Great Lies Of Management

Just was going through the FM daily quotes.. this ones are true lies :).. from scott adams (father of Dilbert )

1. Employees are the most valuable asset.
2. I have an open-door policy.
3. You could earn more money under the new plan.
4. We're re-organising to better serve our customers.
5. The future is bright.
6. We reward risk-takers.
7. Performance will be rewarded.
8. We don't shoot the messenger.
9. Training is a high priority.
10. I haven't heard any rumours.
11. We'll review your performance in six months.
12. Our people are the best.
13. Your input is important to us.
- Scott Adams

- Saravana Kumar ( Since 1976)

Innovation to communication

Hi guys.. Its long time I have written a such a big post, but today I could do 2 posts one in this and another in my technical blog.. so here it is for today.. .

Sometimes I used to imagine how things going to be in the future. As I spent almost half a decade in communication industry, here is what I could imagine of the communication industry future.

Every evaluation comes to solve a constraints in the lives of this universe, nature takes even millions of years to grand a new feature to the living creature, which you can understand when you see discovery channel's "Journy of life".

"If you take away our need for clothing and ability to speak, our animal roots become clear. An alien biologist wouldn't hesitate to label humans as a third class of chimpanzees. Yet, in so many aspects of our lives, we are very different from other creatures. So how has the human race been forged by evolution – just like all the other animals – and yet managed to break free from its constraints? "

So, the world is to evolve to solve the constrains every time a life had. If you think in the same lines, we observe that the human is the most advanced form of life, whos given a creative mind to resolve any constrain he has to have. Having cars to move fast, plane to fly and so on as this list never ends.. as we reached even out of our planet.

Having understood this lets come to communication industry, this industry started with the constrain, when human was not able to communicate with the others when he travelled far from home. To close this constrain, we have invented letters, phone, mobiles. Now this ended it is in the form of mobile, which can be used to not only talk but also see and do more tasks.

Now if you see the constraint in having mobile is, you need to carry them always, its hard to keep that always near to ears. You can see peopele rome with big earpiese in their ears all the time. Another one is watching tv/movie/other side person is not easy with the small display thats provided with the mobile phones. So lets imagine what would be comming to overcome this

"A less than one inch chip attached to the human body, which uses human body energy"

"It can communicate with the human senses by bypassing sensing organs like eyes, nose, ears and may be skin."

"It can communicate with the other human being who can be anywhere in this universe, still the communication with them is with all the senses, but via radio frequency/any other simple transmission mechanism."


Oops.. its like "The Matrix", and am not "The one" :)
- Saravana Kumar ( Since 1976)

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

So again, it was from my reading, I was going through the book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey It was having wonderful insight into personal improvements. Here are the habits discussed in that book

Habit 1: Be Proactive

Change starts from within, and highly effective people make the decision to improve their lives through the things that they can influence rather than by simply reacting to external forces.

Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind

Develop a principle-centered personal mission statement. Extend the mission statement into long-term goals based on personal principles.

Habit 3: Put First Things First

Spend time doing what fits into your personal mission, observing the proper balance between production and building production capacity. Identify the key roles that you take on in life, and make time for each of them.

Habit 4: Think Win/Win

Seek agreements and relationships that are mutually beneficial. In cases where a "win/win" deal cannot be achieved, accept the fact that agreeing to make "no deal" may be the best alternative. In developing an organizational culture, be sure to reward win/win behavior among employees and avoid inadvertantly rewarding win/lose behavior.

Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood

First seek to understand the other person, and only then try to be understood. Stephen Covey presents this habit as the most important principle of interpersonal relations. Effective listening is not simply echoing what the other person has said through the lens of one's own experience. Rather, it is putting oneself in the perspective of the other person, listening empathically for both feeling and meaning.

Habit 6: Synergize

Through trustful communication, find ways to leverage individual differences to create a whole that is greater than the sum of the parts. Through mutual trust and understanding, one often can solve conflicts and find a better solution than would have been obtained through either person's own solution.

Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw

Take time out from production to build production capacity through personal renewal of the physical, mental, social/emotional, and spiritual dimensions. Maintain a balance among these dimensions.

- Saravana Kumar ( Since 1976)

Quotes from Chanakya ??

I got these quotes from one of my friend its extreamly inteligent quotes ( Some bare truths ) It was quoted that these were from Chanakya (Good old indian Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275 BC) Here it follows...

Quote : 1

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and Honest people are screwed first.

Quote : 2

The biggest guru-mantra is: Never share your
secrets with anybody. !It will destroy you.

Quote : 3

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend
to be venomous.

