Passing thoughts

Way

2011-04-19T00:25:00.001-07:00

Old saying : Where there is a will, There is a way

Now :

Where there is will, it is which way

Where there is no will, Then "Its NOWAY"

The 3i's

2011-04-14T00:29:00.000-07:00

Information, Intuition & Inspiration forms the bed stone for any form of growth

Service : An expense or an investment ?

2010-07-05T11:42:00.000-07:00

Expenses are Sprint while investments are marathons.

Expense are meant to be cut down whilst Investments need nurturing.

Most Companies will look at service as an Expense & not as an area of Investment.

Value chain

2010-07-05T10:56:00.000-07:00

Loyal Empowered People Create :

Customer Complaint handling -> Customer Satisfaction -> Customer Delight-> Customer Benefit -> CUSTOMER MIND SPACE

Personal centric people Create:

Personal mind space -> Personal benefit -> Personal Delight -> Personal Satisfaction -> Customer Complaint Handling

Stakeholder -vs- Shareholder

2010-07-05T05:11:00.000-07:00

Stakeholders : are the people who work & strive to get profits

Share holders : are set of people who invest only to make profits

Shareholder define the value which comes in that cost of Stakeholder's squeeze... that's the paradox

Tribal Knowledge -vs- Bookish knowledge

2010-07-03T18:52:00.000-07:00

Tribal knowledge: It the tacit knowledge gained by doing some thing hands on. It is passed across from generation to generation implicitly. This knowledge gets embedded in the DNA. This forms the foundation or start point for all books.

Books : Are an assimilation of the same Tribal knowledge. They edited & structured explicitly in a presentable manner.

Books lack the "Tacit" behind the knowledge. To learn "Tacit Part", respect people who have tribal knowledge & be willing to work with them to get you DNA corrected.

Rigidity -vs-Firmness

2010-07-03T18:46:00.000-07:00

Rigidity : being stiff

Firmness : being determined

Being rigid is considered to be inflexible. Being firm is staying put with the purpose. To stay put with the purpose one needs to be flexible & adaptive too, which would be missing when you become Rigid.

simpler comparison Broom stick -vs- Binding wire. Wire is firm as it can flex, it still can hold things in place, however the stick, can only clean in a cluster & is held in place by a binding wire

Intellect - Vs- Experience

2010-07-03T06:04:00.000-07:00

Young use the former more , while the older ones use the later better.....

Eventual result, The young have to spend time & intellect to acquire experience

Eventually Intellect is required to create the Experience & Experience to nurture Intellect.

Meaning full Titles

2010-07-01T05:18:00.000-07:00

I read a blog / site which pointed to the underlying meanings of some important words

Jahan Panah : Shelter of the world

Chattra - Pathi : Roof bearer

This triggered some thinking & I thought about this

BOSS : Bearer Of Steady Soul

Bearer Of Steady Support

Can a singer become god ?

2010-06-25T22:52:00.000-07:00

Radio one BLR ran an opinion poll yesterday to commemorate MJ's 1st Death Anniv.

The question was "Is MJ the God of Music"

According to me Music is divine & God in itself. Artists are mere messenger for this Divine message & not GOD.

Was put live on air for this.

Education -Vs- Expereince

2010-06-18T06:08:00.000-07:00

People when young & energetic will put their Education to task while doing a task, whislt Older people will use their Experience

Profit -Vs- Purpose

2010-06-18T06:01:00.001-07:00

A Traditional Business man is driven by the absolute numbers in profit, However a Passionate Entreprenuer is Driven by Purpose.

"Is the purpose being supported by economies globally"... is the question whose answer would be known a few decades from now.

Studying -vs- learning

2010-06-18T05:48:00.000-07:00

It is interesting to see that Parents tend to push children towards careers & education they persecive to be the in thing or happening one.

There seems to be too much pressure on them to study & score well in the exams for various reasons.

How ever My feel is

Educational study in call is for Exams

But the Learnings are for Life.

All education needs to focus on the applicative learning for the biggest exam "Life"

ManageMent

2009-01-18T21:58:00.000-08:00

ManageMent is all about two M's

#1. M : Men
#2. M : Money

If one can effectively balance both the end reasult is Success

Enterprising People : An Inventive thought

2008-12-22T03:50:00.000-08:00

under normal circumstances, A person is said to be enterprising when he is willing to take creative risks.

In many scenarios it more like 'Enter' the 'Praising' people, who would praise you to the top to get their tasks done

Do it : because your heart wants you to

2008-08-12T08:19:00.001-07:00

Its more important to have enough conviction when doing some thing. This has to come from the bottom of the heart & not do some thing as it has to be done.

