Good Bye Year 2018 : The year that was

All-woman bikers contingent of the Border Security Force (BSF) made its debut on Rajpath on Republic Day



Indian Air Force gets its first woman fighter pilot



The death of legendary actress Sridevi in Dubai.



Vikas Sathaye a pune born engineer won an Oscar for science and technology.



Mithali Raj became the first Indian cricketer to score 2000 T20I runs




Dipa Karmakar became the first Indian gymnast to clinch a Gold at a global event



Elections in different states


Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election, 2018
Nagaland Legislative Assembly election, 2018
Mizoram Legislative Assembly election, 2018
Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, 2018
Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly election, 2018
Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election, 2018
Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, 2018

Kerala experienced its worst flooding in nearly a century.



Sunil Chhetri became the third highest scorer in the world



Worst fog in Delhi and worst polluted cities are in India.



High profile celebrities weddings such as Virat/Anushka, Sonam/Anand, Priyanka/Nick and Deepika/Ranveer




Our Athlete's again shine in Asian games.



Allahabad renamed to Prayagraj



And finally Sir Vallabhbhai Patel stand tall



Wish every one a wonderful new year 2019

How to Motivate Yourself to Do Things You Don’t Want to Do

No matter how generally motivated you are, all of us have some tasks that we don’t want to do. Maybe we find them boring, pointless, draining, time consuming, annoying, or anxiety producing. So how do you get moving in these types of situations?

The first step is to recognize that getting motivated doesn’t mean that you have to experience a particular feeling, like excitement or anticipation. Instead, motivation is simply one or more reasons you have for acting in a certain way. You can decide to do something without ever getting excited about it by finding a personally meaningful why.

For example, you could choose to do something because it will:

• Lower your anxiety.
• Benefit someone who you care about.
• Lead to financial gain.
• Avoid a negative consequence.
• Make you feel good about yourself.
• Clear your mind.
• Align with your values.
• Reduce stress.

These reasons might sound something like this in your day-to-day life:

“I don’t want to do _______. But if I do ________, then I will see a significant financial payoff both now and in the future and will feel good about my choices.”

“I don’t want to do _______. But if I get ________ done, then it will make my boss happy and lower my anxiety every time I have a one-on-one meeting.”

“I don’t want to do _______. But if I make progress on ________, then I will have so much less stress next week and be prepared for ________.”

Even if we never feel particularly motivated by a task, we can find a reason to move forward by looking beyond the task to the results.

The second step for success involves coming up with a strategy for getting tasks done when you have a low to non-existent emotional drive. Depending on the task and your work style, one or more of these strategies may help. You can consider these methods as tools in your toolbox when you’ve come up with a reason to take action on a task but still feel uncertain on how to complete it.

One set of action-taking methods includes involving other people in the process. This positive social pressure can provide the impetus to get something done. This could look like delegating part of the task, teaming up with someone else to complete the activity together, getting accountability, or simply being present with other people who are also working. In regard to the last point, for some of my time management coaching clients, this can look like sitting in a library where other people are also getting work done, or even having a virtual session where they work on a task while someone they know is on the other side of Skype also cranking away.

Another set of action-taking methods revolves around how you structure your approach to the work. These types of strategies, each illustrated with an example, can help you to gain momentum when you have low drive to move forward:

• Put a low-frequency activity ahead of a high-frequency activity. For example, I can’t open my email until I’ve filed my expense report.
• Give yourself a standard time. Every Friday from 2-3 pm, I have time blocked in my calendar for weekly planning, and I honor that time as sacred for that activity.
• Limit the time commitment. I need to work for 10 minutes a day on this task and then I can stop if I want to do so.
• Set the bar low. I just need to take one action step a week on this activity.
• Get ‘er done. I want to get this entirely off my plate so I’m setting aside a whole day to complete the task.

A third set of action-taking methods involves pairing unpleasurable activities with pleasurable ones to boost your overall mood. This could involve giving yourself permission to do a more difficult task, like writing or putting together a presentation, in a location you really like, such as a cozy coffee shop or even a park if the weather’s nice. You can also try layering tasks, such as listening to music or a podcast while organizing your office. Even getting a little physical activity in during the process can help. I may have been known to practice speeches while going on walks. I probably look a little funny, but I get two activities done at once.

When you employ one or more of these strategies, you may not make speedy progress or perfect progress. But you can move tasks forward, slowly but surely, and get the things done that you don’t naturally want to do.

 

Source: HBR Dec 21, 2018

When Competition Between Coworkers Leads to Unethical Behavior

Many of us love competition and, more important, winning. Competition drives us toward our goals and motivates us to improve our performance, while the prestige and power that come from winning can provide a powerful morale booster. What’s more, winning increases testosterone and dopamine hormones, which, in turn, increases our confidence and willingness to take risks, and thus our chances of further success.

At the same time, the need to win can blind us to ethical considerations. It’s a potential problem in all kinds of areas: colleagues who have a strong rivalry at work, managers who need to make their numbers for the quarter, even political parties that spend campaign funds to attract votes. A common theme in these situations is that there are only a few winning slots — and maybe just one — with massive stakes in terms of money, advancement, and fame.