Quote : 4

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and
destroy it.

Quote : 5

There is some self-interest behind every friendship.
There is nofriendship without self-interests. This is a bitter
truth.

Quote : 6

The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of
a woman.

Quote : 7

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions

-Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful.Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

Quote : 8

Once you start a working on something, don't be
afraid of failureand don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the
happiest.

Quote : 9

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the
direction of the wind.But the goodness of a person spreads in all
direction.

Quote : 10

Whores don't live in company of
poor men, citizens never support aweak company and birds don't build nests on a
tree that doesn't bearfruits.

Quote : 11

God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your
god. The soul isyour temple.

Quote : 12

A man is great by deeds, not by
birth

Quote : 13

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status.Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

Quote : 14

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the nextfive years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like afriend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

Quote : 15

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror
is useful to ablind person.

Quote : 16

Education is the best friend. An educated person is
respectedeverywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Thats it for now... Catch you soon.. with better ones...

- Saravana Kumar

The art of decision making.

Today.. after long time, I got some time to read the India Strategy Think Tank (ISTT) mail. It was having a wonderful article on decison making. I found it interesting, so its here for you too..
I am not sure who written this, I hope its by Francis Lobo

-- Decision-making is a human activity involving free will & choice. It must be differentiated from a transaction where only rationality & logic are involved & the action required is unambiguous & hence, the process can be automated. In decision-making there is conflict, ambiguity & uncertainty & hence, both rationality & emotions come into play, both sides of the brain are required --- the Left Brain for logic, rationality & judgment & the Right Brain for creativity, ideas & vision.
It is recorded by Herodotus in 430 B.C. that the Persians used to make important decisions when they were drunk. If the same decision was agreed upon when they were sober, it was carried out. Conversely, decisions made when they were sober were reviewed when they were drunk. Weird as this may seem there is justification for this approach.

The human being is the only creature we know which is bicameral, with two brains, a left-brain & a right brain. The left-brain works faster than the right brain pushing us to act based on what is obvious & logical. The right brain is more reflective, seeing the total picture & hence seeing what is not so obvious, the minute details, the hidden opportunities & threats. Alcohol slows down the left-brain hindering quick, reflexive action. In a relaxed mood the creativity & insight of the right brain comes into play. That is how probably Archimedes discovered, while relaxing in his bath, why things weigh less when submerged in water.But, since decision-making involves both thinking & feeling how is this synthesis done? Recent discoveries have found that this is done in a third part of the brain termed the OLD BRAIN. It is a primitive organ & is also called the reptilian brain as it still exists in reptiles. It is the seat of the powerful subconscious & is concerned with our survival. For those concerned about decision-making the new insight is that a Dominant Attitude makes decisions. People avoid or fail to make decisions if the driving force is absent or not enough to overcome the obstacles involved.

As human beings we continuously have to make decisions, as in purchasing or getting others to make decisions as in selling. In fact it is said that nothing happens until someone sells something be it the mother getting a child to eat her meals or a politician seeking your vote in an elections.

ATTITUDES
Attitudes determine HOW we will approach Situations & whether we will act at all.

Attitudes develop & are strengthened by experiences. Experiences may be obtained through Life Events or through education & training. Education is meant to expand the experience base & transfer the experiences over history & time to the student. It determines How; one will decide, which is considered more important than What; is decided.

Computer simulators replicate actual conditions & hence, compress years of experience, which involve time, pain & cost, into a few hours before a computer screen.The more experiences we are exposed to the more likely we are to take decisions. People, who have decided, even though they may have made mistakes, should, therefore, be preferred to those who have not acted at all. If you are not criticized you may not be doing much;.

We react based on attitudes such as Fear, Greed, Security, Safety, Disaster, Uncertainty, Crisis. Let us see how some Dominant Attitudes help in the decision-making process.

Learn to Learn
Success is the stepping stone to failure..

There are numerous examples of decisions, which were bad because they stemmed from wrong attitudes --- We know everything. We are the best. Don't come to us with ridiculous ideas.

Western Union, which at that time dominated long distance communication with the telegraph, rejected the offer to purchase Alexander Graham Bell's patent for the telephone --- it had too many shortcomings. Bell & its successor AT&T came to rule the communications industry in the 20th Century while Western Union declined.

Henry Ford refused to change the design of his Model T car & smashed the model made by an enterprising engineer, who had seen the need for change. Ford, however, was forced to introduce the Model A in 1928 but, by then General Motors was already ahead. Those who were running the electrical services by generating & selling direct current rejected the application of alternating current. So was the concept of the vacuum brake on the railroads.
For effective decision-making one must Learn to learn be prepared to say, I don't know. One must stop to hear what others have to say.There is a distinction between Wrong decisions, which everyone makes because of lack of experience or information. Bad decisions, which don't take the necessary precautions or go against science, human nature & the welfare of mankind.

