tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48045494649159710822023-11-15T10:15:55.487-08:00My BlogsTathastuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16750069870079092715noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4804549464915971082.post-16393186903444596832014-04-28T23:37:00.001-07:002014-04-28T23:37:09.711-07:00Lost Love<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Good Old Days Case 1: A small kid , innocence personified from his face, sitting on the rod of his father's bicycle in the hot sun at the railway crossing, waits for minutes for train to arrive. The train arrives, very anxiously moves his head left to right, either trying to read the train start and destination station, or trying to count the number of coaches the engine is pulling. He loves it.<br />
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New Generation Case 1: A unhappy man , stressed visible on face, stand at the railway crossing in his air conditioned car, soft music being played on the high class ( you may read cost!) music player, waits impatiently for the train to arrive. Every second increases the stress level, watches time every second (as if that will make train come fast). Train arrives and he is irritated by the sound produced by the train passing by. He is more irritated, angry at fellow overtaking him once the railway crossing is opened.<br />
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Good Old Days Case 2: Small Kid reaches school and finds that his friend has not been able to do the home work. It is the same friend who stands second on the class. He knows if he finishes home work, then this kid will loose his rank. Small kids, shares his notes and asks him to copy the homework from his note book. Heart of both is filled with love. No hatred, no ill feeling. Both smiles, teacher appreciates both.<br />
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New Generation Case 2: A man is working on important assignment and is stuck on one problem. Unhappy man (His friend ) who has been with him in all official ceremonies, meetings knows how to get him out of it. Unhappy man does not help him, because he knows that if man finishes his work, then he will get a promotion, a higher salary and lot of benefits. At the end, unhappy man does not get anything, man looses his promotion. Both hates each other but always shows love ( I call it fake love) towards each other.<br />
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Scenario like this is so common in today's world. Today people who have life in them are not connected to each other through any of the five senses. They need a medium like phone, email or an application to connect. Today we find and seek for definition of love , but in good old days we just exhibited and shared love.<br />
Love a feeling is lost in our generation. I ask you all to define what is love. So answer might be "to be happy". So can we be happy, by having more money, more appreciation, more promotions or just enjoying a small thing like a smile on your face, your colleagues face or your relatives face.<br />
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Let us bring those old days back. Let us start from within our self. Let the happiness , love and smile be shared.<br />
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We have often associated nature with Mother. "Mother Nature" is a very commonly used word by most of us or at least would have been heard by many of us. Have you ever thought the similarities nature has with our lifestyle. Have you ever wonder what messages nature gives to all of us.<br />
Well, look at some of the messages given by mother nature to all of us.<br />
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1. <b>Never pay attention to criticism </b> "Why does it have to rain now"? "Oh Hell, this is too hot a weather to go for shopping"? These are common statements heard by you. But Mother nature does not pay attention to these words. It does it work. It know what is best for environment, what is best to keep the balance in our environment.<br />
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2.<b> Give back and help others:</b> A flower is born after a seed is placed inside the mother nature's womb. When the flower is born and grown , it works and produces a beauty. Moment you look at it, you get a smile on your face and you feel good. When flower starts producing nectar,it is supplied to honey bee as food. So what does flower have to do with nectar. It produces it and serves it to the honey bees.<br />
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3, <b>Do not hate and always love all:</b> Have you ever seen trees, rivers , fruits or flowers fighting with each other. They are all splendid in what they do, how they stand and they are firm. Even if there are two rivers meeting at one point, they flow silently after the meeting and always stay together.<br />
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4.<b> Stand firm:</b> Mountains, Trees teaches us to be firm in our standing. They say "Stand tall but yet be grounded" . No matter how high you grow, but keep your feets firm on the ground.<br />
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Whenever we think of Indian people and their contribution to science and technologies, first few names which comes to our mind are:<br />
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<li>C V Raman</li>
<li>Srinivasa Ramanujan</li>
<li>Homi Jehangir Bhabha</li>
<li>Jagdish Chandra Bose</li>
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And the list goes on. These people made us proud with their work and we still feel proud that we are born in a country which has produced people like above. So what is happening with the work , technology, development, goal they have set for India. Do we still feel proud of the work our country does or is doing?<br />
Yes, We do.<br />
