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Life is meaningful, only when one wishes to make it. We are creatures of time and we’ll wither away in it. The little moments of joy we find and create are all that will live with us.Archive for Business
Core Competency and Specializations
In this growing corporate world of cogs and gears we have an ever increasing desire to make things and people modular. So long as we speak about things – its ok… To add people in to the mix would be a mistake.
People are not designed with a repetitive nature. They appreciate discipline but not repetition. People can think, review and analyze. So long as people can do all that at work they become efficient but when a manager or a lead limits those capacities for short-term tacts and gains for the ease of control or quick deliverables – the approach bears very bitter fruits in time.
To make your people efficient at work – make the things they do modular, but not them. You will win them over.
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Departments and Functions
Often times we come across common perceptions that are misleading and vague.
People require a very focused and keen behavior at work and in life to succeed. That is essential.
There is a major difference in how we perceive the departments of a company and how we perceive functional nature of those departments. Both are very different.
A department is a group – a label to a collection of people that come together to become responsible and actionable towards its core function.
If you have a department in your company that does not focus on a core functional nature then that department is ineffective and non-productive and will remain so till a rigid framework is defined.
Departments should never be multifunctional. There should always be just one core function, if you seek to guarantee efficiency and success.
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Commerce, Trade or Business
A lot of people get confused about the merits of the differing terms of commerce, trade and business and use them interchangeably quite often, yet the three terms are entirely different.
Business is the overarching entity that holds within it commerce and trade.
Commerce is the buying and selling part alone. It’s an activity that can be performed not an entity that can be owned.
Trade is also the activity of buying and selling but it refers primarily to the exchange of high value and high quantity and mostly over long distances.
It is also an activity that can be performed not an entity that can be owned.
To own a business is to own an entity that has the capacity to conduct commerce or trade in goods and/or services.
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