Predictable errors are preventable. But outcomes & results are most often unpredictable & determined by forces out of our control. There is always the element of chance in how things work out. But, the way we make decisions, the process of decision-making is in our hands.

Feel the Pain
People act to relieve Pain --- when they experience it themselves.

There is much talk, global conventions & summit meetings about making poverty history, combating terrorism, fighting aids, etc. but very little is done. U.S.A. started the global war on terror only after the Pain of 9 / 11. Henry Ford reduced the working hours of labor from 9 to 8 & more than doubled the wages from $ 2.34 to $ 5 / day when he was faced with a turnover of 370 % on his assembly lines with the grueling & mind numbing work.Good decisions must aim at making life easier, better, safer, cheaper for everyone.

IBM created in 1964 a family of computers that would remain compatible with future generations of computers. Pain & inconvenience have resulted in standardization & interchangeability of parts. It has lead to innovations like money as a medium of exchange, the postage stamp, insurance, laws & systems of governance. If nothing happens till someone sells something, nothing can be sold till someone feels the pain. Greed & jealousy are also forms of pain that drive decision-making.

Making Quality Decisions is a Process
You don't build quality by removing the defects at the end of the production, but you build it by pursuing it along every link of the supply chain.

Success results from a stream of decisions taken over time. Like in all other fields of human activity, good decision-making comes from practice, from learning from mistakes, from continuous improvement. Decision-making is an Art & like all arts it calls for putting oneself into the activity & becoming a part of it. You got to constantly build up on what you have. You got to continuously make deposits into your Experience Account; from which you can draw when the occasion arises. You cannot make a good decision in a crisis if you haven't practiced making decisions before.

The word decision comes from the Latin Decidere meaning, to cut off. Decision-making means action, not allowing problems to drag on. Don't wait till you have all the information, apply the 70 % Rule --- Decide with what you have. Decision-making involves ambiguity & uncertainty. Don't procrastinate, bad situations don't go away, they just get worse. Overcome decidophobia the fear of taking decisions.

Nothing is more difficult & more precious than to be able to decide

- Napoleon

There is no decision without choice. Hence, the decisions we make reflect our character & the type of person we are. Taking on a responsibility is having to make decisions, which cannot be delegated. The quality of our decisions makes us valuable. Strategies, people, careers, companies, nations are all made from decisions. Every activity involves making decisions be it planning, forecasting, setting objectives & time lines, selecting & evaluating people, approving budgets. Often we have to make decisions in milliseconds or at the flick of a switch. We must not wait for such moments to learn how to decide but condition & train ourselves for such eventualities.

Look for What is Missing
When applying the 80 / 20 Rule look at the 20 not the 80The 80 / 20

Rule states that 80 % of the results come from 20 % of the items. Hence, most management teaching focuses on identifying the critical few that have the maximum impact on the results --- control these & you have mastered the situation. But experience teaches that the problem areas are in the 20 %. It is here that one sees the inroads of competition, the potential for growth or the disgruntled customers. It is the problem areas that consume management time & resources. That is why to achieve Six Sigma perfection we look at the extremes, the results that are beyond the limits. We then take steps to narrow the spread & to bring more items within control.

Raytheon CEO, Bill Swanson writing from experience in his path breaking notes, Swanson's Unwritten Rules of Management states,

Look for what is missing. Many know how to improve what's there; few can see what isn't there.

Discoveries are made by finding the distortions, discrepancies, deviations, exceptions, variances, discontinuities, what is missing. The Romans worshipped Fortuna, the goddess of randomness. W. Edwards Deming showed how statistics & randomness could be used to improve quality & thereby increase productivity, profits, jobs & the quality of life itself.

Have vision
A Child sees more into the future than the parent.

Having a better vision doesn't necessarily mean climbing up the organizational ladder. One gets a new perspective no doubt but often going down to Ground Zero is required to understand what the real issues are.

Having a Vision implies seeing what others don't see. Many inventions of the 20th Century were pursued solely on the Vision of those who saw their potential. It was said that the TV had no future --- American families didn't have the time to sit glued to a screen! American culture was active & outgoing. The forecasts for the computer were that barely some thousands would be needed by the year 2000. The market research forecasts for the Sony Walkman & the Polaroid camera were equally gloomy.