What’s often driving this fierce competition is the knowledge that our performance is being assessed not in absolute terms but in comparison with others’. In the workplace, such “rank-and-yank” methods — also known as the vitality curve, forced rankings, and stacking systems — are regularly used to judge performance, whereby, say, the top 20% of employees are categorized as high performers and the bottom 10% face redundancy. Similarly, the bell-curve grading in an MBA classroom ensures that students are categorized and graded relative to peers, without considering their overall performance.

Source: HBR December 12, 2018

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COEX Mall Seoul - A Library inside a mall #AmazingLibraries

“A Library inside a mall? Seriously? Who does that?” Apparently, COEX Mall does that.

Starfield COEX Mall is one of Asia’s largest underground malls. Located near the Samsung Metro station in Seoul and adjacent to the COEX Convention and Exhibition Center, It added another grand attraction to its glowing list. A gigantic, visually pleasing library named Starfield that is open to public, free of charge.

Starfield Library in Seoul is a one-of-a-kind library that will leave you in awe. Featuring bookshelves that are 13 metres(42 Feets) in height, Starfield has a collection of around 50,000 books and magazines in digital and in print. While most of the books are in Korean, there are also some English readings available, which include a fair amount of international magazines. They also have docked iPads for those who prefer e-books. And not to mention the plush sofas and cool benches where you can comfortably lounge and peruse your books?

The library, which welcomes tourists and locals alike, provides reading spaces, daily free cultural events, and a cafe. Open daily from 10am to 10pm, it’s a great place to take a break from sightseeing and to meet locals.

With no physical boundaries nor security to ensure that no books are stolen, Starfield Library encompasses an entirely new and novel concept that one should definitely check if reach Seoul some day.

B-School events : Conference, Conclaves, Seminars, Workshops...

We at Jaipuria School of Business keep organizing various types of events, which helps in overall personality development and helps in expanding our network. Lets have details of some of the events we organize.

Conference

A Conference refers to a formal meeting where participants exchange their views on various topics. Conference can take place in different fields, and it need not be academic in nature all the time. Thus, we have parent teacher conferences, sport conferences, a trade conference, a conference of journalists, conference of doctors, a conference of research scholars, and so on. A conference is a meeting that has been prearranged and involves consultation and discussion on a number of topics by the delegates.Conference and symposium are similar events where speakers come together and give their opinions on a chosen subject. Symposium can be described as a smaller conference that gets over in a single day with a lesser number of delegates.

Conclave

The etymology of conclave begs this question as the word comes from a Latin term meaning "room that can be locked up." ... "Conclave" is especially likely to refer to a meeting of Roman Catholic cardinals who have secluded themselves to choose a pope, but it in today's term it can refer to other types of private meetings as well. HR conclave is an event where HR’s of different organizations gather together and they interact with students for a discussion kind of thing.

HR conclave is basically for students benefit where HR’s will guide them that what qualities a student should have in this competitive environment so they a company should hire him/her. This event also benefit organizations also as their HR’s can have good conversation to other HR’s of different company and can make good bonds and good relation with them and showcase their organization’s strength.

Seminar

A Seminar is a form of academic instruction, either at a university or offered by a commercial or professional organization. It has the function of bringing together small groups for recurring meetings, focusing each time on some particular subject, in which everyone present is requested to actively participate. The Instructor has prepared the concepts and techniques they will present and discuss through a combination of visual materials, interactive tools or equipment, and demonstrations. It includes some take home material for the participants that relates to the lecture. A full laboratory phase is not a requirement.

Symposium 
Symposium is meeting of a number of experts in a particular field at which papers are presented by specialists on particular subjects and discussed with a view to making recommendations concerning the problems under discussion. Symposium: refer to any academic conference, or a style of university class characterized by an openly discursive format, rather than a lecture and question–answer format. The term symposium has come to refer to any event where multiple speeches are made. A symposium suggests that more than one person is speaking. A Symposium is typically a more formal or academic gathering, featuring multiple experts delivering short presentations on a particular topic.

Workshop

A Workshop includes all the elements of the Seminar, but with the largest portion being emphasized on “hand-on-practice” or laboratory work. The Lab work is designed to reinforce, imprint and bring forward an immediate functioning dimension to the participant’s eye and hands by implementing and practicing the actual concept or technique that was taught through the lecture and demonstration process.

MDP/Training 
A Training is defined as a skill-building program that aims to help groups and individuals to master specific skills and learn new and more effective work habits. These programs are typically undertaken as a means to improve employee efficiency for the long-term success of a company and its projects.

College Fest (Competitions and activities)

An annual fest or college fest is a time when the entire team at JSB comprising of faculty members, students from various disciplines, staff members come together and contribute to their best to this great endeavor to bring out the extra ordinary talent in participants from all over the college.  A college festival is not just for fun, it adds value to a student’s learning experience. The college celebrates with events like Inter-class competitions like debate, music, song, extempore, quiz, etc, among students of the college and other colleges too.