I remember my dad teaching me the power of language at a very young age. Not only did my dad understand that specific words affect our mental pictures, but he understood words are a powerful programming factor in lifelong success.
One particularly interesting event occurred when I was eight. As a kid, I was always climbing trees, poles, and literally hanging around upside down from the rafters of our lake house. So, it came to no surprise for my dad to find me at the top of a 30-foot tree swinging back and forth. My little eight-year-old brain didn't realize the tree could break or I could get hurt. I just thought it was fun to be up so high.
My older cousin, Tammy, was also in the same tree. She was hanging on the first big limb, about ten feet below me. Tammy's mother also noticed us at the exact time my dad did. About that time a huge gust of wind came over the tree. I could hear the leaves start to rattle and the tree begin to sway. I remember my dad's voice over the wind yell, "Bart, Hold on tightly." So I did. The next thing I know, I heard Tammy screaming at the top of her lungs, laying flat on the ground. She had fallen out of the tree.
I scampered down the tree to safety. My dad later told me why she fell and I did not. Apparently, when Tammy's mother felt the gust of wind, she yelled out, "Tammy, don't fall!" And Tammy did fall.
My dad then explained to me that the mind has a very difficult time processing a negative image. In fact, people who rely on internal pictures cannot see a negative at all. In order for Tammy to process the command of not falling, her nine-year-old brain had to first imagine falling, then try to tell the brain not to do what it just imagined. Whereas, my eight-year-old brain instantly had an internal image of me hanging on tightly.
This concept is especially useful when you are attempting to break a habit or set a goal. You can't visualize not doing something. The only way to properly visualize not doing something is to actually find a word for what you want to do and visualize that. For example, when I was thirteen years old, I played for my junior high school football team. I tried so hard to be good, but I just couldn't get it together at that age. I remember hearing the words run through my head as I was running out for a pass, "Don't drop it!" Naturally, I dropped the ball.
My coaches were not skilled enough to teach us proper "self-talk." They just thought some kids could catch and others couldn't. I'll never make it pro, but I'm now a pretty good Sunday afternoon football player, because all my internal dialogue is positive and encourages me to win. I wish my dad had coached me playing football instead of just climbing trees. I might have had a longer football career.
Here is a very easy demonstration to teach your kids and your friends the power of a toxic vocabulary. Ask them to hold a pen or pencil. Hand it to them. Now, follow my instructions carefully. Say to them, "Okay, try to drop the pencil." Observe what they do.
Most people release their hands and watch the pencil hit the floor. You respond, "You weren't paying attention. I said TRY to drop the pencil. Now please do it again." Most people then pick up the pencil and pretend to be in excruciating pain while their hand tries but fails to drop the pencil.
The point is made.
If you tell your brain you will "give it a try," you are actually telling your brain to fail. I have a "no try" rule in my house and with everyone I interact with. Either people will do it or they won't. Either they will be at the party or they won't. I'm brutal when people attempt to lie to me by using the word try. Do they think I don't know they are really telegraphing to the world they have no intention of doing it but they want me to give them brownie points for pretended effort? You will never hear the words "I'll try" come out of my mouth unless I'm teaching this concept in a seminar.
If you "try" and do something, your unconscious mind has permission not to succeed. If I truly can't make a decision I will tell the truth. "Sorry John. I'm not sure if I will be at your party or not. I've got an outstanding commitment. If that falls through, I will be here. Otherwise, I will not. Thanks for the invite."
People respect honesty. So remove the word "try" from your vocabulary.
My dad also told me that psychologists claim it takes seventeen positive statements to offset one negative statement. I have no idea if it is true, but the logic holds true. It might take up to seventeen compliments to offset the emotional damage of one harsh criticism.
These are concepts that are especially useful when raising children.
Ask yourself how many compliments you give yourself daily versus how many criticisms. Heck, I know you are talking to yourself all day long. We all have internal voices that give us direction.
So, are you giving yourself the 17:1 ratio or are you shortchanging yourself with toxic self-talk like, " I'm fat. Nobody will like me. I'll try this diet. I'm not good enough. I'm so stupid. I'm broke, etc. etc." If our parents can set a lifetime of programming with one wrong statement, imagine the kind of programming you are doing on a daily basis with your own internal dialogue. Here is a list of Toxic Vocabulary words.
Notice when you or other people use them.
But: Negates any words that are stated before it.
Try: Presupposes failure.
If: Presupposes that you may not.
Might: It does nothing definite. It leaves options for your listener.
Would Have: Past tense that draws attention to things that didn't actually happen.
Should Have: Past tense that draws attention to things that didn't actually happen (and implies guilt.)
Could Have: Past tense that draws attention to things that didn't actually happen but the person tries to take credit as if it did happen.
Can't/Don't: These words force the listener to focus on exactly the opposite of what you want. This is a classic mistake that parents and coaches make without knowing the damage of this linguistic error.
Examples: Toxic phrase: "Don't drop the ball!"
Likely result: Drops the ball
Better language: "Catch the ball!"
Toxic phrase: "You shouldn't watch so much television."
Likely result: Watches more television.
Better language: "I read too much television makes people stupid. You might find yourself turning that TV off and picking up one of those books more often!
Exercise: Take a moment to write down all the phrases you use on a daily basis or any Toxic self-talk that you have noticed yourself using. Write these phrases down so you will begin to catch yourself as they occur and change them.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Five Critical Factors of Career Success
What skills do employers value and seek in potential employees? That was the question posted to hiring managers, and the feedback might surprise you! Below are the most common skills mentioned, whether the employee happens to be a manager, network engineer, or a cook.
In-Demand Skills for Success:
PERSONAL SKILLS: Can a potential employee speak well? Can he/she answer questions of customers in a positive, informative manner? While not everyone has an outgoing sales personality, successful employees can communicate in a non-confrontational, positive manner with their coworkers, subordinates, managers, and customers. Being able to work well with others is a vital skill for success in all jobs.
JOB ATTAINMENT: Job search is a process that requires a great deal of dedication and attention to be conducted successfully. If you put in little effort, you will receive little results. Employers are seeking employees who know how to present themselves in a positive manner and who display enthusiasm and knowledge about the companies they approach. Not only do candidates get evaluated on their skills and experience, but also on how they are approaching the job search. Enthusiastic candidates that follow up and show true interest will win success above equally qualified candidates.
JOB SURVIVAL: Now there's a hot topic in this period of layoffs! True, who gets the ax and who doesn't is often a matter of numbers, but it is also often a matter of performance. Employees who have consistently demonstrated their worth and made themselves a valuable asset have lower incidences of being downsized than employees who put forth average effort. Surviving in a company during layoffs is a skill that makes a candidate stand out among peers.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Successful individuals are constantly attending seminars, taking classes, attaining training, and otherwise learning new skills that will keep them marketable in their careers. Successful people are lifelong learners. Employers are looking for people who understand this.
CAREER DEVELOPMENT: Career Development differs from Professional Development. Professional Development is learning while Career Development is a planning and goal setting process. Successful individuals design a career plan with written goals for short term and long term. They lay out the steps needed to move their careers from Point A to Point B within Time Frame C and plan how they are going to achieve those steps. Employers seek individuals who (believe it or not) wish to commit to the company for a long period of time. Good career progression is a high selling point of candidates to prospective employers.
What skills do employers value and seek in potential employees? That was the question posted to hiring managers, and the feedback might surprise you! Below are the most common skills mentioned, whether the employee happens to be a manager, network engineer, or a cook.
In-Demand Skills for Success:
PERSONAL SKILLS: Can a potential employee speak well? Can he/she answer questions of customers in a positive, informative manner? While not everyone has an outgoing sales personality, successful employees can communicate in a non-confrontational, positive manner with their coworkers, subordinates, managers, and customers. Being able to work well with others is a vital skill for success in all jobs.
JOB ATTAINMENT: Job search is a process that requires a great deal of dedication and attention to be conducted successfully. If you put in little effort, you will receive little results. Employers are seeking employees who know how to present themselves in a positive manner and who display enthusiasm and knowledge about the companies they approach. Not only do candidates get evaluated on their skills and experience, but also on how they are approaching the job search. Enthusiastic candidates that follow up and show true interest will win success above equally qualified candidates.
JOB SURVIVAL: Now there's a hot topic in this period of layoffs! True, who gets the ax and who doesn't is often a matter of numbers, but it is also often a matter of performance. Employees who have consistently demonstrated their worth and made themselves a valuable asset have lower incidences of being downsized than employees who put forth average effort. Surviving in a company during layoffs is a skill that makes a candidate stand out among peers.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Successful individuals are constantly attending seminars, taking classes, attaining training, and otherwise learning new skills that will keep them marketable in their careers. Successful people are lifelong learners. Employers are looking for people who understand this.
CAREER DEVELOPMENT: Career Development differs from Professional Development. Professional Development is learning while Career Development is a planning and goal setting process. Successful individuals design a career plan with written goals for short term and long term. They lay out the steps needed to move their careers from Point A to Point B within Time Frame C and plan how they are going to achieve those steps. Employers seek individuals who (believe it or not) wish to commit to the company for a long period of time. Good career progression is a high selling point of candidates to prospective employers.
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Cherish Your 'Aloneness'
SWAMI BRAHMDEV, Jun 18, 2010, 12.01am IST
Billions of people live on earth. Every second, as many thoughts take birth and dissolve, even as beings come and go. There is a process in life: to come and to go. Have you seen any wave in the ocean that stays still? No, it comes and goes. Thoughts also come and go, reactions come and go, everything comes and goes.
Considering the transitory nature of life, it makes sense to not cling to things. And why are we so serious? Perhaps we are so serious because we have so much negativity. Even if something happens that helps us, that brings us prosperity, we think negative and we refuse it. We are unable to see the difference between a diamond and mere stone.
What causes you pain often turns out to be the most beautiful blessing of your life. If any source gives you pain, feel gratitude for that. For suffering creates the opportunity for change. Sometimes we need pressure and pain to make us change for the better.
When a sculptor takes a stone, he removes all the unwanted parts and discovers the figure in that stone. Pain and pressure in life are processes that help remove all unwanted substances from our lives and realise our true Self.
Aurobindo said that pain is a hammer in the hands of the Divine. Divinity is trying to make a true figure; He is removing all the unwanted substances very slowly, and all around you, for some it could also be their near and dear.
Keep alive your aloneness. We came from One and we have to become One. One is alone; alone means One. The highest possibilities of life can come in aloneness. When you are two, nothing comes to you, two is a pastime. If our life is happy, if it is full of the divine blessings, blessed by divine grace, it is because life gives us the fruit of aloneness. Only the Divine is alone. The Divine is one, He's not two.
We should feel gratitude if something or someone gives us the experience of aloneness. Only when we are alone, are we able to understand ourselves, to know who we are, to become aware of ourselves, to see the value of our lives. But we are always afraid of aloneness. Nobody wants to be alone, to be single; we want to become two, and two takes you out from you. Becoming one is a process of life.
When i say, "I do yoga," what does yoga mean? To become One. You are two and now you want to become one. Yoga means to become One and One is God, One is the highest source of possibilities. If you want only a pastime you can become two, three or four.
If we feel alone, we should try to live with this aloneness for a long time. When we live with this and the seed of aloneness is established in us, a beautiful tree comes out. And the tree that comes from the seed of aloneness gives us love, peace, harmony, joy, bliss, everything.
But we have to hold this aloneness with all the patience. Remember that we are blessed with divine grace if aloneness comes into our life, because this comes to very few people. This world is so strange that it always keeps us involved, always busy. So keep alive your aloneness and play the game of life with that.
SWAMI BRAHMDEV, Jun 18, 2010, 12.01am IST
Billions of people live on earth. Every second, as many thoughts take birth and dissolve, even as beings come and go. There is a process in life: to come and to go. Have you seen any wave in the ocean that stays still? No, it comes and goes. Thoughts also come and go, reactions come and go, everything comes and goes.
Considering the transitory nature of life, it makes sense to not cling to things. And why are we so serious? Perhaps we are so serious because we have so much negativity. Even if something happens that helps us, that brings us prosperity, we think negative and we refuse it. We are unable to see the difference between a diamond and mere stone.
What causes you pain often turns out to be the most beautiful blessing of your life. If any source gives you pain, feel gratitude for that. For suffering creates the opportunity for change. Sometimes we need pressure and pain to make us change for the better.
When a sculptor takes a stone, he removes all the unwanted parts and discovers the figure in that stone. Pain and pressure in life are processes that help remove all unwanted substances from our lives and realise our true Self.
Aurobindo said that pain is a hammer in the hands of the Divine. Divinity is trying to make a true figure; He is removing all the unwanted substances very slowly, and all around you, for some it could also be their near and dear.
Keep alive your aloneness. We came from One and we have to become One. One is alone; alone means One. The highest possibilities of life can come in aloneness. When you are two, nothing comes to you, two is a pastime. If our life is happy, if it is full of the divine blessings, blessed by divine grace, it is because life gives us the fruit of aloneness. Only the Divine is alone. The Divine is one, He's not two.
We should feel gratitude if something or someone gives us the experience of aloneness. Only when we are alone, are we able to understand ourselves, to know who we are, to become aware of ourselves, to see the value of our lives. But we are always afraid of aloneness. Nobody wants to be alone, to be single; we want to become two, and two takes you out from you. Becoming one is a process of life.
When i say, "I do yoga," what does yoga mean? To become One. You are two and now you want to become one. Yoga means to become One and One is God, One is the highest source of possibilities. If you want only a pastime you can become two, three or four.
If we feel alone, we should try to live with this aloneness for a long time. When we live with this and the seed of aloneness is established in us, a beautiful tree comes out. And the tree that comes from the seed of aloneness gives us love, peace, harmony, joy, bliss, everything.
But we have to hold this aloneness with all the patience. Remember that we are blessed with divine grace if aloneness comes into our life, because this comes to very few people. This world is so strange that it always keeps us involved, always busy. So keep alive your aloneness and play the game of life with that.
Men & Women, Sons & Daughters - should read this...
BEING A MOTHER....
After 17 years of marriage, my wife wanted me to
take another woman out to dinner and a movie. She
said, I love you, but I know this other woman loves
you and would love to spend some time with you.
* * *
The other woman that my wife wanted me to visit
was my MOTHER, who has been alone for 20 years,
but the demands of my work and my two boys had
made it possible to visit her only occasionally.
That night I called to invite her to go out for
dinner and a movie.
What's wrong, aren't you well, she asked?
My mother is the type of woman who suspects that a
late night call or a surprise invitation is a sign
of bad news.
I thought it would be pleasant to spend some
time with you, I responded. Just the two of us.
She thought about it for a moment, and then said,
I would like that very much.
That Friday after work, as I drove over to pick
her up I was a bit nervous. When I arrived at her
house, I noticed that she, too, seemed to be nervous
about our date. She waited in the door. She had curled her hair and was wearing the
dress that she had worn to celebrate her last
birthday on November 19th.
She smiled from a face that was as radiant as an
angel's. I told my friends that I was going to go
out with my son, and they were impressed, she said,
as she got into that new white van. They can't wait to hear about our date.
We went to a restaurant that, although not
elegant, was very nice and cozy... My mother took my
arm as if she were the First Lady. After we sat
down, I had to read the menu. Her eyes could only
read large print. Half way through the entries, I
lifted my eyes and saw Mom sitting there staring at
me. A nostalgic smile was on her lips. It was I
who used to have to read the menu when you were
small, she said. Then it's time that you relax and
let me return the favor, I responded.
During the dinner, we had an agreeable
conversation- -nothing extraordinary but catching up
on recent events of each other's life. We talked so
much that we missed the movie.
As we arrived at her house later, she said,
I'll go out with you again, but only if you let me
invite you. I agreed.
