financial theory is based on the notion that individuals act rationally and consider all available information in the decision-making process. However, researchers have uncovered a surprisingly large amount of evidence that this is frequently not the case. Dozens of examples of irrational behavior and repeated errors in judgement have been documented in academic studies. Peter L. Bernstein in Against The Gods states that the evidence "reveals repeated patterns of irrationality, inconsistency, and incompetence in the ways human beings arrive at decisions and choices when faced with uncertainty."

A field known as "behavioral finance" has evolved that attempts to better understand and explain how emotions and cognitive errors influence investors and the decision-making process. Many researchers believe that the study of psychology and other social sciences can shed considerable light on the efficiency of financial markets as well as explain many stock market anomalies, market bubbles, and crashes. As an example, some believe that the outperformance of value investing results from investor's irrational overconfidence in exciting growth companies and from the fact that investors generate pleasure and pride from owning growth stocks. Many researchers (not all) believe that these humans flaws are consistent, predictable, and can be exploited for profit. .....

click here to read more

 

 



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Every subscriber or recipient or visitor may copy, reprint, or forward this compilation of material by Intek to friends, colleagues, or customers, as long as any use is not for resale or profit

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Editor-in-Chief: Zaufyshan Haseeb

 


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Watch Food Cures with Zaufyshan
Every Thursday on GEO TV Nadia Khan Show




Happy Valentine's Day




Training Planner
2007






Life Skills
by Haseeb Hasan


 



Intek's Upcoming workshops

Management Development Program

To equip participants with effective managing tools with regard to Goal Setting, Delegation Skills, Team Building, Leadership, Time Management, Communication, Stress Management and Motivation
For more details...




Sales Excellence Workshop

This workshop aims at motivating participants to increase short-term and long-term sales by equipping them with Effective Closing Techniques. Topics include Negotiation skills, Communication Skills, Presentations, Role Plays, Follow Up, Belief in Products, Motivation etc.

A highly motivational journey!
For more details...



 

Advance Presentations Skills -  Workshop

Participants enhance their professional image and influencing skills during presentations. The workshop focuses on participant's presentation styles and reinforces advance body language and communication techniques to impact audiences. Projection of technical data using graphs, charts and building persuasive deliveries is the essence of this program. 'Camcorder' (Playback) is also used for self-evaluation.
For more details...


 

Supervisory Management Skills
Workshop

Professionals who have a desire to improve upon their managing skills, yet be focused on their own progress. Technical professionals, who wish to acquire interpersonal managing techniques to extract the maximum from their teams. Executives, who need to equip themselves with the "Managing tools" to progress higher.
For more details...
 


 

A glimpse of Intek's
Previous Workshops

Effective Managerial Skills Workshop

Customised for
Al Mazroui Medical & Chemical Supplies
January 11th - 13th 2007, Radisson SAS Hotel Sharjah
 

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Intek Vision 2100

Vol 6, Issue No. 2
February 2007

Home

About Us

Clientele

Contact Us

Management Training

Consultancy

Climate Surveys

Tailor-Made Programs

Articles

Idea of the month
Case of the month
Mergers and Acquisitions
Managerial Skills
Decision Making

Resources

Book of the Month
Motivational Quotes
Intek's Q&A Forum
Free Resource


Training Calendar
2007

Training Workshops in UAE, Saudi Arabia and Singapore



Book of the Month




Monthly Quote
“Little minds . . . are subdued by misfortune . . . Great minds rise above them”
Washington Irving, writer



Motivational Quotes



Corporate Humor



 
Stress Management

1. Don’t forget to take a lunch break. Try to get away from your desk or work area in body and mind, even if its just for 15 or 20 minutes.

2. Forget about counting to 10. Count to 1,000 before doing something or saying anything that could make matters worse.

3. Have a forgiving view of events and people. Accept the fact that we live in an imperfect world.



February Birthdays

Wishing all our Participants a very
Happy Birthday
"Do we know your Birthday?"



 

 


Health Tips








Intek understands the importance and growing demand of IT Professionals in the world. Therefore, looking at the interest and bright future of the society, and the high costs demanded by various IT institutes,  Intek proudly offers 'Free IT Training' for 'Deserving Individuals'.




