Management Fundaes-I

Lately my mind has been hatching some insane management ideas....which i think would have fetched great accolades had they come out of the mouth of great management gurus. Nevertheless, I am posting it here in the interest of general public or so i believe.
Though i find little motivation to type it all again after the office server, deliberately or intentionally, failed my repeated attempts to publish this and eventually I lost it all. But this time I believe I will be lucky.

Well some of the reasons you may be reading this are: you are lost and you accidently landed up here, you are expecting some great great management ideas with the potential to change the way the world works and last but not the least and probably the most probable reason that you are jobless enuf to surf through all the blogs in the world. Whatever the reason may be, all I can say is that I can not give any sort of satisfaction guarantee after you read this and your time lost will be totally your responsibility.

-Well first of all most of the conficts that we see arising in our office environment or outside are tainted by ego. So lets say a conflict ensues between me and my colleague and later on I realise that I was the one at fault. So in order to rectify the situation I should do something and in most of the cases what happens I am pulled back by my ego, especially when the other fellow is a junior. That time saying sorry becomes the most difficult thing in the world to do and more often we wait for something to happen to rectify the situation.

So while I was just pondering over this thing a revolutionary idea hit me. The idea goes like-whenever someone wants to say sorry to someone and he feels unable to do that....all he needs to do is just go ahead and say''hey dude, i owe you a treat or a coffee." And later on while they are at the table, he should elaborate on what he thought and how he went wrong, blah blah blah. So this saves the person from having to swallow his dignity too much and then say a half-hearted sorry.

Though easier said that done, it will definitely take some effort on the part of the doer.However I find this idea a very stong ice-breaker and this could possibly chanage the way we look at and deal with different situations. The biggest barriers in the world will break if we just talk(copied from airtel ad) and that talk could be anything, from the most stupidiest to the most intellectual, so long as you dont pain yourself to say it. So go ahead and sip away all your grudges and grievances in a cup of coffee.

Well thats it for now. I will dwell upon more such enlightening fundaes as and when they come to me. Till then enjoy your treat.

so much to do and so little time.........

I day dream a lot and think about whole lot of things. I see that I am interested in so many things in life but still find myself short of time and energy to pursue those things...for eg.....I have this desire to learn guitar but till date I couldnot go ahead with that desire..all I do is just think of it when I see people playing guitar and hope that I shud also learn it and sometimes kind of resolutely decide on it also. But the moment I get back to the routines of daily life, that desire, that secret wish gets lost somewhere inside me. And though it resurfaces occasionally but the voice is subdued by other more nearby and imminent chores of life.

Sometimes I think life is unfair and the dialogue from the movie"pursuits of happyness" seems most apt here i.e. man doesnt have the right to be happy, only the right to pursue it. When we have one thing in life we are not living it, rather craving for something else.....always and I am no different to that behaviour. When I have a job, I shud look around to fulfill things which my heart really longs for, but all I do is looking out for more money. And I guess this craving for money will never die. We are in one way cursed by being given this desire to horde money, because at the end of the day there is nothing worse than having all the wealth in this world and still dont have anyone to share it with. Someday we will be a millionaire or a billionaire and breathing our last. There was this message which says "the paradox of life is that just when your salary reaches to a point where the food prices dont matter anymore, the calories start to matter". Even though I say all this I am still not gutsy enuf to go for what I truly wish for.

I just keep flowing with the wind and still dream about reaching the stars. I dont know why ......I just dont know. Why is that god spares nobody and has given everybody something to be tensed about, something to worry about. Or is it like this...may be its all within oneself. One can choose to be happy irrespective of the conditions prevailing around. One can choose to be happy no matter what. I try to follow this principle in life but just when I am happy with my life, the whole world comes down on my head and starts telling me to be serious, think of future and do something, prepare, work hard and make money.

Not that I am against making money, but just that there should be a point at which we should turn back. We should look into what governs our attitude towards money-making i.e whether its greed or some other worthy purpose. Well all said and done, finally, I believe, we shud all strive to contain ur worldly desires and indulge in more worthy pursuits. Do what your heart says and not what the world tells you to do. Please stop this mad rat race because like they say even if you win this race..you still remain a rat.

one test and hell of an essay....