When this is done from the bottom of the heart, what ever the route it takes, the reasult would be what you always wanted it to be.

This might what could be called as "Comman man's Miracles"

Shake

2008-07-23T13:54:00.000-07:00

When Some thing is being shaken, the Person who's shaking has to realise that s/he too is a part of the Shudder.

Design : The Sign

2008-07-21T00:22:00.000-07:00

Design

Any great design would have been grounded to practical reality. However great the design, if the same is not practical, appealing & placed in its market place at the wrong time, it would be a failure despite the value it proposes to the prospective buyer.

Respect : the foundation for Good relationship

2008-07-21T00:17:00.000-07:00

Respect:

It is essential that we respect the other person in order to have long term good relationship.
Mutual respect forms the best & strongest foundation for any relationship.

Customer is always Right!!

2008-04-14T18:19:00.000-07:00

This is the old school of thought. There is every possibility that the customer might not be right as he would have his personal intentions on top priority than the factual.

Such Situations demand a reprimand to the erroneous one.

I now realist that "Customer is Right, but not always"

Cycles can become better

2008-03-23T03:18:00.000-07:00

Today morning while taking my younger Daughter's cycle, i realised that Brakes were very hard on my fingers.

If this is the case... I pondered all thro' the push/ pull cycle effect, that it would be very hard on any 4~8 year old child as it would be hard to apply these brakes.

Upon closer inspection, I found the following

1. friction free cables not used
2. return spring of higher tension
3. akward lever position which is beyond the reach of any small child to apply the brakes.

There has been enough research which has gone into all these areas... It makes me wonder why the cycle industry is yet to embrace them... Is it lack of glamour to the industry which make it that way ?

Confusion

2008-01-30T05:21:00.000-08:00

I & a Very trusted friend were discussing a few prospective plans & that was when I expressed that the entire phase/planing hitting a road block & was bit Confused.

This Friend Suggested me that there are two things which have to happen when you get confused.

1. Confused so: do an Ebbatical to understand the confusion better
2. Confused so: It presents an opportunity to explore the unexplored.

Thanks to Sameer for Such Enlightening words.

Ebbatical would begin

Give Every thing can -Vs- Give what people want

2008-01-30T05:05:00.000-08:00

A few weeks ago a Mail was hurled at me, asking me reasons for replyin to or starting only 100+ mails on www.bajajpulsar.org

understanding the spirit of the mail I got to understand "why I did not start many new threads but only replied to querries".

As I refelect on this question now, I realise that it it better to give what people want rather than what you want to give .

By giving what I want, I would be giving things which are unwanted by the take & there by wate the resource. By giving what the taker wants we would be adding meaning to what we really do.

Giving what ever you want / can is Philosphical, Whilst Giving what people want is Spiritual.

The Art of Giving

2007-12-19T06:18:00.000-08:00

Its human to take from others, It take a little extra human effort to give to others.

It always better to give people what they want as they relish it, rather than giving what you can.

The only golden rule that i've learnt is "Ensure that the taker is worthy of the giving"

Giving = Taking

Re-Birth of the Icon : Chetak the Indian war horse

2007-11-12T06:40:00.001-08:00

This is opposite to what I usually blog here. Since this too was a passing thought, thought it right to blog it.

Chetak : Who does not know about this Melody of the yesteryear's. Its was the style statement in its hay days which went on to become a Must have two wheeler a few years later.

Off late I've been attending far too many Social gatherings. In these gatherings, I do meet up with very many old time customers who still go GAGA with their Chetak & Chetak days.

Most of them have given up driving the chetak around for the Convenience of Automatic scooters.

In this Era of remakes & remixes , which have turned out to be great success, I now feel that it would happen to the Chetak too. I strongly feel that Chetak needs to have a rebirth, OFC in a new Avtar.
In its new Avtar, this new scooter should appeal to the Chetak Generation whilst keeping an eye on the wants of the "Today Generation".

All it takes is a 125 CC 4- Stroke , well styled, simple to use , Automatic scooter. The Styling according to me must be derived from the older Chetak with a few features added ala the old Marquee.

It should derive some small external styling leads/ inputs from the Yesteryear's Chetak in a few areas, which Reminds us about the Great Marquee Calling itself the "Chetak Automatic".

In short it should be a reminder of the old Glory days of the Chetak set in the modern era.

The Name Chetak, I am sure it would rekindle many memories & bring back the glory of the yesteryears.

Experience : a Finer Derivative

2007-11-04T22:08:00.000-08:00

Expereience:

Having seen a few application which come in with a column quoting the experience in the number of years at doing some thing, thought of the same today in the morning.

