Help needed for the new design

Today the last day of term V commences ;) and i have two exams to go... following with there can be grand group reunion plans... and here i am changing the design and layout of my blog. I searched for some exciting template and ended with this since blogspot templates are bored and monotonous. But one problem here i find that i am unable to put that Blue blogger navbar on the top. If any one can suggest me what should i do....I seek guidance from my geek friends Please do Oblige...
Rajiv

Meri jeevan - Madhushala

मदिरालय जाने को घर से चलता है पीनेवाला
' किस पथ से जाऊँ? ' असमंजस में है वह भोलाभाला
अलग- अलग पथ बतलाते सब, पर मैं यह बतलाता हूँ -
' राह पकड़ तू एक चला चल, पा जाएगा मधुशाला ||

हाथों में आने से पहले नाज़ दिखाएगा प्याला
अधरों पर आने से पहले अदा दिखाएगी हाला
बहुतेरे इनकार करेगा साकी आने से पहले
पथिक, न घबरा जाना, पहले मान करेगी मधुशाला॥

यम आयेगा साकी बनकर साथ लिए काली हाला
पी न होश में फ़िर आएगा सुरा- विसुध यह मतवाला
यह अंतिम बेहोशी, अंतिम साकी, अंतिम प्याला है
पथिक, प्यार से पीना इसको फ़िर न मिलेगी मधुशाला॥



धर्मग्रन्थ सब जला चुकी है, जिसके अंतर की ज्वाला,
मंदिर, मसजिद, गिरिजे, सब को तोड़ चुका जो मतवाला,
पंडित, मोमिन, पादिरयों के फंदों को जो काट चुका,
कर सकती है आज उसी का स्वागत मेरी मधुशाला।।

मुसलमान औ' हिन्दू है दो, एक, मगर, उनका प्याला,
एक, मगर, उनका मदिरालय, एक, मगर, उनकी हाला,
दोनों रहते एक न जब तक मस्जिद मन्दिर में जाते,
बैर बढ़ाते मस्जिद मन्दिर मेल कराती मधुशाला!।

लिखी भाग्य में जितनी बस उतनी ही पाएगा हाला,
लिखा भाग्य में जैसा बस वैसा ही पाएगा प्याला,
लाख पटक तू हाथ पाँव, पर इससे कब कुछ होने का,
लिखी भाग्य में जो तेरे बस वही मिलेगी मधुशाला।


अपने युग में सबको अनुपम ज्ञात हुई अपनी हाला,
अपने युग में सबको अदभुत ज्ञात हुआ अपना प्याला,
फिर भी वृद्धों से जब पूछा एक यही उज्ञल्तऌार पाया -
अब न रहे वे पीनेवाले, अब न रही वह मधुशाला!।


 This post i started to write yesterday when i happen to check my profile on orkut and just get mesmerized by the lines of 'Madhushala' (मधुशाला). These are some of my favorite lines from Madhushala.  I search for a video of Madhushala recited by none other than son of the famous poet who penned down these beautiful lines, Harivansha Rai Bachhan (He is the father of one of the bolllywood icons Amitabh Bachhan).
Not finding where did i save it i search it on youtube and was amazed to find that great Manna dey had sung entire  Madhushala. (I) can't express my delight to hear my favorite lines from one of my favorite singer. Madhushala is third in trilogy, the others being Madhubala (1936) & Madhukalash (1937). read about these on wiki.
  Listen to the great songs
songs by manna dey 1   Songs by Manna Dey 2
Other versions by manna Dey Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4
Recitation by Amitabh Bachhan
 For lyrics refer this site - Manaskriti

आज मिला अवसर, तब फ़िर क्यों मैं न छकूँ जी- भर हाला
आज मिला मौका, तब फ़िर क्यों ढाल न लूँ जी- भर प्याला
छेड़छाड़ अपने साकी से आज न क्यों जी- भर कर लूँ
एक बार ही तो मिलनी है जीवन की यह मधुशाला॥

Here goes one more... Telangana

Telangana 29th state
Rayalseema 30th
Bundelkhand 31st
Harit Pradesh 32nd
Vidarbha 33rd
Poorvanchal 34th...