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Sadly, I somehow feel that we did not do justice to the work these great people have done. We did not take our country to the next level from the place they have left our country at. Here I am giving one real life story ( which I personally experienced, and me feel sad).<br />
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I will start with the little description about Vigyan Prasar<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>( taken from their website)</b></span></span><br />
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<a class="links" href="http://www.vigyanprasar.gov.in/sitenew/" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Vigyan Prasar (VP)</a>, an autonomous organisation under the Department of Science an Technology, Government of India, was set up in 1989 to take on large-scale science and technology popularisation tasks. Vigyan Prasar aims to promote and propagate - as widely as possible - a scientific and rational outlook in the society. Its broad objectives include :</div>
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Okay so now the story starts..<br />
My kids comes to me and says that he/she wants a book. As a technology person, I immediately check for the book on the online sites. It was not available on any of the leading book site or online stores. I then came across Vigyan Prasar site, which had this book available. It really made me feel proud that our technology team has book which talks about our values.<br />
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I was even more surprised to find that a site which comes under Government of India had an online ordering facility available. I immediately ordered the book and felt proud that we have advanced in technology. I boasted about my work to my kids saying that they will get book in 2-3 days ( this is what all online sites commits and delivers).<br />
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After one month , I am still following up with Vigyan Prasar for the book and shocking things got revealed to me, which I am bullet point doing. i have no intentions of hurting sentiments of anybody. I feel that people managing this should either do it properly or stop doing it. Following are some of the findings:<br />
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<li>It takes around 15-20 days for the fastest delivery to happen.</li>
<li>With technology being used, still the manual approval ( file movement - a typical indian working (non working style)</li>
<li>When I called, the site, I was told that I should not have ordered online as it is Government organization and hence would take its own time.</li>
<li>Money is already been taken by me.</li>
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So do you think that we should have sites like these available online. Go and check for big names available under contact us ( all scientist) and ... I feel ashamed to be part of such government. This is the government which is running the largest democracy of the world.</div>
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Democracy - Of the People, for the people, by the people...</div>
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Let me take you back to some 20+ years ago( I would call this as early days for ease of understanding) , when computers , software, software job were the buzz word. Anyone knowing computers and software was called techie( Today the definition of techie has changed). Software jobs were much in demand. Customers were all looking for implementing, upgrading and changing the software /hardware system. Competition was growing and so was business. During those days, I heard these lines , "Customer is King". </div>
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It just stuck to my mind, to travel back to early days and find out how this "King" has evolved or changed with time. I am using top 3 things which comes to my mind.</div>
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<b>Customer : Collaboration</b></div>
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- In early days : Customer (Business and IT) were all really charged up for results using software and hence they collaborated well with vendors and results were great.</div>
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- Now: Today also Customer collaborate, and results matter. What does not matter is which solution you are using. This has given rise to easy excuse of not using /the software solution.</div>
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- In early days : Customer had trust on Vendor. any vendor on customer site was treated as expert and even if he did not understand a small part of business, it was okay with customer. Vendor also trusted on customer and hence was more open to try new things for customer solutions.</div>
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- Now: Today both customer and vendor has lost trust in each other ( although the projection given is as the best trust bond). As a result customer is not ready to invest time and expect vendor to know everything of the business. This also stops vendor from trying new thing, as they think customer may deny this or worst may not even pay for this.</div>
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<b>Customer :Vendor: Time of Delivery</b></div>
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- In early days : Time of delivery was not the hanging sword for the vendor or customer. Both customer and vendor could spend some time and find the best suited solution for challenge or opportunity for the customer.</div>
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- Now: Even before the scope is finalized the date of delivery is fixed. Solution has to be delivered at the date of delivery agreed.</div>
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I am sure every one with around 15 or more years of experience would have seen changing face of a customer - vendor relationship. These are my personal thoughts and are not directed towards a customer or a vendor specifically. Idea here is to analyse, gather ( from other people's comments) and then apply in our lives.</div>