today was the my first attempt at xat...though i believe that i fared pretty good, but still not any confident about getting a good score there. last nite i just flipped through a couple of pages and this morning i just went out with blank mind and the little bit of knowledge assimilated during the cat preparation.nonetheless i felt a little confident while giving the exam. may be because i didnt carry any expectation burden out there into the exam hall. i also found the essay thing a bit amusing since i was not prepared for that in the first place not that i was prepared for the exam part. the topic of essay was "consequences of gender imbalance- third world war". seeing this topic first i couldnot help but laugh. well gender imbalance as a topic is not very uncommon but who would have thought of such dire consequences resulting from it like a third world war or something. but since i didnt have a choice i had to make up about 200 words to write on this topic. i thought of a lot of things but couldnot fix my mind on anything and since there was only 20 min for it, so i didnt wait any longer and started scribbling whatever came to my mind. to say the least i touched on the emotional part of the topic i.e. the consequences which will result out of skewed sex ratio or with the decrease in the female gender in the world. and i tried to quote the instances of china and india, the new developing nations, where this kind of trend is most prominent. the preference for boy child is very evident in these countries due to ,we may see, many different factors. like lets say in financial terms limited return on investment or being considered as the dowry burden or who-will-carry-the-family-name-ahead issue etc. so due to all this we see a widespread dislike for girl child and which ultimately skews up the whole sex ratio in many parts of the country. now this kinda trend is not limited to these parts of world but present everywhere though on a low level and due to which it generally goes unnoticed. the point i believe is that with the decrease in girls in the world the boys will go astray. compassion, love which are the paragons of motherhood will be lost from the earth and which will result in endless misery and the society will become more brutal. there will be more fights for girls. now this will definitely increase the animal tendencies in the man with no force to rein them. not to mention the biological imbalances that will arise from the decrease in the female forms on earth. well in the end all these factors will contribute to more fights and more wars. and sooner or later we will see some country attacking another country with the intention, of capturing girls and increasing the fertility of their own country. all this will eventually lead to a big war being fought on the surface of earth and which will definitely wipe out every forms of life on earth- and all this will be for one thing-woman. now i dont know how rational are my arguments nor do i have any basis for them, but i tried to paint a very probable picture of what might happen when things go wrong like this. nevertheless i totally enjoyed the experience of writing on topic so abstruse like this and with this i got a hang of how to rekindle my creativity while thinking for topics like this. thats all for now...gotta go office tomorrow...goodbye

preserve childhood.....

i watched tare zameen par and welcome today..i didnt really intend to watch both movies today itself but couldnot help it when my roommate pushed me for welcome also immediately after watching tare zameen par...nonetheless the movie tzp was a good experience and welcome was a dead brain fun..my review or approval of the tzp may be called as having resulted from a bias towards aamir khan whom i regard as a great actor. this may be not be abolutely true since the movie doesnt have much of aamir and its mostly that kid who is pervading throughout the two and half hours of that movie. the young chap has done a great job by splendidly potraying a kid affected with dylexia(i dont know whether thats the correct spelling of that disorder...) and it really connects with you that character. needless to say that aamir is also very touching throughout the movie and he really makes us view this particular disorder as well as childs in general in a different perspective. he tells us that the bachpan is not after all only about marks and getting ahead in this rat race and taking this competitive world right from the beginning. we need to preserve this childhood and not allow it get lost in this mad race which the parents thrust on the kids. the movie tries to drive home the point that its time to get down with the kids and view this beautiful world with their eyes. we need to preserve that innocence, naughtiness, love, game and all those beautiful things which symbolises childhood.

look back

a lot of time has passed since i last wrote. in fact i forgot how to reach my blog page. somehow i found the link and password to enter this page and now i am back with a pen and a paper, not literally. anyway nothing much seems to have changed since then...may be thats why i didnt write(a lame excuse)......no9/11, no tsunami...u know. well my mind is totally numb and its not suggesting anything at the moment. so may be i will be back sometime later with some good topic to talk about.till then go and sleep.

Identity crisis

I have often asked myself-why do we lie? Why is that we concoct all sort of fancy stories just to hide the brutal, factual and unpalatable truth from the people. Is it because we cant say it or is it that we dont want to? Well, I believe we do it consciously and deliberately in the primal stages but with frequent lying, the habit becomes so ingrained in our system that we seemingly become incapable of differentiating with the truth. We find that, over time , subconsciously we start lying in the most trivial situations and if probed further, we realize that those lies were infact uncalled for. This may not be bad if it is not intended for malicious purposes. But the point i want to drive home here is that if we are not lying subconsciously i.e we are lying and we know that we are and still we are doing that then there is a serious problem. In such case we are definitely facing an identity clash wherein we dont like who we are. This may sound a bit exaggerated and abstruse, but, I guess, to some extent this is the crux of the problem. A person always wants to paint a good picture of himself in front of other people. They dont want to show the ugly picture, where he is not a good guy(atleast thats what he thinks), to the people. He believes that his original nature will not allow him to make friends or get something in life. As a consequence, he tries to hide his true character and in order to build an ideal, lovable image he starts lying at every stage(whenever prompted) and that is the point where this whole story of lie and deceit begins. But it is equally true that at every one of those stages where he is lying, he is also fighting with his self which prompts him to stop disguising as someone else. And that battle rages on. Anyway, the whole point of this discussion(..rather one sided discussion) is that there is no point.... So lie man. Atleast be a hero..so long as you are not caught....

for a better year

So here comes the brand new 2k7. New resolutions, new promises and ever new ways to break them. Otherwise, we won't have anything to do in 2k8. Anyway I welcomed this new year with a"cheers" along with my friends who at that time were not in the condition to acknowledge the arrival of this new year. After hearing the annoying "this route is busy"continuously for so many hours together last night, my mind has started playing that line the moment I even think to call somebody. So what are the take-aways of the gone year. Frankly speaking, I dont know and much less do I care.

The other day i was watching this movie in which one guy says " there are signs everywhere.They help you to see what you want in life". So the mantra of the new year -introspect, retropect and do whatever spects are available, but make a commitment to yourself and then there should be no looking back. So have a blasting 2k7 and keep up with your promises. Suddenly one bloke sitting beside me blurted out "promises are meant to be broken man,otherwise who would care about the damn promises, so chill out." Yeah right man, cheers..