How many states, darn it you want man!... isn't it enough?????
No idea, why it was a sad reaction when i came to know about the separation nod announced by P. Chidambaram. I  could see many of my colleagues from AP disappointed, now some of them belong to AP some from telangana and probably in a few days some from rayalseema.
 I have heard of all this outcry many a times. being from Bihar, i remember what the hell happened over Jharkhand and Bihar issue. feel this all sh*t happens due to these B*ll Sh*t , bloody Politicians. Apparently they can sell anybody just for money and all in the name of public interest.  Any way that's a separate issue.

• "Andhra Pradesh should not be divided but if you are dividing it, form Greater Rayalaseema alongside Telangana and make coastal Andhra a separate state,"
• 93 legislators and many MPs, cutting across party lines, resigned to protest the central government's decision
• The move found backing from other parties, including from the principal opposition, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). [ No surprise, in fact it was in their rule when Jharkhand, chattisgarh and uttarakhand were created]
• "Telangana is a region that lies on the Deccan Plateau to the west of the Eastern Ghats range, and includes the northwestern interior districts of Warangal, Adilabad, Khammam, Mahbubnagar, Nalgonda, Rangareddi, Karimnagar, Nizamabad, Medak, and Andhra Pradesh capital, Hyderabad. The Krishna and Godavari rivers flow through the region from west to east.The quest for a separate Telangana state has been on since 1956, and was intensified after 1969." -Topnews.in

AP-Telangana-Rayalseema (seems possible, if few MPs sit for another hunger strike). Also there will be definite rise in hunger strikes and similar kind of Pseudo- gandhi Stuffs from Bundelkhand, gorkhaland, harit pradesh and many more. And 'No surprises' if in near future, demand for separate Nation arise. Hyderabad remains in doldrums. Some leaders from parties have proposed to declare Hyderabad a Union Territory. Darn it man! Are you people out of your mind...

PS: On the flip side read about Telangana here at Wiki Link and stats here
       Source for the image :Top News Dot in and TOI  & definitely google
         Entire thing is highly opinionated, may be an outburst
            any difference of opinion is welcome

Bloggers Boom Part 1

This post i rate high on randomness coz i have no idea what i am going to write... though going by what every one of my friend is writing about on their blogs (with exceptions of very few) shows how stressed up people are. definitely this is trying times for all .... errrrr think m also going that way. STOP. i don't want to write what everyone else is writing.
Also i see a trend amongst my fellow bloggers and i have an idea as to why all of a sudden every tom dick and harry have plunged to become a blogger.I would like to share my thought with you. Since i say these are trying times and my fellows want to make a difference or they want to tap niche market as i think my marketing friends would say. But the problem here is that every one think he is writing uniquely and thus every one ends up writing same stuff in different structure of sentence.when i say this i definitely want to make exception for few bloggers who are writing differently.So, each of the bloggers want to attract attention , but  question is, whose attention they want to grab? Very specifically they have a target audience in their mind and they are not the Mango ppl but the recruiters coming for them. Fair enough For this reason i have seen a number of blogs coming up lately, serving specific area of specialization viz marketing hr and so on.Some people have gone to the extent of choosing a niche topic of the core subjects and dedicating a blog on this.
 ( I ) Like this.Any way this might be helpful to the readers get a perspective of the subject which they haven't gone thru. Amidst all this, few people have gone to the extent of writing multiple blogs each dedicated to their different areas of interest. writing about poem, bible and all others... Quiet interesting ! I had been listening to stories from bible from few of my friends and my curiosity of knowing more on this topic (but lazy enff to browse thru bible which i borrowed from my friend) led me to be a regular follower of the blog. see these blogs for details god and bible , Rural India and equally interesting is the blog coming straight from heart which says Speak your heart .
And again there are people who have discovered their paparazzi talent lately and have come up with blogs with all 'chatpati'  news from the college and around. That's interesting ( by this i recall one blog becoming very popular during the last ipl season . it was by some anonymous member who was omnipresent and had all insider information. well i c the last post is on June 15th'09 but he has given crazy ideas to people in our batch. for details see these blogs fake ipl player and our very one pandora's box.)  Though this blog has led to serious accusations from girls that " we know u boys are more gossip monger than the girls" , counter the general viewpoint. However i found it interesting to mention another blog when i when thru one of the post in this blog Anonymous blogger which is more interesting , simply because it's about  three girls and their life in a GIRLS hostel... ha ha ha quite interesting na... ! i found it too. but again this blog has varied range from poems to a girl's quiet life - that's another interesting part. do enjoy this blog. And definitely that one post which i mentioned in beginning refutes the claim by girls that boys are more gossip monger than the girls.
Then there are people whom i thought were kind master in finance but i never thought they could be equally good in matters of marketing. may be they have another opportunity to become critic no  not film critic but ad critic.Every one of us who know him admired his post regarding the posts he wrote in last few days. nevertheless read his posts on finance, which helped many of us to understand some concept better. (for details read chris's call).
 well i  want to write more on this ... (i am finding it interesting write about what other are posting .. he he he)  but got to go... Certainly i have few more very interesting Blogs to write about... i'll do that in next post