* * *
How was your dinner date?
asked my wife when I got home.
Very nice, Much more so than I could have imagined,
I answered.
A few days later, my mother died of a massive
heart attack. It happened so suddenly that I didn't
have a chance to do anything for her.
Some time later, I received an envelope with a
copy of a restaurant receipt from the same place
mother and I had dined. An attached note said: I
paid this bill in advance. I wasn't sure that I
could be there; but nevertheless, I paid for two
plates - one for you and the other for your wife.
You will never know what that night meant for me.
I love you, son.
At that moment, I understood the importance of
saying in time: I LOVE YOU and to give our loved
ones the time that they deserve... Give them the time
they deserve, because these things cannot be put off
till some other time.
BEING A MOTHER....
After 17 years of marriage, my wife wanted me to
take another woman out to dinner and a movie. She
said, I love you, but I know this other woman loves
you and would love to spend some time with you.
* * *
The other woman that my wife wanted me to visit
was my MOTHER, who has been alone for 20 years,
but the demands of my work and my two boys had
made it possible to visit her only occasionally.
That night I called to invite her to go out for
dinner and a movie.
What's wrong, aren't you well, she asked?
My mother is the type of woman who suspects that a
late night call or a surprise invitation is a sign
of bad news.
I thought it would be pleasant to spend some
time with you, I responded. Just the two of us.
She thought about it for a moment, and then said,
I would like that very much.
That Friday after work, as I drove over to pick
her up I was a bit nervous. When I arrived at her
house, I noticed that she, too, seemed to be nervous
about our date. She waited in the door. She had curled her hair and was wearing the
dress that she had worn to celebrate her last
birthday on November 19th.
She smiled from a face that was as radiant as an
angel's. I told my friends that I was going to go
out with my son, and they were impressed, she said,
as she got into that new white van. They can't wait to hear about our date.
We went to a restaurant that, although not
elegant, was very nice and cozy... My mother took my
arm as if she were the First Lady. After we sat
down, I had to read the menu. Her eyes could only
read large print. Half way through the entries, I
lifted my eyes and saw Mom sitting there staring at
me. A nostalgic smile was on her lips. It was I
who used to have to read the menu when you were
small, she said. Then it's time that you relax and
let me return the favor, I responded.
During the dinner, we had an agreeable
conversation- -nothing extraordinary but catching up
on recent events of each other's life. We talked so
much that we missed the movie.
As we arrived at her house later, she said,
I'll go out with you again, but only if you let me
invite you. I agreed.
* * *
How was your dinner date?
asked my wife when I got home.
Very nice, Much more so than I could have imagined,
I answered.
A few days later, my mother died of a massive
heart attack. It happened so suddenly that I didn't
have a chance to do anything for her.
Some time later, I received an envelope with a
copy of a restaurant receipt from the same place
mother and I had dined. An attached note said: I
paid this bill in advance. I wasn't sure that I
could be there; but nevertheless, I paid for two
plates - one for you and the other for your wife.
You will never know what that night meant for me.
I love you, son.
At that moment, I understood the importance of
saying in time: I LOVE YOU and to give our loved
ones the time that they deserve... Give them the time
they deserve, because these things cannot be put off
till some other time.
How to achieve good vision
while driving during a heavy rainfall.
We are not sure why it is so effective just try this method when it rains heavily. This method was told by a Police friend who had experienced and confirmed it.
It is useful...even driving at night.
Most of the motorists would turn on HIGH or FASTEST SPEED of the wipers during heavy downpour, yet the visibility in front of the windscreen is still bad......
In the event you face such a situation, just try your SUN GLASSES (any model will do), and miracle! All of a sudden, your visibility in front of your windscreen is perfectly clear, as if there is no rain.
Make sure you always have a pair of SUN GLASSES in your car, as you are not only helping yourself to drive safely with good vision, but also might save your friend's life by giving them this idea..
Try it yourself and share it with your friends! Amazing, you still see the drops on the windshield, but not the sheet of rain falling.
You can see where the rain bounces off the road.
It works to eliminate the "blindness" from passing semi's spraying you too.
Or the "kickup" if you are following a semi or car in the rain.
They ought to teach that little tip in driver's training. It really does work.
NOTE: The SUN GLASSES reduce the reflection / refraction of light through the rain drops, ergo, you see better!!
while driving during a heavy rainfall.
We are not sure why it is so effective just try this method when it rains heavily. This method was told by a Police friend who had experienced and confirmed it.
It is useful...even driving at night.
Most of the motorists would turn on HIGH or FASTEST SPEED of the wipers during heavy downpour, yet the visibility in front of the windscreen is still bad......
In the event you face such a situation, just try your SUN GLASSES (any model will do), and miracle! All of a sudden, your visibility in front of your windscreen is perfectly clear, as if there is no rain.
Make sure you always have a pair of SUN GLASSES in your car, as you are not only helping yourself to drive safely with good vision, but also might save your friend's life by giving them this idea..
Try it yourself and share it with your friends! Amazing, you still see the drops on the windshield, but not the sheet of rain falling.
You can see where the rain bounces off the road.
It works to eliminate the "blindness" from passing semi's spraying you too.
Or the "kickup" if you are following a semi or car in the rain.
They ought to teach that little tip in driver's training. It really does work.
NOTE: The SUN GLASSES reduce the reflection / refraction of light through the rain drops, ergo, you see better!!
NAIL IN THE FENCE
There once was a little boy who had a bad temper.
His Father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper,
He must hammer a nail into the back of the fence.
The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control his anger,
The number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence.
Finally the day came when the boy didn't lose his temper at all. He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper.
The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone.
The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. He said, "You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence.
The fence will never be the same.
When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out.
It won't matter how many times you say I'm sorry, the wound is still there."
A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one. Friends are very rare jewels, indeed. They make you smile and encourage you to succeed. They lend an ear, they share words of praise and they always want to open their hearts to us."
His Father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper,
He must hammer a nail into the back of the fence.
The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control his anger,
The number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence.
Finally the day came when the boy didn't lose his temper at all. He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper.
The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone.
The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. He said, "You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence.
The fence will never be the same.
When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out.
It won't matter how many times you say I'm sorry, the wound is still there."
A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one. Friends are very rare jewels, indeed. They make you smile and encourage you to succeed. They lend an ear, they share words of praise and they always want to open their hearts to us."
Sunday, June 27, 2010
7 rules of life... TRY TO APPLY ATLEAST ONE
7 rules of life... TRY TO APPLY ATLEAST ONE
1st
Don't let someone become a priority in your life, when you are just an option in their life.
Relationships work best when they are balanced.
2nd
Never explain yourself to anyone.
Because the person who likes you doesn't need it, and the person who d islikes you won't believe it.
3rd
When you keep saying you are busy, then you are never free.
When you keep saying you have no time, then you will never have time.
When you keep saying that you will do it tomorrow, then your tomorrow will never come.
4th
When we wake up in the morning, we have two simple choices.
Go back to sleep and dream, or wake up and chase those dreams.
Choice is yours.
5th
We make them cry who care for us.
We cry for those who never care for us.
And we care for those who will never cry for us.
This is the truth of life, it's strange but true. Once you realize this, it's never too late to change.
6th
Don't make promise when you are in joy.
Don't reply when you are sad.
Don't take decision when you are angry.
Think twice, act wise.
7th
Time is like river. You can't touch the same water twice,
because the flow that has passed will never pass again.
Enjoy every moment of life.
1st
Don't let someone become a priority in your life, when you are just an option in their life.
Relationships work best when they are balanced.
2nd
Never explain yourself to anyone.
Because the person who likes you doesn't need it, and the person who d islikes you won't believe it.
3rd
When you keep saying you are busy, then you are never free.
When you keep saying you have no time, then you will never have time.
When you keep saying that you will do it tomorrow, then your tomorrow will never come.
4th
When we wake up in the morning, we have two simple choices.
Go back to sleep and dream, or wake up and chase those dreams.
Choice is yours.
5th
We make them cry who care for us.
We cry for those who never care for us.
And we care for those who will never cry for us.
This is the truth of life, it's strange but true. Once you realize this, it's never too late to change.
6th
Don't make promise when you are in joy.
Don't reply when you are sad.
Don't take decision when you are angry.
Think twice, act wise.
7th
Time is like river. You can't touch the same water twice,
because the flow that has passed will never pass again.
Enjoy every moment of life.
Friday, June 25, 2010
Chat with Heart Specialist - Very useful
A chat with Dr.Devi Shetty (Heart Specialist),
Narayana Hrudayalaya, Bangalore was arranged by WIPRO for its employees ..
The transcript of the chat is given below. Useful for everyone.
Qn: What are the thumb rules for a layman to take care of his heart?
Ans:
1. Diet - Less of carbohydrate, more of protein, less oil
2. Exercise - Half an hour's walk, at least five days a week; avoid lifts
and avoid sitting for a longtime
3. Quit smoking
4. Control weight
5. Control blood pressure and sugar
Qn: Is eating non-veg food (fish) good for the heart?
Ans: No
Qn: It's still a grave shock to hear that some apparently healthy person
gets a cardiac arrest. How do we understand it in perspective?
Ans: This is called silent attack; that is why we recommend everyone past
the age of 30 to undergo routine health checkups.
Qn: Are heart diseases hereditary?
Ans: Yes
Qn: What are the ways in which the heart is stressed? What practices do you
suggest to de-stress?
Ans: Change your attitude towards life. Do not look for perfection in
everything in life.
Qn: Is walking better than jogging or is more intensive exercise required to
keep a healthy heart?
Ans: Walking is better than jogging since jogging leads to early fatigue and
injury to joints
Qn: You have done so much for the poor and needy. What has inspired you to
do so?
Ans: Mother Theresa , who was my patient
Qn: Can people with low blood pressure suffer heart diseases?
Ans: Extremely rare
Qn: Does cholesterol accumulates right from an early age
(I'm currently only 22) or do you have to worry about it only after you are
above 30 years of age?
Ans: Cholesterol accumulates from childhood.
Qn: How do irregular eating habits affect the heart ?
Ans: You tend to eat junk food when the habits are irregular and your body's
enzyme release for digestion gets confused.
Qn: How can I control cholesterol content without using medicines?
Ans: Control diet, walk and eat walnut.
Qn: Can yoga prevent heart ailments?
Ans: Yoga helps.
Qn: Which is the best and worst food for the heart?
Ans: Fruits and vegetables are the best and the worst is oil.
Qn: Which oil is better - groundnut, sunflower, olive?
Ans: All oils are bad .
Qn: What is the routine checkup one should go through? Is there any specific
test?
Ans: Routine blood test to ensure sugar, cholesterol is ok. Check BP,
Treadmill test after an echo.
Qn: What are the first aid steps to be taken on a heart attack?
Ans: Help the person into a sleeping position , place an aspirin tablet
under the tongue with a sorbitrate tablet if available, and rush him to a
coronary care unit since the maximum casualty takes place within the first
hour.
Qn: How do you differentiate between pain caused by a heart attack and that
caused due to gastric trouble?
Ans: Extremely difficult without ECG.
Qn: What is the main cause of a steep increase in heart problems amongst
youngsters? I see people of about 30-40 yrs of age having heart attacks and
serious heart problems.
Ans: Increased awareness has increased incidents.. Also, sedentary
lifestyles, smoking, junk food, lack of exercise in a country where people
are genetically three times more vulnerable for heart attacks than Europeans
and Americans.
Qn: Is it possible for a person to have BP outside the normal range of
120/80 and yet be perfectly healthy?
Ans: Yes.
Qn: Marriages within close relatives can lead to heart problems for the
child. Is it true?
Ans : Yes, co-sanguinity leads to congenital abnormalities and you may not
have a software engineer as a child
Qn: Many of us have an irregular daily routine and many a times we have to
stay late nights in office. Does this affect our heart ? What precautions
would you recommend?
Ans : When you are young, nature protects you against all these
irregularities. However, as you grow older, respect the biological clock.
Qn: Will taking anti-hypertensive drugs cause some other complications
(short / long term)?
Ans : Yes, most drugs have some side effects. However, modern anti-
hypertensive drugs are extremely safe.
Qn: Will consuming more coffee/tea lead to heart attacks?
Ans : No.
Qn: Are asthma patients more prone to heart disease?
Ans : No.
Qn: How would you define junk food?
Ans : Fried food like Kentucky , McDonalds , samosas, and even masala
dosas..
Qn: You mentioned that Indians are three times more vulnerable. What is the
reason for this, as Europeans and Americans also eat a lot of junk food?
Ans: Every race is vulnerable to some disease and unfortunately, Indians are
vulnerable for the most expensive disease.
Qn: Does consuming bananas help reduce hypertension?
Ans : No.
Qn: Can a person help himself during a heart attack (Because we see a lot of
forwarded emails on this)?
Ans : Yes. Lie down comfortably and put an aspirin tablet of any description
under the tongue and ask someone to take you to the nearest coronary care
unit without any delay and do not wait for the ambulance since most of the
time, the ambulance does not turn up.
Qn: Do, in any way, low white blood cells and low hemoglobin count lead to
heart problems?
Ans : No. But it is ideal to have normal hemoglobin level to increase your
exercise capacity.
Qn: Sometimes, due to the hectic schedule we are not able to exercise. So,
does walking while doing daily chores at home or climbing the stairs in the
house, work as a substitute for exercise?
Ans : Certainly. Avoid sitting continuously for more than half an hour and
even the act of getting out of the chair and going to another chair and
sitting helps a lot.
Qn: Is there a relation between heart problems and blood sugar?
Ans: Yes. A strong relationship since diabetics are more vulnerable to heart
attacks than non-diabetics.
Qn: What are the things one needs to take care of after a heart operation?
Ans : Diet, exercise, drugs on time , Control cholesterol, BP, weight.
Qn: Are people working on night shifts more vulnerable to heart disease when
compared to day shift workers?
i
Ans : No.
Qn: What are the modern anti- hypertensive drugs?
Ans : There are hundreds of drugs and your doctor will chose the right
combination for your problem, but my suggestion is to avoid the drugs and go
for natural ways of controlling blood pressure by walk, diet to
reduce weight and changing attitudes towards lifestyles.
Qn: Does dispirin or similar headache pills increase the risk of heart
attacks?
Ans : No.
Qn: Why is the rate of heart attacks more in men than in women?
Ans : Nature protects women till the age of 45.
Qn: How can one keep the heart in a good condition?
Ans : Eat a healthy diet, avoid junk food, exercise everyday, do not smoke
and, go for health checkup s if you are past the age of 30 ( once in six
months recommended) ..
Send it to all your friends whom u care about ...
Narayana Hrudayalaya, Bangalore was arranged by WIPRO for its employees ..
The transcript of the chat is given below. Useful for everyone.
Qn: What are the thumb rules for a layman to take care of his heart?
Ans:
1. Diet - Less of carbohydrate, more of protein, less oil
2. Exercise - Half an hour's walk, at least five days a week; avoid lifts
and avoid sitting for a longtime
3. Quit smoking
4. Control weight
5. Control blood pressure and sugar
Qn: Is eating non-veg food (fish) good for the heart?
Ans: No
Qn: It's still a grave shock to hear that some apparently healthy person
gets a cardiac arrest. How do we understand it in perspective?
Ans: This is called silent attack; that is why we recommend everyone past
the age of 30 to undergo routine health checkups.
Qn: Are heart diseases hereditary?
Ans: Yes
Qn: What are the ways in which the heart is stressed? What practices do you
suggest to de-stress?
Ans: Change your attitude towards life. Do not look for perfection in
everything in life.
Qn: Is walking better than jogging or is more intensive exercise required to
keep a healthy heart?
Ans: Walking is better than jogging since jogging leads to early fatigue and
injury to joints
Qn: You have done so much for the poor and needy. What has inspired you to
do so?
