Intel to Introduce Budget Android Smartphones in India

US chip maker Intel has entered into partnership with smatphone makers of India to introduce budget Android handsets in the country by mid 2013, said new reports.

According to an Android OS report, Intel is planning to expand its market visibility with smartphones that are powered by Intel processors. It was said that the company will foray into the market with handsets which would cost less than Rs 7,000 each.
"The first handset with Lava that we launched was a premium one. We learnt that it was important to have a portfolio and offer choice to the user. We will not have entry-level handsets but our smartphone range will be priced upwards of Rs 7, 000," said Debjani Ghosh, Intel South Asia Managing Director, Sales and Marketing to the Press Trust of India.

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5 female leaders reveal their top career tips

Leaders in Heels recently asked five successful female leaders to give their top tips to women who are at the beginning of their careers.

Know your strengths.

Always self-evaluate. Knowing your strengths will help you to better communicate them to prospective and current employers when job hunting or asking for a promotion or pay rise. It also helps you find areas of opportunity and to work on them.

Many people don’t have the level of self-awareness they need to take advantage of their personal strengths or to strengthen their weak points. Find ways to identify your talents and strong points by asking colleagues for feedback or find a mentor within your organisation who can provide you with an objective viewpoint about where you shine and where you need to improve.

Once you have pinpointed your strengths, practice speaking about them when you are pursuing a new job or asking for promotions.

 Lauren Brown
Company: Pulse Marketing
Position: Managing Director
Industry: Marketing and Advertising

pulsemarketing.com.au

Be honest with yourself.

Be passionate – understand your true skills and values and never be afraid of learning.
Mentors are an invaluable asset to have, being humble in learning will provide the foundation for your success. Always remember those on the way up and never ever take someone for granted.
Best advice of all? Be honest with yourself!

Dee Bounds
Company: Dee by design Pty Ltd
Position: Managing Director/Owner
Industry: Property
deebydesign.com.au

Be curious.

If you are at university, study something that you enjoy or at least include those subjects as part of your degree. It’s amazing the types of careers that you can have which overlap with things that interest you. Careers are long and opportunities creep when least expected. If you love science, but want to work in business then study science subjects because science graduates have excellent critical thinking skills.

Be curious. Think about what you are doing in your role and why. Even if the company or role is not your dream role, you should perform to the best of your abilities and spend the time to understand how your job fits into the whole organisation.

Focus on solutions to problems rather than the problem itself. See every problem from the perspective of how you can fix it rather than complaining about it or accepting it. You can’t always fix issues in organisations, but you should definitely give it a good go.

Be happy and bring a positive attitude to the workplace. People want to work with positive, engaged people. This is one of the most important attributes you can have.

Ms Kylie Ahern
Company: Cosmos Magazine/ Cosmos Media
Position: CEO/ Publisher
Industry: Publishing/ Media
cosmosmagazine.com

Turn challenges into opportunities.

Every successful business owner faces challenges.  But it is about how you respond to the challenges and by turning them into opportunities. These challenges make you the person you are no matter what comes your way.

Always seek ways to increase your skills and knowledge.  You should study, read and listen.  I am passionate about education.  It’s about enhancing lives!

And don’t forget about ‘giving back to community’. Be kind and generous, there’s no point in reaching the top if you have no one to share it with.

I started The Australasian College Broadway with $1600 and one staff member. Today we have a hundred people in our team.  I didn’t do it all by myself, you need support and assistance. By surrounding yourself with a strong team you will reap the long-term rewards.

 Maureen Houssein-Mustafa OAM
Company: MHM Australasia Pty Ltd, the parent company of The Australasian College Broadway
Position: Founder and Co-Chair
Industry: Education
tac.edu.au

Be decisive.

Trust your instincts and go with it. If you are doing well, you can be confident you have good judgement.

Listen to advice from people you trust and respect. Even if you don’t take that advice you’ll have benefited from their alternative point of view.

Take every opportunity to challenge negative assumptions, those of others and your own.
Be bold but balanced. Too many women either self-censor or push our views too hard because we are afraid we won’t be listened to. If you own your knowledge and the power of your position people will follow you.

Be decisive, it’s much easier to turn around a poor decision than to combat inertia.

Visit actors in rehearsal rooms, technicians in darkened theatres, meet your colleagues in their offices. They all need to know that you care about them and their work.

Watch lots of theatre. Your job might be balancing the books and getting bums on seats, but the art is the reason those things matter.

Brenna Hobsom
Company: Belvoir St Theatre
Position: General Manager and co-CEO
Industry: Theatre
belvoir.com.au

Source:http://leadersinheels.com/career/career-advice-from-5-successful-female-leaders/

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10 things about Good BOSSES

1. Praise the staff in public, correct them in private
Good bosses know it very well that praising and encouraging the staff is the key to have a positive atmosphere within the office and it helps to bring the best in them. If someone does something well, a good boss should recognize them for their efforts. People need to know when they are doing well and that they are appreciated. However, if someone is not doing so well, speak to them privately, instead of calling them out in front of a group.

2. Pay people what they are worth
While paying your staff, don't think you are losing in extra expense. Pay your staff what they're worth. While determining annual bonuses or profit-sharing for all employees, keep in mind that if you are paying them extra, you'll certainly gain in performance.

3. Allot responsibilities, not tasks
In order to attain professional growth, it is very important for the bosses that they give their employees responsibilities and not tasks. Dumping tasks on workers can never boost productivity. Bosses should always make sure that they hold people accountable.

4. Push, but back off
Sometimes employees want to be challenged to do their best, and if they like their work, they will strive to give that. Good bosses always keep in mind that. Therefore, like an ideal coach, the bosses should know when to push and when to back off in order to draw out the best from the team.

