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• January 15, 2009
  Punctuality Pays When You Work With Americans
  By Karine Schomer, Change Management Consulting & Training, LLC Of all the cultural differences that tend to irritate Americans, one of the most fundamental has to do with attitudes and behaviors around time, appointments and punctuality.  Getting ahead at work starts with getting to work on time! If you come from a culture that has a more relaxed view of time, you're likely to be surprised at how time-obsessed Americans are.
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• December 3, 2008
  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. 
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• October 27, 2008
  Jag “Dish”: Is Offshoring Really a Bargain? Where Have All the Savings Gone?
  Each month, outsourcing expert Jagdish Dalal tackles tough questions submitted by our readers.  This month's question is from a director of operations at a multimedia company in Richmond, VA.  Have a question for Jag's bag? Submit it to info@meltingspot.com.    Q. "Jag, as the sponsor of an IT offshoring program at my company, I have staked my reputation on our success with moving operations offshore to India.  After two years, the cost savings I anticipated from offshoring haven't materialized yet - not even close.  What are we doing wrong?" A. Dear Reader, I have a hunch your expectations about the cost savings you could achieve through offshoring might have been unrealistic from the start.  Don't believe all the hype you hear from people in the IT services industry and the media.  They can make it seem like all it takes is mere "peanuts" (or, er... Moongphali nuts) to set up a shop in India.  I'm here to tell you the whole truth about offshoring - not just the part that keeps vendors' phones ringing and their sales orders "cha-ching"-ing.
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• September 15, 2008
  Manager Champions Change, By Playing Within the Rules
  "Trying to teach western ways to the folks in India, it's, well... pointless."  Our friend Chitra, a manager of offshore IT for ...
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