Ans: Mother Theresa , who was my patient
Qn: Can people with low blood pressure suffer heart diseases?
Ans: Extremely rare
Qn: Does cholesterol accumulates right from an early age
(I'm currently only 22) or do you have to worry about it only after you are
above 30 years of age?
Ans: Cholesterol accumulates from childhood.
Qn: How do irregular eating habits affect the heart ?
Ans: You tend to eat junk food when the habits are irregular and your body's
enzyme release for digestion gets confused.
Qn: How can I control cholesterol content without using medicines?
Ans: Control diet, walk and eat walnut.
Qn: Can yoga prevent heart ailments?
Ans: Yoga helps.
Qn: Which is the best and worst food for the heart?
Ans: Fruits and vegetables are the best and the worst is oil.
Qn: Which oil is better - groundnut, sunflower, olive?
Ans: All oils are bad .
Qn: What is the routine checkup one should go through? Is there any specific
test?
Ans: Routine blood test to ensure sugar, cholesterol is ok. Check BP,
Treadmill test after an echo.
Qn: What are the first aid steps to be taken on a heart attack?
Ans: Help the person into a sleeping position , place an aspirin tablet
under the tongue with a sorbitrate tablet if available, and rush him to a
coronary care unit since the maximum casualty takes place within the first
hour.
Qn: How do you differentiate between pain caused by a heart attack and that
caused due to gastric trouble?
Ans: Extremely difficult without ECG.
Qn: What is the main cause of a steep increase in heart problems amongst
youngsters? I see people of about 30-40 yrs of age having heart attacks and
serious heart problems.
Ans: Increased awareness has increased incidents.. Also, sedentary
lifestyles, smoking, junk food, lack of exercise in a country where people
are genetically three times more vulnerable for heart attacks than Europeans
and Americans.
Qn: Is it possible for a person to have BP outside the normal range of
120/80 and yet be perfectly healthy?
Ans: Yes.
Qn: Marriages within close relatives can lead to heart problems for the
child. Is it true?
Ans : Yes, co-sanguinity leads to congenital abnormalities and you may not
have a software engineer as a child
Qn: Many of us have an irregular daily routine and many a times we have to
stay late nights in office. Does this affect our heart ? What precautions
would you recommend?
Ans : When you are young, nature protects you against all these
irregularities. However, as you grow older, respect the biological clock.
Qn: Will taking anti-hypertensive drugs cause some other complications
(short / long term)?
Ans : Yes, most drugs have some side effects. However, modern anti-
hypertensive drugs are extremely safe.
Qn: Will consuming more coffee/tea lead to heart attacks?
Ans : No.
Qn: Are asthma patients more prone to heart disease?
Ans : No.
Qn: How would you define junk food?
Ans : Fried food like Kentucky , McDonalds , samosas, and even masala
dosas..
Qn: You mentioned that Indians are three times more vulnerable. What is the
reason for this, as Europeans and Americans also eat a lot of junk food?
Ans: Every race is vulnerable to some disease and unfortunately, Indians are
vulnerable for the most expensive disease.
Qn: Does consuming bananas help reduce hypertension?
Ans : No.
Qn: Can a person help himself during a heart attack (Because we see a lot of
forwarded emails on this)?
Ans : Yes. Lie down comfortably and put an aspirin tablet of any description
under the tongue and ask someone to take you to the nearest coronary care
unit without any delay and do not wait for the ambulance since most of the
time, the ambulance does not turn up.
Qn: Do, in any way, low white blood cells and low hemoglobin count lead to
heart problems?
Ans : No. But it is ideal to have normal hemoglobin level to increase your
exercise capacity.
Qn: Sometimes, due to the hectic schedule we are not able to exercise. So,
does walking while doing daily chores at home or climbing the stairs in the
house, work as a substitute for exercise?
Ans : Certainly. Avoid sitting continuously for more than half an hour and
even the act of getting out of the chair and going to another chair and
sitting helps a lot.
Qn: Is there a relation between heart problems and blood sugar?
Ans: Yes. A strong relationship since diabetics are more vulnerable to heart
attacks than non-diabetics.
Qn: What are the things one needs to take care of after a heart operation?
Ans : Diet, exercise, drugs on time , Control cholesterol, BP, weight.
Qn: Are people working on night shifts more vulnerable to heart disease when
compared to day shift workers?
i
Ans : No.
Qn: What are the modern anti- hypertensive drugs?
Ans : There are hundreds of drugs and your doctor will chose the right
combination for your problem, but my suggestion is to avoid the drugs and go
for natural ways of controlling blood pressure by walk, diet to
reduce weight and changing attitudes towards lifestyles.
Qn: Does dispirin or similar headache pills increase the risk of heart
attacks?
Ans : No.
Qn: Why is the rate of heart attacks more in men than in women?
Ans : Nature protects women till the age of 45.
Qn: How can one keep the heart in a good condition?
Ans : Eat a healthy diet, avoid junk food, exercise everyday, do not smoke
and, go for health checkup s if you are past the age of 30 ( once in six
months recommended) ..
Send it to all your friends whom u care about ...
How to detect Hidden Camera
Infront of the trial room take your mobile and make sure that mobile can make calls....... .
Then enter into the trail room, take your mobile and make a call.....
If u can't make a call......!! !!
There is a hidden camera......
This is due to the interference of fibre optic during the signal transfer.... ..
Please spread this message to your friends to educate this issue to the public......
To prevent our innocent sisters and ladies from HIDDEN CAMERA...... ...
Then enter into the trail room, take your mobile and make a call.....
If u can't make a call......!! !!
There is a hidden camera......
This is due to the interference of fibre optic during the signal transfer.... ..
Please spread this message to your friends to educate this issue to the public......
To prevent our innocent sisters and ladies from HIDDEN CAMERA...... ...
Dangers of Using Pendrive
Trojans Think In Mandarin
The latest Chinese hacking scare finds India’s vital organs baffled and unready
ARINDAM MUKHERJEE, DEBARSHI DASGUPTA , LOLA NAYAR
Outlook India Magazine – Issue dated 26/4/2010
It’s been a little over a year since the Indian army discovered one of its gravest cyber security lapses. The attack, which had its origins in China, was never publicised and didn’t figure in any internal report. But the damage was immense, say sources familiar with the breach of India’s military and security establishments.
“We never keep anything sensitive on a computer that is connected to the internet,” an officer with the Army Cyber Security Establishment told Outlook. But this one was different. The Chinese hackers developed Trojan virus software that downloaded on to a pen drive. Here’s how it worked: an officer connected the pen drive to a computer connected to the Net, infecting the pen drive. He then used the infected pen drive on a computer not connected to the Net. The malicious software immediately downloaded itself onto the hard drive, collected a lot of sensitive files and waited for the pen drive to be reconnected.
“When the drive would be connected to a computer with internet connectivity,” the officer explained, “it would immediately begin transmitting all the sensitive files back to a secure server.” This continued for months and several unconnected computers at the army headquarters were infected before the cyber security cell got alerted. “By then we did not have a clue about how much we had lost. And it was some pretty sensitive stuff,” said the officer.
The latest Chinese hacking scare finds India’s vital organs baffled and unready
ARINDAM MUKHERJEE, DEBARSHI DASGUPTA , LOLA NAYAR
Outlook India Magazine – Issue dated 26/4/2010
It’s been a little over a year since the Indian army discovered one of its gravest cyber security lapses. The attack, which had its origins in China, was never publicised and didn’t figure in any internal report. But the damage was immense, say sources familiar with the breach of India’s military and security establishments.
“We never keep anything sensitive on a computer that is connected to the internet,” an officer with the Army Cyber Security Establishment told Outlook. But this one was different. The Chinese hackers developed Trojan virus software that downloaded on to a pen drive. Here’s how it worked: an officer connected the pen drive to a computer connected to the Net, infecting the pen drive. He then used the infected pen drive on a computer not connected to the Net. The malicious software immediately downloaded itself onto the hard drive, collected a lot of sensitive files and waited for the pen drive to be reconnected.
“When the drive would be connected to a computer with internet connectivity,” the officer explained, “it would immediately begin transmitting all the sensitive files back to a secure server.” This continued for months and several unconnected computers at the army headquarters were infected before the cyber security cell got alerted. “By then we did not have a clue about how much we had lost. And it was some pretty sensitive stuff,” said the officer.
Five Critical Factors of Career Success
Five Critical Factors of Career Success
What skills do employers value and seek in potential employees? That was the question posted to hiring managers, and the feedback might surprise you! Below are the most common skills mentioned, whether the employee happens to be a manager, network engineer, or a cook.
In-Demand Skills for Success:
PERSONAL SKILLS: Can a potential employee speak well? Can he/she answer questions of customers in a positive, informative manner? While not everyone has an outgoing sales personality, successful employees can communicate in a non-confrontational, positive manner with their coworkers, subordinates, managers, and customers. Being able to work well with others is a vital skill for success in all jobs.
JOB ATTAINMENT: Job search is a process that requires a great deal of dedication and attention to be conducted successfully. If you put in little effort, you will receive little results. Employers are seeking employees who know how to present themselves in a positive manner and who display enthusiasm and knowledge about the companies they approach. Not only do candidates get evaluated on their skills and experience, but also on how they are approaching the job search. Enthusiastic candidates that follow up and show true interest will win success above equally qualified candidates.
JOB SURVIVAL: Now there's a hot topic in this period of layoffs! True, who gets the ax and who doesn't is often a matter of numbers, but it is also often a matter of performance. Employees who have consistently demonstrated their worth and made themselves a valuable asset have lower incidences of being downsized than employees who put forth average effort. Surviving in a company during layoffs is a skill that makes a candidate stand out among peers.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Successful individuals are constantly attending seminars, taking classes, attaining training, and otherwise learning new skills that will keep them marketable in their careers. Successful people are lifelong learners. Employers are looking for people who understand this.
CAREER DEVELOPMENT: Career Development differs from Professional Development. Professional Development is learning while Career Development is a planning and goal setting process. Successful individuals design a career plan with written goals for short term and long term. They lay out the steps needed to move their careers from Point A to Point B within Time Frame C and plan how they are going to achieve those steps. Employers seek individuals who (believe it or not) wish to commit to the company for a long period of time. Good career progression is a high selling point of candidates to prospective employers.
What skills do employers value and seek in potential employees? That was the question posted to hiring managers, and the feedback might surprise you! Below are the most common skills mentioned, whether the employee happens to be a manager, network engineer, or a cook.
In-Demand Skills for Success:
PERSONAL SKILLS: Can a potential employee speak well? Can he/she answer questions of customers in a positive, informative manner? While not everyone has an outgoing sales personality, successful employees can communicate in a non-confrontational, positive manner with their coworkers, subordinates, managers, and customers. Being able to work well with others is a vital skill for success in all jobs.
JOB ATTAINMENT: Job search is a process that requires a great deal of dedication and attention to be conducted successfully. If you put in little effort, you will receive little results. Employers are seeking employees who know how to present themselves in a positive manner and who display enthusiasm and knowledge about the companies they approach. Not only do candidates get evaluated on their skills and experience, but also on how they are approaching the job search. Enthusiastic candidates that follow up and show true interest will win success above equally qualified candidates.
JOB SURVIVAL: Now there's a hot topic in this period of layoffs! True, who gets the ax and who doesn't is often a matter of numbers, but it is also often a matter of performance. Employees who have consistently demonstrated their worth and made themselves a valuable asset have lower incidences of being downsized than employees who put forth average effort. Surviving in a company during layoffs is a skill that makes a candidate stand out among peers.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Successful individuals are constantly attending seminars, taking classes, attaining training, and otherwise learning new skills that will keep them marketable in their careers. Successful people are lifelong learners. Employers are looking for people who understand this.
CAREER DEVELOPMENT: Career Development differs from Professional Development. Professional Development is learning while Career Development is a planning and goal setting process. Successful individuals design a career plan with written goals for short term and long term. They lay out the steps needed to move their careers from Point A to Point B within Time Frame C and plan how they are going to achieve those steps. Employers seek individuals who (believe it or not) wish to commit to the company for a long period of time. Good career progression is a high selling point of candidates to prospective employers.
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Thursday, June 10, 2010
worth reading
This is very valuable information & worth reading.
Valuable Piece of information
Let's say it's 6..15p m and you're going home (alone of
course), after an unusually hard day on the job.
You're really tired, upset and frustrated...
Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your
chest that starts to adiate out into your arm and up
into your jaw. You are only about five miles from the
hospital nearest your home. Unfortunately you don't
know if you'll be able to make it that far. You have
been trained in CPR, but the guy that taught the
course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself.
HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE
Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart
attack, without help,the person whose heart is beating
improperly and who begins to feel faint, has only
about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness.
However,these victims can help themselves by coughing
repeatedly and very vigorously. A deep breath should
be taken before each cough, and the cough must be deep
and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep
inside the chest.
A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two
seconds without let-up until help arrives, or until
the heart is felt to be beating normally again.
Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing
movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood
circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also
helps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart
attack victims can get to a hospital. Tell as many
other people as possible about this. It could save
their lives!!
A cardiologist says If everyone who gets this mail
sends it to 10 people, you can bet that we'll save at
least one life.
Rather sending jokes pls contribute by forwarding this mail
which can save a person's life.
Valuable Piece of information
Let's say it's 6..15p m and you're going home (alone of
course), after an unusually hard day on the job.
You're really tired, upset and frustrated...
Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your
chest that starts to adiate out into your arm and up
into your jaw. You are only about five miles from the
hospital nearest your home. Unfortunately you don't
know if you'll be able to make it that far. You have
been trained in CPR, but the guy that taught the
course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself.
HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE
Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart
attack, without help,the person whose heart is beating
improperly and who begins to feel faint, has only
about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness.
However,these victims can help themselves by coughing
repeatedly and very vigorously. A deep breath should
be taken before each cough, and the cough must be deep
and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep
inside the chest.
A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two
seconds without let-up until help arrives, or until
the heart is felt to be beating normally again.
Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing
movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood
circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also
helps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart
attack victims can get to a hospital. Tell as many
other people as possible about this. It could save
their lives!!
A cardiologist says If everyone who gets this mail
sends it to 10 people, you can bet that we'll save at
least one life.
Rather sending jokes pls contribute by forwarding this mail
which can save a person's life.
Dreams..... Ideas..... Action.....
Dreams..... Ideas..... Action.....
Hello Friends,
You must have seen many school dropout children in your society, what is the future you are expecting for them? As you are aware tomorrow�s world is of skilled labour & multitasky people. One will not be able to earn bread without education and technical skills. India has the largest youth population in the world. How many of them do you think are skilled and educated? If educated, to what level? How is their formal education going to help them?
Let us talk about the effects of leaving dropouts to their fate. They have to work as unskilled labour with less salary, which would not be sufficient for survival, especially for the urban residents. Studies show that many are psychologically not prepared to take up unskilled profession. Rather than working as unskilled labour they prefer to indulge in fast growth. And the way chosen for it is robbery, malpractices and other illegal activities. To discuss, many ill effects are there of dropouts and unskilled labour in the society.
To know the solution for overcoming this problem let us first find out reasons for dropping out of schools and colleges. Few reasons are some students do not understand or are not interested in certain subjects like maths, science, languages etc. They do not give attention to them and simply fail in their exams. In some cases their abilities are not properly identified and they are put in wrong streams. For example, a student who is good at social sciences is asked to study technical courses, which he may not like and there lies a chance of failing or dropping out of it. After few years when one lags behind slowly looses interest and goes into depression without knowing what to do next.
