Office Anger Management

Awhile ago, I wrote a post "Are you really angry," as part of Anger Management. The work pressure in growing competitive corporate environment, chasing targets, and increasing expectations makes many a managers and executives lose grip over their emotional state. 

This leaves them fuming, when they just cannot say no to their superiors while their subordinates fail to keep timely deliveries.

But despite fuming and yelling, nothing seems to work as goal posts still have to be met, NO MATTER WHAT. Under such trying times, the question is How can one remain calm. 

Well theoretically there are many solutions and answers - practically may be very less as anger management differs from person to person, the office environment, behavior and attitude of colleagues, subordinates and even superior management and many other aspects. 

I came across one such attempt on WHAT TO DO today and thought of sharing it - may be it helps. Follow the link - it may have an answer for your fuming.

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How to deliver an Effective and Convincing Job Interview Presentation

Full Story: Telegraph Jobs

Making presentations is an every day job of the managers as all their future plans depend on how best can they convince their bosses and clients to buy their ideas. However, it is not east to take the podium and start off with a hassled speech. To impress others, one has to be well prepared, laced with all relevant details, data, back ups to answer every query that can be put by the audience.

Not only that, a presentation has to be made interesting, moving, traveling and guiding rather than static, boring, static, leaving no impression at all on the audience. And if it happens to be a Job Interview Presentation, remember, everything depends on how well you present yourself to your selectors. 

Read the full story for an interesting run down on tips that allow you to better prepared with a crisp and attractive presentation, guaranteeing your job.

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Strategies of investing in common stock

Full Story: Omni Guild (being a Russian site, translation required)

The investor chooses the shares in accordance with its investment objective. In fact, all of the goals of investors can be reduced to three basic ones: capital preservation, capital, receipt of current earnings.

To achieve these goals, investors have resorted to various strategies. Among them we distinguish are:

- Long-term ownership strategy;

- A strategy for obtaining high returns on invested capital;

- The strategy of long-term growth investments;

- Aggressive management of a portfolio of shares;

- Strategy of speculation.

Read full story for details on the five strategies listed above..

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Sovereign bonds selling by Western Banks may worsen debt crisis

Full Story: Bloomberg Businessweek 8 November 2011

Bloomberg Businessweek reports: BNP Paribas SA and Commerzbank AG are unloading sovereign bonds at a loss, leading European lenders in a government-debt flight that threatens to exacerbate the region’s crisis.

BNP Paribas, France’s biggest bank, booked a loss of 812 million euros ($1 billion) in the past four months from reducing its holdings of European sovereign debt, while Commerzbank took losses as it cut its Greek, Irish, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish bonds by 22 percent to 13 billion euros this year, the report added

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