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Caught Red Handed ! Way back in 1984 I had gone to Japan for two months.I was staying in a  special room in dormitory of small city called Fukuyama which is about 200 km north of famous Hiroshima city. Fukuyama was perhaps C category city but at that time itself Fukuyama had automatic  traffic light signals  and Cameras fitted on every busy square and whichever part of the city  I saw, was spotlessly clean.The room in   dormitory  where I stayed was equipped with air conditioner and TV. In the evening I used to walk to spend time because though TV had 40 channels  except the sport channel no other channel was of any use to me. On one evening I was returning at about 10 pm after seeing  English movie. There was negligible traffic . As I was crossing on the zebra line there was a strong and heavy  hand on my shoulder.He was a policeman. He  took me to his cabin at one corner. Obviously I was frightened.Away from India in the place ...

DESTINY WILL HAVE THE LAST LAUGH ! Bradman and Gavaskar were most precious players for their countries.Both will be always remembered by thousands of fans for their centuries. When Don Bradman walked to bat to play his last inning of the illustrious career he had scored 6996 runs in 69 innings. In his last inning he needed just 4 runs to make his career batting average 100. What happened is now the history..Bradman was clean bowled on duck ....could not score 7000 runs and his career batting average is  99.94 not 100 Those four crucial runs elluded him no matter he might have hit hundreds of fours prior to that. The world acknowledges Bradman as the greatest batsman but the Destiny put a small Mark of blemish in the record books. When our Indian Bradman none other than Sunny Gavaskar played his last test match Destiny played the same game with him and he was out on 96. Those four runs prevented him from scoring one more century , no matter he had scored highest number of  ...

RESPECT THE BREVITY For communicating   effectively a good skill is required......be it  a face to face oral communication or written communication.  Readers digest in one of  their books mentioned  ABC of communications are A   for  Accuracy   B   for Brevity and      C  for  clarity. Some time when one wants to be diplomatic   less clarity or less accuracy  is intentionally planned ,but that type of communication is at much higher level. To communicate in brief is the skill  and it is not easy  to acquire this skill . If one is too brief  not only clarity  will be reduced but you will appear curt  and hurt the receiver.  On the other hand if one keeps on chattering  not only brevity is lost but entire purpose of communication will be lost as receiver will loose the interest. For communicating effectively there are many factors involve...

Three essential aspects of  long distance communication are  1  its speed  meaning time required to get information transferred ,  2  its accuracy  meaning has the  receiver  got exact information as intended by receiver  3 Quantity of communicated data. meaning  can sender was in the position to give  complete details  of information he intended to give.  When the telegram and telephone  were invented  limitation of speed of communication disappeared  and messages could go instantly  from one end to other end irrespective of distance between the two ends. Earlier days  long distance communication  used to take days or months depending on the distance where information was required to be sent. With advance in technology speed of communication  increased however quantum  of information (details including photographs and drawings ) required to be sent from one end to...

Other day I was told that more than 80 percent of  MESSAGES   on Whatsapp are  not only useless  but they are  not even read by recipients. One  could never imagine such a mass misuse of the technology at the cost our  time  , our own development .and our money .      Every day I get  4-5 Good morning messages , one or two  happy birthday or Happy anniversary  messages of some person in the group wishing another person ...one or two puzzles 20-30 photographs and at least  15 video clips  each of minimum 2 to 3 minutes. It is humanly impossible to go through all those messages and so they become useless. I have one friend who has  refused to be on whatsapp to more than 100 people so far. He is a very creative  person and he feels that his creativity will be lost if he starts using smart phone, he still uses that old mobile  with so many buttons and ignores the dirty looks  of people...

PLEASE DONT WORRY ! These days I more often observe extremely worried persons whenever I  interact with youngsters particularly working in IT companies. They are in fact much better placed than the vast majority.  Every second person I come across either draws  6 figure salary per month or very near to that figure.They don’t  face any  basic problem like transport as everyone owns car. At a very young age they have all the amenities in their house which they themselves own. Invariably I find that they possess latest models of mobiles and are always  in front of some screen ….be it mobile screen.. or laptop screen or TV screen or a camera screen.Alternately they go to to multiplex to see some moovie on weekends. I always  find them downloading some application or updating to new version of the existing applications.How many times those apps are actually used ...I really don't know. In spite of all this well to do style of life there is constant worry of...

Nagpur is .....or was ....one of the most ignored city of the central India It was  once capital of Central zone and number 1 .Today Bhopal and even Raipur are far ahead of Nagpur. In 1960 When Maharashtra was formed in the independent India Nagpur became part of it and lost its capital status as Bombay was an obvious choice for Capital. Since then Nagpur is ignored systematically and cleverly by all western Maharashtrian politician's and the great sugar lobby. There were many Chief ministers from Vidarbha but they were controlled by lobby and  they were more fascinated by Mumbai. They happily ignored Nagpur and Vidarbha. As such Vidarbha was; and even today is one of the richest area considering  it's minerals  and forest wealth. For 50 long years almost all the electricity generated here is used by western Maharashtra and still they feel Nagpur has only oranges .The money allotted to Vidarbha area was either diverted to other projects or was not used. In MIHAN...

ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS These days quality of water is a big problem.As a result, all water purifier manufacturers are minting money. One of those manufacturers in its advertisement tell " PANISE PANGA MAT LO". I was wondering who is taking "panga' with water.No doubt that water quality has deteriorated over last several years but R/O machine is not the real solution. It is only solving problem for very few affluent and that too temporarily . Root causes for poor quality of water are   1 leakages in the pipe lines which leads to mixing of sewage water.   2 Ground water pollution because of illegal chemical discharges by industries. Now instead of insisting on the actions to prevent these root causes people like us give excessive focus and importance to R/O machines. How many of us know that by using R/O Purifiers we are helping in reducing the quality of ground water and not only that..by consuming R/O water we ourselves are becoming more prone to viral atta...

FALL  IN   LINE 43 years back I attended one lecture of noted management expert and teacher , Professor Sharu Rangnekar and later  read his  one small and wonderful   book titled " In the wonderland of Indian Mangers".I honestly feel that no one has described  management style and work culture of  Indian Industries better than professor Rangnekar. Since then I have been a silent observer of the people I have met in various industries. RANGNEKAR described  in the book how people avoid work in the systematic manner.He also mentioned  about 90 /10  formulae stating that  in almost all Indian  industries and offices 90 percent work is done by 10 percent of the employees and balance 10 percent work is done by 90 percent of the employees .When I observe people I try to place them in either 90 percent or 10 percent category . In most Indian industries the basic  management style continues to be " Either you fall in lin...