Experience according to me is all about the learning one derives from every day endevors & trying to do the same quickly under similar circumstances & not repeat the same mistakes that were commited in the earlier instance.

Destiny : Who Controls it?

2007-10-04T23:34:00.000-07:00

Well people resort to saying in depression that "Its my Bad luck or Destiny".

The question is who Determines one Destiny ?

It is said that the "Only person incharge of destiny is the Person himself".

All other who say are incharge of the persons Destiny are only acting upon the behest of this person & not the people who control it.

(C)Copyright

2007-09-06T00:00:00.000-07:00

Copy right:

Any successful pattern or model or process or procedure which is original & novel qualifies it self to be copied.

It is in the current Indian scenario it also is a right to copy.

The reasult of a sucessful model is known when we see people replicating what ever we do in what ever modified form.

Knowledge or Experience

2007-09-03T09:43:00.000-07:00

After my presentation on Training a Co-Trainee asked me a dicey question. He asked me

" Weather Experience is better than knowledge or the other way round?"

I also encountered a similar Question yesterday at an Automotive Contest (Where I along with my father Were invited to be a judge) & the Anchor of the Show said " They say Experience is the mother of knowledge, can you see this clearly here? "

My answer were the same in both the circumstances.

"There is no Experience with out Knowledge & No knowledge with out Experience."

They always go hand in hand.

In fact an elevated soul would realise the fact " Knowledge gives Experience & Experience gives Knowledge" They are always in Tandem & can't live with our each other.

Training : Driver to Our Destiny

2007-09-03T09:12:00.000-07:00

Training:

A few years ago while under going a Development Program at a Corporate co, I was asked to make an impromptu Presentation on Training. The challenge posed were

1. the Preparation would be not more than 5 mins

2. The Presentation not to exceed 2 mins.

Though the ask was tough, I accepted & moved on it.

The Presentation consisted of only one slide & one word

TRAIN - ING

I presented it as below

" We take train to move to various destinations for very many reasons"
"Similarly we need to Train our Selves to move from one place to another"

So Training is an Essential tool to drive us to various levels.

This very much defines the Alttitude of both our Professional Career as well as Personal Life.

Home work : The Daily Primer

2007-08-30T06:04:00.000-07:00

Home work:

This is a topic which we have been used to from our School days.

We always had to complete our homework before going to school. Colleges were slightly different, yet the same existed in a different form.

Post college & bachelor days, it was once in a week kind where all the dirt of the room would be cleaned up.

Post marriage, it comes back with Shopping, Take loved ones on an outing, getting things done etc.

All in all Home work still remains & only the nature & intensity changes.

This is probably the very reason why the same is being taught as a Must do from the age of 3+.

Sarcasm : A tool to be used ?

2007-08-22T23:00:00.001-07:00

Sarcasm:

This many people thing is the right tool to use to achieve desirable effects /changes.

Most of the time this creates Negative energy inside the receiver & propagates a feeling to avenge the same at the first possible instance.

In short Sarcasm when used wrongly generates a TIT -FOR - TAT situation.

This could only be used when the moods are upright & has to be combined with a bit of humor.

In many circumstances, it better to to talk upright & straight instead of using Sarcasm.

Qualification: A requirement on paper

2007-08-22T00:16:00.000-07:00

Yesterday an youngster wrote to me asking my Educational qualification, Industry experience & did we ever go abroad to pursue education or Work etc.

My reply was that we had just gained enough knowledge to qualify ourselves to hold a spanner in our hand.

According to me Educational qualification as a degree is only a tool to open the gates for a job entry.

The Qualifications required to be an entrepreneur are

1. Commitment
2. Core competence

This makes an amazing recipe to start ones own enterprise.

As ever one must be open for learning every day & there are no University paper Degrees awarded to this.

This is THE DEGREE, Which is a must to make head way in real life.

Dream : To come true

2007-08-21T00:28:00.000-07:00

Dream:

It is a very essential part of life.

Unless we dream we have nothing to do...

If we just Dream, then again "we would have nothing to do too".

Dream ,Its neither wrong or bad. Just Garner all the guts & make every effort with true conviction to make it come true.

This is the thin line between Dreamers & Doers.

Assume : Wrong route

2007-08-20T19:23:00.000-07:00

Assume:

When we assume things/ events/ Incidents we just Ass-U-Me.

In short we make an Ass of you first & then ourselves next.

Error Proofing: Nice way to Prevent errors

2007-08-18T19:21:00.000-07:00

Error Proofing:

Rule books say : "Error Proofing a method used to PRE-VENT errors."

