Health Money and Love

My perceptions change every minute I spend on this earth. I don’t know whether this happens to me or this is the case with everybody.
The last week was a real eye opener for me. I suffered from tonsillitis, sore throat; cold and finally allergy which made me go all red (btw it’s still not over). For my tonsillitis I went to one of the plush hospitals who charge an exorbitant amount as their fees and when I thought that it is over, I found it has just started coz the chemist produced even a bigger bill. That day I realized how could a poor man afford all this? The final shock came when I saw a very badly burnt guy being taken to the ICU….. So is money the biggest thing in life? Not really, I guess its good Health. Some think that health can be bought by money, yes if you want to believe in that, but what about those who are born with a disease that has got no cure? If money is that important what about those who are stinking rich but do not have parents? What’s the use of coming back home from a tiring day and find nobody home to greet you? What’s the use of so much money when one day we all are going to have “swargiya” in front of our name…? I am not questioning the “striving nature” of anybody but what I am saying is that life is short. Love, health and friendship: the intangibles have got greater value in our lives than the most tangible stuff: i.e. money. I don’t say don’t have a passion (jazba) to become something but while travelling the path to your destination, value the intangibles as much, if not more than the tangibles because when we all reach the death bed our last wish would not be to be buried with all the money in the world but to spend the last few minutes with someone we love and we will want somebody to remember us when we are gone.
I am not a firm believer of God, but then with each passing day (in the last week) my faith in God has grown and I find myself thanking god for whatever I have. This entry in my blog has used the least number of backspaces and deletes, comes out of no intention to be grammatically correct or to produce any amount of literary delight, but is written to question the morals and beliefs which we follow without thinking . We keep on cribbing for the extra 1 lakh in the CTC, the 0.5 or 1 mark extra which could have us landed in a different course(perceived to be better by some), and the JP Morgan’s and the HUL’S. But it’s only when we sit in the general ward in a hospital see people suffer and makes us realize the ailment we have is a “bacha”, and immediately thank god for our life. We realize the value of a leaking roof only when we see somebody with no roof on his/her head. We crib about not having a DVD player until we see someone without eyes. We crib about not having the latest mobile phone until we see somebody who is deaf and we crib about not having a pair of Nike shoes until we see someone without legs. Now again the same question is it all about money? I would have written granths on this stuff but would love to make this discussion more personal, so please all of you reading this are requested to meet me at the coffee table sometime, I guess it would be more than the coffees worth to come out as a different person.

Deadly Racist Cycle

This blog entry just came out after listening to the new song of the movie “Singh is Kinng”…The lines were like “Ek colour ke 13 patte lekin sab mein bas ek king”

What is a Leader without his followers? What is a King without his pupils? What is a CAT 100% scorer without the other 1, 99,999 (Maybe more than that) people who couldn’t crack the same. Actually everyone is unique in this society but we all have a habit of demeaning the position of others; Talking about demeaning, I think of racism. It’s a very popular word among us Indians, according to us most of the people (outside the boundaries of our motherland) are totally racist, but it’s we who have perceptions about every culture in our multicultural society. Forget cultures think about colleges, courses, schools etc. How many times have we heard he is pass out of DPS, he must be good …no offence made to all DPSites but I find it funny because over the past 12 months in Global Business I learned not to have preconceived notions about any person in this multicultural society. I don’t know how being from a particular college or a course will mean I am worthless or worth my metal. Although this school of thought cannot be dismissed totally but it is flawed, It’s the newspapers which fuel the demand for MBA courses by posting only the Rs 1 Crore packages that are given to fresh graduates of a leading B School, but then why is everybody expected to earn that amount;

All the above random thoughts come to me over a piece of music which emphasizes the fact that u need to be a King in this society, Actually the thing is its not what u see yourself as, its how the society sees you as; So I try to make an image of mine in which I try to balance my own interests and also that of the societies, so there is confused positioning of my image. Actually at this point only branding can help for the unbranded people; so the best way is to join an IIM or an IIT so the image the society has of you changes and they have an aspirational value for you and they are willing to pay for you much more than what you are worth of. But joining such an institution may lead to increased expectations on your side and maybe having a higher view of yourself and hence demeaning other people leading to racism. So a prey of racism becomes a racist….

Actual Expected and What???

Branding, Quality, Methodologies, Process improvements Rebranding Total Quality Management, learn unlearn and relearn, Learning Curve, Productivity enhancement etc…

We as managers use rather abuse each and every term from the above list without fail, but yeah we do it in the Global context; But do these actually hold true or are they some words out of the fantasy land, Well I learned in my short stay in Delhi that Harry potter may exist but these concepts are more academic than in reality…………..

