Blog me...curiosity redefined

      Justice. Do you quantify the settlement of a justice in terms of money or as an apology from the culprit for the loss he has made to the victim? To add to this, imagine if the victim's loss is his health or even worse the life of someone in his family. Can you replace the loss of a life lost with money? Companies are here to make money or profits understood. The real question is at what cost - environment surrounding you is being polluted. Is that the gift we are giving our next generation?Would you be happy to settle for some money if the polluted water causes death in your family?       The 1998 hollywood movie 'A Civil Action' is based on all these ethical issues. Be it environmental issues or ethical dilemma in the workplace or for that matter the change needed in the judicial system. After all does money compensate for all your loss? Isn't there any higher cause than the money?  It leads to numerous questions and probably even more challen...

     Organizations set vision, mission or objectives that they want to achieve...be it in a time span of 5 years or 10 years or a long lasting goal. This vision, mission or objective is what I would like to call it as first pillar of the foundation for building an organisation.      The second pillar is the resources (be it human, financial, technology or process) that are applied in order to achieve the vision or objective. Business Managers apply their expertise here to drill down the business goals the company wants to achieve into the realistic goals for technical folks to understand. Project managers aid this activity to allot the budget and the required resources like number of people in the team along with deciding on the technologies to be used. Process or methodologies come in later to show how the technology will be implemented to achieve the desired result.         Value, Ethics and Standards being set at the organisation l...

      I just watched a video on youtube -  Foreign Media on INDIA : Britain is rich because of INDIA . The discussion starts with the Shashi Tharoor's viral speech at oxford where he has been very vocal about Britain owing reparations to India. Let me ask you "Do you want today's Britishers to pay for what their ancestors did?". Aren't we self sufficient to stand up on our feet, forgetting the past? With that said, a sincere apology from the Britain would have solved the issue....again that is my opinion.         Imagine India, if neither the Moghuls nor the British had invaded our country. I just can't believe the cultural richness we would have still enjoyed. I might be a little short-sighted by restricting my view to only cultural side, on a broader aspect what about our education system, our intellectual abilities, our economic supreme to name a few. Lest we can't change the past, but yes we can learn from it. I do agree that India los...

This is the song that made my day today!!! I liked the song sang by Rajesh Krishnan in Zee Kannada TV series - SaReGaMaPa. Kannada song -   https://www.facebook.com/zeekannadatv/videos/1202168439890639/ Movie name - CBI Shankar Singer - Rajesh Krishnan Details of the Orginial song are as below: Original song - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ubRWb9RydI Music Director - Hamsalekha Singer -  S. P. Balasubramanyam, Chithra Enjoy madi!!!

       Today we have a lot of social networking sites which just kill your 2 hours like it is 2 minutes. Don't you agree? The havoc these sites have caused are immensely irreparable. Yet we are so addicted to these, especially the Facebook, that if you don't open it once a day and spend at least 5-10 minutes your friends might think you are not catching up. Being a social animal, you need to catch up with the trending videos/photos/gossips to boast things in the office. Did the truth offend you? If not, please continue reading. LinkedIn is another networking site that I usually login. It has articles that are really useful to me in the corporate world and is more professionally inclined.       I see a new habit that is creeping up - Cellphone gazing as I would like to call it. Every couple of mins we have made it a habit to look at the screens to see what new messages have come in. It reminds me of a short video from Simon Sinek who mentioned that su...

        Hmmm...you heard it right! It is 99% giving. What makes you think I left the 1%? Do you think I missed the 1% on purpose? Is it the same logic of marketer's funda of selling a product at 99.9 rupees instead of the round figure 100 rupees? Nah...you may be able to fool the consumers using your marketing logic of not using 0 as suffix or rather the number of digits you use, but in the world of giving - no, you cannot. Give it 100% always.         Why do you need to give it 100%? You might say my intent is good (almost 99%) and I have a doubt whether I get back my returns of what I gave (1%). You lost the move! Never think of returns when you give, that is the true good intent. That is why give 100%.         I don't like marketing for just one reason. You need to lie and be unethical about how you sell. Oh, may be that is two reasons. Selling is about building the perception of an orange in mind of consumer when you are...

        You might have heard of Simon Sinek, one of the best motivational speakers in this world.  This blog is dedicated to his topic  'Start with Why' . Please watch this before we proceed.         As Simon explains the concept of Golden Circle, the inspired organisations and inspired leaders are the ones who travel from the inner most circle of Why to the outer most circle of What unlike the rest. I hope that makes a huge difference. Photo Courtesy - Babak Mohammadi's Linkedin article (Internet)           Yes it is true that the question of 'Why' is at most importance and we need to address the purpose first. An analogy to the spiritual world - Intent behind every work matters and if it is good you are bound to achieve success in it. In the corporate world, understanding the purpose behind the customer's need is your first step. Marketing a product also starts with the addressing the either customer...