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No person in the history has yet got success without the support of other people. These people may be your family members, your friends, good contacts in different walks of life or the masses. You have to go to others to help you succeed. Success is actually a team work. Great leaders become great because they know how to make others help them to become great. No businessman can be massively successful without active support of financial institutions, the customers, the men from bureaucracy. How you can expect a writer to succeed if he is unable to influence an agent or a publisher.

The first requirement of any success is that you should have some value to give it to others and second is the support of the people who can highlight and push you ahead. And there is age-old one point formula that can help you to get the support of others: appreciate with heart.

APPRECIATE AS YOU LIKE

Don’t try to copy others or force yourself to appreciate. You must proceed in life according to your own unique talent or psychological make-up. If you can’t appreciate the masses appreciate the persons who are capable enough to push you. If you can’t do that just appreciate your family members. They will do their best to find ways for you. Or simply appreciate some friends. See how enthusiastic they become to help you hit the field of your choice successfully.

THIS LAW NEVER CHANGES

Nothing is permanent and everything changes in this world. But the basic human character like the laws of Physics remain the same. For thousands of years people have been using this magic formula of appreciation in every country to gain power or get success in business, politics, social or marital relations.

You must remember that only following this law of human relations can’t guarantee you success in your ventures. You must fulfil the first condition of creating some value in your life to give to others. Only that value is exchanged with money or success.

RESPOND FAST

If people (friends, family members, colleagues, commoners) try to communicate with you never ignore them. There are phone calls, letters in the letter-box, e-mails in the inbox, but many persons rarely respond. Consequently they lose customers, friends, relationships, and support of many other persons. Although it is a good policy to ignore the junk mail or useless calls but responding fast to the good ones is very necessary. Only then you can build good relations and prepare support areas.

People of modern world may respond to telephone calls but they become extremely lazy when there is a need of answering a letter or an e-mail. And they lose business. Success drifts away farther. Those companies always have better chances of success who are careful to the problems of their customers, who appreciate their customers and give importance to them. Whoever responds better to customers, whoever cares for them will get more of them even if the customers are charged more.

TOO MUCH OF EVERYTHING IS BAD

You must appreciate others to get support but overdose of appreciation may prove useless. Like a medicine overdose of appreciation may make people habitual of it and in some cases it may even spoil them. You may even be called a flatter. So always appreciate in a few words and only now and then to make it very effective. Such appreciation improve your image, endear you to the persons and definitely enthuse them to push you to success.

Anandrahi
CEO: News of India Network
Director: LSE-India (for Communication
Skills and Personality Development)

Trained thousands of persons to get great jobs, improve personality and achieve goals in business.

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New Information and Communication Technologies (NICT) continue to influence our lives on the professional, economic, social and family levels. As a consequence, we are faced with new values, new relations and new behaviours which we have to adopt or to adapt to.

One of the innovations brought by these technologies -and in front of which we are still perplexed and hesitant- is telecommuting or distance work which is presented as a means to reduce costs and to increase productivity.

The fundamental characteristics of telecommuting are:

a- The place of work is no longer the same, it is distance work.

b- There is a new form of organization of work.

c- The interactions between the employee and the employer are achieved primarily thanks to the means of telecommunications.

All experiments in this field show that telecommuting has many advantages and opens new prospects for a better productivity, a better life for the individual and the family. Yet, experts point out that there are still a few drawbacks.

I- Advantages:

a- Advantages from the point of view of the telecommuter:

 decrease of stress and increase of effectiveness.

 better integration of family life and professional life: telecommuters can better reconcile employment and family life.

 fewer absences due to family urgencies, mainly for telecommuters with children.

 reduction of the time wasted in transportation especially in public means of transport. Employees have much more spare time which they could devote to para professional activities (training, studies…) or to valorising leisure activities.

 decrease of the expenses related to transport, clothing and meals taken outside, thus improvement of the purchasing power and the standard of life.

 increase of autonomy and responsibility.

b- Advantages from the point of view of the employer:

 increase of productivity.

 possibility of recruitment of high quality employees.

 reduction of space costs.

 reduction of costs related to absences and delays.

c- Advantages from the point of view of the community:

 decrease of unemployment rates in less industrialized areas through maintaining people in their regions.

 reduction of pollution due to road traffic.

 reduction of traffic jam and road accidents.

 increase of population stability.

 reduction of costs of stress-related diseases.