My recent experience with a leading bank (which has just spend some millions of Rupees on rebranding) is really worth mentioning.

I landed up one fine day to close my account in the bank at 12:20 pm. I could see four people seated in a 2000 square feet of area each wearing spectacles with lenses (two inches (radius)), but all these people never use there glasses and have a habit of surpassing the big obstacle in front of their eyes by turning their face 135 degree from the vertical axis. Also I read a board, which mentioned, “ We are a bank with a goal of providing continuous customer satisfaction through Total Quality management and process improvisation”

Time: 12:20 pm

12:20 is actually close to the 1:00 break and already the decreased productivity level was evident. They delayed me enough through their super vertical hierarchy to make the clock race another 180 degree and since now it was 12:50, they close for lunch. I on the contrary had very high hopes expecting them to come by 1:30; somehow managed to wait for 40 minutes; but then afternoon siestas are never less than an hour long (A corporate lesson for me). On continuous nagging and repeatedly insisting that I am an MBA( haha) I could get the work done with 75% more efficiency; I would have left much before but each passing moment you calculate the time you invested and the return you get so it gets even more difficult to leave without the completion of your work ( Indian attitude chal na 2 ghante wait kiya adha aur sahi)

Time: 3:00 pm

I could manage to get them and pass through their super vertical hierarchy only in another two hours, finally I got 3000 Rs from the bank and you know what I really felt I have earned my money again

SO I guess that is what Earn, Unearn and Reearn means…..

Who says mario is just a game????

The world is a place where we have multiple dimensions but its funny how a two dimensional game like Mario has a lot of similarities with our life. Some very sad but true.
First of all we start very small, only in some versions (or rather in real life in case of some people) we start big but that does not mean we will not become small as we proceed in life. We always have choices to grow big in life but not that easily, we will have to bang our head on the wall for it. Life is short and we have limited time, though we may have multiple lives synonymous to multiple personalities and phases. When we grow big, big enough to get guns, we wear a mask, a different outfit to differentiate ourselves. Whenever we get our princess, always we find that she is not the right person ,the real princess is elsewhere. We may buy lives with coins and money but we cannot buy time. To grow we have to jump on top of people (a very sad but true thing which we cannot deny). Some people from the top throw their troubles on to the people at the bottom who suffer because of them, these troubles are very difficult to tackle and only way to get rid of them is to wear different outfit i.e. butter the people at the top. One ups in life are very difficult to find, always hidden somewhere. Most importantly we always travel alone in life but we always have options , to reach the goal is very important but the pleasure of living just like playing the game should be savored every second every minute because life is really short!!

Reversology???

Life is very predictable if we look at the time frames in particular, born brought up married ....... what if it would have been the other way round. First of all we would be born old, have all the problems, and hence learn to appreciate the value of good health and sanity. Then we would become younger and see our spouse become younger too, in the process appreciate beauty (at least physical). Then we would unmarry to decrease familiarity with one and increase with many, and finally would become a child to relish things one could not have done as a grown up. Won’t we look forward for the next day and appreciate life more???

So u r leaving???????

One of my friends got a job with a leading company in her domain. She gave resignation the very next day in her present company, only to find the exit procedure much more complicated than the entry. So here goes a few lines for her organization.......... hope all the cos are listening.....

A recent article just stated that the "alumni" of an organization is becoming one of the biggest assets it has, gone are the days when the person leaving the organization would leave with much resentment towards the organization, and the person was treated as an imposter. The organizations are much more concerned of the image these employees would take into the market, and what would be the long term implications of sending off an employee unsatisfied. The employees too nowadays look for organizations that don't only employ them but make them "employable".

Most of the organizations that fail in the long run mostly cringe about the fact that some employee is leaving, rather than finding out the reason for his/her decision. It is said that success is not much of an experience because when you succeed you don’t know what could have gone wrong, but failure is an experience because you actually know what went wrong.
Its high time many organizations start having a culture which is not only a result of the few top managers, but what the organization wants to portray. Many times different departments have different cultures in an organization, which defies the concept of an organization itself.

The Human Resource department previously considered as a liability is becoming one of the most important departments in the organizations today because it is not only an entry point but also the exit for the employees. A good HR department is required to work throughout and no only at the time of recruitments and appraisals. The relationship with an employee is not only related to "money" nowadays and has many other inputs which normally are ignored by the HR department and the organization leading to higher attrition.