But many times people have pursued visions which were just mirages. How then does one know whether a vision is right? The approach is to dissect the internal drives with the external realities. But then are market surveys not external realities? The answer is that one cannot research what doesn't exist. One must be sensitive to feel the pain & needs of others even though they may not be expressed.

Use Soft Information

There would be no news, no surprises, no shocks for the media to report if the media listens to what people are saying.

Communications move through time & history by people first communicating to themselves, verbalizing the pains they are experiencing & then communicating these to others by what is termed as Soft Information. When a critical mass of listeners & activists is created the pain is expressed in public. If the noise is loud enough it makes NEWS. If it has a significant & long-term impact on society it is researched & distilled down into articles, research papers & books.

All decisions have People Content & one must understand these to make a good & effective decision. The Dialogue Route in decision-making involves collecting information & taking decisions by discussing with people, getting their opinions, convincing, negotiating, getting involvement & participation. This approach may appear to take too long, be a waste of time & often goes nowhere. But used with skill the decisions become easier to implement & the results are long lasting. The approach is an antidote to UNCERTAINTY --- the pitfalls stemming from over optimism, untested assumptions, unheeded warnings, poor intelligence & failure to clarify authority. It determines who will decide & implement the decision.

Nobody is better at spotting holes in your plans than
your opponents.

The approach combines the technical side of decision making with the human side --- it merges Hi-Tech & Hi-Touch

Apply Lateral Thinking

Imitation is the best form of flattery.

One way to decide is to see how decisions have been taken & ideas applied in similar situations elsewhere. Wheels & rollers facilitate movement so wheels & rollers have been used to move furniture, equipment, containers, materials, trains & aircraft. Aircraft were first used to carry mail. It didn't take long to extend the concept to passenger traffic. When Gillette introduced the throw away blade it didn't take long to create a new throw away society where it was more economical & time saving to throw away a used item rather than wash, clean, repair & reuse it. When throw aways created a garbage disposal problem, the recycling of waste emerged. Recycling of solid waste extended into biodegradable waste, water & even air.

Test Your decisions

If you cannot act, you cannot decide.

To implement any decision one must have the authority & the resources. Decisions change the rules of the game. Everything is connected with everything else & one decision leads to new situations requiring other decisions. Before you decide you must test whether it will work, whether the resources & infrastructure required are available, whether the environment is ready & able to accept it & what will be its impact in other areas. Some decisions are easily reversible, others are not.

Decision-making is tested in the following ways depending on the style, attitude & approach of the individual:·Check out the logic & rationality. Weigh the pros & cons. Evaluate the Cost:Benefit. Quantify & optimize.

Do a sample test. Make a prototype & model. Experiment & see the results. Obtain physical evidence of its feasibility.

Discuss with others & get their opinions & consensus. Get answers to questions & objections.

See the results in pictorial form --- a drawing, a chart, a map, a graph, a picture.

Look for signs that the decision is on the right track --- both external & internal signs, what are the experts saying, what is my heart telling me.

Ensure that a decision is not being made under pressure of time, people & special interest groups. What If the decision is postponed? What If the circumstances change? Will I be able to justify this decision when viewed under the lens of Time or an Audit?

Very often we are at the receiving end of a decision & need to decide how to respond. We must test whether the decision is being made to benefit solely the decision-maker or is it in the interest of all concerned.

Be an Artist

The artist sees the picture before it is painted.

A decision must create something new, something different; it must bring about a change. Even a decision not to change attempts to change those who want to go in another direction. The decision-maker must be able to join the dots to see the end results of the decision. She must see the new & improved situation that is created. It must have the signature, the uniqueness, the stamp of the person making the decision. Because a decision is a matter of choice, no two decisions will be identical or be made in the same manner.

Decision-making must be like medicine where people find it understandable & acceptable to remove the pain even though it may not be palatable.The artist in the decision-maker makes him proud of what he has done & hope that it will stand the test of time. The decisions taken by the Tata Group under Ratan Tata have a unique stamp, which has the WOW effect of seeing a great work of art. The Group has retained its century old core values in the face of global pressures --- a decision not to change! TISCO has reduced its workforce from 78,000 to 45,000 & become the lowest cost manufacturer of steel in the world. The down sizing was accepted by the unions & the work force as all laid off workers get full salary till retirement. Vision & determination was exhibited in the introduction of the car, Indica.

Learning to learn & lateral thinking is seen in the acquisition & application of new technology. The jewel in the crown is TCS, which, as the largest software development company in Asia, aims for perfection & high customer satisfaction in the services it provides to its global customers.

