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My Disastrous First Year in America - How I Got Through It
And learned to fit in. By Divya Pradhan

Manager Champions Change, By Playing Within the Rules
"Trying to teach western ways to the folks in India, ...

Punctuality Pays When You Work With Americans
Timeliness helps Indian and American teams work better together

The Fallout from Satyam
How Will the Scandal that Shook India’s Services Industry Affect Other Honest Businesses? Columnist Jagdish Dalal tackles tough questions submitted by our readers.  Have a question for Jag's bag? Submit it to info@meltingspot.com.    Q.  Jag, the Satyam accounting scandal exposed huge fraud at one of the largest Indian outsourcing firms. Will this cause a permanent loss of faith in other Indian services companies? A. Dear Reader, In January, the chairman of Satyam, once one of India's proudest services firms, admitted to "cooking" the company's books by inflating its earnings and assets for years.   

Show Some Hustle! “Slow and Steady” Won’t Win You the Corporate Race
The ancient Greeks handed down a fable about a tortoise and a hare. In the tale, a slow and steady tortoise challenges a quick-footed hare to a race.  Although most observers place their bets on the hare, the tortoise eventually wins the race when the all-too-hasty hare burns out before the finish line. The industrious Greeks may have invented a marathon, but they'd be hopeless laggards in today's corporate rat race.  Modern corporate life is a mad dash, its terrain ever shifting and unpredictable.  Those who can't sprint like the hare - or refuse to do so - get quickly left in the dust.