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The Softer Side of Social Media

Do we give too much importance to technical knowledge of social media or the hard skills? In my opinion soft skills are more important for social media. The mass media is more of a hard (hardsell) media while social media is more of a soft media. To read more, click here:- The Softer Side of Social Media

Spiritual Tools for Material Success

Spiritual Tools for Material Success

PET-A Formula for Mega Success

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PET stands for Passion, Effort and Time. If you are ambitious and want to succeed at national/international levels, PET is the formula for Mega Success. To know more click here:- PET-A Formula for Mega Success

Multiple Pressures Lead to Clouded Thinking

Pressure can be so damaging to us. We are not even realizing the damage caused by excessive pressures. The aggregate burden of multiple pressures is making us unhappy, causing clouded thinking, disconnecting us from our deeper selves, killing our creativity and stopping us from living our dreams:- For more:- Various pressures lead to clouded thinking

A Brand Called Me

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Radhika Raj of Hindustan Times has come up with a good story on Personal Branding looking at both the pros and the cons. The story also talks of the four pioneers of Personal Branding in India. Here are my answers to the cons or the objections raised by some experts against personal branding. Criticism 1 “A personal brand has an impact on society and also creates an experience like Mother Teresa or Mahatma Gandhi” Nabankur Gupta Answer Yes, a personal brand should have an impact on society. But it is not necessary to have as big as an impact like Gandhi or Teresa. After all we have global brands, national brands and regional brands in products too.  Interestingly earlier a person first became a regional brand, then national and then went global. But today due to internet the scenario has changed. You can become a global brand in one year’s time though in a niche area without going through the traditional path and becoming a regional brand f...

Music Makes us Great-Two Opinions

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'Uncovering our Greatness' is a monthly column on becoming a great human being and has two opinions on the subject from western and eastern part of the world viz. Michael Thallium from Spain and Dr Amit Nagpal from India. Michael Thallium’s opinion Michael Thallium is a global and greatness coach based in Spain. Michael has spent many years of his life traveling around many countries and continents, sailing the seas, flying the skies all over the world. Since 2008 he is dedicated to his passions viz. coaching, language & communication and music. I had never written an article this way before. I am writing it at 35,239 feet high and about 7 hours from my final destination - this is at least what the screen says, while we are flying somewhere over Greenland. I would have liked to start writing it earlier, when we were crossing the skies over the Atlantic Ocean, but it has not been until now, that I opened my laptop and began to write. Anyway, it does not matter...

Recession and Personal Branding

Can we do something to safeguard our job during recession? Can we take some precautionary measures to avoid unemployment during recessionary stage? Can personal branding pay dividends during recession? Here are some answers:- Recession and Personal Branding