This shows that there is an urgent need to put the dropouts back on track. The track can be of both academic education and technical education. Government of India has a very good scheme under �Sarva Siksha Abhiyaan� and it is called �National Open School�. A dropout above 14 years of age is eligible for Xth standard exam and has to study only 5 subjects of ones choice. Weekly 3 classes are conducted in various centres of Hyderabad/Secunderabad. The fees is Rs.1200/- inclusive of study material, contact classes and exam fee.
If u come across school droupouts kindly motivate them by providing the above information, the admission for the academic year 2010-11 will close in the month of August, 2010. Address of the National Open School centres in India can be located on internet.
Hello Friends,
You must have seen many school dropout children in your society, what is the future you are expecting for them? As you are aware tomorrow�s world is of skilled labour & multitasky people. One will not be able to earn bread without education and technical skills. India has the largest youth population in the world. How many of them do you think are skilled and educated? If educated, to what level? How is their formal education going to help them?
Let us talk about the effects of leaving dropouts to their fate. They have to work as unskilled labour with less salary, which would not be sufficient for survival, especially for the urban residents. Studies show that many are psychologically not prepared to take up unskilled profession. Rather than working as unskilled labour they prefer to indulge in fast growth. And the way chosen for it is robbery, malpractices and other illegal activities. To discuss, many ill effects are there of dropouts and unskilled labour in the society.
To know the solution for overcoming this problem let us first find out reasons for dropping out of schools and colleges. Few reasons are some students do not understand or are not interested in certain subjects like maths, science, languages etc. They do not give attention to them and simply fail in their exams. In some cases their abilities are not properly identified and they are put in wrong streams. For example, a student who is good at social sciences is asked to study technical courses, which he may not like and there lies a chance of failing or dropping out of it. After few years when one lags behind slowly looses interest and goes into depression without knowing what to do next.
This shows that there is an urgent need to put the dropouts back on track. The track can be of both academic education and technical education. Government of India has a very good scheme under �Sarva Siksha Abhiyaan� and it is called �National Open School�. A dropout above 14 years of age is eligible for Xth standard exam and has to study only 5 subjects of ones choice. Weekly 3 classes are conducted in various centres of Hyderabad/Secunderabad. The fees is Rs.1200/- inclusive of study material, contact classes and exam fee.
If u come across school droupouts kindly motivate them by providing the above information, the admission for the academic year 2010-11 will close in the month of August, 2010. Address of the National Open School centres in India can be located on internet.
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Philosophy of life - Must Read
Philosophy of life:
A boat docked in a tiny Mexican fishing village.
A tourist complimented the local fishermen on the quality of their fish and asked how long it took them to catch them.
"Not very long." they answered in unison.
"Why didn't you stay out longer and catch more?"
The fishermen explained that their small catches were sufficient to meet their needs and those of their families.
"But what do you do with the rest of your time?"
"We sleep late, fish a little, play with our children, and take siestas with our wives. In the evenings, we go into the village to see our friends, have a few drinks, play the guitar, and sing a few songs.
We have a full life."
The tourist interrupted,
"I have an MBA from Harvard and I can help you!
You should start by fishing longer every day.
You can then sell the extra fish you catch.
With the extra revenue, you can buy a bigger boat."
"And after that?"
"With the extra money the larger boat will bring, you can buy a second one and a third one and so on until you have an entire fleet of trawlers.
Instead of selling your fish to a middle man, you can then negotiate directly with the processing plants and maybe even open your own plant.
You can then leave this little village and move to Mexico City , Los Angeles , or even New York City !
From there you can direct your huge new enterprise.
"How long would that take?"
"Twenty, perhaps twenty-five years." replied the tourist.
"And after that?"
"Afterwards? Well my friend, that's when it gets really interesting, " answered the tourist, laughing. "When your business gets really big, you can start buying and selling stocks and make millions!"
"Millions? Really? And after that?" asked the fishermen..
"After that you'll be able to retire,
live in a tiny village near the coast,
sleep late, play with your children,
catch a few fish, take a siesta with your wife and spend your evenings drinking and enjoying your friends."
"With all due respect sir, but that's exactly what we are doing now. So what's the point wasting twenty-five years?" asked the Mexicans.
And the moral of this story is:
....... Know where you're going in life.... you may already be there!!
Live as if you were to die tomorrow... Learn as if you were to live forever..
A boat docked in a tiny Mexican fishing village.
A tourist complimented the local fishermen on the quality of their fish and asked how long it took them to catch them.
"Not very long." they answered in unison.
"Why didn't you stay out longer and catch more?"
The fishermen explained that their small catches were sufficient to meet their needs and those of their families.
"But what do you do with the rest of your time?"
"We sleep late, fish a little, play with our children, and take siestas with our wives. In the evenings, we go into the village to see our friends, have a few drinks, play the guitar, and sing a few songs.
We have a full life."
The tourist interrupted,
"I have an MBA from Harvard and I can help you!
You should start by fishing longer every day.
You can then sell the extra fish you catch.
With the extra revenue, you can buy a bigger boat."
"And after that?"
"With the extra money the larger boat will bring, you can buy a second one and a third one and so on until you have an entire fleet of trawlers.
Instead of selling your fish to a middle man, you can then negotiate directly with the processing plants and maybe even open your own plant.
You can then leave this little village and move to Mexico City , Los Angeles , or even New York City !
From there you can direct your huge new enterprise.
"How long would that take?"
"Twenty, perhaps twenty-five years." replied the tourist.
"And after that?"
"Afterwards? Well my friend, that's when it gets really interesting, " answered the tourist, laughing. "When your business gets really big, you can start buying and selling stocks and make millions!"
"Millions? Really? And after that?" asked the fishermen..
"After that you'll be able to retire,
live in a tiny village near the coast,
sleep late, play with your children,
catch a few fish, take a siesta with your wife and spend your evenings drinking and enjoying your friends."
"With all due respect sir, but that's exactly what we are doing now. So what's the point wasting twenty-five years?" asked the Mexicans.
And the moral of this story is:
....... Know where you're going in life.... you may already be there!!
Live as if you were to die tomorrow... Learn as if you were to live forever..
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Really Interesting
Every man should get married some time; after all, happiness is not the only thing in life!!
--Anonymous
-------------------------------------
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
--Oscar Wilde
---------------------------------------------
Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper.
--Scottish Prover
------------ --------- --------- --------- -----
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
--Sam Kinison
------------ --------- --------- ---------
Men have a better time than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
-H. L. Mencken
------------ --------- --------- ---------
When a newly married couple smiles, everyone knows why.
When a ten-year married couple smiles, everyone wonders why.
------------ --------- --------- ---------
Love is blind but marriage is an eye-opener
------------ --------- --------- ---------
When a man opens the door of his car for his wife,
you can be sure of one thing: either the car is new or the wife.
------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ---
I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back to home always.
--Anonymous
------------ --------- --------- --------- ---------
I asked my wife, "Where do you want to go for our
anniversary? " She said,"Somewhere I have never been!" I told her,
"How about the kitchen?"
--Anonymous
------------ --------- --------- ---------
We always hold hands. If I let go, she shops.
------------ --------- --------- ---------
My wife was in beauty saloon for two hours.
That was only for the estimate.
--Anonymous
------------ --------- --------- ---------
She got a mudpack and looked great for two days. Then
the mud fell off.
--Anonymous
------------ --------- --------- ---------
She ran after the garbage truck, yelling, "Am I too
late for the garbage?
Following her down the street I yelled, "No, jump in."
--Anonymous
------------ --------- --------- ---------
Badd Teddy recently explained to me why he refuses
to get to married.
He says "the wedding rings look like minature
handcuffs... .."
--Anonymous
------------ --------- --------- --------- ------
If your dog is barking at the back door and your
wife yelling at the frontdoor, who do you let in first?
The Dog of course... at least he'll shut up after u
let him in!
--Anonymous
------------ --------- --------- ---------
A man placed some flowers on the grave of his dearly
parted mother and started back toward his car when his attention was
diverted to another man kneeling at a grave. The man seemed to be
praying with profound intensity and kept repeating, 'Why did u have to
die? Why did you have to die?" The first man approached him and said, "Sir,
I don't wish to interfere with your private grief, but this
demonstration of pain in is
more than I've ever seen before. For whom do you mourn so? Deeply? A
child? A parent?"The mourner took a moment to collect himself, then
replied "My wife's first husband."
------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ----
A couple came upon a wishing well. The husband
leaned over, made a wish
and threw in a coin .
The wife decided to make a wish, too. But she leaned
over too much, fell
into the well, and drowned. The husband was stunned
for a while but then
smiled "It really works ! "
----------------------------------------------\ WORLD'S EASIEST QUIZ!
(Passing requires only 3 correct answers out of 10!)
1) How long did the Hundred Years' War last ?
2) Which country makes Panama hats ?
3) From which animal do we get cat gut ?
4) In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution ?
5) What is a camel's hair brush made of ?
6) The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what animal ?
7) What was King George VI's first name ?
8) What color is a purple finch ?
9) Where are Chinese gooseberries from ?
10) What is the color of the black box in a commercial airplane ?
Remember, you need only 3 correct answers to pass.
Check your answers below.
ANSWERS
1) How long did the Hundred Years War last ? 116 years
2) Which country makes Panama hats ? Ecuador
3) From which animal do we get cat gut ? Sheep and Horses
4) In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution ? November
5) What is a camel's hair brush made of ? Squirrel fur
6) The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what animal ? Dogs
7) What was King George VI's first name ? Albert
8) What color is a purple finch ? Crimson
9) Where are Chinese gooseberries from ? New Zealand
10) What is the color of the black box in a commercial airplane ? Orange (of course!)
What do you mean, you failed?!!
Me, too...!!!
( And if you try to tell me you passed, you lie! )
Pass this on to some "brilliant" friends, so that they may feel useless too!
------------------
This is truly brilliant... It can't get more accurate than this!!!!
Sigmund Freud's Priorities
Five things are happening in your house at the same time. In which sequence would you solve them?
1. The telephone is ringing!
2. The baby is crying!
3. Someone's knocking or calling you from the front door!
4. You hung the clothes out to dry and it is beginning to rain!
5. You left the tap on in the kitchen and the water is already overflowing!
In which sequence would you solve these problems? Write the sequence and check below how your decisions were made.
BUT BE HONEST, THE FINDINGS ARE EXCITING.
First write YOUR sequence from 1 to 5 then scroll below and read after!
Answer:
Every individual point represents something in your life..
On the list you can see which meaning every point has:
1. Telephone represents Work
2. Baby represents Family
3. Door represents Friends
4. Clothes represent Money
5. Tap represents Love Life
Your chosen sequence determines the priorities in your life.
---------------------------------
The Seed
A successful business man was growing old and Knew it was time to choose a successor to take over the business. Instead of choosing one of his Directors or his children, He decided to do something different. He called all the young Executives in his company together.
He said, "It is time for me to step down and choose the next CEO. I have decided to choose one of you. "The young executives were Shocked, but the boss continued. "I am going to give each one Of you a SEED today - one very special SEED. I want you to plant The seed, water it, and come back here one year from today with What you have grown from the seed I have given you. I will then Judge the plants that you bring, and the one I choose will be The next CEO."
One man, named Jim, was there that day and he, like the others, Received a seed. He went home and excitedly, told his wife the Story. She helped him get a pot, soil and compost and he planted The seed. Everyday, he would water it and watch to see if it had Grown. After about three weeks, some of the other executives began To talk about their seeds and the plants that were beginning to grow.
Jim kept checking his seed, but nothing ever grew. Three weeks, four weeks, five weeks went by, still nothing. By now, others were talking about their plants, but Jim didn't have a plant and he felt like a failure.
Six months went by -- still nothing in Jim's pot. He just knew he Had killed his seed. Everyone else had trees and tall plants, but He had nothing. Jim didn't say anything to his colleagues, however. He just kept watering and fertilizing the soil - He so wanted the Seed to grow.
A year finally went by and all the young executives of the company Brought their plants to the CEO for inspection. Jim told his wife that he wasn't going to take an empty pot. But she asked him to be honest about what happened. Jim felt sick To his stomach, it was going to be the most embarrassing moment Of his life, but he knew his wife was right. He took his empty pot To the board room. When Jim arrived, he was amazed at the variety
Of plants grown by the other executives. They were beautiful -- In all shapes and sizes. Jim put his empty pot on the floor and Many of his colleagues laughed, a few felt sorry for him!
When the CEO arrived, he surveyed the room and greeted his young
Executives.
Jim just tried to hide in the back. "My, what great plants, trees, And flowers you have grown," said the CEO. "Today one of you will Be appointed the next CEO!"
All of a sudden, the CEO spotted Jim at the back of the room with His empty pot. He ordered the Financial Director to bring him to The front. Jim was terrified. He thought, "The CEO knows I'm a Failure! Maybe he will have me fired!"
When Jim got to the front, the CEO asked him what had happened To his seed - Jim told him the story.
The CEO asked everyone to sit down except Jim. He looked at Jim, And then announced to the young executives, "Behold your next Chief Executive Officer!
His name is Jim!" Jim couldn't believe it. Jim couldn't even grow His seed.
"How could he be the new CEO?" the others said.
Then the CEO said, "One year ago today, I gave everyone in this Room a seed. I told you to take the seed, plant it, water it, And bring it back to me today. But I gave you all boiled seeds; They were dead - it was not possible for them to grow.
All of you, except Jim, have brought me trees and plants and Flowers. When you found that the seed would not grow, you Substituted another seed for the one I gave you. Jim was the
Only one with the courage and honesty to bring me a pot with My seed in it. Therefore, he is the one who will be the new Chief Executive Officer!"
If you plant honesty, you will reap trust
If you plant goodness, you will reap friends
If you plant humility, you will reap greatness
If you plant perseverance, you will reap contentment
If you plant consideration, you will reap perspective
If you plant hard work, you will reap success
If you plant forgiveness, you will reap reconciliation
If you plant faith in God , you will reap a harvest
So, be careful what you plant now; it will determine what you will reap later ..
"Whatever You Give To Life, Life Gives You Back"
--Anonymous
-------------------------------------
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
--Oscar Wilde
---------------------------------------------
Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper.
--Scottish Prover
------------ --------- --------- --------- -----
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
--Sam Kinison
------------ --------- --------- ---------
Men have a better time than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
-H. L. Mencken
------------ --------- --------- ---------
When a newly married couple smiles, everyone knows why.
When a ten-year married couple smiles, everyone wonders why.
------------ --------- --------- ---------
Love is blind but marriage is an eye-opener
------------ --------- --------- ---------
When a man opens the door of his car for his wife,
you can be sure of one thing: either the car is new or the wife.
------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ---
I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back to home always.
--Anonymous
------------ --------- --------- --------- ---------
I asked my wife, "Where do you want to go for our
anniversary? " She said,"Somewhere I have never been!" I told her,
"How about the kitchen?"
--Anonymous
------------ --------- --------- ---------
We always hold hands. If I let go, she shops.
------------ --------- --------- ---------
My wife was in beauty saloon for two hours.
That was only for the estimate.
--Anonymous
------------ --------- --------- ---------
She got a mudpack and looked great for two days. Then
the mud fell off.
--Anonymous
------------ --------- --------- ---------
She ran after the garbage truck, yelling, "Am I too
late for the garbage?
Following her down the street I yelled, "No, jump in."
--Anonymous
------------ --------- --------- ---------
Badd Teddy recently explained to me why he refuses
to get to married.
He says "the wedding rings look like minature
handcuffs... .."
--Anonymous
------------ --------- --------- --------- ------
If your dog is barking at the back door and your
wife yelling at the frontdoor, who do you let in first?
The Dog of course... at least he'll shut up after u
let him in!
