Closing a Sales Call - Some more suggestions

By Steve W. Martin, Faculty sales strategy at the USC Marshall School of Business. His latest book: Heavy Hitter Sales Psychology: How to Penetrate the C-level Executive Suite and Convince Company Leaders to Buy.

Blog post on HBR Blogs 14.12.2011

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/12/how_to_close_a_sales_call.html

Roald Amundsen's expedition to South Pole - Leadership Lesson

Blog post by Kishore Sengupta and Ludo Van der Heyden, professors at INSEAD, an international business school with campuses in France and Singapore onHBR blogs


http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/12/the_leadership_lessons_of_the.html

Tips for Managing Milennials

The millennials are employees born between 1980 and 2000, or 1981 and 1999, depending on the author.


Tips for managing them based on their traits.

http://humanresources.about.com/od/managementtips/a/millenials.htm

Collaborative Consumption - on the Rise

Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers examined the rise of this new cultural and economic phenomenon in a new book, What’s Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption (HarperBusiness/HarperCollins Publishers, 2010).




http://www.amanet.org/training/articles/Motto-for-the-21st-Century-Whats-Mine-Is-Yours.aspx

Mose Baer Clean Energy Limited Commissioned 30 MW Solar Farm - October 2011

One of the world's largest solar power developers is MBCEL.

It commissioned 30MW solar farm at Gunthawada, District Banaskantha, Gujarat in October 2011.

Press release by Moser Baer on the occasion

http://www.moserbaerprojects.com/press-release-next.asp?id=11&nYear=2011&mon=October

Richard Branson Advises Entrepreneurs to Plan Their Fitness

Entrepreneurs need a fitness plan similar to business plan. Says Branson and describes his schedule in an article which is being published in number of papers and magazines.

http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/Content.aspx?id=158622

Successor Announced for Ratan Tata - Cyrus Mistry

24.11.2011

Tata group is a multinational company from India which is getting more than 50% of its revenue from international operations.

News items

http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=5614751

Tata group - Heads in the past
http://news.in.msn.com/exclusives/it/article.aspx?cp-documentid=5618272

Power - The Concept and Theory in Organizational Behavior

http://paper.li/knoltweet/1317266000


Power is an important dynamic (concept or variable) in organizational behavior.

Power - The Concept

Max Weber: "The probability that one actor within a social relationship will be in a position to carry out his own will despite resistance."

Pfeffer: "The potential ability to influence behavior, to change the course of events, to overcome resistance, and to get people to do things that they would not otherwise do."

http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/11/power-concept-and-theory-in.html

Press Release on Knol Becoming Top 1000 Website

Knol is getting 5.6 million unique visitors a month on basis of estimates and this make it eligible for Top 1000 website when ranked on unique visitors. Knol Author Foundation gave a press release on the occasion.

The progress of Knol may accelerate further on this event and Knol's rank may go easily up to 300.

The Most Expensive and Popular Keywords in Google AdWords

http://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2011/07/18/most-expensive-google-adwords-keywords

DigitalJournal.com - A Citizen Journalist Site

DigitalJournal.com - A Citizen Journalist Site invites and shares revenue with citizen journalists.

News websites in Telugu

http://crossroads.koodali.org/2007/06/10/news-websites-in-telugu/

The Google+ Project: Real-life sharing Project by Google

Official Google Blog: Introducing the Google+ project: Real-life sharing, rethought for the web

Vic Gundotra, Senior Vice President, Engineering announced the Google+ project. Google users can now share many of their online items, like mails, articles, blogs, photos, and the search links they linked to their selected groups of contacts whenever they wish.

There is no fixed group all the time. Which is definitely more real life situation. The project will evolve over a period of time.

It is has got good response so far in +1s.

Management Science

Management Science
http://aryasri.blogspot.com/


http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-k-v-s-s/principles-of-management-knol-book/2utb2lsm2k7a/3101

http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-k-v-s-s/narayana-rao-k-v-s-s-knol-home-page/2utb2lsm2k7a/2927#