Leaders / Managers of the 21th century

Thought leaders are necessary in today's life , you have to extremely practical and aware about the global economy .. prepared for any and everykind of change and also to master it.

"Alive to what is happening" in short..

cross functional management is acceptable ,you have to be a generalist rather than a specialist.Communication skills have to developed and enhanced.Strong people management skills help in managing people from every type of culture and social background.Being technically sound and work long hours..

some people have a concept of working smart , i still am to understand.. that concept so i work hard and long.Read a lot.. give an hour to learn about the products u are supposed to sell..set goals and objectives so that u can ascertain your performance....

now how this can be done..

-have a vision

-optimism has to be used as force multiplier

Alumini interaction

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during the interaction today with mr.anil khanna and mr sudhir kant here at ubs chandigarh .
i learnt some new stuff..

mr anil khanna started with importance of learning and stressed to avoid favorites in studies, he said the mistake he made in college was to have favorite subjects and not so favorite ones .. and during the course of the career he realized the emphasis has to be equal in all .Basically he stressed that balance leads to stability.. knowledge is power and knowledge is what derives respect from you in front of the world. Every subject is important, everything is important.. he stressed that even when in the times of recession, knowledge is the path to innovation...
the importance to come back on time to home and balance out chores..
the importance of writing what you want to do in written.. this is something similiar to what one of my professors also told me he said that " jotting down things u want to do gives additional power to your action"
he said time management is about knowing what u want to do.. and only those people who avoid what they have to do .. end up saying that they don't have enough time..
though both the speakers stressed on the importance of enjoying your work .. sudhir kant gave an personal example for it .
there was also a mention to more customer friendly attittude- to know his needs.. ( i believe there is also a case to even anticipate needs..)
sudhir kant made a presentation on 21th century managers.. how they should be..
he anticipated the challenges to be crisis management.. he also emphasied the need to read and to learn more.. giving example of himself he says he still needs to study 1 hour days to be in touch with the latest technologies ,he also stressed the role of the manager in development giving a corrolary between developement and maangers he said that "there are no manager in underdeveloped places" giving proof about the huge ego of the manager.he said that in the future due to the information boom the difference between workers and managers would decrease. Though he did not give any solutions to the crisis prevailing in the world he said it is an oppurtunity to the innovative companies and those who take the good times with the bad.he mentioned the need for vision besides others factors .. more on this later.. kinda late and my frds are asking to wrap the blog..

Fighting spirit

fighting spirit ,this is one of the most underrated qualities people have , the will to never given in ,to never give up , to take thing for as they are and then improve ameliorate .Its easier to give up sometimes ,its easier to walk a different part and forget about what you dream and believe in but you know in your heart your dreams will haunt you and  you would think what if ..

fighting spirit is not just performance on the day ..its the road its working hard and making that hard work count remembering your mistakes and working harder to improve them, you know what gives the greatest pleasure is to do better than you think u can .. to do something you practiced so hard to get through ..to work just a little more harder...

why do u push and do things .. i guess we love something more ...the love of something makes us stronger to push... the brink an inch..and inch by inch the brink becomes a mile and then we think how much have we grown.. 

What is Death

This(Death) in Scientific terms is thought as a flat line on the EEG means cessation of heart beat and brain activity.The illusion of the subjective "I" in the individual conciousness should cease with the cessation of brain waves .Yet the thought of death as passing into nothingness is not a scientific one,the popular imagination developed by the world about death is supposed to be a terminal state ,a void that destroys life ,that swallows it up forever .It is aligned with sleep ,darkness and unconciousness.It is feared by those who want to happy or who feel happy.It is sought by people in misery anguish those in pain..as a final blessed anesthesia.

what is this nothingness,how come something just vanishes into a black hole as if it didn't exist. this nothingness , this realm where we all go, where is it, where does the life force go suddenly.Where did it come from, is it a chemical reaction.

A + B -> C +D  and A +B cease to exist.

even in chemical terms we realise that no reaction is complete totally and it is only some part which is converted, is this a hint to the philosphy the state of life that all is the not gone but some part is left.Is life just like those reactions which we studied in chemistry, the biomolecules , the building blocks of life are based on these reactions , what makes this flow happen.What will happen when we reach a stage in science when we can't die from organ failure will we die then or not.Will we realise if a life force is present whether the concious is transfered.

There is a theory of karma that concious is transfered from one state to another similiar to a state transition that we start from a microorganism and then build into a human and so on

darwin theory of evolution is similiar to this with exception that it thinks of it as time line to the evolution of the humans rather than a whole transition which every being faces.

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Death

death is something when the blood in our body stops to pump..

death is something when the ones who care about you realise you have gone..and they ponder on thoughts you gave them ..a person close to me died recently and he once talking about death told me ..

"after dying people forget you and move on..."

we ponder on thoughts about the person who died how they helped shaped your character ...

i remember how he used to play cricket with us ,how he used to wish me on my birthday without fail.. how he used to take for a sunday ride to hills and stopping and turning back only when we told him to.. In my childhood my best friends were books ,saturday used to be an off i used to go to the library and read whatever i could ..walking back from the library going i used to stop and meet him him in his clinic on my way back , still remember me having coke ..sometimes i used to be tired and he used to drop me home.. 

i went to nationals once.. and you know.. its was kinda lonely..but when i came back.. i saw he was happy.. anytime my name came in the newspaper he called and congratulated me..

whatever i read whatever i learnt he quizzed me on it.. 

when i came back from my bachelors, he asked me to go for my masters abroad as he did .. i haven't till now.. he had four brothers all of them stay abroad.. when he died none of them could come, he knew none of them could come and that part is the one that hurts .... i guess this is the main reason i am still in India...

I would worry about everyone around me too much to go that far..

he was kinda the push my sister had.. when she studied even though she wasn't great but she tried to do her best.. he loved gardening.. at the end of it.. i ask

"How can u repay kindness and unconditional love.."

Tipping points..

metaphors that make our life..some of them mean so much ,as they justify our actions .

they inculcate behaviour.they make us go into a prison ,prison of the past ,,past experiences condition our behaviour of good and bad,prison of the future-expectations 

expectation make us do things which we do.. 

is it just based on this .. past and the future where have i left my present ..

expecting to have a beautiful future ..no present is present.. where do we find true freedom

Pain Vs Pain...

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what drives us...
the pain that we get from not doing or the pleasure of doing
In life we face many situations where we are at ends to decide what path to take, each path leading to different direction a different life.Why do we all at one point on the other face the dilemma of choosing one path over the other.Only one thing being certain that choice we take will take something away from us.
...so we think what to, well i say ask yourself..some questions

whether pain of not doing is greater than the pain of doing
whether the short term gain is less than long term harm ...how does it make u feel , do u feel great while doing it..
these questions are valid in any situation
from exams ,studies ,relationships... any situation just ask some relevant questions important to you...and you will find the dark clouds receding...and sunlight coming through...