Mr Greed , Graphs and Heart Ache!

Few drops of sweat on his forehead seem to be irritating him. Lying on the bed of that hospital, he was just looking up at the noisy rotating fan ...as fan rotated.. so as his thoughts …His name was Mr Greed …
It was not a major health catastrophe, but what made him to become unconscious after looking at that piece of paper was something to be noted…
Even though Often hobnobbing with his middle aged friends over the Martini in a good hotel was indicator of his affluence, it was not the actual thing ….Mr Greed was from middle class ..and was often lured by talks on fast money ….even the thoughts of casinos were in his mind ….
‘I am not a spend thrift’….. Often Mr Greed said to himself only to console his mind over mounting credit bills ….each time his phone rang he thought of a credit agent who is ready to give him his peace of mind.
All the time he told to himself and sometimes to one of his close friend , that he wants to do something …in life ..we are heading towards a ‘consumerist society’.. he often murmured , observing people coming out of the posh shopping malls with hand full of goodies .

One fine day Mr Greed met this guy who introduced himself as Mr M . Mr M Always roamed with high end mobile and talked about money only in terms of lakhs of rupees. Both met and decided to have a coffee in a near by café . All Mr Greed did was to take the serious note …some of them were mental notes and some of them he jotted down on a paper .

Mr Greed’s face was brimming with new hopes and was bit confident too , ‘I would have thought this long back !’ he was murmuring and walked through the lane fast and told to himself “ god bless Mr M !!
Few days down the line Mr Greed was bit happy ..’I will repay all my debt and never fall to bad trap called debt again’ …he dreamed.. Things were happening well …But …….
As that dreaded day, Mr Greed thought it is just another happy day for him…..but time was ticking …Mr Greed and his friend were sitting with tea and discussing about a new movie …..
Suddenly Mr Greed got a call around 11 AM and as soon he got the call he screamed “what ? ..are u serious “ ??
Within a minute Mr Greed told to his friend “ oh ! no !! oh no !! my god !!” and fell down on chair …his friend was aghast ..He asked him what happened and he complained about chest pain ….his friend gave him glass of water and immediately drove him to a nearby hospital …
Mr Greed was conscious but he had heart ache ….he never told what exactly happened …to his friend ..
They were in a hospital and doctor gave him some injections and advised him for several medical tests ….Greed underwent those tests for few hours …and the test results indicated his heart is out of danger ..and that his heart is safe was a message told by a doctor to Mr Greed’d friend ..
And he was happy and went to room where Mr Greed was lying on the bed …and he told his heart is safe …and gave him papers and they were his medical reports ….

As curious Mr Greed opened that cover ….and he told loudly once again and …..”oh no ! my god “..he screamed and this time he fell unconscious! ….with paper in his hand slipping away..
His friend knew that the cover Mr Greed opened was the results of ECG ( electro cardio graph ) but he wondered what happened to him … ? can he understand ECG ….No… he is not a doctor… why did he fell unconscious ….and he ran to meet the doctor ......

Perhaps his friend never knew that Mr M gave Mr Greed advice to invest in stock market to make quick money and he raised more debts to repay of his mounting debts ….and the ECG reminded him the nasty Graphs of falling Sensex !!

Thoughts ..on Creativity

The dictionary meaning of the word creativity means : “the ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns, relationships, or the like, and to create meaningful new ideas, forms, methods, interpretations, etc”.

But is that exactly what it is meant to be? I believe it is something more. I believe it is something which uniquely stems out from the combination of right and left brain, keen observation of day today life and more.

The definition of innovation by Frans Johansson (the author of book innovation Medici Effect) is “A creative idea that is realized”.

Why all of sudden there is so much brouhaha about the word innovation? I believe the answer for this question is competition. As the competition become more and more fierce, the one who does things differently will thrive. In a fast globalized world with a lot of cascading effect every where, the one who thinks agile and finds an innovative solution for the problem is the one having a competitive edge over others.

Take a popular example by the company 3M their one of the program called 3P (pollution prevent program) saved them thousands of dollars.

Take an innovative example from India. Kegg Farm (Kapur + Egg) an organization founded by Vinod Kapur which produces the Kurolier breed of chickens. You can call Vinod Kapur (people call him doctor even though he is an engineer!) as a social entrepreneur. These birds have helped nearly 7 lakh households in India. In country like India through the innovative approach like this we can address the market as described “bottom of pyramid” approach by Professor C.K Prahlad.

At the end I would like to mention Joseph Schumpeter’s “creative destruction

“a process for radical innovation as long back as 1940’s.