5. Empower the staff to take vital decisions
If the boss has done well in training his staff, he must have firm belief in them that they are doing their best to act in the company's interest. What if they make a wrong decision? Not a big deal. Don't shout at them. Instead, take it as yet another training opportunity. Listen to their reasons and figure out the flaws.

6. Share experiences and insights
Sharing experiences and giving insights is the best way a boss can make his employees learn. To be frank, they don't need a friend. What they need is a mentor who can teach them the best ways and at the same time shows enough generosity to share his own experiences.

7. Build team spirit
In any organization a good team spirit is always important for better performance. A great team can always do better than great individuals. Bosses should take suitable steps as to create and strengthen the team spirit among the employees.

8. Treat employees as they deserve
All employees should be respected and valued. But treating each and everyone as equals with same respect is not the right thing to do. Being a good boss, you should keep in mind that an employee must earn the respect he or she wants to be treated with.

9. Be open-minded and an effective listener
Someone in the team may come up with a new and different way of looking at a problem. You may not agree with that new idea, but first listen to that and make your people know that you are willing to hear out a new point of view. It will make people more responsible by making them feel that they are contributing to the project.

10. Don't play favorites
Human beings always like somebody better than others. It's natural. But this favoritism should not have any place in the office. Being a good boss, you should find common ground with every employee, regardless of employees' hometowns, ages or ethnicities.

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10 Signs It’s Time to Leave Your Job

Do you get into the office without a plan of action for the day? Are you not being rewarded for your efforts? Does your boss often pull you down and embarrass you in front of colleagues?
If any or all of these ring true, it might be time to shake things up.
Here are 10 signs that could indicate that it’s time for you to move on – either from your current job function or from your organization – to other adventures.
1. Social networking but not working
Are Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter taking up more of your working day than preparing that PowerPoint presentation? If your company doesn’t allow access to these sites, perhaps your energies are focused on finding proxy sites which allow you to access sites that have been blocked by your company.
Or, do you simply dread coming to office and wait for the day to end quickly?
If this happens some days a week, then maybe you simply need a holiday. “But if one spends more than a month populating Farmville on Facebook, then yes, it’s stagnation and you need to move on,” .
2. Been there, done that
If your job has become so routine or monotonous that you can do most of it without thinking much, what are you doing in it? Essentially, you are not learning much or growing in that role, so you won’t be able to stay motivated for long. “Careers are not ponds, they are streams; they have got to be going somewhere from somewhere,” says Dony Kuriakose, director of Delhi-based recruitment firm Edge Executive Search Pvt. Ltd. “If you’re not moving, you’re dead in the water.”
Remember that if you have become too complacent and start taking the company for granted, your employer will soon recognize that, putting your role in jeopardy.
3. Not challenged enough
This is related to the point above. But if you feel that your organization is not giving you the right exposure or a challenging enough position, you could end up becoming very frustrated. “Take the initiative of engaging with (your) employer and…ask for more responsibilities,” says Pankaj Arora, managing director of Protiviti Consulting Pvt. Ltd, a business consulting and audit firm. If that doesn’t work, look for challenges elsewhere within or outside your organization.
4. Unmet goals
You want to become a team leader or a business head but your employer is moving you around into different departments without really promoting you. “It is time for you to move on when you feel your career objectives are not being met or fulfilled by your employer,” says Ms. Sheth.
5. Too big for your shoes
You were good at your first job, so you were promoted to the next level and the next level and so on. But now you have reached a position which is too much for you to handle. This is popularly referred to as the Peter Principle which states that in a hierarchy, employees rise to a level of their incompetence.
Either you need to re-skill and reinvent yourself pretty quickly to survive in that role or you need to move into another position which is a better fit for you.
6. Closed to change
Today’s organizations are nimble on their feet and are often changing their processes or businesses to meet delivery and cost pressures. If you can’t handle that change because you are too set in your ways, you could end up getting left behind. Or, maybe you don’t agree with your organization’s changes at a philosophical or an ethical level. “There are certain reasons why you work at a place and there are certain things that enthuse you,” says Mr. Kuriakose. “If those core issues change and you suddenly find that you’re working for a place that you wouldn’t have joined” it might be time to rethink.
7. Politics over mechanics
Every organization has politics and it’s smart to keep on top of major changes as well as the movers and shakers of your organization. But if your professional relationships at work have become so entangled and complicated that they are keeping you from your work, that’s a problem. Don’t let politics become more important to you than the mechanics of your job.
8. You’ve been overlooked — again
Are your batch mates from school and college more successful than you are? Or is your company promoting people with less experience and fewer achievements above you? Figure out why that is happening. If they’re working harder and are smarter than you, then consider adding to whatever skills are keeping you from that next job. But if your company is overlooking you, then it might be time to go where you get more recognition.
9. Don’t want your boss’s job?
We typically envy our bosses not only for their higher salaries but also for the responsibility and authority they command. But if you don’t aspire to be in your boss’s position at some time in the future, then it’s time to look around and reconsider your career plans. You can’t stay in your current position forever. Not everyone has to be the top dog, but a career path that promises advancement and satisfaction is a good road to be on.
10. Evil thoughts about your boss?
Ok, so all of us have some evil thoughts about our bosses every now and then. That’s normal. If you hate him or her as a person, deal with it. But if your professional relationship is troubled, then you have a problem. “You have to work with all kinds of people. However, a boss who is always pulling you down, and maybe embarrassing you in front of colleagues, could be harmful for your morale and progress. Time for some introspection and perhaps an exit strategy.

Source:Internet

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