Get your questions solved from Intek's Q & A Forum
 


Do you want to contribute an article?
Please write to us at newsletter@intekworld.com
(The editor has the prerrogative to accept or decline any article)




Free
Web Evaluation




Gift this Ezine
to a friend




Article Archives



 

 


Dear Friends

Thank you for all the encouraging emails you sent to me, in response to my new television show. Your kind words of appreciation have truly moved me.

In retrospect, I am thinking of myself, only as a channel to reach millions who are struggling night and day to overcome the challenges in their lives, whether physical, mental or emotional. Life holds for us many ups and downs, but we should keep in mind that everything is transitional; Pain is transitory, Joy is transitory. Look around yourself, there are changes going on all around. Days, seasons, global factors, political situations, our moods, our depressions, our emotions. The world/ reality around us is as alive as the world inside us and usually there has to be a balance of the two, sometimes due to our own misery, we see the world crumbling around us. Doesn’t that mean though that we can reverse our misfortunes any time we put our minds to it.

Once we put our minds to it that life is continually evolving and we have to go through various phases of highs and lows to grow, the journey becomes a little lighter. The key to it is, not staying down in the snake pit, but picking up our pieces and starting afresh.

"If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down." — Mary Pickford (1893-1979)

The difference between losers and successful people is the amount of time, they spend brooding in their misery. Every plateau in our lives is an opportunity for us to assess our situation and make changes accordingly. Changing the course of our journey as and when required. It is a delicate balance between flexibility and persistence, self-discipline and creativity. Self-discipline to stick with the direction we have set, or to purposefully change it, allows us to persist every day on our journey. Note that purposefully changing our course, is perfectly okay. Drifting away is not.

Even as I write this , I find myself questioning whether I am practicing what I am recommending. So, consider the pursuit of happiness and success in work and life - a journey involving ‘learning, unlearning and relearning’ (Alan Toffler)

Always look forward to your suggestions / feedback which helps the Intek team to continually improve this Ezine.

Zaufyshan Haseeb
and The Intek Family
 


 

Idea of the month

Goal Driven Reasoning

Are you focused on what you want to reach? Or rather on what you don't want? The power of "positive thinking" consists in finding a positively stated goal. Bill Gates gives a nice example in his book "Business @ the speed of thought": "The goal of IT is making money! Do NOT concentrate on keeping IT costs low, BUT evaluate the expenses in terms of effectivity: how much do you gain?"

The same goes for whatever other expense you make. Some EQ warning: evaluate in terms of money, AND also whether the purchase gives you a good feeling. Ask yourself the question: "Suppose I made the expense, and it's in place, so that I can fully profit from its effects. Do I really enjoy this effect, or do I conclude that after all it wasn't as nice as I expected? (in NeuroLinguistics, this second step is called a "Future pace")

 

 

Case of the month

Improve your perception about vision

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 ...


click here to read more

 

Mergers and Acquisitions

Post Merger Organization Design

Under the best of circumstances, designing a new organization is a complex assignment, difficult to get right. And mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions rarely offer the best of circumstances. While they present certain opportunities for one-stroke organizational transformation, the offsetting pressure, stakes and potential strategic pitfalls are extremely high.

Nevertheless, designing a new organization under M&A conditions can be done, and when it is, the returns can be substantial. Postmerger organization design can tangibly help M&A transactions deliver on their original strategic propositions.

Traditionally regarded as a "soft" discipline (if it was recognized at all), post merger organization design has matured enough in concept and execution technique to drive sustained high performance, as measured in "hard" metrics. In an era when two out of every three mergers underperform, this is no small matter.

A Matured Discipline
The basic conceptual assumptions of post-merger organization design are straightforward. First, ...


click here to read more


 

 

Managerial Skills

The Art of Skillful Delegation

Delegation is a skill of which we have all heard - but which few understand. It can be used either as an excuse for dumping failure onto the shoulders of subordinates, or as a dynamic tool for motivating and training your team to realize their full potential.