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A little distance away from my house is a crossroad. A cross road which connects roads from four different direction. Although it is not a main traffic road but lot of people move around in the colony using that road as center. We in India call these junction, where four roads unites as Choraha. For simplicity of our readers I will use the word cross road. This cross road has a steady flow of people, cycle rickshaw, school Vans, rag pickers and many other forms of commuting or transport vehicle.<br />
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I woke up on 1st April 2013, and found lot of candles being lit right in center of the cross road. There was prasad ( a sweet offered to god and distributed among devotees), puris (Indian Bread) which was kept right in center of that cross road. There was enough food for at least 20-25 hungry people lying on the road. This is done as one of the process to offerings to God. I saw a dog came to eat some of the food and it was kicked by some of the devotees. True but SAD. God and Religion is not more than living beings, may it be human, animals or plants. I am writing this not to hurt sentiments of people or religion but making them realize.<br />
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Probably those 3-4 rag pickers could have been offered that food and it would have added to the humanity score of those people. Which religion or God does ask us to throw food and now offer to some one in need. We have so many people dying of hunger and our religion, devotion to god make us do things, which does not makes sense (at least to me and many others). When I looked into the eyes of those rag pickers, I felt them saying this.<br />
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"Why god we are born with so less to eat and why is that all this food is just wasted. We wish we could have been like this. If In future by any chance I will become like them, i will probably give this food to some one in need".<br />
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What happened to the food and those candles was that it got crushed under the wheels of traffic, under school vans, under cars of people going to office.<br />
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I am not being atheist, but would like people to read this and start thinking in different way. We ( all those who luckily can afford food) run behind our kids to make sure that they are fed even if kid may not be hungry and here around us we have so many people who can eat and they run behind us for food.<br />
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Does this new ERA or new decade not teach us love and humanity. Where is love towards people vanishing.<br />
Do believe in god but see the facts. Be open to humanity and love.</div>
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I was walking on the street when I encountered a turn towards his right hand. With in split seconds bubble of thoughts hit my mind. There is something different. I realized the street on which I was walking has suddenly changed. What ignited the change of thought in me? What made me realize that street I was walking on was no more the same I usually walked on?<br />
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Second thoughts made me realized that day was Tuesday. A Day when lot of activities happens in the temple. Right on the turn was a temple located. I had not observed the Temple although my routine for the walk was same. What made me realize that there exists a Temple?<br />
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It was Tuesday, a Day worship some of followers of God. There was lot of incense sticks which were burning and the environment around the temple presented a feel of perfume garden. There was lot of people worship god and offering "Prasad" ( a sweet which is generally presented to god and then distributed among people). Small kids played with the Bell of the temple. Few young and some old people were worshiping god with their eyes closed and hands folded. Probably all of them had something to be asked from God. Some may have wanted love, some money, some happiness, and even some of them would be asking for death.<br />
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As I walked he looked at a young but Differently Abled man sitting on his feet. This man must be in his late 30s but looked older and pale. The Man ( I will call him godman for our reference) had white hairs, very beautiful sparkling eyes, long nose and white teeth which were visible even when he was not smiling. this GodMan was sitting and waiting for some of the people to come out of temple and share with him some of the Prasad. A little of prasad from few people may probably quench his hunger. I am sure if this man would have dressed well and was standing in a Movie Theater, or a Discotheque, he would have attracted many eyes towards him. Two small poor kids came and start making fun of him. Each time they made fun of this man, he smiled and laugh. Probably this is the way Godman enjoys happiness. It touched my heart. He was such handsome man but could not think as we do. But he could smile from deep beneath his heart which probably lot of us could not.<br />
So is it he who is truly happy or is it all of us. He did not have brain and intelligence like us. He did not have clothes to cover his body fully. He did not have money to buy food for him. All of us or many of us have all these things. What he had probably many of us do not have. He had a smile, a genuine laugh at some of silly things. I wish we could smile and laugh from our heart like him.<br />
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His smile is sitting deep in my heart. Whenever I think, I do not know if I should smile because his smile was so addictive or I should be sad for he being "Differently Abled"<br />