Conclusion

The decisions that he makes or doesn't make define the man.

The dawn of the IT Age [Information Technology Age] has added power to our decision- making ability. The available & accessible information have made quantum leaps in volume & speed, so have the tools for analysis of this information. But we also have the need for this power as today, more than ever before, we are under pressure to make decisions or to respond to the decisions made by others. We can avoid the responsibility or we can show leadership & blaze new trails. We can raise our sights & hit the ball out of the park. We have the potential of competing with the immortals by combining the power of knowledge with powerful inner drives to remove, with justice & equality, the Pains facing humanity in this flat, one & globalized world.

Managers and Leaders

Today after a very hectic schedules in daily job, got another free time to think.. here its what I was reading through the net.. this i wanted to learn when I wanted to be a good manager or leader..

I had some amount of knowledge on what is a manager and a leader. Further to add here are some good informations on the same lines.

The difference between being a manager and being a leader is simple.
Management is a career. Leadership is a calling.

You don't have to be tall, well-spoken and good looking to be a successful leader. You don't have to have that "special something" to fulfill the leadership role.

What you have to have is clearly defined convictions - and, more importantly, the courage of your convictions to see them manifest into reality.

Whether the group you oversee is called employees, associates, co-workers, teammates or anything else, what they are looking for is someone in whom they can place their trust. Someone they know is working for the greater good - for them and for the organization. They're looking for someone not only that they can - but that they want to - follow.

When you have followers, people have placed their trust in you. This is the time you realise that,you know you have moved into that leadership role.

Leaders aren't made or born. Leadership is a choice - a belief in and commitment to everything that is good and noble within oneself.

Back as a Married Man

Hi Guys...
This is the time I got a little time to login to interent and update my blog after a hectic time of more than a month. Believe me, Its really hard to get time after marriage.. Hope and wish, I could post more in this in near future.. till then cia...

With best wishes,
Saravana

Hi Guys,

Its finally the d-day, I have decided to get married to Vidya on 20th Feb 2005. Its my pleasure to invite you to my wedding celeberations in Tuticorin, Southern port city in India ( Tamil Nadu ). Here is my wedding invitation .




With best wishes,
Saravana

Darwin theory a relook

When I was thinking about the computer and mobile evaluation, It happend that the human evaluations sparked in my mind here it goes further...

Just to get you back to the time when we had the PC (Personal Computers) which has only monocrom display unit with dual booting floppy disks. It had no ther funtions, but as time goes on human add more to the existing basic computer to make it used to see movies, listen to songs and to browse internet and so on..

Same is applicable with the mobile phone when it was huge motorolla sets with only address book and used only to talk. Later humen invented more and more, its now used for even watching tv and making movie other than just talking..

I felt the same happend to the lives in this earth. As per darwin, when a amiba born it was a cell just had a life to live in this earth and then later so called God added more features to it in different models. Here it goes.,, He added more feature to swim and live in the water as fish and then he given more option to live in water and also in the land with respiratory organs like crocodile and frogs.. then there is a feature to live in the land and just to survive like snake and other reptiles.. then he added more features to walk and live a social life like monkies and other animals.. then he added more feature of thinking and creating to the same lives which became human... So it looks like darwin theory is some what real.... and here is the catch.. the questin remains in my mind ..
what is the next product of the God after human being and with what extra feature :) ????
- Saravana Kumar ( Since 1976)

I am back after another break

Hi Guys..
After I moved in to my new job, I just got access to net and got a little time to post in ..
Have a great time .. Catch you soon...

I born to be..

I born to laugh, but sometimes I do cry.
I born to be healthy, but sometimes I am sick too.
I born to be a boring, but sometimes I am interesting too.
I born to be a wild, but sometimes I am calm too.
I born to be stupid, but sometimes I am sharp too.
I born to be normal. yes I am.

- Saravana Kumar (Since 1976)

Emotional Intelligence (EI).

As per my earlier posts, It is clear that everything we react or our internal brain langauage is emotions. So, I tought its better to dig further to understand about the emotions. I found its really amazing that there were alots of expert already done a lot to it. Here is my extract of them with my own views.

Having intelligence about our own emotions means having more control with our reactions, which determines your personality and attitude. Here is how EI defined by Steve Hein
"The mental ability we are born with which gives us our emotional sensitivity and our potential for emotional learning management skills which can help us maximize our long term health, happiness and survival."

80 % of the human emotions are not expressed by words. It is surpressed or altered when it comes out as words. But the 100% of the emotions are expressed in body language. So, when we talk about understanding others emotions includes understanding of their body language.