II- Disadvantages:

a- Disadvantages from the point of view of the telecommuter:

 possibility of exposure to loneliness.

 fear of being cut from professional environment (office, colleagues…)

 difficulty of reconciling family life and professional life for those who do not know how to organize and manage their work well.

 difficulty in managing time for those who are not well-organized.

 possibility of negative effects on the career: slowness of promotion, likeliness to be forgotten, neglected…

 fear of female agents of telecommuting as a means which might accentuate or revive career disparity with their male colleagues.

b- Disadvantages from the point of view of the employer:

 fear of an excessive independence or loss of control of agents.

 fear of the changes resulting from the passage to telecommuting: need for changing all work methods and communication with the personnel and the users.

 fear of novelty and its probable results in general.

III- Profile of a good telecommuter:

The personality of the candidate is determining. A good telecommuter is independent and autonomous ; he/ she works with clear objectives and with little supervision. He/ She shows proof of responsibility, reliability, self-discipline and respect of priorities and deadlines. He/ She generally does not have a direct relationship with the management of human resources or he/ she is able to manage them remotely.

To be able to succeed in his/ her work effectively, a telecommuter needs the support of his/ her employer, to remain in contact with his/ her company or administration and to pursue the goals which are allotted to him/ her by regularly communicating information on the evolution of his/ her own work and that of his/ her collaborators.

IV- Conclusion:

The possibilities offered by the NICT in the domain of telecommuting, teletraining and teleconferencing are enormous. Consequently, reflecting seriously on this new flexible method of work is essential in an era where the technological know-how is in constant evolution and where competitiveness has become more merciless than ever.

In the developing countries, it is high time that mentalities evolve and open on the experiences achieved in the domain of telecommuting and teletraining in the developed countries. Governments are called to combat reactionary tendencies which are opposed systematically to progress and which prevent the others from advancing in this way. They ought to sensitize and to encourage employers to take measures towards the implementation of telecommuting.

High School English Teacher, ICT Trainer, Collaborative Projects Coordinator.

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Networking is important.
In fact, Networking is pivotal to one’s business growth.

By definition, Networking is the reciprocal process of exchanging ideas, opportunities, experiences, information, knowledge & expertise that w ill enhance our professional & personal lives - possibly contributing exponentially in return to the effort investment.

Through the system of Networking, we achieve the potential of knowing the ‘right’ people (contacts or ‘guan xi’ in China) and for the ‘right’ people who will know us.

If we examine our own experiences, we may realise that most times, we prefer to do business with those whom we know, whom we trust. We can know and develop trust thru the active action of networking. This is why building a good network will prove invaluable.

Another view of networking is that it allows us to gather new knowledge, new skills, new expertise from people with the intimate & specialized knowledge. As quoted from ‘The Secrets of Savy Networking’ by Susan Roane: ‘The closest thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it. (Powerful people have linkages that are plentiful, diverse and expansive - and are able to get things done because of those linkages.)’

We all have an innate need to communicate, an innate need to commune. Networking is that process & opportunity that provides for us to know each other better so as to form a close-knit community that co-operates & help each other.

In Business, it helps in closing deals, finding resources or testing strategies.

In Career, it helps in finding the desired jobs fro m the desired companies.

What is Effective Networking ?
Now, some may think that networking may be easy - just socialize, chit chat, small talk over coffee, beer, wine. Such viewpoints are not right especially if one wants to achieve specific objectives - then how effective the networking would be would depend on a number of key factors. The individual networking skills, how one communicate also plays an essential role.

Every contact that we meet is important. Every time we meet someone - it happen at the same place & time for both parties. While each encounter may not specifically meet our networking objectives, how we expand & enhance each encounter would be important.

Just as important is the setting, venue, ambience where the networking takes place. Choosing the right dedicated organizer with the right program & organization would definitely serve in enhance our encounters.

Think about it. Networking is an investment. It is an investment of our money, time & effort. If we consider the ROI of networking - then we may want to seriously consider how we network, where we network to increase our effective networking returns

By:
Kevin Yeow
Strategic Network Synergy International (SNSI)
http://www.strategic-network.com

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Kevin Yeow is a dynamic & influential professional specializing in Business Networking, Sales & Marketing, Business Development & Strategies, Public Speaking and Technology.