PS: coming up  posts :  
1. 'Bloggers boom part 2'    (lots of interesting blogs in line up, where the posts have made up to Number 1/2 in goggle search... )
2. "what happened last night" (another interesting night,where conversations were loaded with arguments and arguments were loaded with life ; and there was One man against all ....)


Other blogs to be mentioned:
Mirror
Viva-la- liba
Rialize   (liked the tweaking )
Amy

Liba-rated 09 part 1

This year libarated, our annual Cultural fest, had some special. flavor.
Theme Being shriek fest, the setup was all dark n gloomy but the mood enthusiastic. Guys n gals worked some days n nights to make this event a hit. kudos to u ppl. And yeah Liba being ranked 9th this year was something to celebrate (finally it got, what was deserved and awaited). Amonst many flavors, nigel and Cerys brought some goan flavor to the show, here's the clipping for the performance. hope u ppl enjoy this.
Libarated 09 nigel n cerys Jive performance
I shall be posting other events very soon... so stay tuned.
visit My youtube channel for other videos.


any difference of opinion is welcome

Nobel Peace Prize - Twitter reactions

This is just an assortment of people's funny reaction over the news :

• Reagan wins cold war no Nobel Peace Prize; Obama makes suggestions of peace gets NPP Truly the NPP has lost all credibility
• Bush liberates millions in the middle east, and Obama gets the Nobel Peace Prize.
•  I think Beyoncé should have won that Nobel Peace Prize.
• Nothing major - Barack Obama won theNobel Peace Prize. The usual. ;-)
• just voted "No" on "Did President Obama deserve to win the Nobel Peace Prize?" vote too ➔ http://bit.ly/o176T
• heh, can see headlines now "17 INJURED INPEACE PRIZE RIOTS"...!
• Yes, Obama deserved the Nobel Peace prize.. he hasn't started a war... yet!
• The Nobel Peace Prize: Another way of saying thanks for doing our dirty work
• You are hereby sentenced to aNobel Peace Prize.
• just voted "Yes" on "Did President Obama deserve to win the Nobel Peace Prize?" vote too ➔ http://bit.ly/o176T
• What accomplishments one needs in order to receive a Nobel Peace Prize????
• what a week - Obama's nobel peace prize, an explosion on the moon, Ozzy Osbourne got a driver's license, no wonder I wasn't in the news.
• Fidel Castro lauds Nobel prize for Obama: HAVANA (Reuters) - Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro lauded the awardi..
• What is the difference between a Google Wave invite and a Nobel prize? Correct. Anyone can get a Nobel. :):):)
• The new mantra for peace: om-bamaya namahom-bamaya namah,
• That is cool that Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize... I am just not sure exactly what he did? Is it that we didn't Nuke Iran?
• My youngest just broke up a fight between his younger sisters. How do I notify Nobel Prize committee?
• At least Obama didn't get the Nobel Prize in economics for only giving 1% of the stimulus funds to the small biz that create 95% of all jobs
• Peace Prize hmmm so where's the peace?
•  i want a nobel prize too! atleast that'll 'encourage' me to do something BIG in some field! nd please NOT in history...i hate that subject!!
• does Obama receiving the Nobel Peace Prize really upset everyone that much? He received a PEACE prize, why are we HATING him for that?
• When I woke up this morning, I had NOT won a Nobel prize. I guess there's always next year.