Once its understood this will help in differenciating healthy ones to unhealthy one and change negative feelings to a positive ones. As you understand others emotions this also helps in communicating self to others.

This is common for both male and female. Emotions are same for both so, the difference only found in the way individual been grownup and lived.

Steve has made 10 habits, which will help improving the EI.

1, Label your feelings, rather than labeling people or situations.
"I feel impatient." vs "This is ridiculous.""I feel hurt and bitter". vs. "You are an insensitive jerk.""I feel afraid." vs. "You are driving like a idiot." 2. Distinguish between thoughts and feelings.
Thoughts: I feel like...& I feel as if.... & I feel thatFeelings: I feel: (feeling word) 3. Take more responsibility for your feelings.
"I feel jealous." vs. "You are making me jealous."

4. Use your feelings to help them make decisions.
"How will I feel if I do this?" "How will I feel if I don't"

5. Show respect for other people's feelings.
Ask other "How will you feel if I do this?" "How will you feel if I don't."

6. Feel energized, not angry.
Use what others call "anger" to help feel energized to take productive action.

7. Validate other people's feelings.
Show empathy, understanding, and acceptance of other people's feelings.

8. Practice getting a positive value from their your emotions.
Ask yourself: "How do I feel?" and "What would help me feel better?"Ask others "How do you feel?" and "What would help you feel better?" 9. Don't advise, command, control, criticize, judge or lecture to others.
Instead, try to just listen with empathy and non-judgment.

10. Avoid people who invalidate you.
While this is not always possible, at least try to spend less time with them, or give them psychological power over you.
Finally here is the link where you can check your level of Emotional Intelligence.

http://www.queendom.com/cgi-bin/tests/transfer.cgi

All the best for your better understanding of the emotions around you everyday you communicate.

- Saravana Kumar (Since 1976)

Charisma, How does that matter to be a leader ?

Charisma, I was wondering what the leaders got extra to be a leader. I was trying to explore with google help. Here are my learnings about the same.

As Dr Tony defines charisma as " The ability to positively influence others by connecting with them physically, emotionally, and intellectually."

It is almost must to have charisma to become a people leader. As people tend to inspire these personalities and wants to be around them even in critical times.

Is these people born with charisma or can it be learnt ?
Some appearence part is true with in born quality, but most of them are not only learnt but adopted qualities.There is one more thing also true that no one is 100% charismatic as the person would become God. Some of the near charismatic persons are Vajpayee, Churchil, Clinton, Bill Gates and Arnold. People would love to be around them becuase of the magnetism then spread around.

As per Dr Tony, the Charisma is a combinations of skills, talent and appearence. Here are the list of them, which makes one a charismatic

1. Silent message...
It is something we unconsciously send out signals to others. Maybe we look them right in the eye, or maybe we stare at your shoes when you talk. Perhaps we slump your shoulders, or maybe we square them confidently. We may fail to smile naturally or shake hands firmly, or we might dress in a way that's not ourself. All these shape our image and affect the people whom we want to lead.

2. persuasive talent...
Charismatic executives can distill complex ideas into simple messages so that even the guy who sweeps the floor understands what the company stands for and why that's important.

3. ability to speak well...
We may have a zillion terrific ideas, but who will know if you can't articulate them?

4. listening skill...
Rarely taught and infrequently practiced, listening is nonetheless a key to communicating and making others feel special in his presence.

5. use of space and time...
Again, though it's often overlooked, use of spatial and temporal territories can make or break relationships.

6. ability to adapt to others...
Building rapport means understanding other people's personalities, then adapting your own behavior to increase compatibility.

7. vision, your ideas...
Regardless of how strong and persuasive a speaker you are, how adept you are at connecting with others, how well you listen, use your space or time, or send out silent signals, you've still got to have something to say…or you'll just be an empty suit.

These qualities defaults a self confident optimists with tones of positive attitude . So, it's not a single ingredient that makes a person charismatic, and, more important, charisma isn't based on I.Q., genetics, social position, wealth, or luck. Instead, it can be learned.

But as per my previous posts, change in one persons value is a diffcult one, and its not easy to change / learn values. It needs too many paradigam shifts, that has to happen to get the desired learning. These changes can be minimum when you are lucky and already have those values built in with you default.

- Saravana Kumar ( Since 1976 )

Great people with their intellinget quotes ;-)

"We are ready for an unforeseen event that may or may not occur."
-- Al Gore, VP

Question: If you could live forever, would you and why?
Answer: "I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever,"
-- Miss Alabama in the 1994 Miss USA contest.