--Anonymous
------------ --------- --------- ---------
A man placed some flowers on the grave of his dearly
parted mother and started back toward his car when his attention was
diverted to another man kneeling at a grave. The man seemed to be
praying with profound intensity and kept repeating, 'Why did u have to
die? Why did you have to die?" The first man approached him and said, "Sir,
I don't wish to interfere with your private grief, but this
demonstration of pain in is
more than I've ever seen before. For whom do you mourn so? Deeply? A
child? A parent?"The mourner took a moment to collect himself, then
replied "My wife's first husband."
------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ----
A couple came upon a wishing well. The husband
leaned over, made a wish
and threw in a coin .
The wife decided to make a wish, too. But she leaned
over too much, fell
into the well, and drowned. The husband was stunned
for a while but then
smiled "It really works ! "
----------------------------------------------\ WORLD'S EASIEST QUIZ!
(Passing requires only 3 correct answers out of 10!)
1) How long did the Hundred Years' War last ?
2) Which country makes Panama hats ?
3) From which animal do we get cat gut ?
4) In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution ?
5) What is a camel's hair brush made of ?
6) The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what animal ?
7) What was King George VI's first name ?
8) What color is a purple finch ?
9) Where are Chinese gooseberries from ?
10) What is the color of the black box in a commercial airplane ?
Remember, you need only 3 correct answers to pass.
Check your answers below.
ANSWERS
1) How long did the Hundred Years War last ? 116 years
2) Which country makes Panama hats ? Ecuador
3) From which animal do we get cat gut ? Sheep and Horses
4) In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution ? November
5) What is a camel's hair brush made of ? Squirrel fur
6) The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what animal ? Dogs
7) What was King George VI's first name ? Albert
8) What color is a purple finch ? Crimson
9) Where are Chinese gooseberries from ? New Zealand
10) What is the color of the black box in a commercial airplane ? Orange (of course!)
What do you mean, you failed?!!
Me, too...!!!
( And if you try to tell me you passed, you lie! )
Pass this on to some "brilliant" friends, so that they may feel useless too!
------------------
This is truly brilliant... It can't get more accurate than this!!!!
Sigmund Freud's Priorities
Five things are happening in your house at the same time. In which sequence would you solve them?
1. The telephone is ringing!
2. The baby is crying!
3. Someone's knocking or calling you from the front door!
4. You hung the clothes out to dry and it is beginning to rain!
5. You left the tap on in the kitchen and the water is already overflowing!
In which sequence would you solve these problems? Write the sequence and check below how your decisions were made.
BUT BE HONEST, THE FINDINGS ARE EXCITING.
First write YOUR sequence from 1 to 5 then scroll below and read after!
Answer:
Every individual point represents something in your life..
On the list you can see which meaning every point has:
1. Telephone represents Work
2. Baby represents Family
3. Door represents Friends
4. Clothes represent Money
5. Tap represents Love Life
Your chosen sequence determines the priorities in your life.
---------------------------------
The Seed
A successful business man was growing old and Knew it was time to choose a successor to take over the business. Instead of choosing one of his Directors or his children, He decided to do something different. He called all the young Executives in his company together.
He said, "It is time for me to step down and choose the next CEO. I have decided to choose one of you. "The young executives were Shocked, but the boss continued. "I am going to give each one Of you a SEED today - one very special SEED. I want you to plant The seed, water it, and come back here one year from today with What you have grown from the seed I have given you. I will then Judge the plants that you bring, and the one I choose will be The next CEO."
One man, named Jim, was there that day and he, like the others, Received a seed. He went home and excitedly, told his wife the Story. She helped him get a pot, soil and compost and he planted The seed. Everyday, he would water it and watch to see if it had Grown. After about three weeks, some of the other executives began To talk about their seeds and the plants that were beginning to grow.
Jim kept checking his seed, but nothing ever grew. Three weeks, four weeks, five weeks went by, still nothing. By now, others were talking about their plants, but Jim didn't have a plant and he felt like a failure.
Six months went by -- still nothing in Jim's pot. He just knew he Had killed his seed. Everyone else had trees and tall plants, but He had nothing. Jim didn't say anything to his colleagues, however. He just kept watering and fertilizing the soil - He so wanted the Seed to grow.
A year finally went by and all the young executives of the company Brought their plants to the CEO for inspection. Jim told his wife that he wasn't going to take an empty pot. But she asked him to be honest about what happened. Jim felt sick To his stomach, it was going to be the most embarrassing moment Of his life, but he knew his wife was right. He took his empty pot To the board room. When Jim arrived, he was amazed at the variety
Of plants grown by the other executives. They were beautiful -- In all shapes and sizes. Jim put his empty pot on the floor and Many of his colleagues laughed, a few felt sorry for him!
When the CEO arrived, he surveyed the room and greeted his young
Executives.
Jim just tried to hide in the back. "My, what great plants, trees, And flowers you have grown," said the CEO. "Today one of you will Be appointed the next CEO!"
All of a sudden, the CEO spotted Jim at the back of the room with His empty pot. He ordered the Financial Director to bring him to The front. Jim was terrified. He thought, "The CEO knows I'm a Failure! Maybe he will have me fired!"
When Jim got to the front, the CEO asked him what had happened To his seed - Jim told him the story.
The CEO asked everyone to sit down except Jim. He looked at Jim, And then announced to the young executives, "Behold your next Chief Executive Officer!
His name is Jim!" Jim couldn't believe it. Jim couldn't even grow His seed.
"How could he be the new CEO?" the others said.
Then the CEO said, "One year ago today, I gave everyone in this Room a seed. I told you to take the seed, plant it, water it, And bring it back to me today. But I gave you all boiled seeds; They were dead - it was not possible for them to grow.
All of you, except Jim, have brought me trees and plants and Flowers. When you found that the seed would not grow, you Substituted another seed for the one I gave you. Jim was the
Only one with the courage and honesty to bring me a pot with My seed in it. Therefore, he is the one who will be the new Chief Executive Officer!"
If you plant honesty, you will reap trust
If you plant goodness, you will reap friends
If you plant humility, you will reap greatness
If you plant perseverance, you will reap contentment
If you plant consideration, you will reap perspective
If you plant hard work, you will reap success
If you plant forgiveness, you will reap reconciliation
If you plant faith in God , you will reap a harvest
So, be careful what you plant now; it will determine what you will reap later ..
"Whatever You Give To Life, Life Gives You Back"
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Good Thoughts
If you judge people, you have no time to love them - Mother Teresa (1910-1997)
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - Virginia Satir (1916-1988)
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - Virginia Satir (1916-1988)
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Who is Real Hero
Management Views from IIM, Bangalore. by Prof. Y.L.R. Moorthy
Who sells the largest number of cameras in India?
Your guess is likely to be Sony, Canon or Nikon.
The correct answer is none of the above. The winner is 'Nokia' whose
main line of business in India is not cameras but cell phones.
Reason being cameras bundled with cellphones are outselling stand alone
cameras. Now, what prevents the cellphone from replacing the camera
outright? Nothing at all.
One can only hope the Sonys and Canons are taking note.
Try this. Who is the biggest in music business in India? You think it is HMV
Sa-Re-Ga-Ma?
Sorry....the answer is Airtel. By selling caller tunes (that playfor 30 seconds)
Airtel makes more than what music companies make by selling music
albums (that run for hours).
Incidentally Airtel is not in music business. It is the mobile service
provider with the largest subscriber base in India. That sort of competitor
is difficult to detect, even more difficult to beat (by the time you have
identified him he has already gone past you). But if you imagine that Nokia
and Bharti (Airtel's parent) are breathing easy you can't be farther from
truth.
Nokia confessed that they all but missed the smartphone bus. They admit
that Apple's Iphone and Google's Android can make life difficult in future.
But you never thought Google was a mobile company, did you?
If these illustrations mean anything, there is a bigger game unfolding. It is not
so much about mobile or music or camera or emails.
The "Mahabharat" (the great Indian epic battle) is about "what is tomorrow's
personal digital device"? Will it be a souped up mobile or a palmtop with a
telephone? All these are little wars that add up to that big battle. Hiding
behind all these wars is a gem of a question – "who is my competitor?"
Once in a while, to intrigue my students I toss a question at them. It says
"What Apple did to Sony, Sony did to Kodak, explain?" The smart ones get the
answer almost immediately. Sony defined its market as audio (music from the
walkman). They never expected an IT company like Apple to encroach into
their audio domain. Come to think of it, is it really surprising? Apple as a
computer maker has both audio and video capabilities. So what made Sony
think he won't compete on pure audio? "Elementary Watson". So also Kodak
defined its business as film cameras, Sony defines its businesses as
"digital."
In digital camera the two markets perfectly meshed. Kodak was torn between
going digital and sacrificing money on camera film or staying with films and
getting left behind in digital technology. Left undecided it lost in both.
It had to. It did not ask the question "who is my competitor for tomorrow?"
The same was true for IBM whose mainframe revenue prevented it from
seeing the PC. The same was true of Bill Gates who declared "internet is a fad!"
and then turned around to bundle the browser with windows to bury Netscape.
The point is not who is today's competitor. Today's competitor is obvious.
Tomorrow's is not.
In 2008, who was the toughest competitor to British Airways in India?
Singapore airlines? Better still, Indian airlines? Maybe, but there are
better answers. There are competitors that can hurt all these airlines and
others not mentioned. The answer is videoconferencing and telepresence
services of HP and Cisco. Travel dropped due to recession. Senior IT
executives in India and abroad were compelled by their head quarters to
use videoconferencing to shrink travel budget. So much so, that the mad
scramble for American visas from Indian techies was nowhere in sight
in 2008. (Indiahas a quota of something like 65,000 visas to the U.S. They
were going a-begging. Blame it on recession!). So far so good. But to think
that the airlines will be back in business post recession is something I would not
bet on. In short term yes. In long term a resounding no.
Remember, if there is one place where Newton's law of gravity is applicable
besides physics it is in electronic hardware. Between 1977 and 1991 the prices
of the now dead VCR (parent of Blue-Ray disc player) crashed to one-third of its
original level in India. PC's price dropped from hundreds of thousands of rupees
to tens of thousands. If this trend repeats then telepresence prices will also crash.
Imagine the fate of airlines then. As it is not many are makingmoney. Then it will
surely be RIP!
India has two passions. Films and cricket. The two markets were distinctly
different. So were the icons. The cricket gods were Sachin and Sehwag. The
filmi gods were the Khans (Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh Khan and the other Khans
who followed suit). That was, when cricket was fundamentally test cricket or
at best 50 over cricket.
Then came IPL and the two markets collapsed intoone. IPL brought cricket
down to 20 overs. Suddenly an IPL match was reducedto the length of a 3 hour
movie. Cricket became film's competitor. On theeve of IPL matches movie halls
ran empty. Desperate multiplex ownersrequisitioned the rights for screening IPL
matches at movie halls to hang on to the audience. If IPL were to become the
mainstay of cricket, as it is likely to be, films have to sequence their releases so
as not clash with IPL matches. As far as the audience is concerned both are what
in India are called 3 hour "tamasha" (entertainment). Cricket season might push
films out of the market.
Look at the products that vanished from India in the last 20 years. When did
you last see a black and white movie? When did you last use a fountain pen?
When did you last type on a typewriter? The answer for all the above is "I
don't remember!" For some time there was a mild substitute for the
typewriter called electronic typewriter that had limited memory. Then came
the computer and mowed them all. Today most technologically challenged guys
like me use the computer as an upgraded typewriter. Typewriters per se are
nowhere to be seen.
One last illustration. 20 years back what were Indians using to wake them up
in the morning? The answer is "alarm clock." The alarm clock was a monster
made of mechanical springs. It had to be physically keyed every day to keep
it running. It made so much noise by way of alarm, that it woke you up and
the rest of the colony. Then came quartz clocks which were sleeker. They
were much more gentle though still quaintly called "alarms." What do we use
today for waking up in the morning? Cellphone! An entire industry of clocks
disappeared without warning thanks to cell phones. Big watch companies like
Titan were the losers. You never know in which bush your competitor is hiding!
On a lighter vein, who are the competitors for authors? Joke spewing
machines? (Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, himself a Pole, tagged a
Polish joke telling machine to a telephone much to the mirth of Silicon
Valley). Or will the competition be story telling robots? Future is scary!
The boss of an IT company once said something interesting about the animal
called competition. He said "Have breakfast …or…. be breakfast"! That sums
it up rather neatly.
Y. L. R. Moorthi is a professor at the Indian Institute of Management
Bangalore. He is an M.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and a
post graduate in management from IIM, Bangalore.
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DIFFICULT QUESTIONS AND INTELLIGENT ANSWERS!
Question and the Answer given by Candidates ohh sorry, most of them are IAS Officers now.
Q.How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking it?
A.Concrete floors are very hard to crack! (UPSC Topper)
Q.If it took eight men ten hours to build a wall, how long would it take four men to build it?
A. No time at all it is already built. (UPSC 23 Rank Opted for IFS)
Q.If you had three apples and four oranges in one hand and four apples and three oranges in the other hand, what would you have?
A. Very large hands.(Good one) (UPSC 11 Rank Opted for IPS)
Q.. How can you lift an elephant with one hand?
A. It is not a problem, since you will never find! an elephant with one hand. (UPSC Rank 14 Opted for IES)
Q. How can a man go eight days without sleep?
A. No Probs , He sleeps at night. (UPSC IAS Rank 98)
Q. If you throw a red stone into the blue sea what it will become?
A. It will Wet or Sink as simple as that. (UPSC IAS Rank 2)
Q. What looks like half apple ?
A : The other half. (UPSC - IAS Topper )
Q. What can you never eat for breakfast ?
A : Dinner.
Q. What happened when wheel was invented ?
A : It caused a revolution.
Q.. Bay of Bengal is in which state?
A : Liquid (UPSC 33Rank )
Q. How many buckets of water does Pacific Ocean contains?
A : It depends on the size of the bucket. (CA Institute Campus Interview Placement)
Interviewer said 'I shall either ask you ten easy questions or one really difficult question. Think well before you make up your mind!' The boy thought for a while and said, 'my choice is one really difficult question.'
'Well, good luck to you, you have made your own choice! Now tell me this. 'What comes first, Day or Night?'
The boy was jolted into reality as his admission depends on his answer, but he thought for a while and said, 'It's the DAY sir!'
'How' the interviewer asked,
'Sorry sir, you promised me that you will not ask me a SECOND difficult question!'
He was selected for IIM!
"Dont ever be angry on your friends..Bcz at the last moments of our life, we remember not the words of our enemies... but the silence of our F.R.I.E.N.D.. S."
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Some known & unknown facts
MOPED is the short term for 'Motorized Pedaling'.
POP MUSIC is 'Popular Music' shortened.
BUS is the short term for 'Omnibus' that means everybody.
FORTNIGHT comes from 'Fourteen Nights' (Two Weeks).
DRAWING ROOM was actually a 'withdrawing room' where people withdrew after
Dinner. Later the
prefix 'with' was dropped..
NEWS refers to information from Four directions N, E, W and S..
AG-MARK, which some products bear, stems from 'Agricultural Marketing'.
JOURNAL is a diary that tells about 'Journey for a day' during each Day's
business.
QUEUE comes from 'Queen's Quest'. Long back a long row of people as waiting
to see the Queen. Someone made the comment Queen's Quest..
TIPS come from 'To Insure Prompt Service'. In olden days to get Prompt
service from servants in an inn, travelers used to drop coins in a Box on
which was written 'To Insure Prompt Service'. This gave rise to the custom
of Tips.
JEEP is a vehicle with unique Gear system. It was invented during World War
II (1939-1945). It was named 'General Purpose Vehicle (GP)'.GP was changed
into JEEP later.
Interesting Facts * Coca-Cola was originally green.
* The most common name in the world is Mohammed..
* The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start
with.
* The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
* TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on
one row ! of the keyboard.
* Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!
* You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
* It is impossible to lick your elbow.