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“Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god. ”</h1>
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Facebook is one of the very prominent and accessed social media application. Human Being (Social Animal) has been taught or injected with some of the teachings/values right even before the birth (right from Mother's womb). In this article I would like look at one of the aspects of Facebook which will allow us to learn from this application. Facebook (if looked from different view) teaches many of the values of being social and hence living a happy life. I would like people to add more views/points if they can.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Some of the lessons which Facebook teaches us are :</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><b>1. Always Appreciate from Heart:</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"> Who does not like to receive Appreciation? Login or check Facebook account of yours or any body and you will see the immense pleasure you get when you see people liking your picture or talking about you or your post. Why, in reality we fail to usher such appreciation to others? It is always good to say a word of appreciation while they are living than writing a beautiful biography or bringing a bouquet on their death ceremony. Dead men can not see , smell or read what is written in their praises. Facebook teaches us to be generous in appreciating others.Many times we do not appreciating other due to one of the following reasons</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">We can not appreciate others when we are jealous of others good deeds. We need to remove jealousy from our heart and soul in order to appreciate the great work and support others are providing to us.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Lucida, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"><u><b>Ignorance attitude:</b></u></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Lucida, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Today with so much advances we are living in a better life. Have we ever thought our heart and soul in order to appreciate the great work and support others are providing to us. If we are so ignorance about others good deeds, we can not appreciate others good deeds. In order to know good deeds of others we need to come out from our ignorance. Ignorance is due to lack of thinking and analytical power.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"> We are intentionally or unintentionally too callous our of others hard work for us. We may not have personal relationship with him/her but we need to appreciate the good work of others.</span></div>
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The above line would have been heard by each and everyone. This is true in real life and with the growth, change in mind set, competition, increase in competency level of an average person, we do change or are part of change in each aspect of life. This is true even in Leadership. Here I have collected 10 points which should be changed or rather removed from the "Leadership Practices" which we have been following for years. </div>
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A. Micro-management, or the need to control every aspect of your company is outdated. Empowerment, the ability to give your people some rope--even rope to make mistakes without blame. Empowerment is the Key now.</div>
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B. Management by walking around the office; it is no longer enough to be visible. What is now happening is : Leadership by watching and listening, engaging in conversation, implementing the ideas presented to you, and distributing the results.</div>
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C. Pretending you know everything. You don't have all the answers, so why try to make people think you do? This practice is gone now and what is in is: Knowing your leadership team members and trusting them. Choose great people who have the right skills and fit the culture. And get out of the way.</div>
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D. No mistakes, or a "no tolerance policy" some still think works, but it does not. Today we are Learning from mistakes, or being the first to admit an error.</div>
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E. The balance sheet drives the business, and informs all other decisions is out and what is in is People drive the business, boosting customer loyalty, and profit.</div>
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F. Job competency is sufficient. Do the job asked, and you'll survive. This now history. Need of today is Recruit "A" players who will go the extra mile. They're out there.</div>
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G. Out: Invest in technology to increase productivity. In: Invest in people.</div>
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H. Out: Demand change; be very specific about what you want and when. In: Nurture change; your people can come up with the best ideas and you can give them credit for it.</div>
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I. Out: Fried food in the cafeteria. In: Wellness in the workplace.</div>
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J. Out: Incentives; pay employees more money and they'll do more. In: Rewards; being valued matters more than money.</div>
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Think... For all the leaders and all those which aspire to be leaders</div>