PRE-VENT : Start venting the error out even before it even exists.

Untill Proof is provided, Errors are non existant.

By PRE-VENTing our emotions out, this Error Non existant become existant too.

Religion

2007-08-17T18:53:00.000-07:00

Dictionary gives us very many meaning for this word.

In my opinion all religions are meant to provide the inner peace to all of us. The methods adopted might be different.

In the current days, when profession supersedes every thing else including family life, It turns out to be the religion that we follow. It our way to achieve inner peace (or inner pieces). This would be the only religion that we could follow & make our life better.

Achive god thro' our job would take our to a different platform all together.

Bad People : The pull back factor

2007-08-16T04:54:00.000-07:00

When we look into the details of events, & do a bit of Paralysis (My synonym for Analysis), Its not the people who're bad, but its the situation which makes Bad.

Its eventually what they learn from it & effect a quick Awakening to change which happens with in themselves, diffrentiate between a Good learner & some one who's not.

Eventually some day every one realises his mistakes & regrets for the circumstances which led them do it. Many hardly learners also realise that the realisation with in themselves has happened very very late.

Every good man has a bad element in him, whilst Every Bad man has a good one with in him. This is very well Depicted in Feng-shui as the Yin & Yang.

Character : The Definition

2007-08-14T07:15:00.000-07:00

People say the Strength of a person is resident with in ones character.

This Defines the way we look at the world, immaterial of what other in the world look up to us as.

This they say is what defines a persona more clearly.

My opinion:

Char-Act-er : Char the Actor inside you, take yourself to burn out, The way we react to this would define our character.

This is a wholly based on our internal awakening, which is our strenght.

Intentions : the Road to Glory

2007-08-13T04:01:00.000-07:00

It very important that we have the right intentions before we start some thing. If the intentions at Large are fair & helpful to many, no matter what we do it leads us to success.

If the intentions are Malicious, yes this leads to worng effects & the entire thing would collapse no matter what great approach we take.

Being helpful as a part of the end reasultleads us to glory Else it would be.....

Sprituality: Its Omni Present

2007-08-13T01:03:00.000-07:00

Sprituality:

In my opinion its not about meditation or any such medium to reach God.

It is just the search for inner Peace with in our selves.

In my experience, its all about putting out ones heart & soul in to what ever we do. The sense of accomplishment after doing some thing to generate the WOW effect with ourselves is SPIRITUALITY.

At that moment we find god with in us.

It just make us feel that little bit better.

Spirituality is very much present with in us always, the way gos is present every where.

Relationship: At times the Unbearable Weight

2007-08-10T04:14:00.000-07:00

Relations ships are in simple emotional bonding happening between People/ Objects/ Place.

For any relationship to survive, Maturity in thought & personal freedom are absolute essential.

At times these relationships put us into a situation where it would be like "Riding with the Brakes on".

Its essential to get out from the situation & take a look into this relationship from the perspective of an outsider & access the situation.

Once these two can't be achived, the best option many take is to Rework the same & if the same fails, one has to drop the relationship out & move on with life.

Leech & Sponge

2007-07-29T07:15:00.000-07:00

A few weeks ago some one wrote to me in a apologetic tone expressing his frequent queries on various things in life.

The youngster was trying to get a bit of personal info about my personal commitment to reply all possible queries shot at me.

He called himself a Leech, said was trying to suck every possible information that used to come his way.

This query transposed me to a Lecture session by Prof. Prasad at IIM-B. The specific session appraised us about the varieties of people in the Corporate /Real world. One among the Types was a Machiavellian, a typical One way traffic. Machiavellian uses others for personal gain & in the process makes others to hate him for what he does to others to get his way out.

The Immediate thought was that of a Sponge. I suggested the same to this youngster, asking him to Meta-morph himself into it.

Sponge According to me is non- emotional, yet helpful. It tends to absorb what ever fluid that moves out & hold on to the same to the end of its limits. Upon being squeezed it gives out the same fluid out.

The Sponge in our daily life epitomises Support & Comfort, with out making any noise of being around.

The Sponge effect according to me is to gather useful information, support etc. & then give out/ use the same as & when needed.

In short a Sponge is a true selfless being.

Motivation: A action of the past

2007-07-27T04:52:00.000-07:00

Motivation is some thing from the past. The Actual avatar of real time motivation is "Internal Awakening".

Motivation has a threat. It can be always be faked. But the power of internal awakening is simply intangible. It more like the Giant Awakening.

People Don't change because some one wants them to, but change because they want to Change.

As the Awakened Giant turns sort of unstoppable, the internal Awakening too recharges the person to do what he/ She considered impossible just a few days ago.