"We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?"
-- Lee Iacocca

"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life,"
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for federal anti-smoking campaign.

"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country,"
-- Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC.

"That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass, and I'm just the one to do it,"
-- A congressional candidate in Texas.

"I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves."
-- John Wayne

"Half this game is ninety percent mental."
-- Philadelphia Phillies manager, Danny Ozark

"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
-- Al Gore, Vice President

" It's no exaggeration to say that the undecided could go one way or another"
-- George Bush, US President

"I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version,"
-- Colonel Oliver North, from his Iran-Contra testimony.

"The word 'genius' isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein,"
-- Joe Theisman, NFL football quarterback & sports analyst.

"We don't necessarily discriminate. We simply exclude certain types of people."
-- Colonel Gerald Wellman, ROTC Instructor.

"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."
-- Bill Clinton, President

"Traditionally, most of Australia's imports come from overseas."
-- Keppel Enderbery

"Your food stamps will be stopped effective March 1992 because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances."
-- Department of Social Services, Greenville, South Carolina

“If we let the loggers go in and cut down all the trees we wouldn’t have a problem with forest fires.”
– George Bush

Emotional and Rational brains and Computers !!!!

This is a first posting with the comparision between human brain and the computer system. I have taken some special insigt on the human emotions in this post.

From the days I learnt Computers, I always tried to relate the computer with the human. Computer works with Input/Output, CPU, Memory/Storage. The same 3 can be mapped to human very easily, we have 5 input devices like eyes, nose,ears, skin, and tongue. Entire human body with hands, legs, face and nerves can be mapped as output device to express or do something. Then CPU and memory are in human brain.

All the human input devices gathers information's in different formats like images, sound, feelings, taste and smell. But my quest always remaind that, the computer having binary language to interpret before processing, and what could be the equal language, which the brain understands.

After some readings, I came to the hypo conclusion that it could be emotions. Everything we see, hear, feel, taste and smell gets translated to emotions in limbic system or emotional brain. There are studies conducted on this and scientists identified more than 500 emotions. Based on the emotions the reactions initiated by the action brain into our nerves system.

I also learnt that before the action being taken there is a part ofa brain called neocortex, which does rationalise the emotions. The rational brain is also known as sixth sense. This rational brain plays a important role which differentiates one human being from the another. This is based on my understanding that, the personality or attitude of any individual determined by the reactions of that individual..

The neocortex actually rationalise thinking based on the knowledge base of what one has learnt over the years, which is we call it as memory in computer. So, from this understanding, neocortex can be trained. This training may also be called as brainwash.

One more interesting thing I found is that, every time we learn, the existing rational brain still apply the existing rules before accepting it. This reminds me of a recursive procedures :). So, from this, it is understood that, we are born with some basic rational rules, which may have been inherited from mothers emotions during the pregnant period( this is my pure guess ! ).

Rational bypass: This happens when the we need to react fast. Here the emotional brain directly initiates actions without consulting the rational brain. So, the actions mostly turns the worst or disastrous of any human being as its a lose of sixth sense specially provided to human being. Most of the murders, suicides, fights happens because of this. This also happens when the current emotional state is set in angry.

This is the first post on my thoughts with the relations between computer and human. I have much more of this sort, which I will publish later as its almost timeup for today ;)

- Saravana Kumar ( Since 1976 )

Discover the 90/10 Principle.

I aware of the 80/20 principle in the work place it is 20% of people does 80% of work" and in quality control it is "80% of time spent on 20% of problems". Here this 90/10 principle is something different and it deals with the things we deal in our every day life.

10% of life is made up of what happens to you. 90% of life is decided by
how you react

We really have no control over 10% of what happens to us. For example, we cannot stop the car from breaking down. The plane will be late arriving, which throws our whole schedule off. A driver may cut us off in traffic. The rest 90% is what we determine.

Let's use an example:

You are eating breakfast with your family. Your daughter knocks over a cup of coffee onto your business shirt. You have no control over what just what happened.

What happens when the next will be determined by how you react. You curse. You harshly scold your daughter for knocking the cup over. She breaks down in tears. After scolding her, you turn to your spouse and criticize her for placing the cup too close to the edge of the table. A short verbal battle follows. You storm upstairs and change your shirt. Back downstairs, you find your daughter has been too busy crying to finish breakfast and get ready for school. She misses the bus. Your spouse must leave immediately for work. You rush to the car and drive your daughter to school. Because you are late, you drive 40 miles an hour in a 30 mph speed limit. After a 15-minute delay and throwing $60 traffic fine away, you arrive at school. Your daughter runs into the building without saying goodbye. After arriving at the office 20 minutes late, you find you forgot your briefcase. Your day has started terrible. As it continues, it seems to get worse and worse. You look forward to coming home, When you arrive home, you find small wedge in your relationship with your spouse and daughter.