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Presentation ( making ppt) is one of key in almost all companies for communicating an important piece of information to stakeholders at all level. Presenting a concept , may it be a strategy, solution, plan or anything in form of power point presentation provides ease of building creditability and engaging all users to participate with their thoughts. Would you like to listen to a speaker who is standing with an angry look on his face? Mostly (baring few exceptions) not. Right from children to old people, we want to befriend a person who is cheerful, playful, approachable, smiling. Although we communicate with words, but our non-verbal signals communicate a lot in participants mind. Here are few points which would help present you point in a better way<br />
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1. <span style="background-color: #e06666;"><b>Never show you displeasure</b>:</span> Even if something has not gone in your favour, do not look displeased. Wear a warm smile. Remember no one cares if your displeased, how ever people look forward to you if you are pleasing personality.<br />
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2. <span style="background-color: #e06666;"><b>Don't Look away:</b></span> While presenting make sure your eyes communicate ( where you look) to every side where the participants are sitting. Especially towards end (last slide) many people just look at the last slide as reinforcement or may look aside as to communicate (non-verbally) "thanks god it is over".Never speak with your back towards the audience.<br />
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3. <span style="background-color: #6aa84f;"><b>Ease at start and End</b>:</span> Engage people in some general topic before the start so that participant opens up the bond building with the presenter. Good example may be one of the recent topics of news (which generally all are interested in) or a quick story or joke. Although many people follow this but their are very few who does this at the end. Do not rush to pick your things and go back to your seat. Say thanks and wait for people to respond to you. Slowly pick up your things before you leave the presenter seat. Keep looking at participants while you are wrapping up to leave.<br />
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4.<b> </b><span style="background-color: #6aa84f; font-weight: bold;">Hand Gestures</span><span style="background-color: white;"><b>:</b> Use slow hand gestures that move in harmony with your words like your are directing a group of people performing musical night. Hold your hands out and palms down while presenting facts.</span><span style="background-color: white;">Prospects that rub, pull or scratches their ear while you’re presenting to them means they </span><br />
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5. <span style="background-color: #6aa84f;"><b>Visual Aids</b>:</span> While presenting you may use visual aids like some picture on ppt, or using some note card to participants. It is obvious that while you present using visual aids, you may loose eye contact. Hence keep note pad in your palms right in front of you or stand near the visual aid side of ppt. This will make people to keep eye contact with you<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">These are very small but very high impact communication for a presenter. Initial users ( who has not given much presentation ) can practice this and see the impact. </span></div>
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Information Technology has always been a challenge for people who manages IT Projects. The challenges are different for following reason:<br />
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<li>Business users are ignorant about technology(Although we have seen a growth) and their understanding of how to use the Information Technology to maximize potential is limited. They see technology as solution provider and not the tool to help them.</li>
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<li><b>Open for change: </b>Define the scope and limit it to development but make sure that you are developing something which is easy for change. Avoid giving answers like "this is not possible in this technology?". Remember if you can not do it, some one else would.</li>
<li><b>Understand Business:</b> It is important that the whole development team understands the business to the maximum they can. Once they understand the business and the need of the user , they would themselves come up with solutions which will give then praises from customer and end user. </li>
<li> <b>Embrace Change: </b> Team should be motivated to accept changes which are critical to the business requirements. If they understand Business they would definitely accept it more easily.Make sure that team is able to say "No" for a change which is not critical for business or does not add value ( It reminds of Lean Philosophy).</li>
<li><b>Ready Made Code: </b>A typical developer will always love to write his framework/libraries etc , this eating away the time which can be used for some meaningful development, if we take off the shelf available code or already developed frameworks/libraries.</li>
<li><b>Partnership Not Management: </b>Project Manager, Customer and team should work as a Partnership firm, where every one has a role defined and is working for the goal. Manager should not be only acting as some one sitting high and ordering, he should be like a Team member with maximum expertise/information/experience</li>
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How is it different from any team management? Lets see how a common ( General Rule applied ) man ( working in a Company) think of IT.<br />
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<li>If there is a problem, it has to do with software.</li>
<li>IT does not yield direct revenue to the company</li>
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In all these scenarios it becomes slightly more difficult to manage your team. I am putting down some of the points which we must do, with the team to make sure that we deliver best as per expectations to the customer. These may not be the guide lines for doing it, but these have worked for me over the years.</div>