He has founded SNSI working with clients & partners worldwide.
He is also a visionary, advocating for a new system for quicker response in today’s market.

Kevin has formerly worked for Motorola (Fortune 500), WH Brady (NYSE) - been instrumental in their growth!

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Cabling your home for computer network - still a requirement?

With proliferation of wireless networking and communication equipment it is oh-so-tempting to cut the cord and save a significant sum of money in the process. But is everything that a regular computer networking user needs can be done using just wireless network? Let’s take a look at some pros and contras:

1. One important advantage of having a cabled network is the available bandwidth or simply speed. At the present point in time the speed of connection via a simple and inexpensive CAT5E cable can be 1000Mbit/sec, whereas the best that IEEE802.11g (one of the many flavors of Wi-Fi) can offer is only 54Mbit/sec. It may not seem so significant if you think you are only browsing Internet, and the DSL speed available to you is 1.5Mbit/sec. However, if you need to print via your network connection on a remote printer, you should realize that the print jobs, depending on the amount of graphic data in them, can easily reach dozens and even hundreds megabytes. Since 1Byte=8bit one 100MByte print job will take 15 seconds (and in reality this time can be much longer) to transmit via a Wi-Fi wireless connection, and this time shrinks to mere 1 sec or less on wired 1000MBit/s Ethernet connection. Same principal applies to transferring files, backing up files on other computers in the network etc.
2. It is not possible today and with all probability will not be possible in the future to transmit power needed for your networking device via the wireless link. Unless, of course, you would be willing to be subjected to very high levels of microwave radiation. Thus a device that was marketed to you as “un-tethered” will in fact be very much tethered via the power cord or will have to be re-charged every so often. The power requirements are increasingly important for devices that are expected to be always online, such as phone sets. Therefore it is best to have it connected via a cable that can deliver both power and the communication signal at the same time.
3. Wireless communications are very much proprietary and require whole gamut of conversion equipment to transmit multi-media signals. The same CAT5E cable can without any modification support phone, computer network, balanced line level audio signal, baseband video signal as well as host of other, more specialized, control applications’ signals. With inexpensive adapters called “baluns” the same cable can carry significant number of channels of broadband television or carry a baseband video, such as security camera output, through great distances. All of those applications, except the computer network of course, will require specialized expensive conversion equipment if they needed to be transmitted via a Wi-Fi link.
4. The cost benefit of not running wires around the house is not as simple as issue as it seems. Having installed a wireless network at home you have only eliminated the need to wire for a single application - computer network. A modern home, however, requires all kinds of wiring to run even without regard to computers. The power and phones are obvious examples, as well as thermostats and security systems. Pre-wired speakers are common and most homes today have intercom systems as a desirable option, and those also require extensive wiring. It is very likely that the same contractor running the intercom or security cables is qualified to run computer cables - CAT5E or better. If you are building a home, you should definitely check if computer cabling option is available in your new home, and our advice is to go ahead and purchase it before the walls close. It is going to be a pretty involved and expensive procedure to install the cables later. As an added cost benefit of a wired computer network you will find that all modern computers ship with wired Ethernet network interface card included, and the latest models ship with 1000MBit/sec cards that are essentially free for the computer’s owner.

There are multiple sources of information available on proper planning and design of a residential cabling for voice, data, audio, video and other applications. One of the best sources is the TIA/EIA-570B standard, most resent release of which has been published in 2004. The standard outlines recommended types of the cables, principals of cable distribution in a single- and multi-dwelling units as well as recommended amount of cables to be installed based on the size of the house.

In conclusion, cutting the wire seems like a step forward, some sort of liberation of computer from the bonds of the infrastructure. I would caution the reader, however, to take a more balanced and informed approach before joining the wireless revolution. There are still (and will remain in foreseen future) sound reasons to include properly designed cabling system into the list of your dream home options.

Great source of information on the subject of wiring your home for voice, data, audio and video applications is Home Cabling Guide available from Cabling-Design.com The instantly downloadable e-book contains compilation of the most significant parts of the TIA/EIA-570-B standard as well as multiple recommendation and recommended practices that may be useful for both do-it-yourselfer and an informed buyer of a home cabling system.

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