* People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your
heart stops for a millisecond.
* It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
* The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest
tongue twister in the English language. * If you sneeze too hard, you can
fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood
vessel in your head or neck and die.
* Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from
history.
Spades - King David
Clubs - Alexander the Great,
Hearts - Charlemagne
Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
* If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the
air, the person died in battle.
* If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of
wounds received in battle
* If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural
causes.
* What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser
printers all have in common?
Ans. - All invented by women.
* A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
* A snail can sleep for three years.
* All polar bears are left handed.
* Butterflies taste with their feet.
* Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
* In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
* On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
* Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
* Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
* The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
* The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
* The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to
squirt blood 30 feet.
* Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over
million descendants.
* Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your
ear by 700 times.
* The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
* Most lipstick contains fish scales.
* Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different
=========================
Confidence !
The business executive was deep in debt and could see no way out.
Creditors were closing in on him. Suppliers were demanding payment. He sat on the park bench, head in hands, wondering if anything could save his company from bankruptcy.
Suddenly an old man appeared before him. "I can see that something is troubling you," he said.
After listening to the executive's woes, the old man said, "I believe I can help you."
He asked the man his name, wrote out a check, and pushed it into his hand saying, "Take this money. Meet me here exactly one year from today, and you can pay me back at that time."
Then he turned and disappeared as quickly as he had come.
The business executive saw in his hand a check for $500,000, signed by John D. Rockefeller, then one of the richest men in the world!
"I can erase my money worries in an instant!" he realized. But instead, the executive decided to put the uncashed check in his safe. Just knowing it was there might give him the strength to work out a way to save his business, he thought.
With renewed optimism, he negotiated better deals and extended terms of payment. He closed several big sales. Within a few months, he was out of debt and making money once again.
Exactly one year later, he returned to the park with the uncashed check. At the agreed-upon time, the old man appeared. But just as the executive was about to hand back the check and share his success story, a nurse came running up and grabbed the old man.
"I'm so glad I caught him!" she cried. "I hope he hasn't been bothering you. He's always escaping from the rest home and telling people he's John D. Rockefeller."
And she led the old man away by the arm.
The astonished executive just stood there, stunned. All year long he'd been wheeling and dealing, buying and selling, c onvinced he had half a million dollars behind him.
Suddenly, he realized that it wasn't the money, real or imagined, that had turned his life around. It was his newfound self-confidence that gave him the power to achieve anything he went after.
Who sells the largest number of cameras in India?
Your guess is likely to be Sony, Canon or Nikon.
The correct answer is none of the above. The winner is 'Nokia' whose
main line of business in India is not cameras but cell phones.
Reason being cameras bundled with cellphones are outselling stand alone
cameras. Now, what prevents the cellphone from replacing the camera
outright? Nothing at all.
One can only hope the Sonys and Canons are taking note.
Try this. Who is the biggest in music business in India? You think it is HMV
Sa-Re-Ga-Ma?
Sorry....the answer is Airtel. By selling caller tunes (that playfor 30 seconds)
Airtel makes more than what music companies make by selling music
albums (that run for hours).
Incidentally Airtel is not in music business. It is the mobile service
provider with the largest subscriber base in India. That sort of competitor
is difficult to detect, even more difficult to beat (by the time you have
identified him he has already gone past you). But if you imagine that Nokia
and Bharti (Airtel's parent) are breathing easy you can't be farther from
truth.
Nokia confessed that they all but missed the smartphone bus. They admit
that Apple's Iphone and Google's Android can make life difficult in future.
But you never thought Google was a mobile company, did you?
If these illustrations mean anything, there is a bigger game unfolding. It is not
so much about mobile or music or camera or emails.
The "Mahabharat" (the great Indian epic battle) is about "what is tomorrow's
personal digital device"? Will it be a souped up mobile or a palmtop with a
telephone? All these are little wars that add up to that big battle. Hiding
behind all these wars is a gem of a question – "who is my competitor?"
Once in a while, to intrigue my students I toss a question at them. It says
"What Apple did to Sony, Sony did to Kodak, explain?" The smart ones get the
answer almost immediately. Sony defined its market as audio (music from the
walkman). They never expected an IT company like Apple to encroach into
their audio domain. Come to think of it, is it really surprising? Apple as a
computer maker has both audio and video capabilities. So what made Sony
think he won't compete on pure audio? "Elementary Watson". So also Kodak
defined its business as film cameras, Sony defines its businesses as
"digital."
In digital camera the two markets perfectly meshed. Kodak was torn between
going digital and sacrificing money on camera film or staying with films and
getting left behind in digital technology. Left undecided it lost in both.
It had to. It did not ask the question "who is my competitor for tomorrow?"
The same was true for IBM whose mainframe revenue prevented it from
seeing the PC. The same was true of Bill Gates who declared "internet is a fad!"
and then turned around to bundle the browser with windows to bury Netscape.
The point is not who is today's competitor. Today's competitor is obvious.
Tomorrow's is not.
In 2008, who was the toughest competitor to British Airways in India?
Singapore airlines? Better still, Indian airlines? Maybe, but there are
better answers. There are competitors that can hurt all these airlines and
others not mentioned. The answer is videoconferencing and telepresence
services of HP and Cisco. Travel dropped due to recession. Senior IT
executives in India and abroad were compelled by their head quarters to
use videoconferencing to shrink travel budget. So much so, that the mad
scramble for American visas from Indian techies was nowhere in sight
in 2008. (Indiahas a quota of something like 65,000 visas to the U.S. They
were going a-begging. Blame it on recession!). So far so good. But to think
that the airlines will be back in business post recession is something I would not
bet on. In short term yes. In long term a resounding no.
Remember, if there is one place where Newton's law of gravity is applicable
besides physics it is in electronic hardware. Between 1977 and 1991 the prices
of the now dead VCR (parent of Blue-Ray disc player) crashed to one-third of its
original level in India. PC's price dropped from hundreds of thousands of rupees
to tens of thousands. If this trend repeats then telepresence prices will also crash.
Imagine the fate of airlines then. As it is not many are makingmoney. Then it will
surely be RIP!
India has two passions. Films and cricket. The two markets were distinctly
different. So were the icons. The cricket gods were Sachin and Sehwag. The
filmi gods were the Khans (Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh Khan and the other Khans
who followed suit). That was, when cricket was fundamentally test cricket or
at best 50 over cricket.
Then came IPL and the two markets collapsed intoone. IPL brought cricket
down to 20 overs. Suddenly an IPL match was reducedto the length of a 3 hour
movie. Cricket became film's competitor. On theeve of IPL matches movie halls
ran empty. Desperate multiplex ownersrequisitioned the rights for screening IPL
matches at movie halls to hang on to the audience. If IPL were to become the
mainstay of cricket, as it is likely to be, films have to sequence their releases so
as not clash with IPL matches. As far as the audience is concerned both are what
in India are called 3 hour "tamasha" (entertainment). Cricket season might push
films out of the market.
Look at the products that vanished from India in the last 20 years. When did
you last see a black and white movie? When did you last use a fountain pen?
When did you last type on a typewriter? The answer for all the above is "I
don't remember!" For some time there was a mild substitute for the
typewriter called electronic typewriter that had limited memory. Then came
the computer and mowed them all. Today most technologically challenged guys
like me use the computer as an upgraded typewriter. Typewriters per se are
nowhere to be seen.
One last illustration. 20 years back what were Indians using to wake them up
in the morning? The answer is "alarm clock." The alarm clock was a monster
made of mechanical springs. It had to be physically keyed every day to keep
it running. It made so much noise by way of alarm, that it woke you up and
the rest of the colony. Then came quartz clocks which were sleeker. They
were much more gentle though still quaintly called "alarms." What do we use
today for waking up in the morning? Cellphone! An entire industry of clocks
disappeared without warning thanks to cell phones. Big watch companies like
Titan were the losers. You never know in which bush your competitor is hiding!
On a lighter vein, who are the competitors for authors? Joke spewing
machines? (Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, himself a Pole, tagged a
Polish joke telling machine to a telephone much to the mirth of Silicon
Valley). Or will the competition be story telling robots? Future is scary!
The boss of an IT company once said something interesting about the animal
called competition. He said "Have breakfast …or…. be breakfast"! That sums
it up rather neatly.
Y. L. R. Moorthi is a professor at the Indian Institute of Management
Bangalore. He is an M.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and a
post graduate in management from IIM, Bangalore.
=======================================
DIFFICULT QUESTIONS AND INTELLIGENT ANSWERS!
Question and the Answer given by Candidates ohh sorry, most of them are IAS Officers now.
Q.How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking it?
A.Concrete floors are very hard to crack! (UPSC Topper)
Q.If it took eight men ten hours to build a wall, how long would it take four men to build it?
A. No time at all it is already built. (UPSC 23 Rank Opted for IFS)
Q.If you had three apples and four oranges in one hand and four apples and three oranges in the other hand, what would you have?
A. Very large hands.(Good one) (UPSC 11 Rank Opted for IPS)
Q.. How can you lift an elephant with one hand?
A. It is not a problem, since you will never find! an elephant with one hand. (UPSC Rank 14 Opted for IES)
Q. How can a man go eight days without sleep?
A. No Probs , He sleeps at night. (UPSC IAS Rank 98)
Q. If you throw a red stone into the blue sea what it will become?
A. It will Wet or Sink as simple as that. (UPSC IAS Rank 2)
Q. What looks like half apple ?
A : The other half. (UPSC - IAS Topper )
Q. What can you never eat for breakfast ?
A : Dinner.
Q. What happened when wheel was invented ?
A : It caused a revolution.
Q.. Bay of Bengal is in which state?
A : Liquid (UPSC 33Rank )
Q. How many buckets of water does Pacific Ocean contains?
A : It depends on the size of the bucket. (CA Institute Campus Interview Placement)
Interviewer said 'I shall either ask you ten easy questions or one really difficult question. Think well before you make up your mind!' The boy thought for a while and said, 'my choice is one really difficult question.'
'Well, good luck to you, you have made your own choice! Now tell me this. 'What comes first, Day or Night?'
The boy was jolted into reality as his admission depends on his answer, but he thought for a while and said, 'It's the DAY sir!'
'How' the interviewer asked,
'Sorry sir, you promised me that you will not ask me a SECOND difficult question!'
He was selected for IIM!
"Dont ever be angry on your friends..Bcz at the last moments of our life, we remember not the words of our enemies... but the silence of our F.R.I.E.N.D.. S."
==========================================
Some known & unknown facts
MOPED is the short term for 'Motorized Pedaling'.
POP MUSIC is 'Popular Music' shortened.
BUS is the short term for 'Omnibus' that means everybody.
FORTNIGHT comes from 'Fourteen Nights' (Two Weeks).
DRAWING ROOM was actually a 'withdrawing room' where people withdrew after
Dinner. Later the
prefix 'with' was dropped..
NEWS refers to information from Four directions N, E, W and S..
AG-MARK, which some products bear, stems from 'Agricultural Marketing'.
JOURNAL is a diary that tells about 'Journey for a day' during each Day's
business.
QUEUE comes from 'Queen's Quest'. Long back a long row of people as waiting
to see the Queen. Someone made the comment Queen's Quest..
TIPS come from 'To Insure Prompt Service'. In olden days to get Prompt
service from servants in an inn, travelers used to drop coins in a Box on
which was written 'To Insure Prompt Service'. This gave rise to the custom
of Tips.
JEEP is a vehicle with unique Gear system. It was invented during World War
II (1939-1945). It was named 'General Purpose Vehicle (GP)'.GP was changed
into JEEP later.
Interesting Facts * Coca-Cola was originally green.
* The most common name in the world is Mohammed..
* The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start
with.
* The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
* TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on
one row ! of the keyboard.
* Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!
* You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
* It is impossible to lick your elbow.
* People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your
heart stops for a millisecond.
* It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
* The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest
tongue twister in the English language. * If you sneeze too hard, you can
fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood
vessel in your head or neck and die.
* Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from
history.
Spades - King David
Clubs - Alexander the Great,
Hearts - Charlemagne
Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
* If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the
air, the person died in battle.
* If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of
wounds received in battle
* If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural
causes.
* What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser
printers all have in common?
Ans. - All invented by women.
* A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
* A snail can sleep for three years.
* All polar bears are left handed.
* Butterflies taste with their feet.
* Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
* In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
* On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
* Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
* Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
* The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
* The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
* The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to
squirt blood 30 feet.
* Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over
million descendants.
* Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your
ear by 700 times.
* The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
* Most lipstick contains fish scales.
* Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different
=========================
Confidence !
The business executive was deep in debt and could see no way out.
Creditors were closing in on him. Suppliers were demanding payment. He sat on the park bench, head in hands, wondering if anything could save his company from bankruptcy.
Suddenly an old man appeared before him. "I can see that something is troubling you," he said.
After listening to the executive's woes, the old man said, "I believe I can help you."
He asked the man his name, wrote out a check, and pushed it into his hand saying, "Take this money. Meet me here exactly one year from today, and you can pay me back at that time."
Then he turned and disappeared as quickly as he had come.
The business executive saw in his hand a check for $500,000, signed by John D. Rockefeller, then one of the richest men in the world!
"I can erase my money worries in an instant!" he realized. But instead, the executive decided to put the uncashed check in his safe. Just knowing it was there might give him the strength to work out a way to save his business, he thought.
With renewed optimism, he negotiated better deals and extended terms of payment. He closed several big sales. Within a few months, he was out of debt and making money once again.
Exactly one year later, he returned to the park with the uncashed check. At the agreed-upon time, the old man appeared. But just as the executive was about to hand back the check and share his success story, a nurse came running up and grabbed the old man.
"I'm so glad I caught him!" she cried. "I hope he hasn't been bothering you. He's always escaping from the rest home and telling people he's John D. Rockefeller."
And she led the old man away by the arm.
The astonished executive just stood there, stunned. All year long he'd been wheeling and dealing, buying and selling, c onvinced he had half a million dollars behind him.
Suddenly, he realized that it wasn't the money, real or imagined, that had turned his life around. It was his newfound self-confidence that gave him the power to achieve anything he went after.
Who is doing Real
Management Views from IIM, Bangalore. by Prof. Y.L.R. Moorthy
Who sells the largest number of cameras in India?
Your guess is likely to be Sony, Canon or Nikon.
The correct answer is none of the above. The winner is 'Nokia' whose
main line of business in India is not cameras but cell phones.
Reason being cameras bundled with cellphones are outselling stand alone
cameras. Now, what prevents the cellphone from replacing the camera
outright? Nothing at all.
One can only hope the Sonys and Canons are taking note.
Try this. Who is the biggest in music business in India? You think it is HMV
Sa-Re-Ga-Ma?
Sorry....the answer is Airtel. By selling caller tunes (that playfor 30 seconds)
Airtel makes more than what music companies make by selling music
albums (that run for hours).
Incidentally Airtel is not in music business. It is the mobile service
provider with the largest subscriber base in India. That sort of competitor
is difficult to detect, even more difficult to beat (by the time you have
identified him he has already gone past you). But if you imagine that Nokia
and Bharti (Airtel's parent) are breathing easy you can't be farther from
truth.
Nokia confessed that they all but missed the smartphone bus. They admit
that Apple's Iphone and Google's Android can make life difficult in future.
But you never thought Google was a mobile company, did you?
If these illustrations mean anything, there is a bigger game unfolding. It is not
so much about mobile or music or camera or emails.
The "Mahabharat" (the great Indian epic battle) is about "what is tomorrow's
personal digital device"? Will it be a souped up mobile or a palmtop with a
telephone? All these are little wars that add up to that big battle. Hiding
behind all these wars is a gem of a question – "who is my competitor?"
