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		<title>A quick word on IMCC students visit to AlphaBricks Technologies</title>
		<link>http://sollerthoughts.com/2012/03/13/a-quick-word-on-imcc-students-visit-to-alphabricks-technologies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:53:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; As a part of the MavenGuru program, yesterday we took out our students for a visit to AlphaBricks Technologies. Overall, the visit was organized with a purpose of giving students a perspective of how work happens within the IT companies and making them understand the dynamics of corporate environment. During the visit, the students [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is little cheating now part of ethics?– Stories</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Story 1 Teacher to father of a primary class student : Your son today took a pencil from his friend’s pencil box without asking him. Father to teacher : I am so sorry teacher, I give him everything he needs so I am not sure why he would do it. I would ensure he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership Management – Learning leadership styles from Tom &amp; Jerry !</title>
		<link>http://sollerthoughts.com/2010/07/16/leadership-management-understanding-leadership-styles-part-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>swapnil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last blog post about the leadership management, I talked about how to understand right signals in the environment and how to excel in unknown situations. In this blog post, I would like to talk about another game that we played where the understand of the leadership styles was elaborated quite effectively. The game [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership Management – Understanding right signals &amp; responding accordingly !</title>
		<link>http://sollerthoughts.com/2010/06/29/leadership-management-understanding-right-signals-responding-accordingly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>swapnil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing from my posts about the Leadership management, here, in this article, I would like to touch base upon one interesting game that we played. The game was all about understanding how one should understand the situation when he / she gets into a new situation / team or a company. The game, as it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership Management – Identifying true self &amp; false persona !</title>
		<link>http://sollerthoughts.com/2010/06/18/leadership-management-identifying-true-self-false-persona/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 18:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>swapnil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last post about the leadership management, I wrote about the negotiating skills and how we, as humans, try to play for the win/lose situations when we are negotiating for our goals. It was interesting to reflect back on us again, as humans, on what makes us perform this kind of behaviour. This interesting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership management &#8211; Are you negotiating to win  .. at what cost ?</title>
		<link>http://sollerthoughts.com/2010/05/31/leadership-management-are-you-negotiating-to-win-at-what-cost/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 17:19:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>swapnil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last blog post where I wrote about the Leadership workshop I attended, I mentioned about two games that we played, one in group and other in pairs which effectively explains how the people perceive leadership as ‘GTD’ (get things done) only and the various styles the people apply for the same. I promised [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A day at an innovation festival ..</title>
		<link>http://sollerthoughts.com/2010/05/11/a-day-at-an-innovation-festival/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 18:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>swapnil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Its been a very very long time for me to write a post on my blog.&#160; Yeah, I admit.&#160; Call me lazy to write on my blog post or think of it as a lack of anything interesting happening around that prompted me to keep off the blog. Anyhow, today was a good day at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Practical Guide to Managing Innovation &#8211; By Robert Goldsmith</title>
		<link>http://sollerthoughts.com/2010/01/25/a-practical-guide-to-managing-innovation-by-robert-goldsmith/</link>
		<comments>http://sollerthoughts.com/2010/01/25/a-practical-guide-to-managing-innovation-by-robert-goldsmith/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>swapnil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Re-publishing from Forbes.com (Original link). &#160; What does innovation mean? It used to relate mainly to products, and that&#8217;s still important. But over the last decade or so, businesses have been putting more and more emphasis on innovating new services and business models as well. In light of this, it’s time companies take another look [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be LEAN .. this year !</title>
		<link>http://sollerthoughts.com/2010/01/24/be-lean-this-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>swapnil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; In last few days I have been fortunate enough to participate in the workshop for LEAN service framework. And thus, I am trying to share my experiences and learning on LEAN here. The LEAN framework originates from the manufacturing system developed by Toyota called Toyota Production System [TPS] that pursues the principle of optimum [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Technology for business .. or vice versa?</title>
		<link>http://sollerthoughts.com/2009/05/08/technology-for-business-or-vice-versa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 14:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>swapnil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the post I recollected from my very very early days of blogging (read year 2003) and was in response to one of the debates we had in our group of office colleagues. I guess pretty much I said that time about 6 years ago looks rubbish to me now anyways .. however I [...]]]></description>
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