• Obama HImself :"This morning, Michelle and I awoke to some surprising and humbling news. At 6 a.m., we received word that I’d been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009.
  To be honest, I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who’ve been honored by this prize — men and women who’ve inspired me and inspired the entire world through their courageous pursuit of peace."
  

any difference of opinion is welcome

Pandora's Box

Recently came across a mast mast blog by fellow libaite who has whole new perspective abt what's happening in & out of LIBA. It's an interesting read. More so, this includes all gossips and all which is tabu to disclose publicly. Another feature which I like in it is the names given to the characters , that's hilarious.

Lyrics kyun keeda hai - Quick gun Murugan

बक बक है आपकी सुनली, किस खेत की आप हैं मुली, टेढ़े सवालों के हैं टेढ़े जवाब | मिया न बीवी राज़ी, फिर भी लगे हैं काजी, इतने असमंजस मे हैं क्यूँ जनाब क्यूँ जनाब क्यूँ जनाब क्यूँ जनाब क्यूँ जनाब |..... होना है जो उसको होने जी होने दे, रोते हैं जो उनको जी रोने दे, ऊँगली करते क्यूँ हर जगह, क्यूँ विचलित हैं क्यूँ खफा, क्यूँ कीडा है आपको, क्यूँ पीडा है खाम-खा, क्यूँ जनाब क्यूँ जनाब क्यूँ जनाब क्यूँ जनाब |..... जिसको जो कहना है कहने दे, कुत्ते की दुम है टेढी रहने दे काम से काम अपना बस रखे, ऊँगली करते क्यूँ हर जगह, क्यूँ चिंतित हैं बेवजह, क्यूँ कीडा है आपको, क्यूँ पीडा है खाम-खा, क्यूँ जनाब क्यूँ जनाब क्यूँ जनाब क्यूँ जनाब| |..... असंतुलित संगत है, पीडा के आप चुम्बक हैं, छोडे अपना चिरकुट धर्म, त्यागे ये सब कार्यकर्म, असमंजस है आपका कुछ, करम करें न सोचे कुछ, गुठली छोडे खाएं आम आपसे मेरी त्राहि माम |




"कर्मभूमि मेरा आँगन, terrice मेरा नील गगन, ये पूरा दुनिया मेरा वतन... my name is murugan, Quick gun murugan... MIND it!"


To be contd...

India Unbound - Gurcharan Das

About Author

Gurcharan Das is an Indian author, consultant and public intellectual. He is a regular columnist for Times of India and in several other newspapers. Born on June 9 at Lyallapur in 1946, he has authored many books.  visit him at his blog

 India is now a vibrant free market democracy after the 1991 economic reforms, and it has begun to flex its muscles in the global information economy. This change has not been overnight. It took 50 years after our political freedom in 1947, for our rulers to realize the path we were treading since independence. This book India Unbound is an account of what all good and bad happened in India from pre independence period to  after 1991. Basically Gurcharan das has divided the book into three periods viz. pre independence days, Post independence to 1991 and post 1991. India burst into independence with high hopes and a clean slate. Led by erudite statesmen and men and women of impeccable political backgrounds, the country was all set to sail the seas to wealth and modernity. These soon became distant goals. India's slide into the mire of backwardness has been the topic of countless heated and unresolved after-dinner discussions in every household across the country. Given our infinite advantages why did the country not progress? What caused the ever-spiraling poverty that has now reached unmanageable proportions? What led an honest, dignified people to the door of rampant corruption? How did we earn the epithet that keeps poor countries firmly in their place: The Third World? When will we be rich again? Every Indian and, perhaps, everyone who has loved India, has his or her own answer to these questions.

     Gurcharan das tries to answer some of these questions in India Unbound. He talks about various policies of British and post independence Indian rulers and how they affected the masses in general and Indian Economy in particular. It is a riveting story of a nations rise from the poverty to prosperity and the clash of ideas that occurred along the way. The economic and social transformation of the lower castes is another major theme of the book. The struggle of the one-sixth of the humanity for the dignity and prosperity had a great consequence for the future of the world. Author mentions that whenever the name India is spelled out, two things generally come to the mind of foreigners-spirituality and poverty. The significance of this quiet social and economic transformation eludes them. In the end 'silent revolution' is more significant historically than the constantly changing fortunes of political leaders and parties.

    when India became Independent, Nehru had become world hero. When Nehru addressed nation in the midnight of 15th August, people were ecstatic.