Once in a while, to intrigue my students I toss a question at them. It says
"What Apple did to Sony, Sony did to Kodak, explain?" The smart ones get the
answer almost immediately. Sony defined its market as audio (music from the
walkman). They never expected an IT company like Apple to encroach into
their audio domain. Come to think of it, is it really surprising? Apple as a
computer maker has both audio and video capabilities. So what made Sony
think he won't compete on pure audio? "Elementary Watson". So also Kodak
defined its business as film cameras, Sony defines its businesses as
"digital."
In digital camera the two markets perfectly meshed. Kodak was torn between
going digital and sacrificing money on camera film or staying with films and
getting left behind in digital technology. Left undecided it lost in both.
It had to. It did not ask the question "who is my competitor for tomorrow?"
The same was true for IBM whose mainframe revenue prevented it from
seeing the PC. The same was true of Bill Gates who declared "internet is a fad!"
and then turned around to bundle the browser with windows to bury Netscape.
The point is not who is today's competitor. Today's competitor is obvious.
Tomorrow's is not.
In 2008, who was the toughest competitor to British Airways in India?
Singapore airlines? Better still, Indian airlines? Maybe, but there are
better answers. There are competitors that can hurt all these airlines and
others not mentioned. The answer is videoconferencing and telepresence
services of HP and Cisco. Travel dropped due to recession. Senior IT
executives in India and abroad were compelled by their head quarters to
use videoconferencing to shrink travel budget. So much so, that the mad
scramble for American visas from Indian techies was nowhere in sight
in 2008. (Indiahas a quota of something like 65,000 visas to the U.S. They
were going a-begging. Blame it on recession!). So far so good. But to think
that the airlines will be back in business post recession is something I would not
bet on. In short term yes. In long term a resounding no.
Remember, if there is one place where Newton's law of gravity is applicable
besides physics it is in electronic hardware. Between 1977 and 1991 the prices
of the now dead VCR (parent of Blue-Ray disc player) crashed to one-third of its
original level in India. PC's price dropped from hundreds of thousands of rupees
to tens of thousands. If this trend repeats then telepresence prices will also crash.
Imagine the fate of airlines then. As it is not many are makingmoney. Then it will
surely be RIP!
India has two passions. Films and cricket. The two markets were distinctly
different. So were the icons. The cricket gods were Sachin and Sehwag. The
filmi gods were the Khans (Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh Khan and the other Khans
who followed suit). That was, when cricket was fundamentally test cricket or
at best 50 over cricket.
Then came IPL and the two markets collapsed intoone. IPL brought cricket
down to 20 overs. Suddenly an IPL match was reducedto the length of a 3 hour
movie. Cricket became film's competitor. On theeve of IPL matches movie halls
ran empty. Desperate multiplex ownersrequisitioned the rights for screening IPL
matches at movie halls to hang on to the audience. If IPL were to become the
mainstay of cricket, as it is likely to be, films have to sequence their releases so
as not clash with IPL matches. As far as the audience is concerned both are what
in India are called 3 hour "tamasha" (entertainment). Cricket season might push
films out of the market.
Look at the products that vanished from India in the last 20 years. When did
you last see a black and white movie? When did you last use a fountain pen?
When did you last type on a typewriter? The answer for all the above is "I
don't remember!" For some time there was a mild substitute for the
typewriter called electronic typewriter that had limited memory. Then came
the computer and mowed them all. Today most technologically challenged guys
like me use the computer as an upgraded typewriter. Typewriters per se are
nowhere to be seen.
One last illustration. 20 years back what were Indians using to wake them up
in the morning? The answer is "alarm clock." The alarm clock was a monster
made of mechanical springs. It had to be physically keyed every day to keep
it running. It made so much noise by way of alarm, that it woke you up and
the rest of the colony. Then came quartz clocks which were sleeker. They
were much more gentle though still quaintly called "alarms." What do we use
today for waking up in the morning? Cellphone! An entire industry of clocks
disappeared without warning thanks to cell phones. Big watch companies like
Titan were the losers. You never know in which bush your competitor is hiding!
On a lighter vein, who are the competitors for authors? Joke spewing
machines? (Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, himself a Pole, tagged a
Polish joke telling machine to a telephone much to the mirth of Silicon
Valley). Or will the competition be story telling robots? Future is scary!
The boss of an IT company once said something interesting about the animal
called competition. He said "Have breakfast …or…. be breakfast"! That sums
it up rather neatly.
Y. L. R. Moorthi is a professor at the Indian Institute of Management
Bangalore. He is an M.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and a
post graduate in management from IIM, Bangalore.
=======================================
DIFFICULT QUESTIONS AND INTELLIGENT ANSWERS!
Question and the Answer given by Candidates ohh sorry, most of them are IAS Officers now.
Q.How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking it?
A.Concrete floors are very hard to crack! (UPSC Topper)
Q.If it took eight men ten hours to build a wall, how long would it take four men to build it?
A. No time at all it is already built. (UPSC 23 Rank Opted for IFS)
Q.If you had three apples and four oranges in one hand and four apples and three oranges in the other hand, what would you have?
A. Very large hands.(Good one) (UPSC 11 Rank Opted for IPS)
Q.. How can you lift an elephant with one hand?
A. It is not a problem, since you will never find! an elephant with one hand. (UPSC Rank 14 Opted for IES)
Q. How can a man go eight days without sleep?
A. No Probs , He sleeps at night. (UPSC IAS Rank 98)
Q. If you throw a red stone into the blue sea what it will become?
A. It will Wet or Sink as simple as that. (UPSC IAS Rank 2)
Q. What looks like half apple ?
A : The other half. (UPSC - IAS Topper )
Q. What can you never eat for breakfast ?
A : Dinner.
Q. What happened when wheel was invented ?
A : It caused a revolution.
Q.. Bay of Bengal is in which state?
A : Liquid (UPSC 33Rank )
Q. How many buckets of water does Pacific Ocean contains?
A : It depends on the size of the bucket. (CA Institute Campus Interview Placement)
Interviewer said 'I shall either ask you ten easy questions or one really difficult question. Think well before you make up your mind!' The boy thought for a while and said, 'my choice is one really difficult question.'
'Well, good luck to you, you have made your own choice! Now tell me this. 'What comes first, Day or Night?'
The boy was jolted into reality as his admission depends on his answer, but he thought for a while and said, 'It's the DAY sir!'
'How' the interviewer asked,
'Sorry sir, you promised me that you will not ask me a SECOND difficult question!'
He was selected for IIM!
"Dont ever be angry on your friends..Bcz at the last moments of our life, we remember not the words of our enemies... but the silence of our F.R.I.E.N.D.. S."
==========================================
Some known & unknown facts
MOPED is the short term for 'Motorized Pedaling'.
POP MUSIC is 'Popular Music' shortened.
BUS is the short term for 'Omnibus' that means everybody.
FORTNIGHT comes from 'Fourteen Nights' (Two Weeks).
DRAWING ROOM was actually a 'withdrawing room' where people withdrew after
Dinner. Later the
prefix 'with' was dropped..
NEWS refers to information from Four directions N, E, W and S..
AG-MARK, which some products bear, stems from 'Agricultural Marketing'.
JOURNAL is a diary that tells about 'Journey for a day' during each Day's
business.
QUEUE comes from 'Queen's Quest'. Long back a long row of people as waiting
to see the Queen. Someone made the comment Queen's Quest..
TIPS come from 'To Insure Prompt Service'. In olden days to get Prompt
service from servants in an inn, travelers used to drop coins in a Box on
which was written 'To Insure Prompt Service'. This gave rise to the custom
of Tips.
JEEP is a vehicle with unique Gear system. It was invented during World War
II (1939-1945). It was named 'General Purpose Vehicle (GP)'.GP was changed
into JEEP later.
Interesting Facts * Coca-Cola was originally green.
* The most common name in the world is Mohammed..
* The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start
with.
* The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
* TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on
one row ! of the keyboard.
* Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!
* You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
* It is impossible to lick your elbow.
* People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your
heart stops for a millisecond.
* It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
* The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest
tongue twister in the English language. * If you sneeze too hard, you can
fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood
vessel in your head or neck and die.
* Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from
history.
Spades - King David
Clubs - Alexander the Great,
Hearts - Charlemagne
Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
* If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the
air, the person died in battle.
* If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of
wounds received in battle
* If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural
causes.
* What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser
printers all have in common?
Ans. - All invented by women.
* A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
* A snail can sleep for three years.
* All polar bears are left handed.
* Butterflies taste with their feet.
* Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
* In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
* On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
* Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
* Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
* The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
* The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
* The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to
squirt blood 30 feet.
* Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over
million descendants.
* Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your
ear by 700 times.
* The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
* Most lipstick contains fish scales.
* Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different
=========================
Confidence !
The business executive was deep in debt and could see no way out.
Creditors were closing in on him. Suppliers were demanding payment. He sat on the park bench, head in hands, wondering if anything could save his company from bankruptcy.
Suddenly an old man appeared before him. "I can see that something is troubling you," he said.
After listening to the executive's woes, the old man said, "I believe I can help you."
He asked the man his name, wrote out a check, and pushed it into his hand saying, "Take this money. Meet me here exactly one year from today, and you can pay me back at that time."
Then he turned and disappeared as quickly as he had come.
The business executive saw in his hand a check for $500,000, signed by John D. Rockefeller, then one of the richest men in the world!
"I can erase my money worries in an instant!" he realized. But instead, the executive decided to put the uncashed check in his safe. Just knowing it was there might give him the strength to work out a way to save his business, he thought.
With renewed optimism, he negotiated better deals and extended terms of payment. He closed several big sales. Within a few months, he was out of debt and making money once again.
Exactly one year later, he returned to the park with the uncashed check. At the agreed-upon time, the old man appeared. But just as the executive was about to hand back the check and share his success story, a nurse came running up and grabbed the old man.
"I'm so glad I caught him!" she cried. "I hope he hasn't been bothering you. He's always escaping from the rest home and telling people he's John D. Rockefeller."
And she led the old man away by the arm.
The astonished executive just stood there, stunned. All year long he'd been wheeling and dealing, buying and selling, c onvinced he had half a million dollars behind him.
Suddenly, he realized that it wasn't the money, real or imagined, that had turned his life around. It was his newfound self-confidence that gave him the power to achieve anything he went after.
Who sells the largest number of cameras in India?
Your guess is likely to be Sony, Canon or Nikon.
The correct answer is none of the above. The winner is 'Nokia' whose
main line of business in India is not cameras but cell phones.
Reason being cameras bundled with cellphones are outselling stand alone
cameras. Now, what prevents the cellphone from replacing the camera
outright? Nothing at all.
One can only hope the Sonys and Canons are taking note.
Try this. Who is the biggest in music business in India? You think it is HMV
Sa-Re-Ga-Ma?
Sorry....the answer is Airtel. By selling caller tunes (that playfor 30 seconds)
Airtel makes more than what music companies make by selling music
albums (that run for hours).
Incidentally Airtel is not in music business. It is the mobile service
provider with the largest subscriber base in India. That sort of competitor
is difficult to detect, even more difficult to beat (by the time you have
identified him he has already gone past you). But if you imagine that Nokia
and Bharti (Airtel's parent) are breathing easy you can't be farther from
truth.
Nokia confessed that they all but missed the smartphone bus. They admit
that Apple's Iphone and Google's Android can make life difficult in future.
But you never thought Google was a mobile company, did you?
If these illustrations mean anything, there is a bigger game unfolding. It is not
so much about mobile or music or camera or emails.
The "Mahabharat" (the great Indian epic battle) is about "what is tomorrow's
personal digital device"? Will it be a souped up mobile or a palmtop with a
telephone? All these are little wars that add up to that big battle. Hiding
behind all these wars is a gem of a question – "who is my competitor?"
Once in a while, to intrigue my students I toss a question at them. It says
"What Apple did to Sony, Sony did to Kodak, explain?" The smart ones get the
answer almost immediately. Sony defined its market as audio (music from the
walkman). They never expected an IT company like Apple to encroach into
their audio domain. Come to think of it, is it really surprising? Apple as a
computer maker has both audio and video capabilities. So what made Sony
think he won't compete on pure audio? "Elementary Watson". So also Kodak
defined its business as film cameras, Sony defines its businesses as
"digital."
In digital camera the two markets perfectly meshed. Kodak was torn between
going digital and sacrificing money on camera film or staying with films and
getting left behind in digital technology. Left undecided it lost in both.
It had to. It did not ask the question "who is my competitor for tomorrow?"
The same was true for IBM whose mainframe revenue prevented it from
seeing the PC. The same was true of Bill Gates who declared "internet is a fad!"
and then turned around to bundle the browser with windows to bury Netscape.
The point is not who is today's competitor. Today's competitor is obvious.
Tomorrow's is not.
In 2008, who was the toughest competitor to British Airways in India?
Singapore airlines? Better still, Indian airlines? Maybe, but there are
better answers. There are competitors that can hurt all these airlines and
others not mentioned. The answer is videoconferencing and telepresence
services of HP and Cisco. Travel dropped due to recession. Senior IT
executives in India and abroad were compelled by their head quarters to
use videoconferencing to shrink travel budget. So much so, that the mad
scramble for American visas from Indian techies was nowhere in sight
in 2008. (Indiahas a quota of something like 65,000 visas to the U.S. They
were going a-begging. Blame it on recession!). So far so good. But to think
that the airlines will be back in business post recession is something I would not
bet on. In short term yes. In long term a resounding no.
Remember, if there is one place where Newton's law of gravity is applicable
besides physics it is in electronic hardware. Between 1977 and 1991 the prices
of the now dead VCR (parent of Blue-Ray disc player) crashed to one-third of its
original level in India. PC's price dropped from hundreds of thousands of rupees
to tens of thousands. If this trend repeats then telepresence prices will also crash.
Imagine the fate of airlines then. As it is not many are makingmoney. Then it will
surely be RIP!
India has two passions. Films and cricket. The two markets were distinctly
different. So were the icons. The cricket gods were Sachin and Sehwag. The
filmi gods were the Khans (Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh Khan and the other Khans
who followed suit). That was, when cricket was fundamentally test cricket or
at best 50 over cricket.
Then came IPL and the two markets collapsed intoone. IPL brought cricket
down to 20 overs. Suddenly an IPL match was reducedto the length of a 3 hour
movie. Cricket became film's competitor. On theeve of IPL matches movie halls
ran empty. Desperate multiplex ownersrequisitioned the rights for screening IPL
matches at movie halls to hang on to the audience. If IPL were to become the
mainstay of cricket, as it is likely to be, films have to sequence their releases so
as not clash with IPL matches. As far as the audience is concerned both are what
in India are called 3 hour "tamasha" (entertainment). Cricket season might push
films out of the market.
Look at the products that vanished from India in the last 20 years. When did
you last see a black and white movie? When did you last use a fountain pen?
When did you last type on a typewriter? The answer for all the above is "I
don't remember!" For some time there was a mild substitute for the
typewriter called electronic typewriter that had limited memory. Then came
the computer and mowed them all. Today most technologically challenged guys
like me use the computer as an upgraded typewriter. Typewriters per se are
nowhere to be seen.
One last illustration. 20 years back what were Indians using to wake them up
in the morning? The answer is "alarm clock." The alarm clock was a monster
made of mechanical springs. It had to be physically keyed every day to keep
it running. It made so much noise by way of alarm, that it woke you up and
the rest of the colony. Then came quartz clocks which were sleeker. They
were much more gentle though still quaintly called "alarms." What do we use
today for waking up in the morning? Cellphone! An entire industry of clocks
disappeared without warning thanks to cell phones. Big watch companies like
Titan were the losers. You never know in which bush your competitor is hiding!
On a lighter vein, who are the competitors for authors? Joke spewing
machines? (Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, himself a Pole, tagged a
Polish joke telling machine to a telephone much to the mirth of Silicon
Valley). Or will the competition be story telling robots? Future is scary!
