Index of Management Lessons

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1: Layoffs

1. Workday lays off 1,750 employees, or about 8.5% of its workforce (Feb 2025)
2. Meta kicks off fresh layoffs, employees with strong reviews among those hit (Feb 2025)
3. 10,700 Employees Quit Cognizant In 365 days As Attrition Swells To 15.9% (Feb 2025)
4. Dreams shattered, careers in limbo after two and a half years' wait - Inside Infosys trainee layoffs (Feb 2025)
5. Meta to lay off 3,600 employees; have decided to raise the bar, says Mark Zuckerberg
6. Mark Zuckerberg says AI as good as mid-level software engineers at Meta, rings alarm on developer jobs
7. 41% companies may replace employees with AI by 2030 - Report
8. Wall Street may slash 200,000 jobs as AI erodes roles (Jan 2025)
9. Microsoft announces job cuts, plans to axe 1% of underperforming workforce in 2025
10. CEO Sundar Pichai to employees: Google layoffs saw 10% reduction in managers, directors, and vice presidents
11. Big tech's bloodbath - 150,000 jobs cut as market shifts shake industry
12. Amazon could cut 14,000 managerial roles: ‘Now is the right time to …,’ says company (Oct 2024)
13. 3,00,000 open positions across IT giants due to skills gap in India
14. Cisco’s second layoff of 2024 affects thousands of employees
15. AI is here, and so are job losses and inequality
16. Mass layoffs hit tech industry: Over 27,000 jobs cut as Intel, Cisco, IBM, and Apple slash workforce
17. CEOs from Mark Zuckerberg to Sundar Pichai explain why companies are making cuts this year
18. Engineering admissions decline: More than 30% seats lying vacant, student enrolment declines first time in at least 5 years
19. How Apple Has So Far Avoided Mass Job Cuts Despite The Tech Layoff Wave (Feb 2024)
20. Mark Zuckerberg Explains Why Tech Layoffs Are Happening (Feb 2024)
21. Infosys allegedly fires 600 employees after they fail internal test (Feb 2023)
22. Layoffs Report (Jan 2023)
23. Chris Williams (former HR exec at Microsoft) shares 3 types of employees at most risk during layoffs
24. Layoffs and Reduction of Infrastructure Cost at Musk's Twitter (2022 Nov 4)

2: Identifying Personalities in Different Domains

1. Type A and Type B Personality Types
2. A classification of manager (employer) and worker (employee) (From Harvard's ManageMentor course)
3. Personality Categories (Social Behavior Types) based on Merrill-Reid Styles
4. Myers Briggs Personality Indicator and Enneagram Personality Indicator
5. Personality Types Associated With Anxiety
6. The problem with perfectionists, and traits of a perfectionist
7. Vedic Personality Test (From the Book 'Think Like a Monk') and Some other commonly used Personality Indicators
8. How your personality influences your habits And the Big-5 Personality Traits (From the book Atomic Habits by James Clear)

3: Negotiation

1. Tactics and Values in Negotiation (The Negotiation Book by Steve Gates)
2. Negotiation between Ecuador and Peru to end the border conflict in 1998 [Tags: Management, Politics]
3. No matter your job, you can expand your role (Lesson in Negotiation)
4. The Use of Spies (by Sun Tzu) [Tags: Management, Politics]

4: Behavioral Science

1. Six negative listening patterns
2. 20 things you should never say at work
3. 33 Body Language Clues You Should Look For On Your Next Date
4. Body Language Tidbits (Hands in pocket and Feet on desk)
5. The Train and The Wheelbarrow (Lesson from Harvard's ManageMentor Course)
6. Don't Endure. Recharge (Lesson in Emotional Intelligence) [Tags: Management, Science]
7. Basics of Workplace Stress Management [Tags: Management, Psychology]
8. Assertiveness Skills [Tags: Behavioral Science, Management, Psychology]
9. Anger Management [Tags: Behavioral Science, Management, Psychology]
10. The Dragon That Wanted to be Noticed

5: Elon Musk

1. Elon Musk clearing why he took over Twitter (2022 Oct 27)
2. Layoffs and Reduction of Infrastructure Cost at Musk's Twitter (2022 Nov 4)
3. Twitter takes its algorithm ‘open-source,’ as Elon Musk promised (Apr 2023)

6: Xerox (A Case Study)

1. The fast and incredible rise of Xerox and the subsequent fall in Oct 1966
2. Xerox, Lisa and Graphical User Interfaces (Dec 1979)
3. Xerox - The stock that didn't survive the decade of personal computing in 1970s, the dot-com bubble burst of 2000 and the 2020 global pandemic

7: Misc

1. Japan plans to give three weekly offs to everybody from next year to grow younger
2. OpenAI’s new model o3 is a big leap, stuns tech world
3. What is Google’s counter-offer to the US govt’s plans to break up the company?
4. Three Steps To Success On The Job
5. Evolution and Revolution As Organizations Grow
6. Think beyond tools and tactics!
7. Strategies to Pull Yourself Out of a Bad Mood
8. Fate of Telecom Industry in India (Feb 2020) [Tags: Investment, Management, Politics]
9. Fate of Airline Industry in India (Apr 2020) [Tags: Investment, Management, Politics]
10. Fate of Banking Industry in India (Apr 2020) [Tags: Investment, Management, Politics]
11. Why Bill Gates would raise chickens [Tags: Investment, Management, Politics]
12. Covid-19 and response of IT companies (by Divjot Singh) [Tags: Management, Politics]
13. World's Top 10 Countries by 5 Parameters in 2020 [Tags: Management, Politics]
14. Domestic Systematically Important Banks of India as of Jan, 2021 [Tags: Investment, Management, Politics]
15. Why Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan's Haven failed [Tags: Investment, Management]
16. Union Budget of India 2021-2022 [Tags: Investment, Management, Politics]
17. We Need 'Cost of Living Adjustment' Act (Case Study II in 2021) [Tags: Management, Politics]
18. survival8 Audience Around The World (Jun 2021) [Tags: Investment, Management]
19. Tri Nagar Home Renovation Notes (May 2022) [Tags: Journal, Investment, Management]
20. Tri Nagar Home Renovation Bills 2022-May-10 [Tags: Investment, Management]
21. Ownership of Bicycle, 2-wheeler and car in India by percentages (2022) [Tags: Investment, Management]

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