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The Curious case of 3Cs
In my earlier post “HAVE YOU MADE TO SHOUT WOW”, I have talked about correlating compensation to something I term as "WoW" factor. This post is to dive deeper and unravel the curious case of this wow factor, to understand the drivers, to i…
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Go Green@Free
Go Green is the latest buzzword. The internet is flooded with various ideas, tricks and ways of going green. There are various tools to measure the carbon footprint. Every industry is doing something or other to be green. From business point of view…
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Income Disparity: The void
Since the last decade or so, India has been witnessing a constant growth in GDP and absorbs a major portion of the foreign money. The retail market has been booming, the real estate market its at its peak, salaries of a crore or more are common for …
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Challenging Loyalty : Devdutt Pattanaik
There are 2 political arenas. One is the national politics and the other is the Corporate politics. For professionals, apart from possessing the usual qualities like Talent, Attitude, Hard-working Nature its equally vital to know the rules of this g…
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Corporate lesson on Dhunteras...
I dont think there could have been a better way of celebrating Dhunteras...Awesome article to read on this auspicious day when we all pray to Godess Lakhmi for wealth and Propsterity...
Thanks to Devdutt Pattanaik...
Long and short sight : Devdutt Pat…
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Geeeeetttt Seeeeettt Go…
My first date with blogging happened some 4-5 years back. It was one of my roommates who would do something on his laptop and then try to Google a specific name/keyword on my desktop. In response to my questions, he said he has found a way of expres…
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Dushera : A reason to celebrate respect
This day "Dushera" has a special place in my life. We used to live in Staff quarters of a company which has intrests in Transport business. The company had around 30-40 trucks and on Dushera each of them would be washed clean and decorated…
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At the CrossRoads
One of the SMSes that I received read "Life is a hard teacher, it takes the test first and then teaches the lesson".I am currently going through a phase where I am learning something new everyday. The learning is not necessarily from my pe…
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Project Completed. Sure?
These days every thing is a project. Everything is about KRA completion. Infact, KRA achievement is the only thing which everybody is looking to accomplish. And this not because of the poeple, the system itself is such that everything your appraisal…
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3 most adorable Companions of a Bachelor
I have spent a considerable time of my life living away from family and as a bachelor. 4 years during my engineering and then 5+ years while working till I finally got married 8 months back.Since last few days, I have again got to be in the bach…
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Have you made to shout "WOW"
One thing that has always and still amuses me is the income disparity across the globe.
A study by the World Institute for Development Economics Research at United Nations University reports that the richest 1% of adults alone owned 40% of global a…
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Intelligent case of Customer service
Yesterday I went to one of the roadside food joints near my house because of yes you guessed it right :)...my wife…she loves the food there. I was not very keen but as you all people who are married know…you cannot decline wife's demand. So in v…
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Recession must have not happened. Dont you agree?
It rarely happens that everybody across the globe is victim of a single thing. And this occasion happened last year when the entire world was under Recession. Some of the world’s largest banks were closed, some declared bankruptcy. Millions of peopl…
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Compete? or Complement?
John was one of the most sought after employees in his company. His technical prowess was known to everybody. It was like he is the best. Until the day when Johny joined the organization. Johny had far more hands-on experience, he had far more exper…
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They say Knowledge is Power. Is it true?
I still remember this line "knowledge is power"was scribed on the walls of one of the classroom in my school. I was really moved by this line and started filling in my brain as much as possible. I still do it.
Thanks to the Internet, it is…
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Get rid of Pop-ups
These days people acorss industries have water tight KRA/KPIs. Their remuneration is liked to these KRAs and hence people are forced to achieve them at any cost. We are all in a very competitive world currently. I think the competitive index is the …
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Whats your Statement
I still remember my school principal used to fire students who were not in proper uniform. Infact, at times he used to lose his cool and beat them. He often would use the sentence "sab kabutaro me ek kauva" meaning "one crow in a floc…
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Now I believe him...
I was once travelling by city bus in Mumbai. There was a lot of traffic jam and the bus was moving at a very slow place. The reason for the traffic was the work related to metro train being done on one side of the road. I had a aisle seat. I was wat…
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Theory of Relativity
I have recently moved from Mumbai to Pune. Compared to Mumbai, Pune is a very small city.
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Earlier, while I was in Mumbai, I used to travel around 10km from my home to reach office and it used to take around 45 minutes. Still I felt I …
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Dont be Limited by Limited
Dont let your limits be limited by the limited thinking of limited such people
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Go Green@GreenPeace
Who better than Greenpeace can help us make our lives a little more greener. Heres the guide published on Greenpeace site.
