For college students, it's common to hear professors, parents and mentors recommending that you do an internship. There's no better way, they say, to gain real world experience, try a variety of roles on for size without actually committing, and network with important contacts who will be key to landing a job post-graduation.

While that can be true, it's only really so if you land the right internship at the right organization with the right people available to mentor you. More often than not, interns are seen as copy makers and lunch fetchers, which is more of a cynical commentary on the current job landscape for postgrads than something that provides concrete skills to add to your resume. Even worse, if you're sequestered in the back room all day, it's not like you're going to build a huge network of powerful people. And all of this, for little or no pay.

It's a Monday, the start of the week. Do you want to read this? Probably you should for reasons that as employees and employers, our apple carts are rattled by this mind-boggling question often. It seems a really controversial topic to tread on actually. But "no fighting, no fighting" we say.

Going by the conventional school of thought, it is always the employers who are seen to have an upper edge as the "Giver" of an opportunity while the employees come seeking a livelihood. For many of you that's a typically capitalist working framework. But let's not get into the ideological squabble of the wage giver versus earner. In fact, terminologies such as employees, wages have undergone a cathartic change over the decades.

Both the employee and employer are equal entities with respective role plays in the organizational heirarchy in the sense that not everyone can do everyone's work. Specialized skill sets of each make them an important (not irreplacable) part of the work team. Touching on a minor thought here, 'entrepreneurship' too has evolved in its ambit. It's more about leading the pack from the front rather than being the absentee money-minting boss. The 'stakes' factor in a business is getting horizontally distributed too.

In the series of guest posting tip and tricks, we spoke about the essentials a host website/blog should keep in mind before accepting guest posts.

Today we shall take up the case of necessary checks and balances that need to be followed. There are certain commonplace mistakes that all of us indulge in. It's absolutely okay to falter before becoming a pro.

However, as a hosting website/blog, you do not have the priviledge to waste time nor are you being paid for to commit recurring mistakes. The bet with accepting guest posts can be that dicey a affair.

Guest posts come in all sizes and shades (personal views of the authors etc). As a person trusted with the responsibility of doing the 'pick-n-choose' job from the pod of writers, one needs to be aware of what kinds of mistakes generally take place. Don't they say "Precaution is better than Cure".

Running a successful corporation is a tough task since one has to take care of a lot of co-ordinates at the same time. And not everyone is a natural multi-tasker. But where does the process actually begin? From a ordinary idea, that is nurtured into an extra-ordinary reality by a capable leader. That is entrepreneurship for you in a line.

"Well begin is half done" they say but there are men, in the biz fraternity who don't believe in taking any half measures. That's why they are success stories unto themselves. Interestingly, none of these men were born with a silver spoon in their mouth, they carved out their niche from the word go to build empires that we all know today. Every business is a start-up; a Small Business at some time. A correct blend of leadership, strategy and luck is what makes it into a Big Business.