 "Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge… At the stroke of the midnight hour while the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out of from the old to new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed find utterance…"

People of that generation were just enchanted with Nehru. They believed that whatever steps he would take would lead India to its golden future. But Nehru like many people of that age, had a bias towards business community. He believed that business community's sole purpose is to earn profit. They hardly care for the welfare of the people.

Gandhi and Nehru had many things in common except the way they perceive the Business men in India. While Gandhi believed that bazzar is an essential for the overall development of a nation while Nehru believed business men as a threat to the common people. He believed that state should be the entrepreneur on the lines of USSR and China. That’s the reason when India became politically independent Nehru took it as a state responsibility to set up industries. In the second five year plan according to Mahalanobis model a huge amount of capital was invested to set up heavy industries.

 Mahalnobis was great statistician of that time and like Nehru he too believed that science and reason can be used to find solution to most of the problems existing in the period. Mahalnobis had profound effect on Nehru’s thinking. His draft plan for the second five year plan was possibly the single most important document in 1950s and possibly the most important document in the world. At the same time there was an alternative theory by vakil and brahmanand, renowned economists from Bombay, who emphasized on the employment generation through production of wage goods. But the theory was not much noticed and eventually fell flat.    Besides, Nehru never understood the importance of competition in Bazaar. He framed policies which curbed any and all kind of competition. This crippled the scope of development of companies. It has been noted that India’s failure on the world economic stage is in part due to the lack of competition in the domestic marketplace.

 The other most dreaded thing that Nehru instigated was the Licensing system. It began with the Industries Act of 1951, which required an entrepreneur to procure license to set up new industries, to expand it, or to change the product mix. This draconian system further crushed our industries. Industrialist Like GD Birla, Kasturbhai Lalbhai who were major traders before independence could not even technologically upgrade their units due to the bureaucratic red tapism in the post- independence era. TATAs 119 proposals during the period fell to deaf years. Aditya Birla, grandson of GD Birla had to expand outside India due to this red tapism. Public sectors whom Nehru called “Temples of Modern India” were bleeding the country to death. Bureaucrats who usually controlled these public sectors had hardly any experience in the government of how industry was actually run.

The fact that our fundamental ideology about the mixed economy was flawed is now widely accepted by many of us. Mixed economy, according to Nehru contained both superior features of capitalism and socialism. But eventually it ended up combining the worst features of socialism and capitalism- the ‘controls’ of socialism and the monopolies and lobbies of capitalism. The short-sightedness of our leaders led to bias towards heavy industry and against agriculture and light consumer goods.

   Gurcharan Das has discussed some social aspect of Indians which has been largely instrumental in keeping the tendencies within check. The theme of poor team work has been responsible for large number of defeats, Indians had in the hands of foreign invaders be it Puru in the hands of Alexander or1962 war against china. Das admits that this tendency is still found in the young bloods in the boardrooms of corporate houses. Poor team work is all pervasive in India and it affects national competitiveness.

Das has suggested some very nice conclusions which he had during many of his field vists during his tenure in P&G. Some of which are :

Firstly learn things from observation. Ekagrata, concept of one pointedness which means to direct one’s energy at a point forms the basis of development of core competencies of an individual or an organization. Consumer is supreme. It is usually better to build on your strength  than to try and correct a weakness.It’s important to know who and what you are.In consumer product companies” if local managers believe a product is theirs, then the local consumers will believe it too”. Great businesses are built through discontinuous ideas, and a good manager who is one-pointed knows when to seize them. If only results matter then ordinary employees will surprise managers by doing extraordinary things. It is important not to direct people too much and find their way. It might bring out their creative urges so on and so forth.

After death of Nehru, Sashtri came to power. He was a descent man who tried to rectify some of the wrong doings of Nehru. He emphasized nations energy on agriculture. It was due to shastri ji that Green revolution was successful in India. After his death, Indira Gandhi came to power. And the economic policies of the nation further grim. Indira took India back on the lines of Nehruvian Model and the period between 1965 to 1980s were the saddest period in the Indian history for the Business and economy in particular. The first breather came in 1990 when Narshinha Rao headed the first minority government and along with Manmohan singh, P Chidambram and Montek singh took some bold steps to liberalize economy. Those three years were most eventful in Indian history. It omitted license raj. The act like MRTP and FERA were scrapped and foreign investment was encouraged.

