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It is Time to Revisit Youth Time
Backdrop: Far away from days of youth, the elders often seem to be worried and anxious. This stems from various issues spanning falling health, reduced cognitive abilities, feeling of neglect, fear of approaching death. Locus of influence seems to be dwindling with uncontrollable gaining upper hand. This leads to a sense of helplessness. One of…
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It is Time to Look Within
Backdrop: For a significant part of our life, we are often guided by materialistic considerations and run after the mirage of external cosmetics. This essentially means we look at things outside, compare ourselves with exterior coordinates and try to achieve things external to us with our resources: physical, mental, and financial. We run a rat…
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Elders Need to Follow Sound Financial Management Principles
Backdrop: Money management for elderly is essential as they are no more in active service and therefore, there are no regular cash inflows. What, therefore, they need to do is to ensure that they live a happy and dignified life within their resources. It means they manage their “existing finances” in a way so that…
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Following Man Management Principles is Important
Backdrop: There is always a strong belief that man management principles are crucial for growth and development of a business enterprise. While other parameters like finance or marketing or operations are important, “man management” is possibly the most crucial driver of its success. It is rightly said that organizations grow or fail because of their…
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It is Not Place of Stay but Quality of Life That Matters
Backdrop: There have been lots of anecdotal sayings that gradual withering of extended family system has had an adverse impact on the elderly. It has always been assumed that family is the sole place an elderly should spend time and companionship of children and grandchildren can alone bring all the bliss and happiness on elderly.…
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There is Similarity between Enterprise and Life Management Principles
Backdrop: Life management principles are extremely important for any human being. Understanding these is necessary to charter the voyage of life. These principles are akin to any “enterprise management” rules. These involve management of certain essential pillars like operations, sales & marketing, finance, and man management. All these mainstays are equally applicable for understanding and…
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It is Absolutely Necessary to Practice Self-Management
Backdrop: Self-management or managing self is possibly the most important principle to follow in life. Human beings particularly in today’s context do not live in isolation or alone. They are always in company of some or the other: spouse, family members, colleagues, friends, acquaintances, among others. And in the broader context, they are always in…