Who's the boss

A customer is the most important visitor on our premises.He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him.He is not an interruption in our work - he is the purpose of it.We are not doing him a favour by serving him. He is doing us a favour by giving us the opportunity to serve him.- Mahatma Gandhi

I found this on while I came across Zoho corp's About Us page. Strangely in his own land, how much do we practice?

state

in any great organisation, it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone 

                            -John Kenneth Galbraith 

as,  in this club only debate has a place and wrong ones rewarded with right ones punished.

men, but know when the state would be decisive, the right one will be rewarded and the state will be built from scratch. 

The '8th Thing'

Often, it so happens that we listen to some stories, learn through others experiences and find that they disrupt our accepted paradigms, change our notions and inspire us to be more than our present selves.

Here i want to narrate one such beautiful, inspiring and divine talk given by Jo Chopra, Executive Director- Latika Roy foundation, at TEDxNarimanpoint.

Not that other talks were less inspiring, but this talk touched like no one else. It had a character of its own.

you will have to listen to the talk to know what it is, but i am sharing here few notes that i made alongside.
pls note that the pics have been taken from Jo Chopra's blog 

There was no fear

The entire nation is riding in the wave of fight against corruption. Shri Anna Hazare is hence the public face to fight off in this crusade
There are many experiences to be shared, but prominent among them would be my experience at Azad Maidan on 16th August 2011.
There is a flipside to not reporting events on the same day..though i'll try to do justice the emotional surge on that day

Caprice

you held a wild-flower in your finger-tips,
idly you pressed it to indifferent lips,
idly you tore its crimson leaves apart...
alas! it was my heart.

you held a wine-cup in your finger-tips,
lightly you raised it to indifferent lips,
lightly you drank and flung away the bowl...
alas! it was my soul. 

                                                                -sarojini naidu.

borrowed from Beyond the last blue mountains

Learning never stops....

Side-berths are the best places in Indian Railway compartments. They are comfortable, private in some sense and are cool in some way. I was as usual staring at the endless sunlit greenlands inhabited by noone.
The long water pipelines, perhaps were the only signature for human dwellings nearby.
I was a witness to two incidents, which symbolized to me pursuit for knowledge and of survival.

Thumb rules rule indeed!!!

This I think will be a pre-final post. Here important observations that I had about project management will be documented.

There are various stages of any project. Though i dont know the specifics, but i'll put them under tags that may be useful

Freeze and I'll walk on water

In continuation with the previous post, here I'll put down all observations that I could document during the summers with my team EASSy at L&T Infotech.

19-06-2008
    We had a headsup the next day, and I was totally in a different world. Surprisingly ever individual in our team tried to do all the 'to do' tasks, hence me a zombie. Some tasks were obviously left undone.

Screw it!! Let's Do it!!

18-06-08

We prepared our ideas the next day for presentation. In the mean time were introduced to two new members from K.J.Somaiyya College.

Our ideas were heard upon in silence. We thought, we are through to have a project to work on with the topics at hand.
To our surprise, Nolly Sir and Sanjay Sir both pointed out numerous flaws. They explained that having an idea is just not enough. Only when there are ways to implement it, things should be worked upon.

what is it 'to think'...

In continuation with the previous post, we started thinking for the first time since we were born.
It is a painful process thinking, truly and maan, this was TWO ideas per person. We started using white-board to draw something out of our blank boards.

We realized that brainstorming indeed works!! fundamental questions, they indeed bring out solutions. We came up with fresh perspectives and finally managed to pull of 1 idea.
This set us up with tremendous energy and enthusiasm. We really opened up and started thinking about fundamental problems in an enterprise setting.

mini Team

This is a documentation of my readings and observations during my summers at L&T Infotech as an intern
We were Ananta(annu), Govind(gundi), Sanket(shaky), me ..Team EASSy.

The entire documentation is split into multiple posts and each one is different. They are what i plainly observed and inferred.. and worth sharing with all.