This period saw the emergence of middle class who were fearless and risk taking in attitude. They did not consider making money as sin. Power and prestige was seen in the terms of money you have. More and more people and mostly from middle class went for higher studies. India has become the knowledge power and is a force to reckon with in the entire world. Companies find more talented brain here in India at one-sixth of the cost. The world’s perspective has taken a paradigm shift. Indian companies have grown in character. This is evident from the number of mergers and acquisition Indian companies have undergone in the recent past. Tata’s acquisition of Chorus and clinching of Jaguar deal speaks volumes of the capability of an Indian company. The annual GDP growth rate which is 7-8% if continues to be same until 2020 then there is no doubt India will emerge as third largest economy in the world after US and China.

any difference of opinion is welcome

The Psychology of Change Management - A review (HRM) The Mc kinsey Quarterly 2003 Special Edition

About Author

Emily Lawson is a principal in Mc Kinsey’s London office.

Colin Price is a director at Mc Kinsey, where he also is the Global Knowledge leader for the organization practice. He has consulted on organization design, leadership development, behavioral change and post merger management for two decades in over 50 countries. He’s advised many of the globe’s largest corporations. Price holds a visiting professorship at The school of Management, University of Bath. He holds degree in Economics, Psychology and Organization behavior.

Source: The Mc kinsey quarterly

What is Change Management?

Change management is a structured approach to transition individuals, teams and organizations from a current state to a desired future state. The current definition of change management includes both organizational change management process and individual change management models, which together are used to manage people side of change.

Source: Wikipedia

Introduction

 Human Resource Management (HRM) is the strategic and coherent approach to manage any organization’s most valued assets- the people working in it. It is these people who individually or collectively contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the business. For the last few decades the companies CEOs of various companies are looking forward to come with a strategy to ensure high performance of their companies. However this requires lot of changes in the companies with top down approach. Organizational change seems a difficult thing. Adding to that the rhetoric of “looking to the future”, think differently”,” be proactive” etc is enough for an employee to take vacation. However it is non debatable issues that change in any form is inevitable. The companies adopting change management shall reap benefits in the long run. ‘Change’ is no longer a buzzword, change and the need to manage it has become prime issue in today’s competitive environment and it is most likely to remain one for many years to come.

Companies in the last few decades have made a lot of efforts in terms of research to find out ways to increase quality and productivity. Early theorists put lot of emphasis on the monetary benefits to motivate employees to perform better. Besides in many organizations a lot of emphasis is put on providing comfort and better working environment. However, in last few years of 20^th century it was inferred that in addition to the monetary and other benefits the psyche of the employee needs to change to be changed for a better performance.

The Four conditions

  This article “Psychology of Change management” by Emily Lawson and Colin Price  brings about this perspective of employing the change in the psyche of the employees to perform better. Success of the companies can be brought about by transforming the way people think about their job, their company and their surroundings. The authors have pointed out four important conditions that affect the changing mindset of people.

1.    Employee must be able to see clearly the need for change.

2.    Employees must feel the relevance to change

3.    They must possess the required skill sets to perform what their work demands.

4.    There must be role model who ‘walks the talk’.

The theory of “cognitive dissonance” by Leon Festinger emphasizes that there arises a state of dissonance in mind when people find that their beliefs are inconsistent with their actions, just like an agnostic priest. However the positive outcome of the theory in the concerned article is that people if understand the overall purpose of change they might be able to relate to it and happy to change the individual behavior In order to serve the purpose. However the concept of reinforcement by B.F.Skinner (experiment with rats) suggests that the using right amount of incentive is inevitable as it still remains the primary source of motivation to the employees. However the reinforcements could be both positive and negative.

