Diwali or Deepawali -Festival of Lights

It looks like I am making a habit of commenting on every festival in India....well I Like them....now I am enjoying the festival at home.

But, lot of my people are working at office...That gives me little pain...I hope one day Indian IT service industry can take leaves for Indian festivals.

Well Diwali...every one likes....It is colorful, eating sweets, meeting friends and families. According to Hindu mythology some demon has to be killed....well Lord Krishna /Satyabhama (His 8th Wife) killed demon Narakasura.... on this day.
It is also start of new year for business men in India...where they open new financial books. Peo0le perform Goddess Lakshmi Pooja ( Money Goddess ) to invite her to their homes or business for good wealth.

Well All Stock exchanges in the world must perform this Pooja .....to invite Goddess Lakshmi to bless for the bull run.

Pune to Hyd

Wow!! First time we traveled from Pune to Hyd in the train, oops!!! pathetic experience... When do they modernize the Pune Railway station...Its is not that Pune does not have funds...but do not know why... Hope Laluji one day comes to this station and cleans the mess.

While traveling.....every body except who has reservation made the coach as foot path....people board and sit wherever and whenever....without tickets probably... well i must think next time taking the train....

Change Acceleration Process

At times you will be challenged with bringing in a change in an organization, for example whether it is in Financial health of the company or Customer Satisfaction or in Infrastructure of the company.

Well before we proceed, let us define what is the organization! It could be a corporate or Political Party or can be a NGO; All Needs to define around three things

People


Processes


Technology (knowledge or Tools)

When we want to bring in a change, you can not attack all these in three different directions, you need to follow a step by step method.
Ofcourse, change needs a clear Vision where you want to be.

First of all...you need to look at the people....How is the culture, what initiatives or programs you need to bring in to change the "mind set". This is important as you are surrounded by people, your Team, Your Bosses or Sr.Leaders, Customers and Stake Holders. You need to look at this as a 360 degree view. You need to plan a strategy for every body to bring in a change. This is simply called 'Shared Need'.

Few things help us in bringing a change in people perspective, one Motivation, Recognition, Involvement, Leading by example, walk the talk etc etc.... but well important of all these is winning the trust of every body, which is a difficult game.

Once you got success over first important element, then you need to establish Processes or policies. These processes have to be reliable and repeatable, then only you can steer for the victory. Most important in establishing a proper procedures, one should know again what is the problem and what goal you want to attain.

Well corporates now a days adopting no of Quality Tools to attack the processes, however I would like to remind that each quality tools have its own core strength and can bring in the change only in particular objective.
For example '6 sigma' can give huge change in Variation; 'Lean' can give you in Flow; ITIL can help in defining the frame works and ISO 9000 can help you in establishing controls/documentation.

Finally, the Knowledge or Technology change needs to be brought in; why I am advising to follow this order? With out people 'buy-in' or a path laid out in the form of Process, it would make difficult to execute a change.

Technology is not about IT, what I am talking about is some thing that is "core to your business"...it could be a knowledge or Technology or it could be tools. Well if you have right processes, it is easy to fit in Tools or Technologies

Ahh!!

Communication plays an important role in tying all these together to get what you want to do.

Knowledge Is the Power

Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man
-Swami Vivekananda

Knowledge can be acquired through many ways -

By Reading
From Teacher
By Observing
From Predecessors etc...

However every person will have his own learning styles like

Experience based learning : A person wants to experience and then learn from the experience.

Observatory learning: A person learns by observing others while they are experiencing.
Experimental learning: A person first does small pilot to learn and before doing whole thing.
Explanatory Learning: A person learns from some body's explanation.

Well there are lot of tools to measure for Leaning Styles one of them is Kerbos.... but always experience based learning is fastest as we know...bcz we learn from mistakes and we feel our learning.
Recently, we conducted Camp -ATLAS - an out bound program for employees... to make them learn from experiences....

Why Learning is important...learning gives a man knowledge...and Knowledge is the power...

Now a days...every body particularly in India people would like to possess broader knowledge, unlike other countries, where they want deeper knowledge in any subject. May be our education system is as such.

But I would feel go Deeper and Broader...that makes a person rich in knowledge.

Dussehra -a Festival of Good Victory over Evil

Well In India there are lot of festivals....however each festival is set by ancestors as booster in life and convey some important messages.

Dussehra means -Das- Hara.. a celebration of killing of 1o Headed Ravana by Lord Rama. Mother Durga fought for 9 days and killed the demon on 10th day.
Actually the 10 Headed Ravana represents the 10 Evil feelings in a human being like Anger(Krodha) , Jealousy (Asuya), Possessive (Moha), Lust (Kama), etc etc ..... so it is like purifying your self from all these.

Also Indian traditions set precedence for worshiping woman as Goddess...of course you see this also in Christianity worshiping Mother Mary. It is evident that who respects a woman would cherish prosperity in life.

Most of the festivals in India set for family reunions, so that the bonding is further strengthened.
Fasting during festivals also kicks off special enzymes for healthy body.

So our predecessors were so intelligent and great trend setters....who thought to bring good things to life.

This is the day where Good wins overs Evil....Happy DUSSEHRA....

SymGrind - Happy people -Happy Customers

I replicated the famous "iGrind" from GE/Genpact IT Services annual event in Symantec, and it is a huge success. It was energizing, refreshing and more over charged with high spirits. Always it is not the question of who won the trophy....it is always about give your best.

This reiterates one of the GE's philosophy about " Copy best practices shamelessly" ... Well I copied lot from Raja and Warun....and it took us to where we are in terms of customer satisfaction levels in Symantec...unbelievable 90% in just 6 months.

I also thank my team in Symantec and my old almanac GE/Genpact and of course my mentors.

Religion Fanatics

Religion is a practice to make a human being noble and helps him to establish a fact called "super power existence". That Super Power is called God in the name of Ram or Allah or Christ. India's other name is Bharat is a country known to be secular, rich in culture and values. However recent past incidents really tarnishing the image of our own Bharat. Whether it is Hindu or Muslim or Christian, violence is never appreciated in any of holy books practiced by these religions.

Even forceful conversions from one practice to another are also not appreciated by many globally, however some one should not take the path of violence. Our own Mahatma Gandhi is a true example and in his own country we had to see these.

My Dear Indians and Bharat Maata Ki Sons.... wake up, we are in the world of humanity....and moral values

"The only definition that can be given of morality is this: That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral"
- Swami Vivekananda