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Kaj Voetmann Senior Consultant, Beren
 
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1 Lack of interest
2 lazziness
KUMAR SAURABH JHA  |  Added idea  "Fear of doing some wrong practice"  |  1 year ago
Fear of doing some wrong practice may be too a reason for the same.Ramdeo taught yoga to lakhs of people but few could not understand it or were in a hurry and they were trapped with muscular pain or even dislocation.Anything in this world needs...
Kaj Voetmann  |  Added idea  |  1 year ago
Meditation is only one way to learn how to control your own mind.
 
 
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Ruining language ethics 
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 Its for Fun, let it be..
Sairam. M  |  Argues in support of  "Ruining language ethics"  |  12 months ago
ITS THEIR LEARNING AGE AND KIDS MUST KNOW FIRST ITS USAGE. ONCE THEY BECOME FAMILIAR TO THESE WORDS THEN THEY CAN USE WHILE CHATTING OR SENDING MESSAGE TO SOMONE.   ITS NOT A RIGHT AGE FOR FUN.
Kaj Voetmann  |  Argues in support of  |  1 year ago
Slang including abbreviation are meant to show insiders that you belong to their group and to keep outsiders in the dark. If ethics is to see life as a compettion between something good and something else that is good, then this is not good ethics,...
Jyoti Kapoor  |  Argues in support of  "Ruining language ethics"  |  1 year ago
Kids are using them at school and even in exams . These words are culprits for scoring lower grades and ofcourse they are ruining the language ethics at core.
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NO 
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PRITHVI RAJ DUBEY  |  Argues in support of  "NO"  |  1 year ago
No, because of reasons beyond control. One should not be lazy and greedy or over ambitious.
Kaj Voetmann  |  Argues in support of  |  1 year ago
The sin is not to be able to tell a coherent story about WHY you were jobless. If you were in a coma in a hospital - tell it. If you decided to care for your dying mother - tell it. Unexplained periods in your resume is always interesting to the people...
ASOKE KUSARI  |  Argues in support of  "NO"  |  2 years ago
Not ... exactly if HR is not blind. One may avail of a "Sabatical" from present employment to earn a degree or so. May s/ he not return back to his earstwhile job or a new job ? Sabatical is popular in Professionals in many countries.
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Soft skills are given more priority than the technical i.e, treating soft skills more mandatory than knowledge of the subject?
Isaac Madhavan  |  Answered  |  1 year ago
I'm sorry Pragati but forgive me for sounding cranky. I'm probably like this after seeing so many situations in life - like many other experienced people, perhaps. Answer this question: Which part of you do you think is unimportant or does not...
Kaj Voetmann  |  Answered  |  1 year ago
You are usually hired for your professional skills and you are fired because you do not have the soft skills. Soft skills include: 1) Finding meaning in your work including change processes, 2) Establishing contacts and maintaining and cultivating...
Jyoti Kapoor  |  Answered  |  1 year ago
One has to have good technical skills only after that are the soft skills measured. If you don't have technical skills you wont be eligible to show your soft skills.One has to have good technical skills only after that are the soft skills...
 
 
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Venkatraman  |  Argues in support of  "No"  |  1 year ago
To prove my point, just see the result of what happened in Japan-The technologies, more than natural calamity are threatening the entire world right now.The dark side of technology as critical as nuclear or other scientific ones are that it not...
Kaj Voetmann  |  Argues in support of  |  1 year ago
Technologies are only safe if they are applied in the intended way. Even when theya re applied in the intended way they have side effects that over time become larger and well known. All solutions generate new problems. Usually many mishaps has to take...
Joydeep Dasgupta  |  Argues in support of  "Yes"  |  1 year ago
  What is technology? Knowledge of our surrounding, and the skill developed to tweak the natural phenomenon for enhancement, betterment, protecting near and dear, society nation etc. What is safety? Using the knowledge to build device which is...
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1 I disagree
2 Their basic nature is different
SHRIKANT MANOHAR DANKE  |  Supported idea  "Their basic nature is different"  |  1 year ago
I support Jyoti's view. Very rightly said.
Kaj Voetmann  |  Added idea  |  1 year ago
Female entrepreneurs operate mostly in the part of society that is not included in the way we assess the national economy. They are not seen as part of society. Do you think men invented nurseries, kindergartens, textiles. Women are great entrepreneurs...
 
 
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1 Integrity, perseverance, professionalism, honesty
2 Engineering Skill
Ganta Achuthan Sripathy  |  Supported idea  "Engineering Skill"  |  1 year ago
An Engineer should be skillful and try to improve his skills in the course of his practice or his career....
Kaj Voetmann  |  Added idea  |  1 year ago
Engineer are trained to follow an idea systematically. They need to be able to ask if the idea is good before they do that. That involves working in a very cross-disciplinary team and collaborate with designers and economists, users and so on. To do...
 
 
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Yes 
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neha singh  |  Argues in support of  "Yes"  |  1 year ago
We must realise human limitations. Why do ppl always expect super human behavior?
Kaj Voetmann  |  Argues in support of  |  1 year ago
A great sales rep know her customers needs and wishes. She does not try to sell anything. She just predict the needs and wishes of the customer. Customers always want and need to buy, but trying too hard to sell something specific make it hard for the...
NATTERAJA R. ARIKRISHNAN  |  Argues in support of  "Yes"  |  1 year ago
In my opinion the Sales Representatives are productive in doing the jobs. The promotional activities sales can not be effectively achieved through internet which may give visibility and information on the products. But transforming into sales...
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Business is like a WAR! 
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 Business is NOT like a WAR!
Jaygopal Raghavan  |  Argues in support of  "Business is like a WAR!"  |  1 year ago
Unfortunately business has become a war. A no holds barred, cut-throat interaction that has reduced it to a war.Otherwise business is business and it can be done in that way without resorting to a war. But as society and life gets complex,...
Kaj Voetmann  |  Argues in support of  |  1 year ago
Good business is based on collaboration. In an economy where everyone wants to improve their own living conditíons collaboration is a better strategy than war. The Nobel Prize in Economic 2005 was given to for exactly that claim. Good business is based...
Sujatha srivastava  |  Argues in support of  "Business is like a WAR!"  |  1 year ago
Its very easy to say that a business is like a business ....but in reality business is a war. It could be a war by an individual or a group or team to surpass everybody else and become the leader controlling maximum resources.
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Coperation 
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 competition
PS Dhingra  |  Argues in support of  "competition"  |  1 year ago
Competition is also easy to win by cooperation.
Kaj Voetmann  |  Argues in support of  |  1 year ago
Talent is nurtured in collaboration in competive environments. It is the feedback on how much you already master and which development potential you still have that is driving talent into preformance and innovation. Separating these two things is like...
Rahul Bagga  |  Argues in support of  "competition"  |  1 year ago
From business, industry and consumer point of view competition is more important ! It leads to advance of technology, services, products,keep prices in check !! Co-operation reeks of utter corruption and add to it, it is the corporate corruption...
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