Skill sets required to perform a job effectively keeps on changing with the changing times. So the employees must update themselves with newer technologies. According to a study by David Kolb, it shows that adults can’t learn things only by listening there is a need to demonstrate them. For better understanding, the subject matter has to be separated into chunks. However there is a requirement of a role model. Most of the human behavior is a product of imitation with reinforcements. Here the need for CEOs becomes prominent. Besides the junior level managers and the people working under them have to be role models for the next level and so on. Even colleagues working together in an organization can be role model for one another.

In Indian perspective

The Indian industry be it service or manufacturing were late in adopting the metamorphosis going throughout the world. The globalization is a great leveler.. But as the proverb goes “Jaba jaago tabhi savera”. Indian companies soon understood the need to undergo change and several companies started the initiative of change.  Focus of management is now reverted on changing the Mindset, an area explored by Indian sages 2000 years back. As the Indian economy opened up for the world the indigenous companies understood that if they need to survive hey had to change.  Most of the structural weakness has been neutralized. And it’s the result of this initiative that we find Indian companies reining all over the world.

Conclusion

It was seen that people put lot of efforts to the job they understand better. Besides this helps to forge an emotional link with their job. And once they understand the importance of their skill sets for the company, which undoubtedly increases the productivity of the employee and hence the company, people do take pains to update their skills. This in turn helps them to gain a deeper sense of meaning and a higher sense of responsibility.

PS: This review was part of our HR curriculum at LIBA


any difference of opinion is welcome

curries n chutneys

Nice food joint opp eithiraj college... a wholesome place for north Indian food, (esp parathas are yummy  and cheap too !!!) and special thaali for Jainis.

Spirit Of Vegas... Reflection of Chrysalis

Las Vegas is one of the densely populated area of America. It's fun to know that Vegas has been born out of a desert, Mojave  and had been centre of attraction for millions of visitors the major attraction being its gaming and resort industry. Besides it attracts visitors for the scenic beauty all around Vegas.   We bring you the same thrill and fun at Chrysalis 09 edition at LIBA. Be a part of Vegas culture  in our very own Chennai. 
You need never worry about the fun part for we have enough of games you can imagine in vegas. We have casinos in form of "ace of spades" , "texas hold 'em poker" and very own "The Nevada supplier association" shall see to it that you don't run out of chips; Enjoy the thrill of speed management with "The pit Boss" and enjoy the rush of blood in "Role plays".As you sit through the negotiation table,just remember "make an offer, that the other party don't refuse". Yeah… on lighter note …you got to be the godfather. And if you ever desired to rule the future, here is your game just be on "wheel of fortune".
So fellas see you at Vegas night on 28^th march 09 at Chrysalis in LIBA chennai. 


For details visit http://www.libachrysalis.com/ and do read our blog at Chrysalis'09

"Paap aur Punya"

    Finally the event was over. CG 09, we ,the CG team, Kept the tradition of CG intact. With everything going smoothly and wonderful speakers putting forth their views, it was a great time both working pre and post event. 

    The valedictory session was chaired by Former vigilance commissioner Mr N Vittal. And during his valedictory speech he mentioned that when paap (devil) and punya (Godly) meet there happens an explosion. And this is very true with satyam (meaning truth) . People would never know what was the plan going on inside Raju's brain, but he happened to proove the point that Mr Vittal emphasized. Satyam and the Maytas (reverse of satyam) came together and the result is all history...An explosion of the kind which shook not even Satyam alone but has painted a shady picture of entire Indian IT industry for the world. And even engulfed the prominent Accounting firm and others. And while emphasizing on the need for thinking ahead of time, he said... Thieves are extraordinary and the police just a critic. They tend to think two steps ahead of what their counterpart do. And the loopholes in the legal system is what they take advantage of.  More and more harsh act simply add to more paper works instead of any tangible remedy.  We need to rethink, what measures should the regulatory body take so that we can stop any reccurence of future satyam. 

Baton has passed...

     After a long time, time has come to deliver... The baton has passed from the senior to us. And the event is the last for the seniors.... so farewell for seniors starts  with the closure of this event. 

     Liba organises it's second series of seminars on Corporate governance in co operation with National Foundation for corporate governance. Looking forward to the day.... Feb 9th. 2009 at "Hotel Green park". 

See u ppl thr...

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"It waslike...., not knowing...."