I believe we owe a lot to him.

Now I Know she never comes Back …..a true story !!

I wrote this for a chronicle .. all rants and raves are welcome!

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It’s all started three and a half years back. Indeed it was a long journey with her. She looked slim, even though not so sophisticated for the time, but what attracted me was that her unique look and her affable nature ... and her canorous way of calling me and waking me up ! .

As time passed she became my best buddy. She shared all my happiest moments and can
never forget to say that she was there for me to share my emotions too . Yes indeed I thought reverence to life was only because of her presence. I used to wonder how vibrant can any one’slife be in such a short span of time …

As the year passed, it was still a good journey, as always I enjoyed the journey with her. I moved to the city where I stay now and she accompanied me through-out my journey.

It is not that I was always happy with her presence, sometimes due to her presence life was so frustrating ….. She was responsible for many embarrassments too.... But the association still continued…

To my surprise it was a quite a long association, more than 2 years, until one day I found out she was ill. Ill to such an extent that she could not speak. How can I explain to any one the agony of those 8 days when she underwent major surgery, I thought she is so fragile. It was only after 8 days she was back in form … life was beautiful once again ☺

Journey continued with joy once again. But little did I know that the days were counting
down ...I was on cloud number 9 !!!

Then came that dredful dAy ......

It was raining heavily. Even though I cannot say it was a cloudburst, but the intensity of rain was something un- imaginable. I was about to travel for about 400 KM and had her company with me she as usual.

Little into the journey my sixth sense was telling me something will go wrong, but as once again I just ignored it as it was festive season I went out for shopping!

It was raining, it was an amazing downpour, and I reached a place which was crowded even on that rainy day. It was a market with a crowd and fragrance of flower and fruit. I got down at the market and walked a bit, say 40 feet, and then came the shock - I was awash - she was missing....

Quickly I realized I lost her, what a jolt …. I was quick enough to go back and check for her presence ….when I called out to her … I could hear her voice/cry for some time … but not longer .....

My only fear was that she might have landed in the hands of some ruthless criminals …..But
all my efforts to trace her failed.

I lost her forever......

I had to move on though, hence to get a NEW ONE – I had to file an FIR a missing person report – and on doing so – I have now moved on in life and settled down in life
with my new found love – N72 ….. She’s from Finland much like the love I lost – her name was 3210 she was also from Finland but born and brought up in India !!

Third innings !

This is my third innings on this blog !

But his time i will be active ..and decided to write at least once in a week!

Hope prevails !

Year 2007 and me ...

Soon year 2007 bites the dust …. As the world marches ahead with the varying speed soon it is going to be history .But it was a good year for me .

Hope 2008 will be much more fulfilling than 2007 . As someone rightly said I hope for the best and I believe hope prevails!

BEQ

I have been to Brand Equity Quiz 2007 Bangalore round . I love quizzing and it was the event i thought i should not miss .

Here i am recalling some of the questions from Bangalore round .


1) which company won the best annual report award for 10 times charted Accounts Institute of India

2) Since 1978 , he had given more than 2500 speeches,flown to 65 countries and adressed more than 2 lakh people , Name this management guru ?

3)which was the first James Bond movie which did product tie up before it is released ??

4)cheaper version of which product is called as lump fish roe ?

5) After death of several labours Human rights depart ment of which city has ordered for 4 hour break in the noon ?

6) what is sold under the brand name coco-nectar??

7) Which colour kiwi shoe polish sold most??

8)Whcih is the first TV channel to be launched on mobile phone ??

9)Who is sponsor of WTA tournament in Bangalore ??

10)This brand is present countries than UN ??

11)whcih peripheral was discovered at Joint computing conference ??

12)JRD Tata told once " I dont want to see India an economic super power ,but I want to see India a --------------country ??

13)After observing which animal Abraham Moslow designed theory of hierarchy of needs ??

14)To celebrate whcih ocassion Friend ship Barbie was intorduced in 1990??

15)This comic is printed in 2,000 news paper , 25 langauge and more than 50 countries??

16) who is prosumer ?

17)In 1932 this scientist wrote his sucide note " My work is over why wait " ??

18)this fan Hunter fan , which rotates in clockwise as well as anticlock ...why ?

19)what is swedish word for paper clip ??

20)Pollution Prevent Pays is a program by whcih company ?

21)whats is borqini ??

22)what is freemium??

23 ) this prodcut whcih involves T ramesh pai reached Geramany ??

24)What is the political symbol of BSP ??

25)whats common between a UK based charity , a Spannishclothing chain and low cost south african airlines and someting my mummy gives to me eat ??

