AK Srivastava (SriAKS)

शिस्टाचार / शिष्टता / सभ्याचार / सभ्यता / रीति Have you ever really studied the people who work with you or indeed around you? If you have, you will probably come to one conclusion. That today's workforce can be compared to a well-mixed salad: of young and old, male and female, those that are highly educated and those that are less so. This diverse mix means that each person brings to the work environment his or her own set of beliefs, values and expectations. This also means that there is going to be more than one way of looking at a situation or tackling a problem — all of which make good sense. But such variety in the workplace makes it imperative for supervisors and co-workers to be sensitive to different communication and working styles and this is where etiquette becomes so important. Let's look at this whole business of etiquette another way. If you have a bunch of people who are constantly snapping and snarling at each other, you will witness company output suffering. I...

FAMILY & ETIQUTTE [Courtesy : Rahul Hareesh / Shahzad Alam - Thanks To BOTH Of YOU - आप दोनों को धन्यवाद् !!! ] I ran into a stranger as he passed by, "Oh excuse me please" was my reply. He said, "Please excuse me too; I wasn't watching for you." We were very polite, this stranger and I. We went on our way and we said goodbye. But at home a different story is told, How we treat our loved ones, young and old. Later that day, cooking the evening meal, My son stood beside me very still. When I turned, I nearly knocked him down. "Move out of the way," I said with a frown. He walked away, his little heart broken. I didn't realize how harshly I'd spoken. While I lay awake in bed, God's still small voice came to me and said, "While dealing with a stranger, common courtesy WE use, but the family WE love, WE seem to abuse. Go and look on the kitchen floor, You'll find some flowers there by the door. Those are the flowers he b...