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<li>Do Explain the project from Business perspective to the team. Make sure when you are explaining, you explain in a layman's language.</li>
<li>Spend time with the team whenever possible. </li>
<li>Give small doses of appreciation. Who does not like it, even after years of service an appreciation gives me goose bumps</li>
<li>Make sure you are friend to them when they need you and a tough manager to them when it comes to delivery.</li>
<li>Ask them to write what they have understood. I learnt in my childhood after writing. It helps you recollect while thinking in mind and then while writing. Also, we have every thing in "Black and White" as they say.</li>
<li>Remember not to show them that you are smarter than them. Sometimes a foolish idea from them can turn to be a big idea. This foolish idea will come to you only if you show that you are still learning.</li>
<li>Understand the career plan for each of them and align that with the work given to them.</li>
<li>Play some games to activate there mind during the project, may be ask riddles. Remember a mind used is mind sharpened. We need proactive ideas, nothing is changing and expanding as Information Technology.</li>
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I would appreciate you all to add to this and pass your comments. Finally it is a collaborative world now.</div>
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You might be in any business but your company's overall performance in the market place is strengthened by strong relationship with your vendors. Companies spend lot of time and money in nurturing vendor's who are not directly impacting the bottom line of the organization. As we challenge our expertise in all fields by setting and raising standards, it is also same in case of Vendor Relationship Management. Great companies have best practices which are set of standard which they follow to achieve or exceed. Vendor relationship management also have standard practices which is followed for a great relationship. Ignoring these best practices for managing vendor may result in dysfunctional relationship and hence negatively impacting company's business.<br />
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My experience ( and i am sure most of yours too!) tells me that whatever is the standards or best practices followed, a healthy relationship with vendor yields a reduced cost, quality delivery/products, and high customer satisfaction only if we follow/control/watch some of the key milestones/points<br />
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Although selecting a vendor and defining the contract may be very critical, but we can discard the importance of managing relationship with vendor. Information Technology which is used as a "Tool" for business opportunities, can be used to deliver a needs of process for a successful and healthy Vendor Relationships. Companies can deliver results going beyond the expectations if they have process frameworks and management tools. If you have process framework ( I call it Information Technology Process Framework -ITPF) and strong Management tool (Vendor Management Solution - VMO), the delivery of high expectations of company and challenges of managing a vendor become a cakewalk.<br />
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Information Technology is a "Tool" and not "Solution" for your need.<br />
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I always start with this quote whenever it comes to technology. You would have heard one or more of the following:<br />
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1. I had installed CRM software , still not able to manage our relationship with customer.<br />
2. I have most powerful ERP implemented in our organization, yet we take a week to close.<br />
3. I have one of the best websites and done SEO , but we do not get business through internet.<br />
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The bottomline here is that these people have thought the software solutions as the solution and not the tool to aid/help them achieve the desired goal. Same goes with Internet Marketing. I am presenting few one line tips for you to consider when you do think of Marketing through internet.<br />
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1. Internet Marketing is all about <strong>visibility, presentability, availability, and accessbility</strong>. You should be visible in this vast Galaxy of Internet users. Once visible, you should be presentable(e.g. your site maybe visible but the presentability is so bad that user do not want to read about it). If you are present , you should have information available to the user/customer/reader. Last but not the least, if you have passed all the test, you should be contactable for any feedback/query/Comment.<br />
2. <strong>SEO</strong> is not only being ranked high. It is about ranked high with <strong>correct keywords</strong> which matches your delivery and customer expectations.<br />
3. <strong>SEO/SMM/ORM</strong> are all tools which you use to build "<strong>Trust</strong>" with your customer. Imagine you have very good friend in software solution, but you do not trust him that he can do internet marketing, will you go to him? Build "Trust" with your audience. People are more likely to trust a friend's recommendation than to trust an ad.<br />
4. <strong>Social Media </strong>helps us communicate faster. It is "<strong>word of mouth</strong>" on <strong>steroids.</strong><br />
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<li>Select Target market</li>
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<li>Assess your knowhow and capabilities</li>
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<li>Execute the strategy</li>
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<li>Measure the performance.</li>
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And most important <strong>Experiment!!!!!</strong></div>
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