2006 .....Is History

Year 2007 has arrived ....I am writing this ...sitting in the office , exactly after 1 hour and 22 minutes of 01/01/2007 ! ( Indian Time ) Will be the first post of the year 2007.
Well Year 2006 was not at all a great work for me in terms of professional front (not much even in personal front too !)

As per one of my friends saying ...the achievement for 2006 for me is ....few more premature grey hair ! Well .....this new year i dont have any resolutions! ( i prefer execution....??..)


But hope prevail .... So as this poem from Shri Chinmay ...

Hopes Abide

Hope abides; therefore I abide.
Countless frustrations have not cowed me.
I am still alive, vibrant with life.
The black cloud will disappear,
The morning sun will appear once again
In all its supernal glory.

Hope for the Best!!

Only the question of time ...

Only the question of time ...

I had this doubt in my mind for the long time and it is clear now..it's about time ...that is considered equivalent of money ...more than that ....more than that ...I dont have linear image of time ...i.e is i am not good at time management ..at the cost of future ?? ....only the question of time ....cannot traverse back even for a minute ...every time i wate time ..knowingly ...mythoughts takes several squirms ...it is the most precious commodity ...still i cannot change i guess...at least for me ...

It was not the case earlier ….

Recently I have been to my native Kumta for my cousins wedding . As usual I was walking on the way to beautiful sea shore which is located at a throw away distance from my cousins home .

While on the way I met Shivu the farmer from my village ...we were talking about Rain atterns ….

My place is located on the foot hills of western ghats on one side and on other side the

Arabean sea . So normally there is no shortage of rain fall in my place .

I asked Shivu regarding rain this time and about his crops status …

He said in recent years there is serious change in the pattern of rain fall …

He said, rain pattern is changing each year and that in “ july and august there used to be lot of rain fall " …but now days it is not the case …

He said …this year there was shortage of rain fall during seeding …

And he also observed that …. Now there is no consistency in rail fall ... few days

There wont be any rain and next few days ....it will be like a cloud burst …

Overall it is now like this : “ Intensity of rain fall increased many folds and duration of rain fall reduced drastically …”

Is that “ perils of prosperity “ ??

Gen Y ...

Recently i had a chance to listen to the conversations between two young college goers while travelling ...


They looked like nerds and were discussing about jobs in IT and discussion moved from various areas say sex to satellites ...

I have reproduced some part of it ...

X : Are you planning to join a services company or a product firm??

Y : I will join the products firm because I love C language ...

X: but product firm is more than C ...

Y: Ya i know ....but I love C and I want to write code for embedded sys..whats your plan??

X: I dont mind joining any firm either products or services ...but I need good money ...

Y : What I heard is services companies are boring !! you may end up with doing the things that u dont like ....

X : I dont think so ...my cousin in (XXXxxXX) and he is travelling a lot ...he is
a .NET specialist ...

Y: But I dont like companies with lot of people .... its like "Gumpalli Govinda ....""

..discussion went on ....

Yes ...they are smart ...

Crucible Quiz 2006

Last was in St Johns Audotorium to witness Tata Crucible Business Quiz . It was amazing to watch the clash of Titans on the stage . Titan once again won this time in Tata Track ( internal ) and in external contest it was Kotak guys who won the regional round .some of the questions are worth remembering and i have reproduced them
below :

1) "We deliver anything anywhere" is punchline of which logistics company ---GATI

2)Canon -- Japanese God of Mercy

3)Murugappa Group Makes most environment friendly cycles ---ans -- TI Cycle

4)"Ideas in motion " is a punch line of which group--ans -- SKYPACK

5) Youth brand of 2005-2006 --Mahendra Singh Dhoni

6) Astrovahini ---Astro channel by NDTV in Indonesia

7) This sporting brand promotes " Team Work " as key brand value --name the brand ---FILA

8)Maya , 3DS work are developed by whom ?? --Auto Desk

9) Travelocity.com, lastminute.com are under control of which company --- Sabre Holdings
10) who are "open collar workers "

11) Bakula is character of which comics?? --Raj Comics

12) NGO which does the corruption index -- Transparency International

13) She is an MBA from Wharton and she is presently CEO of TAFE --Mallika Srinivasan

14)In 2005 an Bangalore based firm acquired a Canadian firm called castek which is this company--- i-flex

15) Which Bangalore based entraprenuer holds stake in hospitality firm " Orchid International " --Jerry Rao

16) "Dial-For-M" -- KMF

17) Davinci Technology is developed by ??? T.I