"I delegate myne auctorite" (Palsgrave 1530)

Everyone knows about delegation. Most managers hear about it in the cradle as mother talks earnestly to the baby-sitter: "just enjoy the television ... this is what you do if ... if there is any trouble call me at ..."; people have been writing about it for nearly half a millennium; yet few actually understand it.

Delegation underpins a style of management which allows your staff to use and develop their skills and knowledge to the full potential. Without delegation, you lose their full value.

As the ancient quotation above suggests, delegation is primarily about entrusting your authority to others. This means that they can act and initiate independently; and that they assume responsibility with you for certain tasks. If something goes wrong, you remain responsible since you are the manager; the trick is to delegate in such a way that things get done but do not go (badly) wrong.....
 

click here to read more

 

Decision Making

Psychology & Behavioural Finance

Much of economic and financial theory is based on the notion that individuals act rationally and consider all available information in the decision-making process. However, researchers have uncovered a surprisingly large amount of evidence that this is frequently not the case. Dozens of examples of irrational behavior and repeated errors in judgement have been documented in academic studies. Peter L. Bernstein in Against The Gods states that the evidence "reveals repeated patterns of irrationality, inconsistency, and incompetence in the ways human beings arrive at decisions and choices when faced with uncertainty."

A field known as "behavioral finance" has evolved that attempts to better understand and explain how emotions and cognitive errors influence investors and the decision-making process. Many researchers believe that the study of psychology and other social sciences can shed considerable light on the efficiency of financial markets as well as explain many stock market anomalies, market bubbles, and crashes. As an example, some believe that the outperformance of value investing results from investor's irrational overconfidence in exciting growth companies and from the fact that investors generate pleasure and pride from owning growth stocks. Many researchers (not all) believe that these humans flaws are consistent, predictable, and can be exploited for profit. .....

click here to read more

 

 



Company Profile | Trainers' Profiles
Management Workshops | Self Development
Corporate Branches
| Home


 


About this E-Zine

Every subscriber or recipient or visitor may copy, reprint, or forward this compilation of material by Intek to friends, colleagues, or customers, as long as any use is not for resale or profit

You are receiving this message because you have subscribed to Intek's E-zine at Intek Solutions and are on our mailing list. If at any point you wish to remove yourself from our list, go to the Subscribe / Unsubscribe page and select the appropriate option. All enquiries will be sent to the Editor.
 

Editor-in-Chief: Zaufyshan Haseeb

 


What services does
Intek offer?





Watch Food Cures with Zaufyshan
Every Thursday on GEO TV Nadia Khan Show




Happy Valentine's Day




Training Planner
2007






LifeSkills
by Haseeb Hasan

 



A glimpse of Intek's
Previous Workshops

Effective Managerial Skills Workshop

Customised for
Al Mazroui Medical & Chemical Supplies
January 11th - 13th 2007, Radisson SAS Hotel Sharjah



Intek's Upcoming workshops

Management Development Program

To equip participants with effective managing tools with regard to Goal Setting, Delegation Skills, Team Building, Leadership, Time Management, Communication, Stress Management and Motivation
For more details...




Sales Excellence Workshop

This workshop aims at motivating participants to increase short-term and long-term sales by equipping them with Effective Closing Techniques. Topics include Negotiation skills, Communication Skills, Presentations, Role Plays, Follow Up, Belief in Products, Motivation etc.

A highly motivational journey!
For more details...



 

Advance Presentations Skills -  Workshop

Participants enhance their professional image and influencing skills during presentations. The workshop focuses on participant's presentation styles and reinforces advance body language and communication techniques to impact audiences. Projection of technical data using graphs, charts and building persuasive deliveries is the essence of this program. 'Camcorder' (Playback) is also used for self-evaluation.
For more details...


 

Supervisory Management Skills
Workshop

Professionals who have a desire to improve upon their managing skills, yet be focused on their own progress. Technical professionals, who wish to acquire interpersonal managing techniques to extract the maximum from their teams. Executives, who need to equip themselves with the "Managing tools" to progress higher.
For more details...

 

Monthly E-zine

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