"It was like riding a tiger, not knowing how to get off without being eaten"

  With these words, ramalinga raju enters into a totally different world. offcourse to the world of top ten corporate frauds done ever in history of business and stands along with the stalwarts (pun intended) of Enrons and Worldcoms... Besides Mr raju also enters into the books of lexicomaniacs. Going by the sentence mr raju uttered... it reminds me of several things i have done on these lines... like writing this blog. I can's leave it and neither i get to write it.... So while pondering i found that in hindi there exists a similar proverb, which means that if a snake swallows a chhuchhundar (hindi), it then can neither swallow it nor leave it... in either case snake would die.  So infer that he must have been inspired from that...

   Inspiring from the quote by Mr raju, i alsoo tried writing sth sort of... here it goes...

 " It was like taking finance and not knowing where to work, NOW !!"

Hey guys just drop in with ur funny ideas on the same lines...

P.S.     just to tell you that i searched a long and asked my friends  about what u call "chhuchhundar" in english... finally got it... it is mole. For your information.

"bhangra goes global"

While reading ET, i found an interesting article about Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal), SAD-B making inroads in canada. North America (ie US and Canada) alone house 2.37 % of world sikh population and about 65.4% of NRPs (non-resident punjabis). Canadian sikhs are one of the largest Non-chriatian religious groups in canada and form country's largest South Asian ethnic group.

The first sikh immigration in canada is believed to be in 1897. The need for labourers led to an increase in sikh immigration, The immediate fallout was the 1907 riot and the infamous Komagata Maru incident . According to century of struggle and success the Sikh Canadian experience , With the advent of World War II and the internment of Japanese Canadians, Sikhs were able to prosper. But they were still devoid of the fundamental right to vote, which came into inforcement in 1947. The sikh population considerably increased in post 1960s when the immigration laws were changed.

Now Sikhs have become an integral part of Canada's economy and culture.

 At present, in Canada there are nine sikhs elected to the house of commons. This being the largest number of Indians into the House of commons. And SAD-B is heard to be planning to foray into Canadian politics. It depends on the legalities of the canadian system. It is an  irony on their part that they could never become a national party in India. Informally they have been a group in canada with long list of followers. And if they succed in doing so SAD-B will be in a very good mood as it being the first international party.

good bye 2008

  The year 2008 passed by... even i think of any date in particular it seems so far ... yet so near. some beautiful days beyond imagination... some sorrows deep as abyss... by and large a year of mixed feelings.  I dont remember but i read it somewhere where the book starts with the sentence " life is difficult", and once u accept this fact it becomes so easy... easy that what u went through is just a small phase in a difficult world-the real world. The world we live in, is just not the world we use to hear in fairy tales from dadi;  it's a real tough world. You need to stay strong, otherwise people might crush u and move on as if nothing has happened. And no surprises, the world is full of these kinds of people. Hardly i had seen this face of life... but what ever I've been through it wasn't good.

  It isn't a story of a single man but every one on this real world. They have to compromise with so many things so many times, only to 'live'... ' life goes on". And u don't even know, when u overcome these feelings of joy and sorrow. 

 This year had been eventful to me.  I achieved sth which i desired( atleast the second best)... lost something which i loved (i am not sure now).  But the year has left me with some beautiful and haunting memories.  And if people count their years with the number of friends they have...then  this year was a successful year to me... i came in contact with so many people and some of them have become- my friends for ever.  I came to see different facets of people, the oppurtunistic relations, the true friendships,  and how it all changes with time.  even met some friends who backed me at my worst times ... so on. 

 Saw some crisis which only fortunate(rather unfortunate) people live to see and tell the tale. Fortunately in this period i am engaged in studies and not drawn in this weird market. This year shall remain in my memory for the giant fall of sensex from 22ooo to some weird figure of 8000, for the crash of some biggies of finacial world lay man brothers ,  the magic of 8 ( it being 10th warmest year). year saw the first non white to rise to the whitehouse and some of the weirdest attack on indian soil. 

 Despite all this people continue to hope for a better tomorrow. Hope is all what people got now. It feeds them to do things, which perhaps makes extra ordinary people differentite from the  ordinary ones. 

 so dream and try to realise dream ... that's what i gonna do... let's hope, all others fall in line to realise dream of each one of us...

 have a wonderful (sarcastically) year ahead !

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