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Good leadership isn't about advancing yourself. It's about advancing your team. John C. Maxwell

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Unofficial Salary Survey of eLearning/Content Development Jobs – 2008

May 29, 2008
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| Categories: eLearning, Instructional Design, Jobs, Salary, Survey

Update: See 2009 elearning and content development salary data here.Last year I initiated the unofficial salary survey for elearning and content development jobs in India on my blog. I invited responses as comments on my blog post. The post got 10 unique responses. While the number of responses were not enough to consolidate and provide any trends, what was apparent was that the elearning salary range in India is quite varied. One year down the line, it will be interesting to know what’s the situation now. What are the salaries…

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Innovation, Quality and Failure

May 16, 2008
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| Categories: Innovation, Quality, Workplace Learning

There is an interesting discussion ongoing in our internal (behind the firewall) blog. It is getting interesting and I thought I would get some wider perspectives on this subject.My colleague writes:Innovation is a messy process where different alternatives need to be tried before we really get something new and useful. For one success there will be many failures. "Innovation" without some "Failure" is not feasible. Therefore, the system has to nurture failureOn the other hand "Quality" is about delivering on time, every time. "Failure" is not an option. Therefore, the…

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And the point of war is???

May 14, 2008
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| Categories: Life

60 people were killed and 150 injured in a series of terrorist blasts in Jaipur, Rajasthan in India. I don't know what anyone is trying to prove with these attacks.War does not decide who is RIGHT, it decides who is LEFT.I light a candle for all those who lost their lives and were injured.If you feel these attacks are pointless, please light a candle on your blog/site.Photo from FreeFoto.com.

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Cool Visual Search Engines

May 14, 2008
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| Categories: Search engines, Tools

I recently came across three really cool visual search engines. The first is Searchme. This is a search engine with Oomph. It has a cool Mac like interface of flipping through searched web pages. You can preview pages, even read a little bit as text. The search engine is a little slow though. And it doesn't return the large number of results as say a Google does. But it sure has a great interface. The second is even better. Addictomatic searches the best live sites on the web for the…

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New Blog Name

May 11, 2008
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| Categories: Announcement

I am renaming this blog to "Life, The Universe and Everything about Learning and Content Development". Changed eLearning to Learning in the blog name.

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CEO and Corporate Blogging

May 11, 2008
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| Categories: Blogging, CEO blogging

Continuing with my writing about blogging, another interesting question before me is whether senior management should blog, and if so where, as in inside the firewall or have public blogs? There has been much written about CEO blogging and corporate blogs. In this post I list various sites I found, some I really liked.The big question that still remained for me is whether senior management should blog within the firewall or outside? Of course if they are connecting with the customers or partners, it is best to have a public…

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Better Blogging

May 10, 2008
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| Categories: Blogging

Recently, I have been asked about blogging a few times, both from friends and professionally. I was asked how to make your blog searchable, how do people find the blogs, can a blog be found by searching on Google or other search engines?There are so many really useful sites out there that teach you various tips and tricks of blogging that I really wondered what value I had to add. I am no authority in blogging, so IM’very’HO I shared my blogging experiences with them. It would be great to…

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Not just the “Scary Times” Success Manual

May 4, 2008
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Using Dave Ferguson’s three clicks out method I discovered I found ten strategies for transforming negativity and unpredictability into opportunities for growth, progress, and achievement that comes from Dan Sullivan's Strategic Coach.As I read through the ten strategies I wondered why these were only for the scary times like the recession. These are strategies that we should use even in the good times. I found these useful and similar to some of the things I base my life on.1. Forget about yourself, focus on others.Focus on helping others transform their…

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Academic Results vs. Workplace performance

April 27, 2008
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| Categories: Academic, performance, performance management, Workplace Learning

Is there a correlation between academic results and workplace performance? Any research or pointers to this subject?I am faced with a situation to try and solve the talent acquisition challenge for large IT organizations in India. One of the challenges is that for hiring fresh graduates, large IT organization work with a certain cut off marks (60%) in graduation. However I believe that this cut off is hampering their ability to tap into a large pool of talent who might do the job equally well. I would interested in hearing…

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