Why? Because of how you reacted in the morning. Why did you have a bad day?
A) Did the coffee cause it?
B) Did your daughter cause it?
C) Did the policeman cause it?
D) Did you cause it?

The answer is "D".
You had no control over what happened with the coffee.

How you reacted in those 5 seconds is what caused your bad day. Here is what could have and should have happened. Coffee splashes over you. Your daughter is about to cry. You gently say, "It's ok honey, you just need, to be more careful next time". Grabbing a towel you rush
upstairs. After grabbing a new shirt and your briefcase, you come back down in time to look through the window and see your child getting on the bus. She turns and waves. You arrive 5 minutes early and cheerfully greet the staff. Your boss comments on how good the day you are having.

Notice the difference?

Two different scenarios. Both started the same. Both ended different. Why? Because of how you REACTED. You really do not have any control over 10% of what happens. The other 90% was determined by your reaction. Here are some ways to apply the 90/10 principle. If someone says something negative about you, don't be a sponge. Let the attack roll off like water on glass. You don't have to let the negative comment affect you! React properly and it will not ruin your day. A wrong reaction could result in losing a friend, being fired, getting stressed out etc.

How do you react if someone cuts you off in traffic? Do you lose your temper? Pound on the steering wheel? Do you curse? Does your blood pressure skyrocket? Do you try and bump them? WHO CARES if you arrive ten seconds later at work? Why let the cars ruin your drive?

You are told you lost your job. Why lose sleep and get irritated? It will work out. Use your worrying energy and time into finding another job. The plane is late; it is going to mangle your schedule for the day. Why take out your frustration on the flight attendant? She has no control over what is going on.

Use your time to study, get to know the other passenger. Why get stressed out? It will just make things worse. Now you know the 90-10 principle. Apply it and you will be amazed at the results. You will lose nothing if you try it. The 90-10 principle is incredible. Very few know and apply this principle.

The result? Millions of people are suffering from undeserved stress, trials, problems and heartache. If we understand and apply the 90/10 principle, we can reduce them all.

It CAN change your life***!!!!!!!

- Unknown

Back on the track

Hey guys...
It was a very long and nice holiday for me from nov 3rd to 15th. I was at home spending my most of the time with my niece and nephew.. also was roaming around the small town tuticorin.. It was real fun in the cool white beaches and the clean rivers..

Now am back in my track.. postings will start from tomorrow as am feeling sleepy today ;)

cia..
Saravana

Get an attitude !!!

These are the wonderful practical thoughts which can help to change attitude if one can find the meaning to it.

Don't be afraid to admit when you know you are wrong.
It is not a sign of weakness,
but shows character and responsibility.
Others will respect you for that.


Always do the right things, even when everyone does as they please with no consideration for the feelings of others.


Never compromise your values and beliefs,
even if it means risking ridicule and rejection.
Be true to yourself.
Live your own life and don't allow others to decide what is best for you
If you do, you will be unhappy because you're untrue to yourself.


Refuse to run away from the things that scare you.
Confront these situations and overcome your fears so that you may grow as a person.


Don't compare yourself to others.
You are unique special being and therefore you should express your individuality.


Happiness keeps u Sweet, Trails keeps u Strong,
Sorrow keeps u Human, Failur keeps u Humble,
Success keeps u Glowing, But God only keeps u Going.

- Unknown

Property laws of a toddler :)

1. If I like it, it's mine.

2. If it's in my hand, it's mine.

3. If I can take it from you, it's mine.

4. If I had it a little while ago, it's mine.

5. If it's mine, it must never appear to be yours in any way.

6. If I'm doing or building something, all of the pieces are mine.

7. If it looks like mine, it's mine.

8. If I saw it first, it's mine.

9. If you are playing with something and you put it down, it
automatically becomes mine.

10. If it's broken, it's yours.

Think to smile :)

"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other
invention in human history, with the possible exception of
handguns and tequila."

"You are unique. Just like everybody else."

"You know nothing for sure...except the fact that you know nothing for sure."

"Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening
all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working."

"It's getting late earlier"

"If a man speaks in the forest, and there's no woman around to hear
him... Is he still wrong?"

"I cannot articulate enough to express my dislike to people who think
that understanding spoils your experience...
How would they know?"

From Mafia vs. Ninja:
"You talk too much, let's fight."

"You are unique. Just like everybody else."