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AP Chief Minister bags US India Biz Council award

Amaravati : Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has been selected for another prestigious award.  The US India Business Council has selected the CM for award of ‘Transformative Chief Minister’ and Naidu would be receiving coveted award at second annual West Coast summit which to be held in California on May 8. The CM has been requested to deliver his massage on the occasion and CM’s office received the message towards award function. Several prominent personalities and industrialists would attend the meeting. However, the CM would also take part in the interactions after the award function.

Harvard Graduates on Quora reveal key strategies that helped them get into world's top B-school

About 1 in 10 applicants were accepted last year at the  Harvard Business School , the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and  Wharton  – all of them are the top ranked  Business Schools  in the world.  What really distinguishes that one candidate who was accepted from the rest? Is there a way we can get sure-shot ways of knowing the parameter used for judging candidates during interviews? Maybe not.  But we can definitely get closer to perfection if we get an insider’s perspective, basically get to know about the kind of people who study at let’s say HBS, their qualities, their background and their personality.  So we collated answers from the posts of several Quora users, who also happen to be studying or ex-graduates from HBS, as they shared valuable information about what could help you to land into the world’s top B-school. Here are some key points that caught our attention:  Apply by your mid 20's:   HBS students are actually younger than the student

20 B2B Technologies To Try In 2017

In the tech world, headlines are more often than not generated by consumer-oriented startups. Companies creating disruptive products for businesses, however, often attract even greater interest from investors than their B2C brethren. One reason for this is that B2B tech companies’ customers are far more likely to actually pay them – and pay them a lot. The 20 enterprise technology companies below are tackling a wide variety of problems from workplace communication to backend data management. What they have in common is that they are all producing significant value for their B2B customers. Here are 20 technologies for businesses to try out in 2017: A large fingerprint motif sits on a display wall at the Dermalog Identification Systems GmbH pavilion at the CeBIT 2017 tech fair Asana As workplace collaboration software has proliferated, two breeds of programs have emerged. One kind is expensive and fully functioned. It is sold to managers and implemented from the top down. The o

Watch Out, Corporate Learning: Here Comes Disruption

The corporate training market, which is over $130 billion in size, is about to be disrupted. Companies are starting to move away from their Learning Management Systems (LMS), buy all sorts of new tools for digital learning, and rebuild a whole new infrastructure to help employees learn. And the impact of GSuite,  Microsoft Teams, Slack, and Workplace by Facebook could be enormous. Consider the following: in Deloitte's most recent research among 700-plus business and HR professionals, corporate L&D received a net-promoter score of -8. This is about as low as it can go. Why the unhappiness? Quite simply because it's so easy to find instructional content on the internet (YouTube, Lynda.com, Coursera, Udacity, Udemy, the list goes on and on) yet inside of companies the options are very poor. The primary reason? Most corporate learning environments are built around an older corporate LMS, that only really manages compliance and formal training well. I'm not saying th

Five Interview Questions To Stop Asking -- And Five To Ask Instead

If your job description includes interviewing job candidates, here are five questions to scratch off your interview script immediately: 1. What's your greatest weakness? 2. Where do you see yourself in five years? 3. What's your greatest failure so far? 4. With all the talented candidates, why should we hire you? 5. What would your last boss say about you? What do these five questions have in common? They all ask a job-seeker to dance and prance and prove to you that they deserve a chance at the job. Asking people to dance and prance is not a business skill. It has no place in the professional world. Whether you intend them to or not, these five questions all reinforce the unhealthy and bad-for-business viewpoint that the employer is mighty and a job applicant is nothing. It is none of our business what a job-seeker's greatest weakness is. It is only a cultural belief that people have weaknesses. What is a weakness, anyway? It's something t