Saturday, November 26, 2011

“Summarizing Skills” - Professor M.S.Rao

"Never use a sentence when you can use a phrase, or a phrase when you can use a word." - Berkeley

These days, people don’t have time to read lengthy statements. They look for well punched information hitting the bulls’ eye as it saves not only time, but also energy and precious resources. Summarizing skills help immensely achieve this objective.

What is Summarizing Skill?

Summarizing is all about condensing the entire content into a smaller one without losing the essence of message. It is a skill where people need to focus on what is required than what is not required and what is to be focused than what is not to be focused. Summarizing is called in different names globally. Some call it précis writing where people write one third of the given content without losing focus from the message during examinations. This skill is essential for everybody especially for the executives reaching higher positions. Summarizing helps you test your understanding and expressing abilities. It helps in avoiding redundant words. Here are few examples where you can shorten your words

Close proximity – proximity

End result – result

Enclosed herewith – enclosed

In spite of the fact that – although

Revert back – revert

Summarize briefly – summarize

Repeat again – repeat

Summarizing sounds paraphrasing. In fact, paraphrasing helps in summarizing the content. Paraphrasing is conversion of information from sender to receiver through various illustrations and anecdotes. In contrast, summarizing is condensing the content without losing the essence of message. Therefore, both summarizing and paraphrasing are different. Here are the tips to condense your content:

Tips to write Summary

  • Note down the key points or underline.
  • Rank them on priority.
  • Present them in simple and straight sentences.
  • Avoid giving examples and anecdotes.
  • Put preferably in phrases.

Summarizing is a skill that anyone can cultivate. To hone this skill, you must read quality blogs and articles of Time, Harvard Business Review, Forbes, The Economist, Sloan Management Review and Fast Company to name a few. With quality reading and thorough practice you will not only differentiate between chalk and cheese but also develop writing skills that shape you as a successful professional.

Professor M.S.Rao

Founder, MSR Leadership Consultants, India

Blog: http://professormsraoguru.blogspot.com

Knowledge Grows When Shared

Email: msrlctrg@gmail.com

Dear readers,

I would appreciate your comments about this article.

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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

“Thinkers50 – 2011” - Professor M.S.Rao, Founder of MSR Leadership Consultants India

“If a gathering of crows is a murder, a group of foxes is a skulk and there is also a flight of butterflies, a descent of woodpeckers and many, many more, what should we call a collection of management gurus? And the answer is - An orchard of gurus” – www.thinkers50.com

I have received the mail from Thinkers50. Here is the latest list of Thinkers50 of 2011 as per their present ranking. The brackets indicate previous list's ranking and the (-) is a new entrant.

Top 50 Management Thinkers 2011

Ranking Name

1 Clayton Christensen (28)

2 W. Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne (5)

3 Vijay Govindarajan (24)

4 Jim Collins (17)

5 Michael Porter (11)

6 Roger Martin (32)

7 Marshall Goldsmith (14)

8 Marcus Buckingham (25)

9 Don Tapscott (39)

10 Malcolm Gladwell (2)

11 Sylvia Ann Hewlett (-)

12 Lynda Gratton (18)

13 Nitin Nohria (-)

14 Robert Kaplan & David Norton (37)

15 Gary Hamel (10)

16 Linda Hill (-)

17 Seth Godin (-)

18 Teresa Amabile (-)

19 Rita McGrath (-)

20 Richard Rumelt (-)

21 Richard D'Aveni (26)

22 Jeffrey Pfeffer (-)

23 David Ulrich (31)

24 Tom Peters (19)

25 Rosabeth Moss Kanter (27)

26 Nirmalya Kumar (-)

27 Pankaj Ghemawat (-)

28 Herminia Ibarra (-)

29 Daniel Pink (-)

30 Henry Mintzberg (33)

31 Costas Markides (47)

32 Thomas Friedman (30)

33 Tammy Erickson (46)

34 John Kotter (41)

35 Amy Edmondson (-)

36 Kjell Nordström & Jonas Ridderstråle (23)

37 Howard Gardner (16)

38 Henry Chesbrough (-)

39 Daniel Goleman (34)

40 Vineet Nayar (-)

41 Rakesh Khurana (44)

42 Fons Trompenaars (-)

43 Ken Robinson (-)

44 Andrew Kakabadse (-)

45 Stewart Friedman (-)

46 Adrian Slywotsky (-)

47 Stephen Covey (29)

48 Sheena Iyengar (-)

49 Umair Haque (-)

50 Subir Chowdhury (-)

From this list it is obvious that many management thinkers who are relatively younger in age have joined as management thinkers. Here is the link to name your favorite management thinker www.thinkers50.com

Professor M.S.Rao

Founder, MSR Leadership Consultants, India

Blog: http://professormsraoguru.blogspot.com

Knowledge Grows When Shared

Email: msrlctrg@gmail.com

Dear readers,

I would appreciate your comments about this article.

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This is an educational blog for free sharing of knowledge, not for commercial use. Please don't cut articles from my blog and redistribute by email or post to the web. The use of this material is free provided copyright is acknowledged and reference or link is made to the Blog http://professormsraoguru.blogspot.com This material may not be sold, or published in any form, or used in the provision of business services to a third party without permission.

Sunday, November 13, 2011

“Strive for Success” - Professor M.S.Rao

"Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come." - Og Mandino

There is growing uncertainty everywhere. We can’t predict what happens next. When we look at the problems of middle aged people especially they continuously struggle to meet the needs of their children. Currently children have higher expectations and aspirations from parents and society. Parents are not in a position to meet their expectations and they are constantly on toes to find out the ways to generate incomes. Similarly, companies find it tough to meet the rising expectations of customers and clients. With the rapid growth in technology the expectations of the people are also rising rapidly. Hence, it has become a huge challenge for all of us.

It is said that a child looks at the future, the middle aged looks at the present and the old aged looks back at the past. These are the stages of every person. Everyone has to experience this process and there is meaning to life only when they undergo all these three stages. In life journey, everybody has challenges related to family or finance or other challenges beyond revelation. It is true that people often fail in their lives. But they should not suspend their journey and must pursue up to the hilt as such failures are lessons providing human growth. Although it is easier to talk of failure and bouncing back the process of bouncing back is indeed painful! Man should not lose his hope and confidence and should strive towards success constantly.

Professor M.S.Rao

Founder, MSR Leadership Consultants, India

Blog: http://professormsraoguru.blogspot.com

Knowledge Grows When Shared

Email: msrlctrg@gmail.com

Dear readers,

I would appreciate your comments about this article.

© 2011 MSR Leadership Consultants India. All Rights Reserved.

This is an educational blog for free sharing of knowledge, not for commercial use. Please don't cut articles from my blog and redistribute by email or post to the web. The use of this material is free provided copyright is acknowledged and reference or link is made to the Blog http://professormsraoguru.blogspot.com This material may not be sold, or published in any form, or used in the provision of business services to a third party without permission.