DailyPost 117 NON EXPERT PUBLIC SPEAKERS – the challenge is within. An expert is a professional. For his pre-eminence in his field he is invited to speak in professional and public forums. His job is neatly cut out and he performs his public speaking assignment professionally and effectively. The back end knowledge and expertise remains […]
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DailyPost 116 DO TOPICS MATTER! I have a taken a ringside view of conferences / workshops / seminars for quite sometime now. Missing the topic seems to be endemic amongst speakers at all levels. More often than not, the inaugural and the concluding sessions keynote speakers miss out on the theme of the conference itself.
DailyPost 115 Program Budgeting can show the way. Our tryst with expenditure budgeting is too well known to be elaborated one more time. Needless to say, it needs a paradigm shift sooner than later, to bring the budgeting mechanism back on rails in tune with the spelt out goals and capability to deliver. This
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DailyPost 114 PURPOSE Taking a cue from the ailing process, what becomes so conspicuous is the lack of purpose . Purpose can both provide the larger background for the goal and also the path to reach the desired goal. Without purpose there is no fulfilment, which we all agree is what our life is all
DailyPost 113 WE FOR THE PROCESS OR THE PROCESS FOR US When we talk of any decision being taken or of the progress of the project or literally anything in any big organization, we blame it to the delay in the process. It is vicious cycle. Time and cost overruns, so endemic to our system,
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DailyPost 112 EDITING – An art, a competency, a vision or a tool. There is nothing unedited in life. Editing is the capability to cut and stitch a dress of your choice, out of the raw textile being provided to you. The impact of an editor, we experience daily, without even realizing of it. In
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DailyPost 111 Where is the ‘INTELLIGENCE’ Russian hacking and the President elect Trump’s not buying the intelligence story has put the US Intelligence Agencies / fraternity into one of its kind embarrassing situation, which they would find difficult to come out. The nature of intelligence collection, its analysis, the immense role of the human element
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DailyPost 110 MAN – MACHINE SYMBIOSIS THE FUTURE OF COMPUTING The victory of IBM’s Watson over Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings in quiz show Jeopardy in 2011 marked the beginning of a new era in machine learning, deep learning & artificial intelligence. It redefined what a machine can do and opened innumerable and even unimaginable
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DailyPost 109 TO RULE IS LAW Rule of law is a working legal concept & philosophy, which needs to be ingrained in the psyche of individuals, organisations and governments to provide an enabling ecosystem for its practice. With govts reach and outreach being questioned, NGOs moved in to fill the gap and together, the reach,
DailyPost 108 WITH EMOTIONS WE COME & WITH EMOTIONS WE GO Barrack Obama made his final emotional assault on the American public and the world, in his farewell speech, with his trademark flair, finesse and finality, in the same way as he began his presidential career. The interregnum cannot be treated as bright and certainly
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DailyPost 107 AT THE INTERSECTION OF TECHNOLOGY & HUMANITIES TECHNOLOGY Technology and humanities as two distinct entities we have grappled with all our lives. It’s make believe distinction and that’s now neither the techies nor the humanities types have been able to deliver. We live in an enmeshed world and the solutions to our societal
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