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Bothered about getting cranky calls from over-enthusiastic sales persons in the middle of a meeting? or are you getting more annoyed these days by the spam mails that creep into your inbox?. If you are an average internet user - one who just loves to hit the net 2-3 hrs a day and possesses a strange gadget with innumerable and audacious powers (called mobile), I'm sure you would be at the receiving end and would know what I am talking about !

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Igniting Passion: Motivating Employees Intrinsically

This is an experiment told to me by my Prof in a management class about an experiment carried out on chimpanzees. 

The chimps were divided into two groups – say, A and B, and kept in two different large rooms. They were given canvases, some paint brushes and color vials. 

When one of the chimps of group-A managed to take color from one of the vials and made a stroke on the canvas, it was immediately rewarded by a banana. The others in the group followed suit and were also rewarded. This carried on for sometime and whenever the chimps made a stroke, they would get bananas. This excited the chimps initially.

At the same time, in a different location, the chimps of group B also started off exploring the new things given to them and made some strokes on the canvas with their brushes. But they did not receive any reward. They started making strokes after strokes on the canvas. The new colors made them more inquisitive and excited other chimps too as they made number of color combinations out of the same set of colors.

Wither Indianness ?

This article takes stock of the changes in the Indian mindset and its relentless vigour to hob-nob with the glitterati of the new society.

Recently one of my senior colleagues frantically called me up from abroad and told me that he is coming back to India with his family. I was surprised – not because he is coming back but because of the reason that he had labored hard to get to the States and was doing well, so what made him feel like returning to homeland now all of a sudden. Later I found that he was finding it difficult to manage his children. Born in a foreign country, they had slowly started adopting the culture of the land. This transformation was not liked by the couple who could barely find time to teach their children the right type of values. After numerous efforts and failures, they decided to come back.