The boss of an IT company once said something interesting about the animal
called competition. He said "Have breakfast …or…. be breakfast"! That sums
it up rather neatly.
Y. L. R. Moorthi is a professor at the Indian Institute of Management
Bangalore. He is an M.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and a
post graduate in management from IIM, Bangalore.
=======================================
DIFFICULT QUESTIONS AND INTELLIGENT ANSWERS!
Question and the Answer given by Candidates ohh sorry, most of them are IAS Officers now.
Q.How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking it?
A.Concrete floors are very hard to crack! (UPSC Topper)
Q.If it took eight men ten hours to build a wall, how long would it take four men to build it?
A. No time at all it is already built. (UPSC 23 Rank Opted for IFS)
Q.If you had three apples and four oranges in one hand and four apples and three oranges in the other hand, what would you have?
A. Very large hands.(Good one) (UPSC 11 Rank Opted for IPS)
Q.. How can you lift an elephant with one hand?
A. It is not a problem, since you will never find! an elephant with one hand. (UPSC Rank 14 Opted for IES)
Q. How can a man go eight days without sleep?
A. No Probs , He sleeps at night. (UPSC IAS Rank 98)
Q. If you throw a red stone into the blue sea what it will become?
A. It will Wet or Sink as simple as that. (UPSC IAS Rank 2)
Q. What looks like half apple ?
A : The other half. (UPSC - IAS Topper )
Q. What can you never eat for breakfast ?
A : Dinner.
Q. What happened when wheel was invented ?
A : It caused a revolution.
Q.. Bay of Bengal is in which state?
A : Liquid (UPSC 33Rank )
Q. How many buckets of water does Pacific Ocean contains?
A : It depends on the size of the bucket. (CA Institute Campus Interview Placement)
Interviewer said 'I shall either ask you ten easy questions or one really difficult question. Think well before you make up your mind!' The boy thought for a while and said, 'my choice is one really difficult question.'
'Well, good luck to you, you have made your own choice! Now tell me this. 'What comes first, Day or Night?'
The boy was jolted into reality as his admission depends on his answer, but he thought for a while and said, 'It's the DAY sir!'
'How' the interviewer asked,
'Sorry sir, you promised me that you will not ask me a SECOND difficult question!'
He was selected for IIM!
"Dont ever be angry on your friends..Bcz at the last moments of our life, we remember not the words of our enemies... but the silence of our F.R.I.E.N.D.. S."
==========================================
Some known & unknown facts
MOPED is the short term for 'Motorized Pedaling'.
POP MUSIC is 'Popular Music' shortened.
BUS is the short term for 'Omnibus' that means everybody.
FORTNIGHT comes from 'Fourteen Nights' (Two Weeks).
DRAWING ROOM was actually a 'withdrawing room' where people withdrew after
Dinner. Later the
prefix 'with' was dropped..
NEWS refers to information from Four directions N, E, W and S..
AG-MARK, which some products bear, stems from 'Agricultural Marketing'.
JOURNAL is a diary that tells about 'Journey for a day' during each Day's
business.
QUEUE comes from 'Queen's Quest'. Long back a long row of people as waiting
to see the Queen. Someone made the comment Queen's Quest..
TIPS come from 'To Insure Prompt Service'. In olden days to get Prompt
service from servants in an inn, travelers used to drop coins in a Box on
which was written 'To Insure Prompt Service'. This gave rise to the custom
of Tips.
JEEP is a vehicle with unique Gear system. It was invented during World War
II (1939-1945). It was named 'General Purpose Vehicle (GP)'.GP was changed
into JEEP later.
Interesting Facts * Coca-Cola was originally green.
* The most common name in the world is Mohammed..
* The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start
with.
* The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
* TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on
one row ! of the keyboard.
* Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!
* You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
* It is impossible to lick your elbow.
* People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your
heart stops for a millisecond.
* It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
* The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest
tongue twister in the English language. * If you sneeze too hard, you can
fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood
vessel in your head or neck and die.
* Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from
history.
Spades - King David
Clubs - Alexander the Great,
Hearts - Charlemagne
Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
* If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the
air, the person died in battle.
* If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of
wounds received in battle
* If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural
causes.
* What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser
printers all have in common?
Ans. - All invented by women.
* A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
* A snail can sleep for three years.
* All polar bears are left handed.
* Butterflies taste with their feet.
* Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
* In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
* On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
* Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
* Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
* The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
* The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
* The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to
squirt blood 30 feet.
* Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over
million descendants.
* Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your
ear by 700 times.
* The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
* Most lipstick contains fish scales.
* Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different
=========================
Confidence !
The business executive was deep in debt and could see no way out.
Creditors were closing in on him. Suppliers were demanding payment. He sat on the park bench, head in hands, wondering if anything could save his company from bankruptcy.
Suddenly an old man appeared before him. "I can see that something is troubling you," he said.
After listening to the executive's woes, the old man said, "I believe I can help you."
He asked the man his name, wrote out a check, and pushed it into his hand saying, "Take this money. Meet me here exactly one year from today, and you can pay me back at that time."
Then he turned and disappeared as quickly as he had come.
The business executive saw in his hand a check for $500,000, signed by John D. Rockefeller, then one of the richest men in the world!
"I can erase my money worries in an instant!" he realized. But instead, the executive decided to put the uncashed check in his safe. Just knowing it was there might give him the strength to work out a way to save his business, he thought.
With renewed optimism, he negotiated better deals and extended terms of payment. He closed several big sales. Within a few months, he was out of debt and making money once again.
Exactly one year later, he returned to the park with the uncashed check. At the agreed-upon time, the old man appeared. But just as the executive was about to hand back the check and share his success story, a nurse came running up and grabbed the old man.
"I'm so glad I caught him!" she cried. "I hope he hasn't been bothering you. He's always escaping from the rest home and telling people he's John D. Rockefeller."
And she led the old man away by the arm.
The astonished executive just stood there, stunned. All year long he'd been wheeling and dealing, buying and selling, c onvinced he had half a million dollars behind him.
Suddenly, he realized that it wasn't the money, real or imagined, that had turned his life around. It was his newfound self-confidence that gave him the power to achieve anything he went after.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Distribution of 1 million copies of Vishnusahasranamavali books to devotees
I have got an inspiration from the story of Vishnu Sahasranamavali in Sai Satcharitra where in baba gave Vishnu sahasranamavali book to Shyama taking it from Ramadasi. Baba has told Shyama that it is a very powerful book. I have been inspired and got an idea to distribute 1 million copies of Vishnusahasranamavali to various devotees in India to various mandirs and Sai Mandirs and other mandirs in 90th anniversary of Saibaba. We will bwe getting the books from Gita Press Gorakhpur. To start with I have decided to focus in Andhra Pradesh and Telugu Vishnu Sahasranamavali book code 911 of Gita Press costs 1 rupee. The same in Hindi/Tamil/Gujarati etc. costs 2 rupees. we get 15% discount for orders placed over 6,000 rupees and free transportation to destination. say some one places orders for 6000 rupees he will pay 5100 rupees and books will be delivered free to the place of destination in India from Gorakhpur. He can get 3000 books of Vishnu
Sahasranamavali in Hindi/Gujarati/ Tamil/Marathi/Bengali or 6000 books in Telugu to his place of choice.It costs $106 US dollars or 5100 rupees. he can then donate if he has some one at his place. The program started in December 3rd week and 48,000 copies in Telugu have been sent to various places in Andhra Pradesh and distributed. We are getting around 1,50,000 copies in Telugu to Hyderabad and will try to find funds and distribute in various temples. Any one can join by bringing a place of distribution or donation. Money can be sent to Gita Press Gorkhpur directly and ask them to transfer the money to Hyderabad office address for vishnu sahsranamavali books or to respective offices like Surat for Gujarat Bangalore for Karnataka Chennai for Tamil Nadu etc., They can also send money to Hyderabad office address of Gita Press office or to Mr. N. Poornanadam of Sai Annadanakshetram for sending handing over money to Gita Press Gorakhpur office in Hyderabad.
Mr. N. Poornandam uncle is from Sai Annadana Kshetram Kukutpally Hyderabad who are doing Annadanam every Thursday to 3000 devotees at Kukutpally Hyderabad. I will do the coordination with publisher as well as Hyderabad office and the distribution centres for despatch. Details of books sent to various places will be compiled and published. We need help from different devotees in Canada/USA/India in completing the project and helping in distribution.
Distribution of 1 million copies of Vishnusahasranamavali books to devotees:::Let us all become a part of this noble deed
Details of Gita Press::
The web site address of Gita Press Gorakhpur is www.gitapress.org
They are located in Gorakhpur Uttarapradesh near Varanasi. The contact person names are Mr. Badri Agarwal Owner and Mr. Tripathiji is in charge of Sales. Phone no's are 0551-2333030/2334721 extn 250/251 and ph 2331250
Email address is booksales@gitapress.org and online@gitapress.org. If any one is sending money to them let them for Vishnu Sahasranmavali project let them send me a copy of mail so that I will coordinate for deliveries. For Telugu Copies they have to ask them to transfer the amount to their Hyderabad office. Gita Press has State Bank of India Account.
Address is State Bank Of India Bank Road Gorakhpur. Name of Account Gita Press Gorakhpur. Branch Code 86 A/C No. 011077939733. Swift Code is
SBI NIN BB497. Let them also verify once again with them. Gita Press Hyderabad Branch address is Gitapress Gorakhpurki Pustak Dukan 41, 4-4-1,
Dilshad Plaza, Sultan Bazar Hyderabad 500096 Ph 040-66758311/040-24758311.
Name of the person Manoj Kumar. He can not take foreign exchange directly and can take only cash/Cheque in India in the name of Gita Press. The other person I have given details is Mr. Nerella Poornandam Uncle of Sai Annadana Kshetram Hyderabad and he is handing over cash to Hyderabad office. Sai Annadana Kshetram is in Hyderabad (Kukutpally) and is in Sai Service for last 3 decades and I am associated with them for last 10 years.
Mr.Nerella Poornandam ICICI Bank Account No 004001536362 Madhapur Branch Hyderabad. Uncle's phone no. 040 23151313. cell no 9949094272.
Please feel free to ask any queries.
Regards
Ramesh Nagisetty ( 001-647-344-6394)
nagisettyramesh@yahoo.ca
PS::Kindly forward this email to all your friends who might wish to be a part of this spiritual deed
Sahasranamavali in Hindi/Gujarati/ Tamil/Marathi/Bengali or 6000 books in Telugu to his place of choice.It costs $106 US dollars or 5100 rupees. he can then donate if he has some one at his place. The program started in December 3rd week and 48,000 copies in Telugu have been sent to various places in Andhra Pradesh and distributed. We are getting around 1,50,000 copies in Telugu to Hyderabad and will try to find funds and distribute in various temples. Any one can join by bringing a place of distribution or donation. Money can be sent to Gita Press Gorkhpur directly and ask them to transfer the money to Hyderabad office address for vishnu sahsranamavali books or to respective offices like Surat for Gujarat Bangalore for Karnataka Chennai for Tamil Nadu etc., They can also send money to Hyderabad office address of Gita Press office or to Mr. N. Poornanadam of Sai Annadanakshetram for sending handing over money to Gita Press Gorakhpur office in Hyderabad.
Mr. N. Poornandam uncle is from Sai Annadana Kshetram Kukutpally Hyderabad who are doing Annadanam every Thursday to 3000 devotees at Kukutpally Hyderabad. I will do the coordination with publisher as well as Hyderabad office and the distribution centres for despatch. Details of books sent to various places will be compiled and published. We need help from different devotees in Canada/USA/India in completing the project and helping in distribution.
Distribution of 1 million copies of Vishnusahasranamavali books to devotees:::Let us all become a part of this noble deed
Details of Gita Press::
The web site address of Gita Press Gorakhpur is www.gitapress.org
They are located in Gorakhpur Uttarapradesh near Varanasi. The contact person names are Mr. Badri Agarwal Owner and Mr. Tripathiji is in charge of Sales. Phone no's are 0551-2333030/2334721 extn 250/251 and ph 2331250
Email address is booksales@gitapress.org and online@gitapress.org. If any one is sending money to them let them for Vishnu Sahasranmavali project let them send me a copy of mail so that I will coordinate for deliveries. For Telugu Copies they have to ask them to transfer the amount to their Hyderabad office. Gita Press has State Bank of India Account.
Address is State Bank Of India Bank Road Gorakhpur. Name of Account Gita Press Gorakhpur. Branch Code 86 A/C No. 011077939733. Swift Code is
SBI NIN BB497. Let them also verify once again with them. Gita Press Hyderabad Branch address is Gitapress Gorakhpurki Pustak Dukan 41, 4-4-1,
Dilshad Plaza, Sultan Bazar Hyderabad 500096 Ph 040-66758311/040-24758311.
Name of the person Manoj Kumar. He can not take foreign exchange directly and can take only cash/Cheque in India in the name of Gita Press. The other person I have given details is Mr. Nerella Poornandam Uncle of Sai Annadana Kshetram Hyderabad and he is handing over cash to Hyderabad office. Sai Annadana Kshetram is in Hyderabad (Kukutpally) and is in Sai Service for last 3 decades and I am associated with them for last 10 years.
Mr.Nerella Poornandam ICICI Bank Account No 004001536362 Madhapur Branch Hyderabad. Uncle's phone no. 040 23151313. cell no 9949094272.
Please feel free to ask any queries.
Regards
Ramesh Nagisetty ( 001-647-344-6394)
nagisettyramesh@yahoo.ca
PS::Kindly forward this email to all your friends who might wish to be a part of this spiritual deed
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
"Reham Najar Karo" Sai Bhajan
Reham Najar Karo Bhajan
This wonderful Sai Bhajan was created long back by Dasganu Maharaj when Sai Baba was in flesh. The complete story how this bhajan was written has already been posted on Shirdi Sai Baba Life Teachings and Stories blog. I request readers to please follow the link to navigate on story page.
http://shirdisaibabamp3.blogspot.com/2009/01/reham-najar-karo-bhajan-video.html
In the Service of Lord Sainath
SaiSevak SrinivasaRao Kasturi
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This wonderful Sai Bhajan was created long back by Dasganu Maharaj when Sai Baba was in flesh. The complete story how this bhajan was written has already been posted on Shirdi Sai Baba Life Teachings and Stories blog. I request readers to please follow the link to navigate on story page.
http://shirdisaibabamp3.blogspot.com/2009/01/reham-najar-karo-bhajan-video.html
In the Service of Lord Sainath
SaiSevak SrinivasaRao Kasturi
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Flash Animation of Shirdi Sai Baba
Dear Sai Readers,
I found this awesome flash animation of Shirdi Sai Baba on internet and thought to share with you all.
Please click
http://experienceswithshirdisaibaba.blogspot.com/2009/01/flash-animation-of-shirdi-sai-baba.html
Sai Dhun playing in the background makes one's heart swaying in Divine love for Sai Baba. Twinkling coloured lights in Baba's right Holy Foot produces an electric effect.
It is created by Thugs Studios and hosted by www.shirdibaba. org.
SaiSevak SrinivasaRao Kasturi
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I found this awesome flash animation of Shirdi Sai Baba on internet and thought to share with you all.
Please click
http://experienceswithshirdisaibaba.blogspot.com/2009/01/flash-animation-of-shirdi-sai-baba.html
Sai Dhun playing in the background makes one's heart swaying in Divine love for Sai Baba. Twinkling coloured lights in Baba's right Holy Foot produces an electric effect.
It is created by Thugs Studios and hosted by www.shirdibaba. org.
SaiSevak SrinivasaRao Kasturi
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Thursday, January 1, 2009
Friday, November 21, 2008
About myself
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