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Go Green@Computer Usage
These days, computers are found in almost everywhere. For some, its the source of livelihood, some use to conduct their business. So obviously, better computer usage style will help us cut down our carbon footprint. Listed below are a few methods I …
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Scientific Meaning of Gayatri Mantra
Gayatri mantra has been bestowed the greatest importance in Vedic dharma. This mantra has also been termed as Savitri and Ved-Mata, the mother of the Vedas.
The mantra is given below
Ombhur bhuvah swah
Tat savitur varenyam
Bhargo devasya dheemahi
Dhi…
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Go Green@CleanClutter
The temperatures in India are really bad this year. My home town is experiencing temperatures of around 46°C on an average. I personally feel Global warming has started affecting the common man now. Its no longer a research project where scientist…
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ZERO is Valueless??? Think again...
How will you feel if somebody calls you ZERO....
Irritated? Angry? Wana hit the person hard who dared to call you zero?
Yes, even I will feel the same.
On the same lines, I am sure most of us would have called somebody else ZERO.So what does it mean…
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COCODLE - A great humanitarian initiative -- Customized Google
Cocodle , powered by Google Custom Search, is an initiative towards helping underprivileged and
differently-abled children with the revenue generated through online search.
What all we are asked for is to just use the site, nothing more. With …
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Fix the Leaks
Since the last few days I have been the center of cateen jokes for my colleagues. I am teased by two of my colleagues saying their salary package clubbed together is less than mine. One of them is as experienced and as qualified as I am. Though this…
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My Speciality
I have Specialized in such a Special domain that it takes even the Specialists to have Special skills to understand about my Speciality... :) :) :)
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Mind the gap
Everybody of us periodically face tough situations, not so favorable people, failures, health problems etc. Probably the first question we ask is "Why me?". At least I do so. And its very obvious I feel. Rough patches of life are testing t…
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Experience matters
I read this quote somewhere "Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment" and was thinking how true is it.
I feel to a very large extent. Some of the other quotes like
"Failure is success postponed"
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Half Burnt Bread stories
Has this happened with you? A friend(s) of yours comes to you whenever he/she is feeling low and you are made to hear his tragic stories. I guess it happens with everybody of us and in fact we all do this. As and when we are feeling a little low, we…
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Fragile: Handle with care
I always believed that I am in total control of my life. I plan and decide what has to happen and when it has to happen. If anybody tried to mess around with my plan, I would get irritated, have heated arguments and end up hurting the other guy and …
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Kudos to all the brainy people at work
Today is my birthday and you know what so special about it that am writing this post( Of course, its my birthday so its special but apart from it), the thing is the number of SMSes I received from retail service providers like banks, shopping malls,…
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The best example of fitness
At the age of 92, my grandfather has come to my house on 4th floor climbing 80 steps. That’s what I call is fitness.
Bravo Granpa...
Hats off to you...
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Report it to Stop it
I feel AIDS is the most deadly disease to affect our human race. This disease progressively reduces the effectiveness of the immune system and leaves individuals susceptible to infections and tumors and ultimately results in death. One could argue t…
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Mantra for Money
In India, it is said that if you want to make big money...you have to either in Bollywood or Cricket or Politics. But now with Bollywood and Cricket coming together for IPL, its better to option seems to be IPL and IPL and IPL...all the way.
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Survival of the Fittest
I have read a few of self-help books, a few autobiographies, a few spiritual books. I often go through blogs of Robin Sharma, Malcolm Gladwell and others. I feel there are so many books, so much of material available which try to help us realize our…
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How many Tugboats you have?
Did you ever felt that the world is getting more and more competitive with each passing day? You come up with a new business today and tomorrow there will be 10 more competing you. The moment you felt I have learnt enough; there is a new technology…
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Global warming is a global warning
Some time back, I happened to attend a yoga class organized by my company. The instructor was talking about the benefits of Yoga and during that revealed a nice little thing. He said, if your body pains, you should be thankful to it. According to hi…
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Beware of Johny...
It often happens that you start something new and somebody would discourage you by laughing at you, making you feel whatever you are doing is b** sh*t. They will do this without even knowing what exactly you are doing or plan to do. In fact, they mi…
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Why me???
Not my work niether I know if its true...But the story is quite inspiring and answers one of the most frequent questions we face in our lives...
One of the Legendary Wimbledon player was dying of Heart Trouble, which he got due to, infected blood du…
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Perfectly Imperfect
I am so PerfectlyImperfect that am the Perfect example of PerfectImperfection
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Lets jointly fight it out
First of all, I pay my homage to those killed in the horrible acts of frequent militant attacks across our country in the last few years and the very recent attack on German Bakery, Pune.
I pray to God to give strength to their families. I have lost…
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Don't let wounds open
This is a story of two friends John and Johny. Both work in the same organization and stay together in a youth hostel. John is elder and has around 5-6 years of work experience whereas Johny has just started his career. Everyday after dinner, both …
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